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gokhan.eth

an independent generalist researcher with a lowercase into the blockchain-enabled infra, culture & arts, future archives and longtermism.
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Updates #1

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March 18
It's easy to miss generational wealth when you are a puritanical figure.

I have been tinkering with the Writing NFTs since before it was hijacked.

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January 20
I have been tinkering with the Writing NFTs since before it was hijacked.
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This Week in Writing & NFTs #7

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December 26
It’s been more than a year since I wrote the last This Week in Writing and NFTs post. It was a series where I mainly delved into the latest trends in nonfungibles ecosystems in terms with the practice of writing—as in either .pdfs pinned to IPFS and hashed to an ERC721, or metadata, or the art of permanent storage, let alone the smart contractual artistic enterprises that utilized the infrastructure available back then.
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PLAYLIST #7: EOY '23

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December 01
Gökhan Turhan's favorite albums in 2023.

Perpetual Convivialities—Part II: Decentralized Science & Convivial Possibilities of IPNFTs

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November 02
An IP-NFT is a crypto-economics/ web3 native legal contract that entail composability, programmability, and offer myriad uses cases that adheres to digitally-native or traditionally sensed rules around ownership, originality and reference points. A meta-data layer that utilize decentralized storage options can attest to any legality, ownership, and provenance the non-fungible in question interacts.
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The Case against Zombie NFTs, or how I started to Discard them for Perpetual Convivialities—The Rise & Proliferation of IPNFTs & SBTs: Part I

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October 26
IPNFTs and SBTs will fight the death of NFTs.
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On Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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October 19
People are making fun of him that he is using the Nick Land reference in an uninformed manner, and there is no way he could have read, for instance, Nick's ouevre, not excluding the Virulent Nihilism, which is a cringey point of view for myself.
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Virulent Optimism: Hating Smoking

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October 17
Smoking is a sort of a prolonged self-asyphixation.

On Subscription Models in the Network States #001

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October 15
When you pay for Parsec, Nansen, Messari, and a couple of others just for analytics on a monthly basis, you have just paid for a monthly rent for a dublex condo in a state-of-the-art building partially glimpsing at Bosphorus, or Golden Horn at best.