Jimmy Wales is Selling His First Wikipedia Edit as an NFT (theverge.com) 21
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. From a report: Auction house Christie's will hold a sale of the token from December 3rd to 15th, auctioning it alongside the Strawberry iMac Wales was using around Wikipedia's launch. The funds will go toward charitable causes and WT.Social, a donation-backed social network that Wales launched in 2019. Wales' NFT is effectively the keys to a very early version of Wikipedia, which debuted in January of 2001.
"What you see displayed is what Wikipedia looked like at the moment that I set up the software," he tells The Verge. The single page will be launched publicly on the web, and much like Wikipedia itself, anyone will be able to see and edit it. But all changes will revert after five minutes, returning it to its original state: a single edit reading "Hello, World!" following a long-held tradition of programming. The NFT, which is written to the Ethereum blockchain, encodes a smart contract that grants its buyer control over that website. The buyer can change the window for reverting edits, and if they really want, they can turn off editing or shut down the page. They can also take a completely hands-off approach and let Wales manage the page for them.
"What you see displayed is what Wikipedia looked like at the moment that I set up the software," he tells The Verge. The single page will be launched publicly on the web, and much like Wikipedia itself, anyone will be able to see and edit it. But all changes will revert after five minutes, returning it to its original state: a single edit reading "Hello, World!" following a long-held tradition of programming. The NFT, which is written to the Ethereum blockchain, encodes a smart contract that grants its buyer control over that website. The buyer can change the window for reverting edits, and if they really want, they can turn off editing or shut down the page. They can also take a completely hands-off approach and let Wales manage the page for them.
Lack of Notability (Score:5, Funny)
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And nothing of value was lost...
Human Poo is rarer than diamonds (Score:4, Funny)
across the universe, Human poo should be more valuable than diamonds. Or maybe we conflate designating something as rare as making it valued. Now if Human poo were to become known as an aphrodisiac on Centauri-5 then we'd be in bussiness till they turned us into a zoo at least.
But Jimmy should NFT a photo of each unique steamer he cranks. That's even more rare.
NFT = "Not Fucking Tradeworthy" (Score:2)
why are NFTs a big deal (Score:3)
When I have a star named after me? That's right, my aunt paid to have a star named after me in an astronomical registry. This proves that I own that star and nobody else can visit or right click to save a picture of it.
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The centralized version of this scam^H^H^H^Hbusiness model, you accept cash to add a name to an unnamed star. Then publish a book of them to prove that you're an authority. Of course anyone can start their own star registry business as long as they don't name their company some trademarked name used by another one of these companies (International Star Registry).
The decentralized version of this business is you accept the solution to a straightforward but tedious math problem that uses some big numbers. Aft
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We might have the same aunt.
What's next? (Score:2)
An NFT for each of the bridges in New York so we can really (but not really) sell them?
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I'm pretty sure that if you minted a NFT for each bridge in NYC you could sell them within 48hs.
Not worth it (Score:2)
The NFT, which is written to the Ethereum blockchain, encodes a smart contract that grants its buyer control over that website. The buyer can change the window for reverting edits, and if they really want, they can turn off editing or shut down the page. They can also take a completely hands-off approach and let Wales manage the page for them.
But they can't vandalize it? How disappointing.
Can I sell farts as nfts? (Score:2)
Other than the bragging rights to "owning" a fart, what exactly are you getting?
Unlike cryptocurrencies, there is no agreed value to it. If you want to exchange it for other goods or services, you either barter or exchange it for some tbh arbitrary amount of currency. It's not like a shiny rock which theoretically at least holds some intrinsic value by being useful in manufacturing of jewelry, advanced electronics, flatware, or if push comes to shove...a blunt instrument to administer a beat-down.
Your claim
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You get a space on the blockchain.
That does it. (Score:2)
I'm not donating any money to Wikipedia ever again.
I don't want to support blockchain mining, thank you very much.
Maybe this could be an NFT: (Score:3)
https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
Jimmy Wales posting to /. in 2001 about getting in on the "ground floor" of a really neat project.
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I would rather see an NFT of the time he edited his girlfriend's Wikipedia page to remove the fact that she had her swim coach fired after leaving lovesick threats on his answering machine. Rachel Marsden was famous in my province since the University took her side and never investigated whether she was telling the truth and he had to sue to get his job back. The tapes of her answering messages were played on the news for weeks. Of course her Wikipedia page mentions none of this.
I guess the "We ask you humbly" popups don't work (Score:2)