It is hard to imagine a worse system for managing KYC than the current system of disclosing oodles and oodles of personal information (and photos) to the customer service reps of many different organizations
6529 has a significant IRL job. I have to do this weekly +/-.
It is the dumbest thing in the world, as if there were not 100 better ways to confirm my residency / identity than sending utility bills (home address), ID numbers, photos etc to hundreds of people / year
To take the dumbest example, confirming that you are a resident of country X is a different question than "what is your home address and how many kwh of electricity or BTUs of gas you use"
The fin svcs firms need the former, not the latter
This is a very short thread, but something that has been bothering me since the spring and I think I now have an initial point of view on it
6529 does not yet own any metaverse land (decentraland, sonmium, etc) bc I had some concerns I had to work through
2/ Concern 1: I don't understand conceptually why metaverse land should be scarce from a consumer product market fit perspective.
I get that, say, decentraland limits land to make number go up, but the marginal cost of metaverse land is zero and we need to bring 1B ppl onboard
3/ So I think, basically, any metaverse that limits land to some artificially small amount will eventually be outcompeted by a metaverse that onboards tens or hundreds of billions of people for close to free
And that is likely to be a centralized institution which is bad
As most of you know, the 6529 Museum collects "horizontally" in @artblocks_io, meaning across collections, to show the spectrum of output across AB Curated projects.
The historical/curation value of the horizontal view in time will be 🔥
2/ It has been, however, a long-standing 6529 Museum goal to have a vertical collection of Chromie Squiggles.
Squiggles are the first, iconic and largest ABC collection, the most memetic and, initially, quite controversial, "you paid what for those squiggly lines?"
3/ I don't think you can introduce Art Blocks without introducing the Squiggles
And how can you really give a visitor about to enter the 6529 Museum AB wing an understanding of Squiggles without seeing all the various types?
This will be a relatively shorter thread. I do not claim to be an expert on this topic, but there are more projects and more people in DMs on this topic, so wanted to share some initial thoughts
2/ This thread is not directed at established NFT or offchain photographers.
They are fine, going to have massive audiences and distribution and will do very well.
This is for those trying to get established.
3/ Let's start with the general concept that NFTs and their ecosystem (OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare) give photographers (as with all artists) a vastly vastly better distribution and demand aggregation system.