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Crowdfunding Writing With NFTs — Mirror
In media, NFTs—or Non-Fungible Tokens—make it possible for creators to retain ownership of their content, without limiting the propagation of their files across the internet. As a result, NFTs have the potential to invert the ownership model of media—offering creators, their audiences, and developers who build for them, a viable alternative to plat... See more
Jesse Walden • NFTs make the internet ownable — Mirror
It solves the problem of creators profiting from the subsequent use of their work
Adam Davidson • Real world problems that web3 could solve--at least for me
One of the most significant trends in web3 is the rise of community-generated media. Fans are becoming co-creators in developing media or applications on top of a character universe, or influencing the direction of content creation. Various examples are playing out across creative verticals, ranging from fans influencing the plot progress
... See moreLi Jin • Progressive Decentralization for Media
All of this is not to detract from Mirror's inventive model. And building these communities the right way is hard. The platform is clean and easy to use, and the idea of "Medium, but make it crypto" is appealing to everyone in cryptoland who believes Web 3.0 models can help fix the existing broken monetization system for digital content.
Decrypt • Mirror, DAOs, and the Exclusivity Problem - Decrypt
Collaborative storytelling combines the lessons of Wikipedia with the power of credibly neutral, low take-rate blockchain networks that reward fans with ownership over their creations. The way this works most commonly in practice is that users receive tokens in proportion to their contribution to the narrative corpus. The resulting intellectual pro
... See moreChris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Writing is a central skill in the creator economy. You can use it in TikTok videos, stories, and memes, you can build communities and media around it. And it’s still a prominent tool for communication between people. So we thought writing was the ideal starting point and a natural first step for Mirror. Eventually, we would love for any group chats... See more
Patrick Rivera • The emerging Internet Renaissance — my interview with Patrick Ri…
As exciting as NFT art is to artists, a similar opportunity may await writers, editors, and publishers. But, the infrastructure and tools are not quite there.