Consumer Crypto

It's unfortunate that "minting" ever became a popular term, just call it what it is in context: buying, collecting, tipping, etc.

People say "mint" when they really mean "save to the blockchain", a byproduct of early adopters in the space caring too much about the tech and not enough about the benefits

NFTs are just digital receipts, calling the action of acquiring them "minting" is like saying "I saved something to the Visa database" instead of "I bought something"

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i hope mint will be the only crypto term that actually goes mainstream 

when you mint, you create a unique asset in the blockchain

Agreed that it's "technically correct" but I think it makes more sense to be "contextually correct" here so that users can be clear on *what they're doing* rather than how it works especially given that tokens are a core primitive of blockchains and the word "mint" will only become more overloaded with time

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Try to explain that to a mainstream user

https://warpcast.com/zinger/0xd58e30ef

That's contradictory: collecting and tipping are both done via "minting" which is my point, it's better to just call those actions "collecting" and "tipping"

for me, it's the same as collecting or tipping. those concepts were introduced for the first time for a specific use case. with mints, it's the same

it's a new action that people will do on the internet. you don't need to explain it; it's a new mechanism

'i've sent you a snap,' 'let's take a bereal,' 'i posted a story'... those were new concepts that are now part of our daily life