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31 sats \ 5 replies \ @premitive1 25 Mar \ on: [temperature checking]: Inscribe or not to inscribe? bitcoin
"without causing any spam"
That's a very debatable contention. On several levels.
Pointer links on the blockchain are exactly what NFTs have been on ethereum, and a criticism of such NFTs. Even if pointing to IPFS, one can imagine the content on IPFS changing, and the pointer now pointing to something else.
Is a pointer spam? If the blockchain is the museum, imagine going to museum and instead of finding a work of art you find a URL pointing to the file somewhere else.
So while you're not excited in paying high fees to put audio data on the blockchain, how is a pointer not worse? Imagine the blockchain full of pointers.
Some of the people using the word spam think that any non-financial use of bitcoin is spam.
you have good points. the only thing about ipfs, the pointer is a hash of the file, so there is no way of having the same pointer directing to another file. but I agree about the museum parallel.
your points make sense, and I follow the discussions about what can characterize spam since the counterparty war in 2014. it is a dense topic in bitcoin.
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why don't you use counterparty?
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counterparty is an option, also raretoshi as suggested by DarthCoin below.
I will check back with the community about the options. I need to understand if the person asking is just a degen or if they really value having a tokenized version of the autographed book on their wallets.
As I live far from the community, they asked to have an alternative of a signed book, in digital format. That's why I'm evaluating options and thinking about whether to do it on Bitcoin. I also have been reluctant to incentivize inscriptions.
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ipfs still requires an address to find, no? or does it have a search function that allows you to find files by their hash?
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the address is based on the hash of the document. it is unique for each document and used also to avoid storing duplicates.
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