@nyPost reports that #Melania @melaniaTrump is Supporting Orphans through the #BeBestInitiative & Sale of NFTs | @Metaversable #TrackDollar #TrackingDollarsBySerialCode
The NEW YORK POST explains Melania Trump's cyber-business in a report linked through 'that name' below; but first I want to understand that name better. And I find you understand names better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The name “Melania (\ #Malinda #Mel #Melany #Melina #Melinda #Mellony #Mindy)” is a form of the name #Melanie, built on ancient words that mean Black, Dark.
This confuses me about NFTs. The main NFT--the report tells us--is A PAINTING ... what? I thought those were TOTALLY 'fungible'! And then she's CHARGING "1 SOL"---a form of cryptocurrency ... I thought cryptocoins were NFTs!
What's 'fungible' again? Etymonline says (that wordnet.princeton.edu says) the adjective means "freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation." (i.e. like a five-dollar bill ... totally indiscernible from any other five-dollar bill (well, maybe with a different serial-number for each; but one five-dollar bill buys as much as any other five-dollar bill ... making non-fungible mean 'totally individual' (like a painting).)
So 'what she's selling' is just like 'a painting,' but digital ... you're buying its "token" (a piece of code called a "smart contract")---like owning the key to the safe it's kept-in (the blockchain).
Metaversable explains that it's basically the same thing as buying the painting IRL---you can display it, but can't copy it or use any other intellectual property rights (unless they are specifically granted in addition).
So I have to remind myself (in writing, so you all can see 🕵) that none- or very few-of the pictures on this blog are "mine"---most of them are 'images found on other sites, fed to this page by the code-working of the Internet (the pages' webmasters, BlogSpot's webmasters, and a tiny bit of WYSIWYG-work from me).'
And there are a few 'packets of photo-code I've collected (through various methods) and put on display here' ... code that's essentially a digital house-of-cards that we 'web-users' carefully build onto at the risk of knocking the whole thing down.
('Web-Users': I'm too humble to call myself "a webmaster" ... I'm more of a 'blog-writer' with a little bit of code-knowledge ... I don't even know if 'code-knowledge' is what real coders call it)
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