Answer me that, hedgies!
As we say on the Infobahn: when Turing closes a crypto exchange, he opens an ICO.
The sky above the port was the colour of… 5arah.eth didn’t know and she did not care.
5arah snorted.Look on my apes, ye Mighty, and despair!
“Worthless,” they’d declared.
Most NFTs were “worthless.”
And people believed them!
The nifty collection once envied by so many swirled around her in a double helix of data.
Apparently it was named after some extinct animal?
She kept scrolling through the “worthless” collection the blockchain provedPROVEDshe owned.
Six StonedApes, including two with the coveted septum tattoos.
God rolls for every gun in Gods Of Combateven those outwith the current meta, just in case.
A menagerie of StonedCatz, StonedDogz, StonedImagineBabyz, and so on, and so on.
Enough hats, garments, and skins for different games and cyberspaces to clothe half the Infobahn.
The title to a square foot of land in Glencoe 2.0.
A hangar’s worth of spaceships for an MMO which shut down 17 years ago.
The video of Ian Falcon’s final 720 noscope.
A 420-minute album of hag house music generated with her handle as the seed.
The digital rights to the molars of some guy in New Jersey.
The genetic sequence of a redwood.
Renders of assorted proprietary video game characters.
At least a dozen 69th mintings which 5arah had picked up because, well, you know.
5arah’s lip curled into a sneer, then spread into a smile.
She knew what to do.
Yet again, the ‘chain had the answer.
“Worthless,” they say.
The sort of $SHIBbing shill whose presence sullies the revolutionary artform of our time.
NFTs cry out to be seen.
She can be the change she wants to see in the world.
Attentive readers will have noticed an environmental edge running through the excerpt.
This time, the NFTeens’ revolution will go beyond saving culture, they’re saving the very world.
The only answer to the pollution and waste of consumerism is cryptoconsumerism.
There’ll be no more dropped crisp packets when your snacks are NFTs.
The waste of fast fashion means nothing when your clothes are digital.
Creativity is born of adversity.
One day it will come out and you’ll see.
Creativity is born of constraints.
The twisting of the chain is part of why it’s so exciting to work with NFTs.
I trust and hope that all three books will be published in time for Christmas.
And perhaps the books won’t be merely printed, they’ll be… minted.
Before I leave you, I must address what might have beenand might yet be.
The most attentive readers will have noticed a tantalising teaser in the excerpt.
How could this be?!
Imagine: not just a net built of NFTs, but an entire multiverse.
That’s right, we were headed Across The Niftyverse!
The Niftyverse brings exciting storytelling opportunities for alternate timelines and “What if?”
scenarios and more than that, it opens the series up to branding opportunities.
NFTs from other fictional worlds could ‘cross over’, binding the realities.
Hell, even fantasy can work!
Nowthatwould be a funging mint ape to hodl alright!
And just imagine what Deadpool might have to say about our Non-Fungible Futureand you, the reader!
They she would meet mysterious netizens (at least one of whom speaks suspiciously like… who would reveal to her a whole new level of the blockchain.
The Old Code speaks of one truly non-fungible token.
One token at the heart of all Infobahns.
One token to unite everybahn into the non-fungible future we ache for… or destroy it all.
5arah will have to answer the biggest question of all: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Hedgie, you ain’t ready for this truth!
