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My preliminary assessment is trading nft books is no different than big 5 publishing does with books that are in the public domain and no longer have copyright protection. Penguin Random House makes a grip selling "The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B DuBois - so yes, I believe it would expand the resale market in a similar way. No one can own the copyright on the book but you can update it with your insight and create NFT for it. At least, my understanding is the copyright remains with the creator , the winning bidder owns the the original digital file. My understanding of the blockchain ledger - crudely put: no one can go back and change the building blocks. So, the only way it could be effective in black history keeping is if we start from today and add digitized artifacts - kind of like the national archives. Have you read this whitepaper https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/policy/nara-blockchain-whitepaper.pdf ?

This would comport with my experience. Any AALBC content that went viral on social does so because of someone else's efforts -- not mime. In each case I never was able to identify the person who first my content go virial.

Yes, I've been trading Bitcoin, Ethereum and other coins since 2018. Coinbase pays you to learn about new coins. We trade in cryptocurrency like we trade in fiat money - I'm not sure what you mean. I haven't used my cashapp to trade in cryptocurrency yet - but it's an option. Do you rermember when I wrote about Publica back in 2018?

I'm part of a program called Builder + Backers and am hoping to do an experience in which I can test the effectiveness of TikTok for AALBC, but I need a website refresh which I hope yo complete in another 4 weeks. As far as the lack of ads on TikTok, if they are like any other social media platform, they will be coming -- trust me. The other thing I find problematic with social is that so much of what we see is advertising. Now I don't have a problem with advertising, but it is often undisclosed and gives prominence to those with the most money. This usually ends up in marginalizing Black content not cosigned by white folks.

@richardmurray The Black Community has many, many problems. But few workable solutions. A change in mindset is absolutely necessary as is a return to a belief that we need to help each other. Not attack each other or believe slavish devotion to questionable and faulty tactics, paths and pursuits will get us somewhere.

@Mel Hopkins Are you seeing may folks in our age on TikTok? Did you discover Kendra Reads before you saw the CBS News article? It seems odd that TikTok, a video sharing platform, is still displaying user videos as mirror images. All the text in the video being reversed is unnecessary and irritating. (Am I coming across grumpy this a.m.? 🤨)

I can absolutely see this happening. Perhaps we will also use AI to read the books for us too 😜

While I do take what the CEO says with a grain of salt (because of his obvious bias). I don't doubt that plenty of people are looking at BookToK -- including the "tok" I posted above. I'm just not sure this is translating into buyers and readers. Consider the Tok in your post @Mel Hopkins, which I have embedded below. I think this is a much better treatment of a book than the one I posted earlier. I read the CBS News article and it said she gather 60K followers in less than 2 months. Somehow I don't think I could garner that type of following -- she is a 20-something and I', old enough to be her grandfather. But you know what, maybe I'll just give it s shot and see for myself.

@Troy @Mel Hopkins This site and project is why I raised the issue https://blackhistorydao.godaddysites.com A DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to preserve black history on the blockchain. The black diaspora has a unique history in that it has been intentionally manipulated and destroyed. Intentionally unfunded. This DAO will gather the coders to lay the foundation of the technology to decentralize history. Gather the griots and scholars to tell the stories that need minting. Gather the marketers, because this will be a global marketing campaign to reprogram the minds of the world with a more accurate picture of our complete history, beyond the past 300 years. Gather the creatives to artistically, and graphically d display what’s been buried, burned, flooded, and erased through time in our history.