{"id":41641,"date":"2022-10-21T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=41641"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:45:25","slug":"adventure-in-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/adventure-in-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure in Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"Building a relationship with anything new requires curiosity and a willingness to experiment - whether it\u2019s with a person or a novel technological tool. In this piece, American Anthroposophical Elder Siegfried Finser tells the tale of his journey into the wild, wild west of NFTs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt was a matter of synchronicity. Just as I happened to rediscover tubes of my Grumbacher water paint, brushes, and paper, the New York Times ran a story about \u2039NFTs\u203a (non-fungible tokens). I rarely buy newspapers, but Singsong, my canary, needed fresh paper for lining the bottom of his cage. I knew the cheapest paper was in value packs and other advertisements, but Singsong is an aristocrat and deserves something better, so I splurged on the New York Times. And there it was!\n\n\n\nA prominent artist had<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a relationship with anything new requires curiosity and a willingness to experiment &#8211; whether it\u2019s with a person or a novel technological tool. In this piece, American Anthroposophical Elder Siegfried Finser tells the tale of his journey into the wild, wild west of NFTs. It was a matter of synchronicity. Just as I happened to rediscover tubes of my Grumbacher water paint, brushes, and paper, the New York Times ran a story about \u2039NFTs\u203a (non-fungible tokens). I rarely buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17950,"featured_media":41651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8809,8808],"tags":[8824],"class_list":["post-41641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-world","category-economics","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}