Having Digital Creations on the Blockchain

Having things is a fundamental pleasure in life.

To have something is to own or possess something and be able to control and care about it.

For example you have a car if you own it and control it and care about it.

We all want to have things. That is just a fundamental thing and there is nothing else to it. There is no reason or justification needed for the desire or pleasure of having something.

Sometimes we say to ourselves that we have to have something because we need it. That is true. We need to have water so we don’t get dehydrated or worse. Need and usefulness can make us care more about having something.

But how many times do we explain to ourselves or others why we need something, or why it is useful? We have to justify to ourselves and others the need, the usefulness, the urgency, the importance of having something before we can have it. A person can begin to forget that a perfectly good reason for having something is because he/she likes to have it. To have things we like is fun and makes us happy. I think that is an important reason to have things. For if we are not happy and having fun in life and helping others be happy and have fun, then what are we doing? What could be more important?

You don’t have to have a reason to have things. Just having things is good. There can be a lot of fun and happiness in deciding what you want to have and then doing what you need to do to get those things.

I love Y Combinator’s moto: “ Make Something People Want”. For a startup I would extend this basic idea to this: “Make something a lot of people want to have and give it to them.”

Blockchain Adds Ownership to Digital Creations

A cryptocollectible is stored using a blockchain technology like Ethereum. This technology proves that someone owns a digital creation and enables the owner to control it by using it, playing with it, selling it or giving it to someone else.

Blockchain technology gives us indisputable ownership and control of digital creations and assets. We can have digital assets in a way we never could before. This matters big time. It means that digital creations and assets can be publicly shared without fear of them being stolen or misused, because ownership can be verified and proved and software can prevent misuse. Ownership of all physical things can be publicly represented in digital forms, replacing paper ownership documents and private databases.

It means that we can have the joy and fun of creating or buying something digital and really having it. That’s why people pay $100,000 for a digital rare cat. The blockchain technology enables us to have digital creations to a much greater degree than ever before.

idea + ownership = moken

Ideas are important to people. People like to have ideas. But it is easy to lose a sense of ownership of them. This is why many companies have non-disclosure agreements; they don’t want to lose their ideas.

You have a great idea. As long as it stays in your head you have total ownership and control of it. Sometimes that is just fine, but in many cases you want to do something with your idea or share your idea with other people. So you tell 5 people your idea and now they have it too. Now whose idea is it? Who owns and controls the idea? How can you prove it? How can everybody agree that someone has greater ownership and control of an idea? How do you transfer ownership of an idea?

mokens.io enables you to get an idea out of your head and into a digital form that you own and control. A moken is an idea that you specifically have, but can share with everyone. And you can use, transfer or sell your moken, your idea, to someone else if you want to.

The image, description and tags of your moken are like clothes for your idea. They show your idea, provide more understanding of it and make it prettier or more interesting.

People make mokens because it is fun and they like having them.

And yes, I am continuing to add more functionality and uses for mokens so you can do more with them too.