BY GREENCROSS @GREENCROSSLIVE
I spend a lot of my life in airplanes. Hours in a seat with no signal, between one place and the next.
BLACKBOX turns those hours into a record. When the gate calls my group, my boarding pass is hashed and filed on Ethereum. From that moment until the plane is down, editions of that flight can be minted. When it lands, the window closes. Whatever was not collected never existed, and it never will.
A flight recorder is the part of the aircraft built to survive. Here the chain is the recorder. Every piece is drawn by code stored in the contract, from the record and nothing else. No server holds the art. If this website goes away, the pieces stay where they are.
While the plane is in the air the piece is sealed: a label and a hash. At landing it declassifies. Route, date, seat and minutes in the air are written into it and stay there.
The flight sets the terms. A short flight has few editions and each one costs more. A long flight has more editions and each one costs less.
DEPARTURE_PROTOCOL.EXE did this with one piece per flight. Six of its ten flights were never collected. BLACKBOX keeps the rule and lets more people into each flight.
After the last flight of the trip, every record is combined into one piece, THE COMPLETE JOURNEY, sold once by auction.
GREENCROSS
A record files on Ethereum at the boarding call. Editions can be minted only while the window is open, from the filing until the record lands. The number of editions is the scheduled flight time in hours, rounded, between 1 and 13. The price of each edition is 0.013 + 0.0536 x (13 - editions) / 12 ETH. Editions that were not minted never exist.
Art and metadata are rendered on-chain by the contract at 0x692EF95A437914e64b686Bf5D0E090328f1c1D4c (verified). Artist: greencross.art. Also by DITHERVOID: DITHERVOID // STORMGLASS.