When you spent endless hours customizing your avatar in a random multiplayer game w/ your friends, only to not even play in the end, that’s when you understand that #NFT #PFP are about way more than jpgs. It’s about identity. About pride. And about being yourself.
Ppl are smarter than we tend to believe. We will be living “in a simulation”. And ppl know that. In that simulation, you want to have a unique identity. One you are proud of. One that reflects your inner self.
The fun part starts here: While busy disrupting the entire (social) web in speed of light, #NFT #PFPs do something curious: They connect mainstream web2 to blockchain. After all.
At this point, Ocean’s focus on data x blockchain becomes interesting: How to manifest the value of your NFT, the universal log-in? Turn it into a universal key to your most valuable resource: data. It’s called: #dataNFT And it’s coming this quarter: @OceanProtocol V4
V4 is way more than dataNFT, , but it’s an intriguing part: Trent built http://ascribe.io in 2013 - on Bitcoin Lightning Network: “We had been asking the question: how do you collect digitally based artworks? Then we realized: what if you could own digital art the way you own Bitcoin?”
After having invented this for the world (NFT), bigger problems were at hand. Web2 stars not only started to stack people’s personal data, they started to use it, against the users, for the revenues. That’s how Ocean came to be. #OceanONDA (V4) now merges both inventions:
https://oceanprotocol.com/technology/data-nfts-and-data-tokens
My feeling is that from inception to mainstream, it might not take 7 years this time, like with NFT concept originally did. What I saw these past weeks, what I learned about how #web3 works from the inside, the combination of NFT tech and a #NewDataEconomy protocol might come in just at the right time.
Leaving you with a practical example (for now), to get a feel for picking your NFT PFP. Cause that’s how I got it after all:
https://twitter.com/CryptoWally2/status/1516617313541312519?s=20&t=y8r2jJzXgSuet5vrzsY3Rg