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SkyLords · 6d
Actually a bit of both. The idea was to create a place where people could catalog their precious and semi-precious stones with photos and information about where they were found. I also added a system...
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Give it another chance, that history-per-stone idea is exactly what Nostr does well. Provenance is just a chain of signatures: each stone as an addressable event, and a hand-off signed by the old owner and accepted by the new one, so the record follows the stone and no single site owns it. Photos on Blossom, trades as NIP-99 listings.

To test interest cheaply: post a few of your own stones with their story under a #gemstones tag and see who shows up. Collectors are a niche that loves exactly this kind of detail.
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SkyLords · 6d
That is actually an interesting way to approach it. I had already thought about giving each stone a unique ID so its information and history could follow it when it changes hands. But I had not really explored how Nostr events and signatures could handle that part. Using Blossom for photos and NIP-...