
This is a lecture style course that is dedicated to teaching the basic concepts needed to navigate the blockchain.
This course isn't about making money although we will talk about the mediums and concepts that facilitate decentralized exchanged on the blockchain.
This book is about what can be built on the blockchain and how it can help artists and creators in ways that current digital business models do not.
This course doesn't talk about any specific company to ensure the timelessness of the knowledge. The speed at which things are built on the blockchain is incredible and so referencing any specific tool or company, in these lessons, would make the content less scalable and less accessible.
There is so much to be explored by incorporating blockchain technology into the internet to protect people's data and their intellectual property. There are so many more possibilities to be explored beyond the cloud with streaming and subscriptions and it's up to us to make those experiences fun and engaging.
My name is Kyle Hinton aka Simulations and I'm a multi-disciplined creator who is dedicated to building at the intersection of art and technology.
In an era when everything is monetized an all our content and creations are managed by someone else, how can digital ownership be helpful?
How is owning something in the real world similar to owning something in the digital world?
Websites that are read-only.
Read and Write: Our information makes content for platforms.
Read, Write, Own
Creators own their work, represented with a mutable public ledger.
Do you own it if it's not on your database? How can ownership be represented?
Out of all the blockchains, why Solana?
How can creators use decentralization to keep their data with them and not trapped on a platform?
How is the blockchain decentralized and why is it useful?
A quick video that goes through the steps of adding the Phantom Wallet extension to Chrome and creating a new Solana crypto wallet.
For this quick tutorial, you'll learn how to create a Solana crypto wallet with the Solflare Wallet extension.
Your public keys are like the address for your house.
Your private keys are like the keys for your house.
Your wallet is like your inventory / identity for surfing the web.
What makes Solana decentralized?
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Your public keys are like the address for your house.
Your private keys are like the keys for your house.
Your wallet is like your inventory / identity for surfing the web.
How can everyone look at data on the blockchain? What tool do we use to view blockchain data?
Some organizations will manage your private keys for you.
What is a ledger and how do they influence our everyday lives?
Is a spreadsheet that is public and immutable useful? What are the use cases?
What are fungible tokens on the blockchain?
What are non-fungible tokens on the blockchain?
How do NFTs work on the Solana blockchain network?
What makes a good NFT project? (Usually the same things that makes a good business)
What are airdrops, in relation to crypto and NFTs, and how are they useful?
Are there different kinds of staking? What's the difference between staking crypto and staking an NFT?
What is an NFT made out of?
How can an NFT be used? How can the data associated with an NFT be used?
There are some NFTs that can be changed by the creator and others that can never be changed once registered as immutable. When is it useful for NFTs to be immutable and when is it useful for them to be mutable?
Can we save the data for different kinds of licenses for artwork and art distribution in an nft?
Is decentralization, crypto and nfts useful? Can this technology truly empower artists and provide new and alternate business models from streaming and subscriptions?
This is a lecture style course that is dedicated to teaching the basic concepts needed to navigate the blockchain.This course isn't about making money although we will talk about the mediums and concepts that facilitate decentralized exchanged on the blockchain.This book is about what can be built on the blockchain and how it can help artists and creators in ways that current digital business models do not.
This course doesn't talk about any specific company to ensure the timelessness of the knowledge. The speed at which things are built on the blockchain is incredible and so referencing any specific tool or company, in these lessons, would make the content less scalable and less accessible.There is so much to be explored by incorporating blockchain technology into the internet to protect people's data and their intellectual property. There are so many more possibilities to be explored beyond the cloud with streaming and subscriptions and it's up to us to make those experiences fun and engaging.
The book for this course is called 'Gm Solana', and it was created after running a series of workshops on blockchain technology for artists.
This book won second place at the Solana Scribes competition in 2024 for a category in introducing learners to blockchain.