124 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 2 Jan \ on: Have You Ever Bought an Inscription/BRC20? bitcoin
It's kinda like this: I had a customer tell me that I should make my prints limited, like he wanted me to only print 10 or a 100 of a certain poster and then no more. As if his owning number 3 of 20 somehow made it better.
I understand the scarcity that comes from there only being one Mona Lisa, because the thing is impossible to duplicate. Even if da Vinci painted it again, it would be different. Art done by hand--like cooking or cherry blossoms--is hard to duplicate.
But the scarcity of a limited set of prints doesn't make sense to me. The technology of prints is such that I can make 100 and then 100 more and then 100 more. That's the whole point of printing. Putting a serial number on it, even if it's a txid, doesn't change the fact that it's a different kind of art form than work done by hand.
It seems to me that inscriptions (and art as NFTs in general) are like numbered prints. I don't get the point.
The value of digital art doesn't come from scarcity or ownership. It comes from reputation and duplication.
Digital art is memes not inscriptions.
As to the BRC20 tokens, don't have much to say on that. Probably gonna end up like all the other token shit that has gone on.