Ohnahji U Syllabus for March 4th, 2023 (ETH Denver Buidling is Underway; Goerli?)
đ” ââCause Iâm under construction everyone / So youâll have to mind the mess / Iâm under some construction / Correction / Modification / Alteration / Constructionâ đ”
Can you tell that todayâs theme is about building? Welcome to the Study Hall, where the fam can come to learn and continue their education on the topics we cover in Ohnahji U Saturdays, our educational Twitter space. Every week an ONJU Student Body member joins us to highlight important parts of the conversation, and we have Tech Major Jamal with us today to keep us on track with the significant innovations in Tech that we must remember. Did you bring your materials? Good! Pull up a chair beside me, and weâll get started!
This space took place live on 3/4/23 @ 12n PST and was hosted by project Dev & co-founder Ohnahji B, co-hosted by your Dean of Communication BOSS with Special Guest Co-host BlackNFTArt. In true ONJU fashion, we got on a conversation track and dove deep into it and ended up not touching much on the title topics of the space! Itâs all good, though, the information we covered was what the people needed to know, so weâre happy to get off track if some good learning is happening! đ
A Special Guest Cohost punctuated our space! In collaboration with Umba Daima, Kwame Symbolik joined us from behind the BlackNFTArt account; more on Umba Daimaâs great endeavors are coming ahead!
OHNAHJI U UPDATES
New wallets: A few new wallets joined the ONJU fam from people who finally pulled the trigger after watching how we move in the NFT and Web3 space. As of this space, we are currently up to 4786 tokens minted, and we continue to introduce new Ohnahji art to the blockchain week after week. Our Mint One, Get One promotional just wrapped, but never fear â tokens are still .01ETH, so theyâre affordable regardless of any promo we have going.
ONJU Campus Number 2: In the words of Chancellor Ohnahji B, our Metaverse campus is going CRAIZY! The second ONJU campus just passed 200 unique viewers in the space, and people are starting to pay attention to whatâs happening at Ohnahji University! Not only is it a meetup space, but itâs also a massive gallery of art from the home team. In addition, Spatial recently updated the app for mobile devices, and itâs running extra smooth! Go check it out by searching âOhnahjiUâ at Spatial.io and see for yourself! Then come back and let us know your favorite piece of art!
Ohnahji University Book Club: The ONJU Book Clubâs last meetup is this Sunday. After five weeks of covering Ruha Benjaminâs âRace After Technologyâ, the discussions are wrapping up before a celebration party on the ONJU Metaverse campus! Join the book club crew in the Discord voice chat on Sundays at 5 pm CST.
BLACK NFT ART SPOTLIGHT
The mic was turned over to our Special Guest co-host Symbolik to introduce us to Umba Daima and the excellent umbrella of tools and resources they are developing. Tech Misfits was first up in the spotlight. The app they are building is preparing the space to receive access to a great network of STEAM professionals! Spearheaded by a team of black engineers and creators, itâs important to make opportunities for black creatives to showcase their skills in web3.
The team is also building a second app called Assemble Now, which connects brands with freelance builders. Located at assemblenow.xyz, they are currently tallying the numbers of creators looking to get involved and use the app as a resource. Tap in!
Symbolik has found his people in the Umba Daima family, we he also hosts the On Point talk show on Wednesday nights. He is also looking into building for the community using his creative work as an Emcee, digital creator, and poet. Heâs observed that to be successful, we have to be intentional with working together as a community and seeing everyone get their shine is quite essential to helping others find the places and projects they may want to be associated with.
NEWS FOR THE WEEK
The Ai revolution continues to be a talking point in the Web3 space! So our resident AI guru EyeSeeThru has set up a great social club in the ONJU discord full of resources for anyone looking to learn about the incredible things they can do with artificial intelligence tools â everything from Midjourney to ChatGPT and more!
Recently implanted into Microsoftâs Bing search engine, which elected many a side eye, ChatGPT has upgraded a search engine many feel is sub-par. Swooping in to redeem the software, self-proclaimed Microsoft maxi Ohnahji B shared that heâs used the tools for quite a while now, so much so that he uses the Bing chat more than the OpenAi website!
Symbolikâs journey has been slightly different as he started with Jasper AI and then transitioned to OpenAI and ChatGPT. He runs the gamut with the tools by using them to complete easy tasks like describing the US military and expounding on more profound subjects and paradoxical info. However, he finds some of his best uses come from using it as an organizational tool and feeding it bits of information that it aggregates into a coherent structure.
GETTING THE ORDINALS IN ORDER
Our beloved Developer in the Ohnahji fam, Dave, aka Bitgallery, aka Mr. Rektangle, jumped onstage to join the conversation on the commotion around inscriptions. He shared that he is on a mission to host a Twitter space every Sunday for the next four weeks to get as many projects as possible to offer Bitcoin inscriptions to their communities. His first project is the Subordinals, Bitcoinâs first subterranean ordinals. We first covered the breakdown on Bitcoin ordinals just a couple of weeks ago (check out that conversation here.)
Here are a couple of tips on Ordinals inscription from Bitgallery:
· The inscription fees are already rising, about 10â12$/ 1.2 to 1.5 megabytes, depending on the network congestion.
· Dave encourages collections to mint their collection on ETH and offers inscription as an option cost-effective alternative to full BTC inscription.
Breaking it Down
If your NFT is inscribed on BTC, can you see them on marketplaces and aggregators like OpenSea?
Dave shares that projects are minting on ETH, making them available to be seen on marketplaces and such; inscribing cements them on-chain. Also available is ordinals.com, where the call data of each NFT is listed.
A quick breakdown: When minting contracts using the Solidity coding language, call data (a non-modifiable area where info is stored, similar to memory) points to where the actual file is held. When minting on ETH, those files are usually saved outside the blockchain on third-party chains like IPFS or Arweave. This new call data process is used to track Satoshi (the smallest unit of measure for BTC), and as long as the ordinals software is running on a Bitcoin-based node, or device, data can be written or viewed on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The main point is that the NFT can be seen on-chain. Typically, whatâs listed on marketplaces and aggregators is an identifier representing another location that displays the NFT, but not the actual NFT on-chain. This is often why many users who hold high-value blue-chip NFTs inscribe them to BTC, as they are viewed directly on the premiere layer of the blockchain (or even Ordinals.com.)
Ohnahji B asks: âWill many collections continue to be cross-chain and follow suit with minting on one chain and on ordinals by using this tech for their collections?â
Bitgallery sees future collections minting on another chain, leaving the inscription responsibility to the holders, and then burning any tokens not inscribed in a set amount of time. This is mainly to discourage duplicates of NFTs being on multiple chains, but until that process becomes more efficient, some of the same NFTs currently exist on various chains.
EyeSeeThru grabs the mic to thank Bitgallery for sharing such great information and to ask: Outside of individual or corporate use, whatâs the benefit of inscription?
Bitgalleryâs personal view is that if you believe in the concept of decentralization, you keep a keen eye on being able to control your token. One benefit is the growth of Bitcoin programmers using this technology. The second is the fee incentives to work on the BTC blockchain, similar to ETH since changing from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake changed incentives for Bitcoin miners. This contributes to the growth and longevity of the blockchain.
In the final statement on the topic, Bitgallery shares why heâs embarked on working on this chain. This process allows him to learn the ins and outs of the blockchain and helps identify gaps where there needs to be tools and protocols developed for others to work efficiently.
TESTNET TANGO
To wind down the topics, we ran back last weekâs conversation on Base, the low-cost layer 2 chain from Coinbase built on Ethereum. Kicking off the convo with a question, EyeSeeThru asked: âIs it a thing that Goerli can get deleted as a testnet and a new one created? What happens when a testnet dies?
Ohnahji B shared that it definitely happens! On ETH, the former testnet was named Rinkeby, and now Goerli is used, with the following net being proposed as Sepolia. Bitgallery adds with the Merge and the change of the consensus model on the blockchain, old information on the testnets is deprecated, so itâs no longer supported. The Ethereum blockchain also has four more upgrades before the full effect of the merge takes effect, and the second to last one is expected to change the congestion on Goerli, driving up the price of minting with the testnet token. Goerli has long been considered substandard to Rinkeby, so devs look forward to a stronger testnet.
You see? This one didnât have much on the building at ETH Denver, but we touched on the changes brought to the Goerli testnet. Thereâs always next Saturday, where we can surely revisit conversations and ponder over new ones while learning about the great changes blockchain tech is bringing to our communities and lives! Tap in with Ohnahji and where you see that signature pink and gold â our Twitter, our website, our Discord campus, on our Discord campus, our Metaverse campus, our Reddit, ourâŠ.. đ
See yâall in the next one!
