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- Cash App: $dezein
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I minted my 1st NFT on Foundation for 0.030347807ETH ($69.02USD) on 3/2/21 even though I thought the fee was approx. $34 (got charged a double fee 😡)
- I've 2 back-to-back Contact Interaction 'transactions' on my Meta Mask Activity ledger within 8 seconds from minting this NFT; an initial fee of 0.020531ETH ($37.48USD) + a 2nd fee of 0.017276034ETH ($31.54USD); seems I was actually charged 0.030347807ETH or $69.02 USD to mint this piece
- this was confirmed when i reached out to their support team; disappointing...
2nd NFT minted on Zora for 0.034356ETH ($62.75USD) on 3/5/21
3rd NFT minting attempt started on hic ent nunc on 3/8/21 but I was bested (didn't figure out how to 'curate' the original objkt 2470, it's live on the new .art www site though) - trying again on .art via objkt 575082
some of the glitches i've encountered in the digital wild
what I did (the 1st time around the blockchain)
- noticed the NFT hype cycle whirling up on Twitter in January '21
- read into the craze overall
- set up a "wallet" through MetaMask; you can set up a wallet through the service of your choice
- these serve as both your container for crypto currency and your interface to various dApps (apps that operate on various blockchains)
- set up a Creator account on platforms as I got invited or learned about them
- hic et nunc: https://hicetnunc.xyz/tz/tz1hfjHDTuWZZdPTYENwyFT9AZ74AHpCVe6j
- Foundation: https://foundation.app/dezein
- When you mint an NFT through Foundation, it goes directly to the blockchain which means it also shows up on OpenSea and Rarible (which are NFT databases)
- Open Sea
- Rareable
- Zora: https://zora.co/dezein
- Nifty Gateway
- It mostly all tracks back to Open Sea
- read into the environmental impact of minting a new-media work as an NFT on blockchains utilizing a Proof of Work approach (many are eagerly keeping tabs on Proof of Stake approaches)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAuAfil2ln/?igshid=1x2pey2a25z1a
- considered counter points to those raised
- waited to mint bc of the environmental impact
- checked gas prices irregularly but often enough to get a sense of what was 'high' and what was 'low' on a platform by platform basis
- ultimately jumped at a low gas price opportunity (at this time I regret it after reading more and more into the ecological issues w/ crypto writ large)
- saw gas prices were wayyyy low so, reluctantly pulled the trigger amidst the winter storm in Texas in February when our privatized energy grid and state legislator failed us
- chose a #GlitchInTheWild to mint
- uploaded my file and wrote a description for it
More on Gas Fees
What I read before I minted
- minted my 1st NFT on Foundation (and got a double transaction charge 😡bc apparently sometimes that happens? I learned upon inquiry)
- via meta mask wallet → signed via meta mask
- listed my NFT on Foundation
- chose a price; still not sure about this (I chose arbitrarily based on date of glitch capture)
What I'm reading to learn more about this movement
an idea I had that i may or may not revisit when it comes time to renew vurv.co
a thought: package up vurv's online presence and infrastructure as an NFT, encapsulate the domain vurv.co, our website content, choice exchanges from our slack workspace, and nice bits from our g-suite, and mint it as an NFT