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I got so pissed off about crypto scam bullshit that I made a picturebook about it: https://gum.co/marvelousmoneymachine It's pay-what-you-want and suitable for all ages.
I’ve sent a few dollars your way, get yourself a nice NFT or something with them ;)
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If I buy a painting though, it's irreplaceable and can't truly be replicated. Can't say the same of digital. I suppose there's "bragging rights", but if someone was like "I own the original doge image NFT" I think I'd roll my eyes and think less of them.
Can’t I mint an NFT of the painting you own an NFT for and perhaps through my (fictional) celebrity status, my NFT becomes seen as the “main” one?
Can someone please point me to a concise description of what an NFT is? The usual answer is "DUH! It's a non-fungible token" as if that explains everything. I get that it's an image (maybe any digital media?) and it is associated with an entry on a blockchain somewhere but then I get confused. For example, that beautiful graphic you're going to print and hang on your wall can still be copied just as readily as any ot…
I don't understand the unfettered hatred many have for NFTs. This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists. For once, photographers, artists, musicians, countless others can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it. Yes, you can right-click and save jpegs but that is sor…
That's strange, I have been purchasing digital comics, books and art online for years. Some use WooCommerce, some use Shopify or BigCartel. But they all work, and they get the artist paid.
How do artists have more control if they have to give a cut to a marketplace like OpenSea, and then have to use an exchange to convert useless ETH into food and rent payments?
I don't understand the unfettered hatred many have for NFTs. This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists. For once, photographers, artists, musicians, countless others can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it. Yes, you can right-click and save jpegs but that is sor…
Artists are marks in the NFT scam, paying large NFT minting fees with very few actual NFTs being sold to recoup costs. It's not like artists are lacking ways to monetize apart from NFTs. If a popular artist can extract value from their art through it, more power to them, but the median artist is losing money from the enterprise.
Adobe knows it is a scam. That's why they are merely selling shovels to fuel the hype and they win regardless if the would NFT market crashes.
How could this prevent me from taking a screenshot of an existing image and paste it into photoshop, then "prepare it as NFT"?
In the near future modern OSs will block the screenshot when you are displaying NFT content. And also the drivers of your videocard will prevent outputting such data via uncertified cables. There will also be a hidden watermark in case you want to take a picture of it with your camera, which ofcourse is not allowed. /s
I don't understand the unfettered hatred many have for NFTs. This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists. For once, photographers, artists, musicians, countless others can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it. Yes, you can right-click and save jpegs but that is sor…
Because any explanation of what an NFT is makes clear that it’s completely worthless in virtually every context. People are promoting NFTs by buying and selling them for high amounts to associates to create the fake appearance of value. There’s no value to any of them. It’s literally just an attempt to sell bits that aren’t unique or are easily reproduced. Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of…
Several artists have created "limited" or 1/1 NFTs, with full knowledge that whatever media contained therein could be easily digitally replicated. It's not about legality or tangible qualities, it's a pure digital ownership model.
The most recent example is David Lynch and Interpol: https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/1453013551241744394
Whoever wins this auction isn't paying money for an actual object (the film), it's buying the digitally-provable representation of the film that exists in their wallet, that they got (almost) directly from David Lynch.
I don't understand the unfettered hatred many have for NFTs. This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists. For once, photographers, artists, musicians, countless others can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it. Yes, you can right-click and save jpegs but that is sor…
If I buy a painting though, it's irreplaceable and can't truly be replicated. Can't say the same of digital. I suppose there's "bragging rights", but if someone was like "I own the original doge image NFT" I think I'd roll my eyes and think less of them.
This is definitive proof that NFTs are still worth less than the physical version: [0]
It's really a certificate of you bragging about being a bag-holder of a photocopiable image.
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Because any explanation of what an NFT is makes clear that it’s completely worthless in virtually every context. People are promoting NFTs by buying and selling them for high amounts to associates to create the fake appearance of value. There’s no value to any of them. It’s literally just an attempt to sell bits that aren’t unique or are easily reproduced. Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of…
> Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of a new song of hers. Several artists have created "limited" or 1/1 NFTs, with full knowledge that whatever media contained therein could be easily digitally replicated. It's not about legality or tangible qualities, it's a pure digital ownership model. The most recent example is David Lynch and Interpol: https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/1453013551241…
That would be a digitally-provable representation of the music in their Bandcamp profile, and they would get it almost directly from the artist.
Edit: Hell, just for fun, how's that different from EBay?
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Because any explanation of what an NFT is makes clear that it’s completely worthless in virtually every context. People are promoting NFTs by buying and selling them for high amounts to associates to create the fake appearance of value. There’s no value to any of them. It’s literally just an attempt to sell bits that aren’t unique or are easily reproduced. Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of…
> Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of a new song of hers. Several artists have created "limited" or 1/1 NFTs, with full knowledge that whatever media contained therein could be easily digitally replicated. It's not about legality or tangible qualities, it's a pure digital ownership model. The most recent example is David Lynch and Interpol: https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/1453013551241…
Caveat emptor