How do you support the transfer of ownership of NFT?
Great question! :) Right now the UI for creating deeds is from author to owner. We will add the interface for owners to sign on ownership with further deeds in the future. This felt like a feature to leave out for early launch.
Hope you don't mind me asking: How do you solve the double spending problem without a blockchain?
The database is postgres under the hood which provides atomicity. We verify the signature of signed pieces (and signed deeds) and then commit the transaction to postgres with a digest of the content (which has a unique constraint on it) - this along with the atomic guarantee ensures there can be no double spend of signed messages.
How does this actually work? Is it open sourced?
The application code that runs this isn't open source at the moment but there's no reason it couldn't be packaged up. Either way, the intention is to expose this as an API so that people can write their own open source clients for users who don't want to trust the web app.
Yeah that’s so cool! I’m super keen for this.
I’ve hit you up on Twitter.
A cert based DRM/copyright register?
Yea, that's a decent way of framing it!
what measures are in place to detect illicit material? On that note, do you have a content policy? Someone's got to gatekeep and decide what's cool to upload and what's not?
This type of thing _should_ be decentralised.
Awesome idea, really. I just wish it wasn’t centered around Twitter.
Yeah that's a fair criticism. It is on the todo list to add some other auth factors.
Openid would be fantastic
Never let a good bandwagon go to waste! Fair enough.
I nearly dropped all reference to NFTs altogether to avoid this reaction. This a genuine attempt to provide a service to people who want to exchange digitally signed content.
What kind of content do you expect it to be used for "exchanging"?
It's applicable to the type of content you're seeing blockchain NFTs used for. It could be used for other types of digital signing/attestations too, even legal documents.
Probably is missing a showcase or a variety of samples