Just trying to flesh out your concept of "tokenization" a bit more.
If I understand correctly you are saying that to tokenize is to reduce or distill a large concept to something small and easily manipulated, transported or"traded/exchanged.
Quoting: Hall of Mirrors Nothing about size, but complexity. Tokenization simplifies things/concepts into a form that can scale more efficiently. Tokens help to remove friction from transactions. They allow interaction-at-a-distance.
Like the idea of tokenizing a large object into gold or silver, or tokenizing gold and silver into a dollar bill or further, "tokenizing" a dollar bill into zeros and ones in the form of bitcoin.
Quoting: Hall of Mirrors Gold and silver becoming notes becoming digital notes. Bitcoin, I think, represents new assignations of debt that are more divorced from the old. Before the debt was a claim to future physical labour, but Bitcoin makes the debt about future digital labour in the form of calculations.
At its core, a token is information. A dollar, for example, is information about a debt, not the debt itself. What we call money is just debt that has moved from place to place. When we make use of this information, we call it currency.
The problem with Bitcoin is that people think of it as a store of value when it is a unit of measurement, like any other token. The value is not being stored, but measured. The value of Bitcoin is in the way it measures information, not in the way it stores it.
So I think that you said you could tokenize most anything. So, how would one tokenize:
A poem
A painting
A bag of concrete
A glass of beer?
Enquireing minds
Quoting: Hall of Mirrors All of the above can be tokenized with contracts. A poem, for example, could be tokenized with a contract so that it could be published an endless number of times.
