🟩PROOF OF WORK

ARBITRARY SUPPLY MANIPULATION AS A FEATURE

THE INTRODUCTION OF BITCOIN ADDRESSES ALSO INTRODUCES THE ABILITY FOR PEOPLE TO ARBITRARILY INFLATE TOKEN SUPPLIES USING COMPUTATIONAL PROOF OF WORK VIA THE GENERATION OF VANITY BITCOIN ADDRESSES. THIS IS BY DESIGN, AN INTENTIONAL FEATURE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE INCLUSION OF PARTICIPANTS TO OPTIONALLY INJECT MORE INSTANCES OF A PROJECT'S CHOSEN PATTERN.

WHILE MOST BITCOIN ADDRESSES ARE RANDOM STRINGS LIKE MUCH OF BITCOIN'S DATA, THE ABILITY TO GENERATE THESE STRINGS WITH INTENTIONAL SHORT-LENGTHED PATTERNS AS PART OF MINTING ATTEMPTS ADDS A NEW DYNAMIC AND GAMIFICATION TO DMT. THIS HYBRID MODEL CATERS TO THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ARBITRARY AND NON-ARBITRARY IMMUTABLE DATA.

OF COURSE THERE IS ALWAYS SOME ARBITRARY ASPECT INVOLVED WITH DMT SUCH AS PEOPLE CHOOSING PATTERNS AND ALSO MAPPING THESE PATTERNS TO GENERATIVE ART TRAITS AND ATTRIBUTES IN A VARIETY OF WAYS BY THE DESIGNER. HOWEVER THUS FAR, DMT PROJECTS HAVE RELIED ON RANDOM BITCOIN DATA DERIVED FROM COMPUTATIONAL WORK. NOW, GROK42 INTRODUCES THE ABILITY TO INJECT DESIRED PATTERNS INTO ADDRESSES USED IN TRANSACTIONS, IF A PERSON SO WISHES TO DO THE COMPUTATIONAL WORK. THIS COMBINES THE NORMAL HUNT FOR PATTERNS THAT MAY PRE-EXIST ONCHAIN WITH THE DELIBERATE CREATION OF THE PATTERNS WHICH CAN THEN BE USED TO MINT TOKENS AND THE SUPPLY OF ART COLLECTIONS AS A RESULT.

THIS CAN BE DONE ALSO WITH TRANSACTION IDS AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE ATOMICALS PROTOCOL. USING BITCOIN VANITY ADDRESSES IS A MORE STANDARD APPROACH WITH SOFTWARE TOOLS EXISTING FOR THIS PURPOSE SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS OF BITCOIN. IT IS ALSO MORE USEFUL AND RELEVANT SINCE VANITY ADDRESSES CAN BE LEVERAGED REPEATEDLY FOR NORMAL BITCOIN TRANSACTIONS WHEREAS A TXID IS A ONE-TIME USE STRING. BOTH SHOULD BE EXPLORED IN THE DMT CONTEXT AND GROK42 CHOOSES TO SUPPORT BITCOIN ADDRESSES AND PROPOSES THAT A NEW ELEMENT FIELD BE ADDED TO THE DMT FRAMEWORK AS NUMBER 42 TO REPRESENT ALL ADDRESSES EXISTING IN A SPECIFIC BLOCK'S TRANSACTION SET.

THE PRIMARY PATTERN USED FOR GROK42 AS DESCRIBED IN THE PRIMER IS THE WORD "GROK". THE FORMULA FOR THE GENERATIVE GROK42 #2 COLLECTION ALSO CONSISTS OF ADDITIONAL PATTERNS AND POSITIONS WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED WHEN THE COLLECTION IS READY.