Time proof online
there is a question i always challenge myself: how do i (would love to) spend my time online？what kind of behavior (can be digitalized) can be considered as "time" ? i quite appreciate andy's thinking about "time" , he took the example of how bitcoin brings us new prospect to think about time.
One of the points from bitcoin's whitepaper is that the global network of time-stamped servers enables us to move out of the authority’s routines from 9-5, public holidays etc so we could experience time quite differently.
other than the time we spent to strengthen our body, accompanying family and frends, experiencing something new in physical world (REAL LIFE), the rest of it we emerge in digital boxes.
How do we make most of our time (online) ? How do we make our focus, attention, the things we create on-line to get the time proof ?
Speaking of myself, i felt that time should be recognized when i write, research and i share, that's what andy called participation, skills, competency are highly in context with time.
i suppose NFTs as a medium to prove our time beyond signaling wealth gained from artifical scarcity, as vitalik put in his recent soulbound article:
There are of course important benefits that even financialized NFTs can provide, such as funding artists and charities that would otherwise go unrecognized. However, there are limits to that approach, and a lot of underexplored opportunity in trying to go beyond financialization. Making more items in the crypto space "soulbound" can be one path toward an alternative, where NFTs can represent much more of who you are and not just what you can afford.
i also like what Dror Poleg wrote in his blog：
This highlights an important point that most people miss when thinking about NFTs. Non-fungible tokens are not about art, speculation, crime, or whatever else people currently do with them. NFT are about empowering people to own, control, and monetize intellectual property. As I wrote in NFTs and the Future of Work:
"Most people on earth do not create gifs. "Content" is not just Beyonce's new song or the highlight real of yesterday's playoff game. Content is the two lines of code that an engineer somewhere just added to an open-source project. That Slack message your colleague sent you this morning is also content. And of course, the newsletter you sent to your 72 subscribers last week is also content, even if you're not a celebrity.
Can these two lines of code, Slack message, or an email that nobody read be sold just like a work of art? No, because they are not a work of art. But they are work. And so, someone deserves to get paid for them if they end up being useful.
More importantly ,whenever i create digital stuff online, i not only express myself but actually generate (social) relations with other people, ideas, projects. For example jessie wrote an mirror article on Why #Doodles is a good pfp? (just an example,not afflicted with doodles)
Angel-List
What i discuss above is NOT irrelevant to AngelList idea, instead is the crucial question&spirit.
1) time proof 2) social relations
The open protocols that enable time proof for a project——mirror, dune analytics, de-social media (de-twitter), snapshot...help me add!
(or maybe in the future, a research idea can easily be turned into project via tokens, and open protocols will be built around it.)
What counts as listing?
whenever you make the time-proof behavior for an angel idea/project, you are "listing"
a datamodel to at least show the relations of people, project, d-app&event
like jessie wrote an mirror article for Doodles.
The potential solution and poc
As for the angelList, could we track the "Listing" behavior via different datamodels ?
the basics
DIDs are Decentralized Identifiers, an emerging technical standard that enables verifiable, decentralized, interoperable digital identities. A DID can refer to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.). By using DIDs to manage datastores, data can traverse platforms and blockchains and be associated with any entity, including NFTs.
DataModels describe the data linked to the DID that will be stored in the datastore. The DataModel defines the shape (or schema) of your data, which can then be referenced by every datastore for every user that interacts with that data model. Developers can define the DataModel for their app, then give users full sovereign control over all their data records.
The DID Datastore itself is the table of datastores that a DID controls, each of which points to the relevant data model. This creates a way to structure and associate data to any Web3 identity, all without a backend or smart contract. Since the data lives on a decentralized network (Ceramic) controlled by each user (DID), data from app A is not locked into app A. App B can also read and modify the same data if granted permission to do so.
ceramic opens up a channel for skills/credentials related datamodels, but havent seen any use case there. But there is someone who think about in the context of ceramic identitylink and allow content creators some tools to backfill their data streams, worth checking out.
The question here is, can we define&build more datamodels to represent those "time proof" —— the thing I have done , and it belongs to a certain relationship.
Specifically, Is it possible that i can own the mirror article i wrote, the dune board i made and the snapshot i joined as NFTs (or certain ownership representative) to proof my contribution to a "project" ?