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Jack Butcher /

transparency time and some bg on opepen: it began life as a free 60 minute open edition inspired by @batzdu geometric pepe series which is of course inspired by the legendary @Matt_Furie (both have incredible work to collect) had no intention to build on it initially and quite frankly did it on a whim next phase will be completely different, will update here

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  1. 01 / Project: Opepen Edition

    after careful consideration we're going to adjust the mechanism to only allow for one opepen to be opted-in to a single set at a time currently there's a "waterfall" type logic where you can opt into multiple, but it's distorting signal num…

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  2. 02 / Project: Opepen Edition

    listened to opepen space thanks all for the candid thoughts agreed that consensus on the full sets is very difficult to get through at the moment, partly attention elsewhere, partly complexity, partly marketing, etc some view the difficulty…

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  3. 03 / Editorial topic: Authorship

    @ChristiesInc @nftnow have been consumed by a couple things since this launched and haven't gotten around to sharing some of the details the info layer here (press n) reveals the data that informs each signature (rotations & total circumfer…

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  4. 04 / Editorial topic: Authorship

    Please excuse the duplicate plug — swimming upstream against the algorithm, here's the link to the Sotheby's auction for '1 of 1', which includes the digital original and a physical copy of 35,262 signatures, completed over the past few day…

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  5. 05 / Editorial topic: Process

    with the final auction now up and running for Latent ( I'll write up a few disparate/post-rational thoughts on the collection to try and cover the bits missed in the more polished write-ups, share a few dots that connected looking backwards…

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  6. 06 / Project: Opepen Edition

    quick, incomplete sketch capturing some ideas from friday's opepen space again challenging the idea that token ≠ image and treating the protocol itself as artwork (proposing this as what you would see on opensea or similar) at first glance…

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  7. 07 / Editorial topic: Authorship

    @ChristiesInc @nftnow any signature drawn "organically" (by a human) is absolutely unique, even if visually similar the above are not drawn hand drawn, but the code that ensures their randomness is the below are hand drawn, an extension of…

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  8. 08 / Editorial topic: Authorship

    @ChristiesInc @nftnow attribution, provenance, proof all different lenses on the same set of questions provoked by the ability to distribute consensus and verify independently

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