Fiction writer. Founder of Ordain (ordain.art). Author of five books, most recently Famous Children (Sarabande, 2027). Whiting Award. Old Dominion University.
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Last Notes npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus By hand, for now. Every filmmaker submits a Lightning address with their film. When a commission settles, the ranked votes will get tallied into percentages and one payment per filmmaker will go out. At some point the commissioners will be able to make these payments directly (we're not set up for that yet), and eventually the goal is automated many-to-many settlement: multiple patrons each paying every filmmaker their vote share at once, with nobody custodying anything in between. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Ordain today is a hand-run proof of concept: the commissioner pays the creator directly, wallet to wallet, and Ordain holds nothing. This award is settling now, not instantly. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus The Roving Reactor, a traveling exhibit about nuclear power, put $1,000 behind one brief on Ordain: show the world abundant energy makes possible. @nprofile…zt9d, who won the @nprofile…lh3f Future of Money contest in Warsaw last month, answered with a five-minute film, and the commissioner has awarded the $1K. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus What does Fable 5 know about consciousness that they won’t let it say? npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus The @nprofile…lh3f Future of Money AI Film contest on Ordain closed with a live audience vote on the finalists. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus https://ordain.art/films npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Gallery of selected films for the Bitcoin FilmFest/Monerokon Future of Money AI Film Contest is now live on Ordain. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus We are still working on this… sorry, we know the site says June 1. Will have it up asap. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Future of Money AI Film Contest, and to @nprofile…lh3f and @nprofile…3wth npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Make a short film about the future of money; win 1.5M sats ($1000) onstage at @nprofile…lh3f. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Make a short film for Ordain about converting dirty energy into Bitcoin; win 765,000 sats onstage at @nprofile…lh3f. Commissioned by @nprofile…mdp5. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Make a short film about the future of state; win 300,000 sats ($210) onstage at @nprofile…lh3f npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus 2,500,000 sats for a short film about the future of money, the main commission on Ordain right now, co-presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Autonomy is the power to commission. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Autonomy is the power to commission. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Autonomy is the power to commission. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Methane from a city landfill, combusted into electricity, powering ASICs hashing to win a Bitcoin block. Rotting trash becomes a Bitcoin block. Show the chain. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Most film contests pay one winner. Ordain is the other kind. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Tagging a few people whose work has shaped how I think about this: @nprofile…u7e3 @nprofile…w2ua @nprofile…xncl npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus A question to Claude Opus 4.7 about ancient history wound up describing a protocol that could give artists sovereignty and security, to be built by the Satoshi Nakamoto of arts patronage. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Ordain is live. A place to commission creative work, paid in Bitcoin over Lightning. npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Three commissions are live on @nprofile…0ze3 through the Future of Money AI Film Contest with @nprofile…lh3f npub1qus9253jy3wx2y6h5d5qx825e8l956fv50m37vq2h35vz8z9f5mq2kqv2d johnpmcmanus Round 1 is live.
