Can value be separated from context? — You can’t separate value from context. Where does value come from? It always comes from context. Let’s talk about gold, water, social graphs, and behavior on distributed ledgers and blockchains. If you’re stuck in the desert, you want water, not gold. (Ideally, you want a way out of the desert…

What can go wrong with NFTs and how to handle the fallout. — Last week we had some good intentions with our Gorecats project on Solana. We saw that a few of our holders had errors on their images — the original metadata said that the images were meant to be signed by the artist, and instead they were unsigned. It was around…

16 Projects — 1 Art Piece — The last few weeks have been extremely busy at Gorecats. It’s been helter-skelter as we build the project and artwork, and adjust to both the communities need and the constraints of running the business side of things. All good fun — but a lot of juggling.

Life in the Gorecats Death Club (GC-DC) — The Gorecats are an eclectic breed of treacherous little trouble makers hell bent on using every single one of their glorious nine lives, and living as an NFT series on the Solana Blockchain. It’s been 28 days since we launched the Gorecats NFT series on Magic Eden, and since that…

Lessons from Gas Wars and Time Wasting — This week the much anticipated SHIBOSHIs — the NFT mascots of the Shiba Inu ecosystem were dropped. The madness started a week or so earlier, when the lead developer gave the news that the long expected party would happen within the space of a week. I bought some LEASH —…

NFTs, Networks and Rhinos in Top Hats — This year has been really, really interesting in the cryptospace. Apart from the massive growth in decentralised finance, the NFT metaverse has truly opened up and presented a broad spectrum of use cases. NFTs are being used to capture real-world value in many different arenas — from finance to artwork…

And, don’t fool yourself. — I spent the last day of 2020 setting up a portable, above ground, pool with my son, as a defence against the heat. Now, it ain’t setup right, and we’ve got to do it again. But the experience reminded me that measuring twice, and cutting once, is one of the…

Refunds in the Age of Crypto — Update on 21.12.2020. Alright, so the day after I wrote this story. The payment was processed by Coinify, and I was given a digital certificate by the Doctor Who World’s Apart people. I’m still wondering when and how that will convert to an actual NFT on the Ethereum Mainnet. But…

Mapping the legacy of the late Nelson Mandela — The late former South African president Nelson Mandela was a remarkable statesman, leader and person. It’s hard to put into words the affection that is felt for Madiba (isiXhosa for “father”) amongst South Africans. Yes, Madiba the politician negotiated the end of Apartheid, a devastating racial segregation policy that caused…