Coizu

I have a strong opinion about all these blockchain things but I initially didn't really want to be too negative about it, but since most people have a very critical view on this I thought I will share my rant about it anyway. First of all, this is a typical example of blockchain tech in general. Some people think all that blockchain and crypto stuff is the most genius thing that happens to human kind within the last thousand years or so, while the rest of the world just doesn't care at all. Instead of taking a step back and questioning if all of these things are necessary and if they actually solve a problem that really exists, people invested into crypto and blockchain tech try to push it even further with services and more tech that build upon blockchains. But what never gets solved is the problem of people understanding it and actually using blockchain tech. And for me the whole reason why this is not happening is: there is no need for it. All the problems blockchain startups try to solve were never any problems to begin with. Zora is a prime example in my opinion. No one understands it. And once people get a rough idea, they still don't see the point. If you want to auction something unique, just use Ebay and have a centralised system that tells you who the current owner is. Why is another level of complexity necessary here? How does crypto help? I think the only reason crypto is necessary here is because otherwise no one would care about the idea of owning a digital item. The whole point is to find an application for crypto, no matter how much sense it makes. So why are people out there bidding 10k or more for a thing no one understands and no one actually cares about? My explanation is that there are a quite some people who invested a lot of their money into crypto currencies (and some of them made quite some money with it) and they really believe in the tech and its future growth. So those people are inclined to spend more money on crypto related services. Imagine you invest 90% of your money into crypto and you see it growing and growing. You start to really believe in it and you start to invest more and more into it and you also start to spend more in the whole ecosystem to "get the ball rolling". I would make a bet that whoever wins the auction is a bigger fan of Ethereum than of Mike. I might sound like an old guy who isn't open for new tech but I think crypto is a super interesting tech from a pure technical point of view. I host a tech meetup where I live and I heard various talks about it and I am always interested in inviting people to talk about it again. But so far I have never had a person there who was able to convince me that there is an actual problem that blockchain tech is going to solve. All of the problems are always made up. Mike has always been interested in tech and he just wants to try something out which is totally fine. But I think if something needs that much explanation and is still so confusing for everyone, it is probably not going to be a thing. Maybe the world is just not ready for crypto yet.

My understanding of everything: Imagine Mike would release the song on a CD, but he will sell just a single disc. So only one person at a time can own that CD. That doesn't mean only that person has the song. The owner of the disc could rip the song and (illegally) leak it to the internet or whatever. But you always only have on person who owns the actual collectible. The difference here is: there is not a real disc. There is only the song as a digital good. So how do you keep track who owns the "disc"? That's why this whole thing builds upon the block chain. After the auction, the new owner will be saved in the ethereum block chain forever. So you always have that block chain as a source of truth of who owns the song right now (while normally the CD itself would be the proof basically). Now that person could decide they want to sell that "disc" in a couple of years. The blockchain still has the information that can verify that that person is the owner and after that person sold it, the new owner will be saved to the blockchain, so you always know who currently owns it (and you have the complete history of owners for validation). Another difference to the real world collectibles is (at least if I understood zora.co correctly): whenever the next person decides to sell the item, the original owner (in this case Mike) will get a cut of the money.

Really looking forward to this. The song itself was great even before Mike touched it and his production was one of the best things he did on stream.

11/10. Perfect remix. Some people take things way too serious. Sometimes you just have to have some fun.

How reliable are those information? Can we assume that he had some written records of everything or is some of that based on his memory?

They didn't send a tracking number to me. I don't think they do that at all. You will just get a package.

The way it is blurred looks like compression artifacts to me so I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the whole process files got mixed up or converted in a wrong way and what we got is the result of that.

Got my replacements. The DVDs are fixed. The lithograph looks slightly better than before but still blurry. Do they not look at those things and check if they fixed the problem? Or is that actually the quality Mike intended the print to look like? The backstage pass is now laminated but the cut out to put it on a lanyard or whatever isn't part of the backstage pass itself anymore but instead they extended the laminated plastic and did the cut out there, so still a minor difference to the US version (but at least it is properly laminated now, so it's all good).

Just got my tracking information. Replacements should arrive Monday.

I assume they are waiting a while to gather numbers before they start producing the replacement items. It will probably take a while.

I am 100% sure the other person wrote to the wrong email address. They never asked me for any order number or where I ordered it from. Just write them that you have faulty items and that you send them the mail for further steps.

it still doesn't make any sense to blame the remix for that.

Doesn‘t matter. There were rules in place that you had to use the provided acapella.

The acapella provided was a mix of all different vocals. There was no way of taking out individual voices.

DJ Shadow, Phantogram, Purity Ring and Mike. Amazing lineup for a remix album.

Did anyone find a European/German store that is selling it? Don't want to pay more for shipping than for the item itself...

I really like the OSC cover. The instrumental is super dope. Not 100% sure about the vocal performance though. Not a fan of the ITE cover though. I am not familiar with the music of Fever 333 but it sounds like the singer doesn't really rap. It just sounds like a more rock-ish version of ITE.

They will most likely wait a couple of days and then send out an email to everyone with further instructions.

I am confused by the US charts. Aren't the album charts the relevant charts here? They are on #2 there right now. https://www.billboard.com/charts/top-album-sales

Oh wow, amazing find. That picture gives us a date of the performance: 1998.6.24 Would you mind sharing how exactly you found the picture? Did you just go through all image results for "Backside Records"?

#3 in the German album charts.

Seems like they took it down a couple of minutes ago. I guess we have to wait for the official release now.

I agree with that sentence but for me personally a historic song gets a more "holy grail" status compared to any other random song that might be finished but I guess everyone sees that a little bit different. In general I think the concept of "holy grail" is not really worth it anyway. We get whatever we get, it makes no sense to seek for one specific thing in my opinion.

Well I guess Mike might have just mentioned a new holy grail? 😄 https://clips.twitch.tv/ResilientMagnificentElkAMPTropPunch