Breaking the First RuleRule One for a Successful Blog Pick a scope and stick to it. I am not going to do this. I’m going to write about all kinds of things. I’m not limiting myself in any way in order to be successful. I’m not looking for success. I’m just looking to preserve my writing and make it readily available to anyone who’d like to read / view it. If I can do that, I will consider it a success because it will be beneficial to my mental health. It will help others who struggle in the w...

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The ProcessThe method I use to create NFTs((Published to listed.to and my paragraph ))Interview Answersquestions from https://warpcast.com/lampphotographyFrom Farcaster ConversationsMy process(published as replies on Farcaster)Questions were asked by Lauren at Lamp Photography https://far.quest/lampphotography (How did you create it?) I use a really complicated method for most of my art. It started with a photograph. I then tweaked it with GiMP, creating the color swatches and removing the ba...

The Short StoryLeave a Comment / Essays / By Jack I minted my first NFT in 2021. On the WAX chain. A simple pic that I was using for profiles at the time. I spent the next 2 years doing mostly test mints. Learning how things worked on different chains and in different markets. Minted stuff that no one else ever saw. Or I sent directly to friends. I took this across many blockchains, learning the nuances of their NFT processes. I used the following blockchains: WAX, Polygon, BSC, Pixie, Base, ...

The most pressing feature of dapps that no group is doing is NFT curation. Like a lot of people, I have tons of NFTs. Music, video, lens posts, art, literature, etc. and it’s nearly impossible to find any single NFT without trouble. We need searchable galleries. We need to be able to organize them in a variety of ways. Some apps allow the user the ability to ‘spotlight’ or grouping into niches, but they don’t go very deep. This is also a really important step to widespread adoption of crypto

This week I will again be moving content from my old blogs to my paragraph. Https://paragraph.xyz/@lhasaI have a lot to move. I’ve moved ...

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