A bit over sixteen years ago I began creating a surrogate I could use to allude to crypto space. I had made a conceptual structure for the knot that defined its space, and this “real” one was planned as a kind of natural atmosphere that represented the virtual character in a more actual state of temperaments and expressions, with all the drama of existence. Crypto space is about tokenized things. With this, a real identity was let loose.
Three years ago, when this environment got close to coming into its own, I introduced it in terms of a new class of art, whose place in crypto space I characterized as a dominant one. I made it something designed in that alternate universe, addressing conflicting opinions on class, and other lines of descent with claims on it, that defined territorial bounds of artistic decisions.
This characterized the knot, and these other lineages of tokenized realities we call art, as not at odds with each other. It united them, in fact, against its intellectual counterpart in which money is the archaic remnant of entrenched demands on our freedom to have our expressions unbounded. This alludes to the knot, and these other classes of abstract things, as having value as creations.
This is very much like a contest between the intrinsic value of unique objects and the questionable value of trust. The difference between what this surrogate structure meant, and non-art, is the point. Art is a decentralized consensus on a precise sequencing of an individual life's work over time, whereas its counterpart in money is the trust and belief placed in the property value of art, and the responsibility for what is most useful about the time in which the art lives.
This year I decided that the value was in the back story of choices made before work on this structure even began... about what the concept of property actually means. Put in terms of a decentralized Internet, I applied Steemit, for attraction, and Patreon, for processing; to use each platform's best conception of community; to introduce a procedure for earning startup shares in a system I'd established on http://www.greatknot.com made for adding new unique knot forms through a programed process that is beta tested, and then started in an autonomous creation direction as a process that goes on forever. This is an art to adjust thinking toward the distribution of “properties”, not “property”, under the momentum of universal trust in the value of creations.
The time before this is released to the world depends on how long Cryptoknot takes, from this introduction in Steemit, to be absorbed into a system of scarce assets. That part of the story will be the main subject covered here on Steemit as we face the challenges of restructuring the present monetary system.
This starts with the reason the image here, taken yesterday, has meaning. It is a moment where that surrogate setting for crypto space is captured in a split second of time art has created.
