[NetBehaviour] It Had To Be Done

[Kath O'Donnell]

thanks a lot for this. I thought it might be the reference but wasn't sure.
I haven't come across the other data types in the blockchain payload yet -
I like the cryptograffiti. makes me think perhaps one day some of those
chains might be collector's items, since only a single copy makes them
rare(ish) - collect some bitcoins with short encoded/compressed text
messages, or a serial story? or something. have to trade them with others
to read the whole message. though perhaps since they're all logged,
anyone/all can read the contents anyway, so not as rare (thinking off top
of my head, when I should be sleeping). I still need to learn more about
this so all your links are really useful. I'll try take a look at a packet
to learn more.

On 28 July 2016 at 07:15, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, at 09:40 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote:
>
> Hi Rob, do you mean that the blockchain art is carried within the
> blockchain itself? or does the blockchain contain a reference to the
> artwork, where it exists externally (online/physical). how large is each
> blockchain piece and can it carry other data than hex(?) numbers.
>
>
> In MTAA's original, the flashing sign identifies what appear to be network
> cable directly linking two Macintosh computers as the "here".  It's a
> playful response to the question of where the art is in net art.
>
> In my shameless borrowing it's a schematic "block" in an image of the kind
> that you get if you google for "blockchain diagram" (see the "preparatory"
> folder of the project for ones I didn't use). This is a slightly more
> plausible site for some sort of art than a wire, but only slightly.
>
> The Bitcoin blockchain contains a reference to this particular image (in
> the block the image mentions), but not the image itself. There are various
> systems that work like this:
>
> https://www.proofofexistence.com/
>
> https://www.ascribe.io/
>
> https://monegraph.com/
>
> You can upload images and other media into the blockchain, although this
> is generally frowned upon as "bloat":
>
> http://www.cryptograffiti.info/
>
> http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html
>
> Each Bitcoin block at present can store at most 1MB of data. You can put
> larger blobs of data into it, split over many transactions in several
> blocks, but see above note about "bloat". :-)
>
> You can create references to or upload anything that can be represented
> digitally, certainly including text, images, sound and video. Cryptographic
> hashing is fun. I put the hash of my genome on the blockchain to prove that
> I exist:
>
> http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/
>
> putting all 20MB of my genome on there would have been a bad idea for
> privacy reasons as well as bloat ones.
>
> There are different blockchains that can store different things (NameCoin
> for internet address data, Counterparty for generalised tokens, Twister for
> microblogging, Ethereum for programs). There are also much more efficient
> ways of storing media and having conversations that nonetheless play nice
> with blockchains (IPFS, Storj and Swarm are all good ways of doing this).
>
> There's surprisingly little art in the blockchain itself as far as I know.
> This is a shame as I find it a very interesting environment technologically
> and socially, and prime real estate for net art style play. I'd be very
> interested to hear about any projects people have created or seen.
>
> Bonus links to more of my projects and writing on the subject:
>
> http://robmyers.org/abcd/
>
> http://robmyers.org/category/crypto/
>
> :-)
>
> - Rob.
>
>
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