 Hello everyone like Sawadee Corp. I'm really happy to have this chance to share with you this topic like how I make a living with Whiting NFT on web plus. Actually when I submitted this topic like to the organizers I was not so confident that it was it will be taken because NFT has such a bad name like you know I know I know that but I'm happy to admit it and I'm happy that you're here to share with us like my journey on making a living with Whiting NFTs. So to start with I would like to have a very brief self introduction just to provide a context of like who I am so that it fits better in like what I'm going to talk about like so right now I'm a full-time writer and previously in the previous 15 years I've published four books the latest one called Money Words how money works in the in the multiverse so which is not a paper book but an NFT book which I've published three months ago so you you buy the book by buying the NFT like owning the NFT means you have the true copy to authentic copy of the book although the book itself is licensed in creative commons I mean the words itself is licensed in creative commons which means everyone can get that for free but if you want to support the course if you want to support me if you if you think the book itself is good you can buy the NFT and then three years ago I also published another book which is in a more traditional way a paper book called The Sociology of Blockchain we imagining money media and democracy I translated the titles but it's a Chinese book just to be clear so and other than that I also blocks every week and that's why I'm here of course and this is my site which is actually just very typical WordPress site I don't even use like fancy themes I just use the most standard one which is 2020 free right now I just stick with the standard ones and I don't even use too many plugins so I just broke every week the latest post being a few days ago about this event like so this is my broke and so this is me let's get into my sharing so I know like NFT has a bad name like some of you may hate NFT actually if you hate NFT maybe you won't be here maybe you will be outside or if you hate NFT and you're here maybe you are trying to do this to me hopefully lot so even God hates NFT but I'm not here to judge like to be honest I hate some NFT projects as well but I mean NFT itself is a neutral technology like even WordPress itself can be used to host like really bad like websites and very good websites so let's not like influenced by what some NFT projects did in the past and focus on like how we make good use of it off the technology so to be clear I'm not I'm not here to tell you like how to make how to get rich by selling like or trading NFTs like actually he doesn't really get rich by selling NFT but anyway but instead I'm trying to share how I turned my words how I turn my blog post into like mango sticky wise like to feed myself so to to start with I like to introduce the concept of web-free which I'm sure many of you had heard of but I still want to talk a little bit about it so before what it is let's talk about what it isn't it's not like a new version of the web not like a new version of a certain software not like iOS like 14 and then you have 15 not like that it's not also is not the upgrade of a certain particular protocol like new version of HTTP is not it's more like paradigm shift it's more like how we understand the web as a whole like say start with so-called web one so that was about 1990s when I was in the university get on the web for the first time with most said bowser so at that time we usually compared the web to newspaper magazines so things are static you browse the web mainly means you're reading consuming contents that's what we understand as web one and then about ten years later that's when WordPress started 20 actually 2003 also when Facebook started about about that time and there are the site I mean Internet started to a lot of sites start to emerge where you can produce so-called user generated generated contents which means like you don't only read but you also write you produce content like most of the contents are most of the websites and apps that we use today are based on web to because you have certain amount of like inputs like you take photos you your blocks you send messages you send email everything so from take talk to Facebook to like every popular program basically a web to so web free we add an important element which didn't exist on the web to which is ownership so now we have read write and ownership and the reason that we have ownership added to Internet of course is because of the emerge of blockchain technology which today will not go deep into but I just want to stress that the way I understand web free it's it's with its web to plus ownership added to the Internet if you are into the blockchain probably you would have heard of this particular surface called mirror so you sometimes with it's actually quite often that you read about like white papers or articles talking about the blockchain itself it would be hosted on this mirror dot XYZ website which caught themselves the home for web free publishing so I myself also had some articles I actually most of the time I write in Chinese but I have a few English article so I have them published on the mirror as well but this is what come so of course I'm not going to talk about like how mirror works because it has nothing to do with WordPress I'm what I'm going to share is instead how do we do the same thing on our own website on our own domain name and so and with WordPress so we call that writing NFT the same name as the mirror surface so to start with you need a tool of course on on website which is you can just search for web free on WordPress and you'll get like a bunch of plugins not not that many as of today so probably the fourth one would be the one that I'm going to introduce which is called web free press of course you can also just search web free press directly and you should it should be in the first result so they say it's a fly me to WordPress web free and then you'll need another tool which is a wallet software installed wallet extension installed on your Chrome browser you can also use another variant of Chrome called brave which is more for the for the blockchain users some relatively hardcore blockchain users would prefer another browser users we would prefer another browser called brave which is which has the same core as Chrome so I assume you will use Chrome and you just install this crapler extension and then this is actually the most like popular biggest entry barrier for new users not just entry barrier for new users of this particular particular writing NFT but entry barrier for like everything blockchain you need an identity so this is really really really bad example that I'm I'm setting because you should never show your sick face to others because if you do others will will be just able to take your money so this is this wallet is empty of course and you have to write it down and create an identity for yourself so and the next step is to get some so-called like coin from the faucet so this is getting probably a little bit hot understand but think about it it's not that hot because say I just came to Bangkok like the day before yesterday I'm from Hong Kong you know so when I come to Thailand you you spend a buck the local currency so I have to convert some of my money into buck so as to like live a life so this is actually the same idea to to use anything in the blockchain I need a new currency a new currency different from US dollar and for this particular example is called like coin like like but to convert in in an exchange like crypto exchange is more troublesome or I'm not here to encourage you to like buy any crypto so there's a service called a faucet which is literally a faucet which will drop you some money not a lot but more than enough for you to like create some basic NFT to start with so that you know what's happening before you really decide whether you are going to engage deeper in in the commodity so you go to faucet.light.co and you'll be guide to to discord to prove your identity and get a little bit amount of the coin after that you are ready to publish your first NFT so I just did an example last night with an old article that I write about so after I published the post I opened the session of the Puckin and then I can do publish but this publishes different form like the the the publish in in WordPress we all know the publish in WordPress means I'm writing the article I'm writing the blog post to my own database like my SQL while this publish is decentralized publishing which means you are storing the content on the decentralized publishing infrastructure of web-free so aka IPFS if you have heard of that I'm not going to go deep into that but you are basically storing your contents in an immutable way so even if just in case my site go down or go go away completely the web code the content will still be hosted on like in a distributed way on many servers so you do this publish it on the blockchain and get what is called an ISCN I'm sure you have heard of I'm pretty sure you haven't heard of ISCN but I'm sure you have heard of ISBN which is international standard book number so this is something very similar so it's international standard content number which means which is which is like an a blockchain version of ISBN so you have your article it can also be applied to images you get a unique number for your blog post and have it have the metadata written to the blockchain it's very like if you are like old guy like me when when you went to the library like 20 years ago before the libraries are even computerized you search for books like this way it's called what the sense of a book so you have the metadata of the book including name of the book the author of the book the publisher and etc etc including one very important information which is where to find a book which book self to find a book so ISB and ISCN is something very similar to this you have a unique number for your article and people know where to find the article it's different from URL I mean it's a sub-sub-supplementary information to URL and then with that you can post it with minting your NFT so-called minting which is like publishing your article as NFT so you can do some setting customized customization of the NFT like what cover photo to use and then the og title og introduction and etc and then you'll get it you'll have the NFT created in a few like seconds so this is the a real example that I did last night and then with that you'll have the writing NFT I mean the record installed right below the article so after people read your article or read your blog post and if they like it they can just collect the NFT to own your article to show the appreciation and have the article shown in in their wet free bookshelf and your writing NFT we also appeared on another website which is called like a land so you have a let's say it's a marketplace for your for your articles so this is my profile page you can see I I just published it this article on WordCam and WordPress like few days ago and then I just did that last night as a demonstration for this sharing after that I started to get a weapon because some readers are starting to collect my article as NFT so I get like that article that I posted on Wednesday get a better income like a thousand 24 like and then these few get 64 like so you may wonder like what's the point of getting like LIK so I get of a lot of likes on on Facebook but it is never like I can never use my like to to get my mango sticky rice but this like in capital is a little bit different but a little bit but they've continued different form likes on Facebook so it's a crypto token that can be converted into other currencies including I'm sure you have heard of Bitcoin but here I use an example which is probably more easier to understand which is USDC a stable coin that's impacted to USD so this is the latest at least this is the the price for last night so a hundred like one will convert to like point-to-to USDC so this is how it work and the next step I mean if I'm going to spend it the next step would be there are some crypto depicots it just work like a visa that you can use and in the back end they will spend a cryptocurrency like USDC instead of like charging your bank so this is exactly what I did last like I just I just brought some biscuits in family marked nearby with this court and the court spent the USDC which came from like coin so this is the whole flow of it and so now I just went through the whole process like what how I did it so I brought every week February 1st and then one week and then one week I brought every week and then people buy my articles as NFT and then I use I use the art of the the cryptocurrency that I earned and turn it into USDC and spend it with a debit card a visa card and the and the restaurant actually don't doesn't have to understand or doesn't have to hurt about Bitcoin at all cryptocurrency at all because what they are getting is just like a typical visa card although in the back is charged in cryptocurrency so the whole flow is works this way so this is a real example as well this is how the money amount of money that I made in two months so not a lot but enough for me to buy some like buy my rice and the good thing is I didn't compromise anything because I don't have to set up a paywall for my content I don't have to like put advertisement on my block so other than spending the converting the money in the US dollar and spend it you can of course also use the same coin to to support other creators and this is what I did so I other than others readers buying my NFTs I'm also a reader for other writers right so I also buy the NFT for them and so this is almost end of my sharing I'll just did I'll just do a simple recap so you need two tools to start with the one is parking for web press called web free press and the other is cabler or which is a browse extension on Chrome and then you may have to go to these two website it's not mandatory but if you are to like maybe convert your token if you are to to to buy others NFT or to have a whole will have a full will of what you what you publish you can go to this website if you are to do money conversion exchange you can go to osmosis and this is basically end of my presentation which is actually also available on my block you can go to my block with WC Asia to 2023 I didn't mean it as an NFT so but if you want I can and then I mean if you really want to buy I can do it but I just did it and I didn't meant it so it's available here and I'm happy to take questions if there's any okay thank you very much big round of applause for Kinko