Individual intelligence is a myth, it’s a social effect. We don’t invent solutions so much as discover them.
The purpose of this repository is to document reverse engineering ascribe.io’s SPOOL protocol in hope of “reviving” it and to make its art transferrable and ownable again.
ascribe.io was a startup project from Berlin that encoded and anchored digital art on to the Bitcoin blockchain starting in 2013. As for financial reasons, the startup company maintaining the product, had to “pivot-away”: the ascribe.io system was shutdown and so today those original NFTs aren’t trivially usable anymore.
The goal of “ascribed” is to make the original art registered on the SPOOL available to regular users again.
Its been a long time since the last person touched the official ascribe code base and so not even all members from the original team know exactly anymore how the SPOOL worked. “ascribed” is a group of NFT archeologists that made it their mission to reveal the digitial artifacts to make the SPOOL come to life again.
As a potential solution to scaling our archeological work, we believe that by curating and gathering all possible knowledge about ascribe, we can make it scalable and possible to re-access old art works.
Hence, the remainder of this document is simply a collection of links that could help to encode the protocol.
Please feel free to contribute by e.g. sending in PRs.