€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP

• snapshot

  57 8,951 9.7 Vue

  Interface for Snapshot. Join us on Discord http://discord.snapshot.org

  

The founders of this DAO are paying themselves >$30,000/month [0] out of the pool to look after an old book and to commission an animated TV series [0] from a company that does music videos and commercials [1].

[0] https://snapshot.org/#/dunedao.eth/proposal/0x2038fc240d0e85...

• opensea-js

  640 2,266 9.4 TypeScript

  TypeScript SDK for the OpenSea marketplace

  

Well, they won't. All NFTs are hosted on hilariously centralized services like googleusercontent.com and similar.

Browse through https://opensea.io/, the most prominent NFT marketplace at the moment. Digging through the DOM of their website will reveal a lot of links to quite standard content storage solutions. They usually go through a bit of trouble to prevent people from simply clicking "view image in new tab" to reveal the actual location, but it's not difficult to get around.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ipfs

  483 22,510 4.4

  Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

  

https://ipfs.io/ says:

> Here's what happens when you add a file to IPFS — whether you're storing that file on your own local node or one operated by a pinning service or IPFS-enabled app.

Notice that wording: “Add a file to IPFS”.

It’s likewise fine to say, then, that you “put something on ipfs”.

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