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Podcast: Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌ðŸ§
Episode: Ethscriptions with Tom Lehman
Description: My guest today is Tom S. Lehman, who goes by Middlemarch on Twitter. Tom is the creator of Ethscriptions, an NFT standard for inscribing base64 encoded URIs in the data field of EVM transactions. Prior to Ethscriptions, Tom was co-founder and CEO of popular lyrics site and content company Genius.
Ethscriptions are inspired both by Bitcion Inscriptions and the Ethereum practice of appending hex encoded UTF-8 strings to the data field of regular transactions, a gesture that has been used by hackers and artists to communicate onchain.
The best way to think of Ethscriptions is...