Generative Art on Ordinals
21 sats \ 3 comments \ @dillon 21 Mar bitcoin

In a previous post I said I'd post daily. I changed my mind and am probably going to move to once a week. Anyways

I've been trying out different things to sell my physical art, and I decided to give Ordinals a go.

However I don't know much about them, so I've been experimenting.
As a learning excercise I'm launching some generative Ordinals on April 20th called Circle Toshi Here's a sample screenshot

This is a generative piece. Ring count, ring width, and ring size are all random.
I have more examples of them moving on the instagram I made for it. @circle.toshi
When run in a browser the rings are rotating, and the speed and direction of the rotation is also randomlly generated. The color pallet is almost random, just the ratios of colors is not.
Let me know what you think! Ordinals is a pretty fun topic to learn about. But this is really part of the journey to sell my physical art. I'm doing this collection first so that when I get to making Ordinals for a physical product I can do it right.
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210 sats \ 2 replies \ @TheBTCManual 22 Mar
Anything that is easily produced/reproduced will eventually oversupply the market demand and trend towards zero, ordinals are just the latest iteration of the same distractions we've seen in previous cycles
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dillon OP 22 Mar
There's more utility to ordinals than just jpegs. In a hypothetical world without a government, having your car title or deed to your house as an ordinal instead of a physical piece of paper would make sense.
Things in the physical world that require proof of ownership could all be data saved as ordinals. That's the kind of thing that would make it a standard currency. Like if your mortgage was an ordinal that was locked into a descrete log contract, you could get a decentralized/crowdfunded mortgage loan (i.e. no bank) as a descrete log contract that you pay bitcoin to each month. If you could pay your mortgage in bitcoin, who would sell?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 23 Mar
How does ordinals solve any of this? Just because you embedded something in the blockchain and paid fees to do so, doesn't make it true, doesn't mean it can enforce rule of law in the real world.
You would still need an issuer to honour it, you still need entities to enforce the claim, making having it on-chain irrelevent, how these claims are maintained can be on a blockchain yes, or it can just be on a server, on a piece of paper, on a side chain it doesn't matter.
Why would I want to pay block space for zero extra assurances?
  • If I get a copy of the deed to your house and I add it on-chain can I claim your house? No
  • If you have a stock certificate on-chain and the company goes bust, changes their issuing, does your ordinal mean anyting? no
  • If you lose your private keys to a wallet that held your home and car ownership do you lose the assets? No you can just go to the issuer and reclaim it
Has this not been debunked years ago?
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