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Experimenting with new ways of publishing technical papers as NFT on Mirror
I’ve recently come across mirror.xyz and discovered new ways of sharing ideas and funding projects through writing and publications. Mirror is essentially a web3 toolkit for crowdfunding. You can write about your ideas — either a blueprint of a project or a very in-depth technical analysis or models that might become someone’s investment tool or any ideas you have, Mirror provides writers with tools that can be used to receive funding for the project.
Writers have the option to launch a crow fund through the article; or let the readers mint the article as NFT, which can be used as a ticket to gain access to future premium material; or drop tokens to grant readers special stakes in the writer’s community. Whatever it is, it creates a platform for specialised content to be supported and funded on the Ethereum network.
I find the idea very interesting and different from the traditional newsletter subscription structure. It is a much better structure for in-depth contents that might contain code, models or any technical driven analysis that require detailed explanations.
I very often receive messages on Medium or Twitter from readers asking me how I generate certain graphs, or how I calculate a specific number or simply how to get the data. Even though I share the links…
