Crypto art falls into the blockchain technology category alongside NFT’s (non-fungible tokens). They both can be created through algorithms and be sold online. Every new ‘piece’ of art created is stored on a digital ledger which is where you can collect your artefacts, and then are sold and your money is collected on ‘wallets’ such as Temple Wallet.
For this lecture we were told to set up a Temple Wallet online and to follow this tutorial – https://twitter.com/verticalcrypto/status/1374349022245359627?s=20 . We learnt how to create a wallet to store NFT’s. We also looked at https://rarible.com/connect and other platforms where you can gather your Cryptoart and NFT’s.
There are some rare NFT’s which are being sold at extortionately high rates, therefore now would seem the best time to get on board with this technology in order to earn money in the future.
Books mentioned in this lecture were Ready Player One and Snow Crash novel. Snow Crash explores the meta concept of language, coding and how the brain works and Readyplayer One also explored what humans will be like and how they will react when the world as moved to virtual reality, essentially abandoning the real world in the process. I have watched the film Ready Player One, however now I am interested in reading both books as a result of this lecture.
We also learnt that it is possible to live stream across multiple platforms on https://streamlabs.com/. These huge insights into how the world is working online today has been very eye-opening and inspired my topic for the ‘BeamTap‘ Build Your Own Brief project I created for an independent project.
Our lecturer also explained the difference between omniverse and internet. The internet is a digital overlay on the world, presented through text, voice, video in 2D. However the omniverse is a 3D virtual world which can model our physical world. We will buy and sell 3D objects in this dimension, this is the ‘future’ of our online world. Below you can find a screenshot taken from a video I watched about these differences.
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