Message:Read an article on NPR about people paying millions for clickart, because it becomes their clickart. A comment struck me:
Q: "Why don't people just right click on an image instead and save it to their desktop? That's free."
Ans: "But like with other collectables, whether it's baseball cards or rare books or fine art, having an original is special. Take CryptoPunks, pixelated avatars that have fetched millions. Sure you could download one of the alien avatars, but collectors would not consider it authentic. A real alien CrytoPunk costs, on average, $900,000."
Rather than immediately go WTF?!? as my old-man brain feels appropriate, shall I ask instead this:
How much would you pay for an Original One of a Kind RPG or novel. Further, what is your limit for such, knowing that non-authentic copies might be sold to others for a few bucks, but you would have the NFT?
My answer a buck. You can't go wrong for a buck. (Zocchi)
NFT must stand for No fuggin' Truth (to this). It's April Fools right? Anyone w/ $900,000 to pay for computer art should be taxed to oblivion or better yet raided by Hack-Vikings. What a world we've created, what a world.
Yours,
IronRed
06-Mar-2021