I’m incredibly happy to say that Sam Spratt’s work is now 100% on decentralized storage. This past Friday, I jumped on a zoom call with @SamSpratt and @mpeyfuss to update the baseURI for Masks and Players. I had done all the prep work to get all the metadata and files on IPFS, we just needed to do two transactions. Marco helped double check all of my work and we both watched Sam to double/triple check his setBaseURI smart contract function calls. It all worked, all set on chain, and now we just wait for it to propagate through all of the platforms, which can take time. This was a long journey that started last year when Sam asked me to help build a new home for Luci. It was the spark that got me thinking about the idea that became provena.art. I’m working with about a dozen artists right now and Sam is the first one to achieve the status of having 100% of his work on decentralized storage. Most other artist that I’m working with have a situation where it can’t quite get to 100%. It will take coordination with current platforms to get there. I’ve been lucky enough to get responses from the ones I’ve contacted so far and now it’s just being diligent about following up with them to get it to completion. It feels good to be able to help an artist like Sam, who I care so much about, with the preservation of his work. I hope to be able to help many others, but it’s slow going at the moment because I’m being incredibly meticulous about tracking each issue to its source versus just blindly fixing it. I’m also finding that some storage is in a situation where it’s not independently solvable but requires coordination with other parties. I hope this work helps to address more systemic issues, which should help the whole ecosystem at large. Onward, and congrats Sam for now being in complete control of your work.