Alan Turing lived from 1912–1954. His work in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence was extremely influential. Turing died young, having been grievously harmed by the government for having a sexual relationship with a man. But his contributions to scientific understanding will live forever.
This portrait of Alan Turing was painted in oils on linen in 2016. The original hangs above my coffee maker and measures 18 by 24 inches. It was painted using a public domain image from Wikipedia as a reference. Low resolution images of this painting are floating around the internet. There is also a user issued asset on Waves called the Dunbar that grants its possessor rights to use one of these images. On 4/3/21 I burned every Dunbar token in existence.
Name: Dunbar
Description: The Dunbar token is named after Dunbar's number. According to Wikipedia, "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships." Robin Dunbar put the number at about 150. Others put the number as high as 290. There are 290 Dunbar tokens. Each one is indivisible. Possession of a Dunbar grants admission into The Dunbar, which is a group consisting of Dunbar owners. Membership in this group is voluntary. Members of The Dunbar are permitted to use the image file of a portrait of Alan Turing located at IPFS hash Qmd3EBVu5fyofw9TvmT2dnhcHQrVxoTbjBobWZpDZGfaCC for personal or commercial purposes.
Decimals: Zero
Quantity: 290
Reissuable: Not reissuable
Smart asset: Not a smart asset
Asset id: 2D3eTJHme4Uc18JB1RqZwQFkM1y3ttJQGs21xsNXb7Uz
Quantity burned on 4/3/21: 290
Burn Tx id: 9UKjiDANFJ74xgewpALgYDrXxiTUegj4og4xyGvaAwUa
The Dunbar was essentially a Waves NFT, constructed in a novel way. I thought it was neat, but there was no market appetite for the Dunbar after Waves labeled the asset suspicious. I could have kept all of my Dunbars indefinitely. Maybe I could have even devised some scheme to make them profitable. Instead, I burned all of my tokens.
Burning 290 Dunbars freed my painting from possible claims to its use arising from Waves in the future. That means I can cleanly tokenize Turing arbitrarily. I love the idea of minting Turing tokens. This portrait may show up on my NFT Showroom page in the near future.
