무료 등록 축구에 베팅하는 방법 ㅜㅁKevin McCoy: Going QuantumCambridge United vs Plymouth Argyle 베팅 배당률

무료 등록 축구에 베팅하는 방법 ㅜㅁKevin McCoy: Going QuantumCambridge United vs Plymouth Argyle 베팅 배당률。

UK Casino Online에서 €685 카지노 토너먼트 프리롤K8 카지노 사이트임준혁2022년 1월22일 08:30Digital and media artist Kevin McCoy, who created the first NFT ever. Source: All photos provided by Kevin McCoy.

Eur 5555 보너스 코드 없음Digital and media artist Kevin McCoy, who also teaches art at New York University, is often credited with creating the first NFT ever.

McCoy developed "Quantum" and refined it with technologist Anil Dash. They then minted it on the Namecoin blockchain in May 2014. The idea was similar to what many current NFT enthusiasts envision: enabling artists to sell, track and own natively digital art.

McCoy originally studied philosophy but transitioned to art after graduation. He found that he liked working with images better than working with words.

I'm talking with McCoy at his Brooklyn home — or at least the part he uses as a studio, which is separated from where he lives by an enclosed courtyard/garden. The surrounding Williamsburg neighborhood seems hip and saturated with restaurants.

I ask him what got him into art in the first place. He says he fell into a group of experimental filmmakers while doing philosophy-related work in Paris in the early 90s.

"When I first those saw art films I just thought, 'This is philosophy without words.'"

The experience sparked McCoy's interest in hybrid media and mixing genres. This was in the early days of art blending with technology. McCoy didn't come from a traditional art background, so he had no prejudices or preconceptions of what art should be. He was completely open to experimentation.

"As an artist, I think it's important to work with the tools of your time."

Additionally, McCoy has always been interested in systems and how things connect to other things.

McCoy first learned about Bitcoin in 2010, but it didn't interest him. He came back around to it in 2012. Back then, most of the online discussion on Bitcoin took place in a forum called Bitcoin Talk.

McCoy's studio in Brooklyn

"Satoshi had created this incredible thing that was digital and everywhere while simultaneously unique, scarce and ownable. It was public and private at the same time. It was immediately clear to me that digital artists could employ a similar technology."

After this epiphany, McCoy spent the second half of 2013 figuring out how to apply Satoshi's ideas to digital art. It wasn't about creating new tech but implementing existing tech in a new way.

After creating “Quantum,” McCoy reached out to NY-based digital art organization Rhizome for help in refining it. They recommended that he attend Seven on Seven, an event where artists are paired with technologists. This is how he met Anil Dash, who helped him mint the first NFT in history. McCoy humorously likens the meeting to a blind date.

Dash helped McCoy refine his protocol: a certain type of metadata on a blockchain that's handled a certain way so as to authenticate provenance and ownership. They chose the Namecoin blockchain because, at the time, it was the best place for holding that type of metadata.

At the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, McCoy and Dash did the first live presentation of their creation: “Quantum.”

"The original image [for "Quantum"] came out of my digital sketchbook. I programmed it using a tool that a lot of code-based artists work with called Processing. When we were minting "Quantum," that just happened to be the animation I had on hand, so it wasn't super-planned. It was kind of accidental."

McCoy stresses the historical significance of an artist, not a technologist, coming up with the idea for NFTs, which he refers to as "monetized graphics," or "monegraphs." Serendipitously, this resulted in the first NFT being rendered from a "mysterious, beautiful image."

"If it'd come from a technologist, it [the first NFT] would have been an image of a Bitcoin, or something like that. A picture of somebody's foot."

"Quantum" fetched $1.4 million at a Sotheby's auction seven years later in June 2021.

An image of "Quantum," the first ever NFT. McCoy prefers to call them "monetized graphics," or "monegraphs." Source: mccoyspace.com

McCoy then made a follow-up to "Quantum" called "Quantum Leap" in 2021.

In the same way "Quantum" paved the way for NFT technology in 2014 , he wanted "Quantum Leap" to show the way forward from our current standpoint. It's a piece of generative art that uses smart contracts to evolve over time.

"We wanted to create an art experience where the owner is rewarded for living with the artwork over time. It explores the relationship between artwork and owner as something that's dynamic and evolving, not static."

I ask McCoy how fluent he is in coding and technology. "You eventually learn what you have to learn," he responds, elaborating that all his knowledge of coding comes from self-instruction. "With digital technology, all the tools are there. You just have to dive in and get the knowledge you need, spend time learning it." Ultimately, however, McCoy doesn't consider himself a programmer. He's an artist, and the tech just helps him create.

"I think and the machines do."

As his Twitter profile succinctly puts it: "I think and the machines do."

Did McCoy have a sense of how NFTs would explode in popularity down the road?

"I knew it was a big idea, and I hoped that digitized art would flourish into a new industry, but I didn't have a sense of how it would actually feel once the thing took off."

McCoy spent all of 2014, 2015 and 2016 trying to evangelize the idea of tokenized art, but nobody seemed interested. This was before the Ethereum days. He got burnt out and stepped back. The Ethereum community then sprouted up and eventually adopted McCoy's idea. The rest is history.

Dash, however, has been fiercely critical of the NFT industry and how it’s evolved. He wrote a piece in The Atlantic, published in April 2021, in which he says, "Our dream of empowering artists hasn’t yet come true, but it has yielded a lot of commercially exploitable hype."

Dash goes on to explain that the first NFT was a shortcut. Because blockchain records are too small to hold an entire image, they had to make do with storing a link to the image. The idea was that the technology would later evolve to be able to store entire artworks on a blockchain. Unfortunately, says Nash, that didn't pan out.

"Seven years later, all of today’s popular NFT platforms still use the same shortcut," Dash laments.

Dash also argues that NFT artists have to rely on a certain platform or startup succeeding, otherwise their art essentially disappears.

I ask McCoy about this view and whether he shares Dash's cynicism.

He explains that Dash had a professional involvement in the earlier phases of the open internet, and saw it get closed down or taken over by centralized giants, which likely affects his overall viewpoint on NFTs. McCoy acknowledges that NFTs don't guarantee the protection of artists, "but they still allow for things that were impossible before."

"Like Dash, I'm not a big fan of many of these new platforms. They're like the new middlemen. But I don't think they're strictly necessary. Things can grow in better ways. The technology does provide options for more decentralization. People sometimes opt for that, often they don't. But we'll see how it goes."

McCoy says he's a live-and-let-live kind of person. New tech always goes through its phases. Sure, if you spend enough time in the blockchain space, you run into all sorts of hucksters and scammers.

"But the technology is real, and at the end of the day, I'm going to support openless, permissionless systems."

McCoy invented NFTs back in 2014. People didn't take an interest back then. Why the explosion of interest in 2021?

"Basically, a market finally arrived. It's foundation was created by the rise of DeFi, which gave enough people the tech and the money, and then in 2020 the excitement within the crypto community finally burst out into the mainstream, which fed on itself until the 2021 NFT boom."

What about the pandemic? Didn't that play a major role in the rise of NFTs? McCoy hesitates before responding that he's neutral on the idea of the pandemic driving the success of NFTs.

"I know that's a common take, but I think the boom would have happened regardless of the pandemic. The trajectory of the technology's evolution would have eventually led there. The idea of sovereign digital property is too important to not succeed.

McCoy's studio in Brooklyn. Source: Provided by Kevin McCoy

NFTs of the future?

So where do NFTs, or monegraphs, go from here? How do they evolve further?

Right now, NFTs are mainly pieces of metadata that sit on a blockchain, McCoy explains. As the technology evolves, we'll see NFTs that serve as software that interact with tokens. He also mentions on-chain generative works that evolve on their own accord after the creator puts them in the blockchain.

I'm confused by the idea of tokens that drive software, so I ask for elaboration.

McCoy is particularly interested in this idea: tokens driving software. He pictures a scenario where software must be activated by a certain token in order to perform its inherent functions. He says he made "Quantum Leap" in an attempt to illustrate this idea in the simplest way possible.

"There's a piece of software that's the art, which is written in JavaScript and WebGL, so you see it in a web browser. However, certain parameters for the software are stored in the token. So, when you connect your wallet to that website, the software on the website then reads that token. Essentially, the software can't run without the token, which tells the software how to run. There's a fit between the art generated by the software and the token that you have.”

McCoy dives into the question of how software will make its way into the metaverse. The software could live on-chain and be a part of the token.

Web developers often work with a piece of software called Node, or similar technologies, which offer a whole library of code with plug-ins that give developers access. Developers can then expand that code for their own purposes. Tokens can serve as those plug-ins.

“The token isn't the whole application, but it's a necessary function within the application.”

This all sounds very technical. Will the average user realistically adopt such complicated technology?

Mass adoption happens with complicated tech all the time, McCoy explains, as long as the user experience is simple.

"The user won't even be conscious of what's happening. They'll just know that they need to bring a token to a website or an app to make it do certain things."

McCoy warns that there needs to be a delicate balance between simplicity and decentralization. One of the best methods of simplifying the user experience is centralization, having other people act on your behalf. Amazon and Facebook make the internet seamless and easy.

But there are obvious downsides to such centralization, such as loss of autonomy and security vulnerabilities. Critics of DeFi and crypto often cite the difficulty of the user experience as the main reason why true mainstream adoption will never happen. However, McCoy reminds us that difficulty often serves as a protection for your property, independence and identity. The more difficult the user experience is, the more difficult it is for other people to steal your stuff or exercise control over you.

"Making the experience both easy and decentralized is still a work in progress."

I think we're in the beginning phase of a period of tokenization that could potentially last for 20 or 30 years."

So what’s keeping the inventor of the NFT busy these days?

Throughout 2022, McCoy will be working on a narrative NFT project called "The Inside World," which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 20.

The basic premise involves 14 AI characters who run Las Vegas. One of them, however, is secretly human. Viewers can collect character cards and employ them in different ways to influence the development of the storyline. It's an opportunity for people to participate in the development of a shared story using NFTs.

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