blockchain
&
the
knot

Animated Sequence, 2002

4 genesis blocks


Infra tokens 1 & 2

The words "vision", "object", and "image" have meanings that are differently descriptive when applied to a pictorial reference to what can actually be existing in reality.

The form and structure of an artwork as a real world asset in a computer-generated image displays it as the visual of an object. In the case of the knots pictured here the work itself is its unique descriptiveness. The method by which it is presented has no bearing on the conceptual state of it as an artwork that's a perfect candidate for basing a complete corpus of assets as creative instances upon.

The intention of each work is to identify it as unique, but retain the nature of its descriptiveness as an attribute of what's commonly recognizable. The art is solely in the creation of the art of that.

In the chain allusion, blockchain's blocks are linear additions made in chronological fashion, as in a chain of title, or abstract of provenance.

In blockchain a transaction adds a block that references back in the chronology to an origin state, or genesis block, and new blocks require agreement on the solution of a cryptographic puzzle that references this origin state of the chain.

A block is only accepted to the chain after this reference is verified by an autonomous network in possession of the most current distribution of a ledger of all transactions. Only with this consensus can a new block be time-stamped into the chronology of exchanges for this particular chain of title, and its updated blockchain be distributed.

The knot in this art is essentially the same. It has actual circuits logically connected in a sequential order, graphically, that act as the core of a decentralized autonomous knowledge base.

In its protocols a value is bonded into this sequence when a particular circuit acts as the crypto identity for something, and secures a ledger for that thing, acting as its genesis block .

The system makes a transaction of this value only possible through a transaction of its identifying knot, and with an addition created to the sequence. This expands the graphics and that changes the measurements of the distributed registry, so the characteristics of the circuit identified with the value of the transaction have a new cryptographic key securing its same place in the systemic order.

The possessors of the full sequence; the distributed register; assure a transaction by consensus when verifying this new addition, doing something similar to solving the cryptographic puzzle in blockchain, and in that this is a process understandable to anyone aware of blockchain.

the prospectus
What is conceptualized is a utility whose function is to base a value system on the sequence of collectible instances of this art.

This plans an imaginative use of the popularity of blockchain for registering an unending sequence of verifiable, different pseudo objects infinitely created in a process that by allusion to blockchain's distributive consensus protocols autonomously continues forever.

Using a significantly different approach, creation of knots within the strict parameters of a systemic art, the autonomous, tried and proven incentive-to-work speculation of "mining" in blockchain's creation, is adapted to a "creator" paradigm for the distributed consensus concept's focus to be on non-fungible art objects of exchangeable value; as a commodity; instead of cryptocurrency's specie.

As the registry for systemically designed artworks, this adapts blockchain to a self-referencing use where the systemic sequencing of the art it records replaces the role that that's hashcode fills normally.

With this the blockchain's distributed consensus protocols that are acting as a regulating device instead directs participants in this art through an agreement process to assure that a provenance of a creation's ownership is qualified to be registered.

That places the "distributed register" in the role of a systemic property that the art medium represents as the knot. Once a beta group of participants has brought this toward the desired autonomous state of consensus what's built will be as associated with the knot as much as it is with cryptocurrency.

The goal in propagating the properties of the knot on the conceptual level is to have this become fully autonomous through the Internet. As a way of describing the systemic art in this website setting, different aspects that fit this registry purpose are illustrated in the sequence of 107 creations that are shown here to the right.

This prospectus on building out the elements that structure a plan moves it through four stages that progress toward a future state of full autonomy. They are:

Stage One

First, the properties and structural protocols of the previous pages here must be used in building a formal series of knot combinations, based on the range of the Genesis Sequence. The system for combining these knots in a progressive series (in the order shown to the right) standardizes the combining of knots and the numbering of each Intra created as a base for tracking consensus on value.

These "Digital discriptives" are made into unique objects to commemorate the origins of the order. They are planned as rare examples of the art made to demonstrate the application of the Infra.

Only the initial knots of the sequence up to the first prime knot (seven crossings) are planned to be made into such sequences. They are only made and distributed in the process of developing enough works as a base to begin experimentation with decentralized autonomous operation development.

Work on programming functions for this begins the second stage.

Stage Two

All the knots that form the systemic base, with their reserved and distributed identities, are applied to a blockchain-type of programming to initiate its registry function.

In this the knot is either identified with a property or a contract. Its value can also be thought of as an empty safe awaiting something of value. Once early adopters that have gotten involved in learning the protocols of the system's application of the registry begin making their own uses, all knots can be promoted by initiation of a program where owners interact in training each other.

That will start when an ICO uses the Infra numbering system displayed on the right as tokens for a value surrogate based on the relationship to the knot. Once a sequence begins to be identified with the location of the Great Knot for this plan's blockchain emulation genesis block an exchange value for these tokens has been formalized and the system can grow from a startup into the third stage.

Stage Three

A true distributed application begins when the system behaves like Bitcoin, with a competition to identify new numbered modules to make the cryptocurrency that is reward for adding each new knot to the blockchain.

When this spreads across the Internet it is expected that the token's association with the knot progression will create a market for individual knots as a denominational base in fiat currency, making the competition more rewarding, while fulfilling the investment goals of the earliest adaptors.

When a demand for the earliest instances of the progression gives them a surrogate association with their child tokens, a denominational value associated with their transaction value in fiat currency initiates the forth, final, stage of this art's enterprise evolution.

Stage Four

As this perpetually evolving system of knot generation becomes the fiat key for the blockchain transaction it becomes identified as a surrogate value vehicle and the blockchain concept of provenance tracking gives a particular knot a value as the signature of an entity.

In this logic the token is the choice for transactions of a growth economy and the purpose behind continuing the endless discovery of knots in the progression to keep both growing forever.


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The 900+ Infra tokens in this scroll demonstrate how numeric identities are applied to tokenize the knot.

The interactive website below explains a use of knots that is directly related to the Great Knot land art sculpture which creates their identities as geoJSON code to give visability to them on global earth viewers at custom locations that also act as a hash for use as Crypto.

EarthKnotNFT viewer

CONTROL DOCUMENT for EarthKnotNFT Derivative Making
Earth Knot
NFT
Virtual Land Art
by: Seminalator with Open Google Earth Pro, Leaflet.js, NFTz.me and The Decentralized Social Blockchain (DeSo)

Latitude: Longitude:
This web page's viewer uses these buttons to move between the locations of the first six EarthKnotNFT placements in the . They are the .This button freezes the jump in mid-"flight" between these
Landmarks of the EarthKnotNFT Back Story

This story begins with an actual Land Art sculpture; The GREAT KNOT; being large enough to be seen on virtual globe imagery. The link here is to a Google Earth Project on how this is the model for the scale and orientation of the grid that all virtual land art EarthKnotNFTs are based on.
The Great Knot is the first in a Genesis sequence of knots. KNOT 0002 puts two of its form together to make the first compound knot. Those same compounding capabilities displayed in KNOT 0003 initiate the conjugation concept that gives direction to a logic of infinite, sequentially ordered EarthKnotNFTs represented in KNOT 0004, KNOT 0005, and KNOT 0006.
KNOT 0003 is the second in the Genesis Sequence. That sequence is the root from which the Great Knot website creates this logic of conjugate forms that branch out to generate the knots that are elemental to the origins of each EarthKnotNFT. In turn, their placement as vitual land art lets creating derivatives of the original EarthKnotNFT's template at different coordinates disseminate their origins across the globe. Examples of KNOT 0003 are at: Spiral Jetty; Little Skellig; Machu Picchu; Angkor Wat; New Grange.
Scroll to the bottom of this pane where a customized Google Maps embed has the entire 1803 survey of the Kingston Commons Division with hot links between each of their locations and the cryptic number-in-Class designation for their first titles to land. This origin story to these titles is analogous to the individual EarthKnotNFTs in that continuous records kept from the 1687 formation as a Commons through these 1,700+ divisions for individual ownership is perfect for building knot data for a blockchain on top of.
EarthKnotNFT
derivative
CREATION INSTRUCTIONS:
A derivative is an NFT created from a page customized to a different placement of a knot's template to that of its original. An individual with this page builds the derivative's code by tracing the courses of the knot's template using the page's draw function, following the process described here. The code that is produced is authenticated and minted as that creator's property by the DAO all EarthKnotNFT owners are part of, and which produced the custom page.

  1. Observe that knots on this web page highlight their individual shapes when mouse-overed or touched. These shapes are called courses and are traced from a template in order to progressively build the code that creates the EarthKnotNFT derivative.

  2. The transparent template that matches the proportions, orientation and scale of the original EarthKnotNFT's knot is at a location on Earth matching the coordinates of the upper left-hand corner of the boundary rectangle where it is to be placed; ready for each individual shape in it to be traced there.

  3. As its course shapes are each traced, and "finished" is activated, the text with the coordinates the template's dots are over appear in the blank white space (to the right).

  4. Each time a course is completed the code in this space is (ctrl)A; (ctrl)C; (ctrl)V saved to a file created in "notepad" or "notes" for collecting them all together into an operable Javascript Object Notation format. for making the next course the code accumulated from the previous traces is (ctrl)A; (ctrl)C; (ctrl)V - pasted into the white box as an assurance that it works and that the next course created is in the right order.

  5. If this satisfactorily creates the knot when the file is copy/pasted into this same white space and the "Submit" clicked, it may be submitted to the DAO for creating the NFT.




The Great Knot, April 27, 2011


Michael Sullivan Smith, 2015
Click on animation to open parent web site greatknot.com in new browser window