I Just Published My Book To Ethereum As An NFT!

That’s right! Bring Back Satire is now an NFT on Ethereum.

I’m new to the NFT space. In fact, less than a year ago, I appeared on a podcast and spoke in public about how I didn’t understand the concept. Fortunately, a lot has changed since then. Services such as Cargo and OpenSea have made it easier than ever to mint and view NFTs with a set of web-based services that allow users to put almost any sort of digital content into the blockchain. But let’s back up just a second and work up to that. I just figured out what an NFT was myself, after working up to it for almost a full year.

How It Got Started

The story starts last December, when, a day or two after Christmas, a friend of mine sent me a link to a website called Cent. I joined up and saw it as a golden opportunity to pursue a new audience online. I’d experimented with a site called Ello that was billed “the creator’s network,” but I hadn’t received much in the way of reward or anything there and was fairly slow to build my account in terms of followers. I discontinued my use of that platform a bit after getting onto Cent and beginning to receive tips in Ethereum for my work.

Ethereum is a network, and ETH is a cryptocurrency that is used to pay fees on the Ethereum network. Ethereum is special because it is backed by the most robust development community in the blockchain marketplace; that is, more applications accomplish more diverse ends on the Ethereum network than on any other blockchain. Games, information exchanges, trading, and even authentication services such as Metamask which make use of ETH wallet addresses to manage accounts securely; all of these and more are already deployed at various stages of development via Ethereum today.

Naturally, I was getting paid in this stuff, so I had to figure out what it was. That took a few months, but was rather boring, so I saved up one paycheck and bought a crypto token called Tezos with it for a lark. It doubled over the course of the next two weeks or thereabouts. I was hooked on cryptocurrency! I took up trading and did fairly well over the course of the immediate past. While this was going on, I was experimenting creatively with the most engaged audience at the deepest level that I’ve…