Solarpunk as a concept has many ideas, some will lead to liberatory egalitarian societies, others will copy the old ideas and create a stratified technofudalist world. What will we choose?
Such an engaging and powerful article. Originally, I was turned off to the solar punk concept as I thought crypto was integral to it but this really opened my mind to new possibilities.
Thank you! And no not at all. A bunch of cryptocurrency groups and people spam the hashtags because they copy one of the old crypto scams called cryptopunks. So they try and take over everything that is ____punk and solarpunk happens to be one of those terms. Really sick of it haha. But there are more people pushing back against it and really talking about what solarpunk really is.
In general I view cryptopunks as scams because they are algorithmically generated images that have an inflated sense of value. It's taking something that has near zero marginal cost and selling it at a high price, taking something like a digital picture which inherently holds no value and selling it for money is a waste of the resources required to mine the crypto, mint the NFT ect.
There was a high profile NFT seller who rug pulled Sotheby's for almost $30 Million.
My comment above was pointing out mainly the fact that other crypto projects have copied the naming convention, which is why solarpunk is being flooded with crypto projects, even though the core ideas behind cryptocurrencies (and all currencies really) are IMO counter intuitive to solarpunk itself.
Such an engaging and powerful article. Originally, I was turned off to the solar punk concept as I thought crypto was integral to it but this really opened my mind to new possibilities.
Thank you! And no not at all. A bunch of cryptocurrency groups and people spam the hashtags because they copy one of the old crypto scams called cryptopunks. So they try and take over everything that is ____punk and solarpunk happens to be one of those terms. Really sick of it haha. But there are more people pushing back against it and really talking about what solarpunk really is.
How are cryptopunks scams? I've been digging all day and haven't found nothing.
In general I view cryptopunks as scams because they are algorithmically generated images that have an inflated sense of value. It's taking something that has near zero marginal cost and selling it at a high price, taking something like a digital picture which inherently holds no value and selling it for money is a waste of the resources required to mine the crypto, mint the NFT ect.
There was a high profile NFT seller who rug pulled Sotheby's for almost $30 Million.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/84756/cryptopunk-nft-holder-rug-pulls-sothebys-auction-worth-30-million/index.html
https://decrypt.co/93684/cryptopunks-owner-boasts-rugging-sothebys-nft-auction-canceled
So yeah.
My comment above was pointing out mainly the fact that other crypto projects have copied the naming convention, which is why solarpunk is being flooded with crypto projects, even though the core ideas behind cryptocurrencies (and all currencies really) are IMO counter intuitive to solarpunk itself.
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