ahh yes i love the smell of "nfts not doing the thing that tech bros specifically told you they would do" in the morning...

authenticity and provenance on the blockchain baby! it somehow just keeps happening, almost as if the entire thing exists to convert art into crypto with no regard for the creator of the work. of course folks are going to say "well there's all these jpegs out here lets use em!"

https://twitter.com/loishh/status/1383820509381464068?s=19

it would appear that imogen heap has joined "bitclout", which i've never heard of so it's time to learn about it. the odds for "elon musk lands a person on mars" vs "elon musk says a racial slur during a press conference" are extremely one-sided

okay i guess i'm doing this... skipping the climate stuff as usual. i'll leave that to other folks.

i don't really talk about nft/crypto climate stuff often, but a really interesting thing that happens is crypto people say "it's going to be green soon!" and platforms are scrambling to make their stuff "carbon neutral".

but, why wasn't it that way in the first place? i'm quite cynical so to me it's pretty clear why it wasn't. the focus was on making money, nothing else. there are no practical use cases, no infrastructure, no onboarding of businesses, etc. the focus is entirely on getting investors in. everyone else can catch up.

if you're an artist who is keeping quiet about NFTs and thinking "why is everyone being so mean? all the NFT people seem so nice!"

please take a step back for a second and look at other groups that use "love bombing" and more importantly, why they use it. "they say NFTs are going to get better soon!"

cryptoart has been around for years in the same form it's in now. it has had ample time to change. if they change it will be because they fear losing their product... which is you.

1. i was asked to resign after being reminded that there's a non-disparagement clause in my contract.

2. i'm going grift weird gamers by using my temporarily amplified voice to scream about how i was silenced by the woke left.

these guys are real turbo dorks lemme tell ya. imagine taking financial advice from ant man, or telling a belly button pervert that you think mario is going to be cancelled.

please, crypto men, your lvl 1 posts are very boring. i am tired of explaining that landlords and grocery stores do not accept jpeg bucks as payment. please read nft marketplace t&cs, any book, and the bible, before posting here. also stop being rude.

thank you for your time sir p.s. breaking these rules means i unfortunately have to block you. i am sorry but this is a christian website.

here's a piece of art. is it cryptoart? if so, who owns it, what edition is it, what marketplace was it sold through and where is its "ownership" recorded?

cryptoart doesn't solve digital provenance. it's techbros stealing legitimacy from an already corrupt fine art market. okay fuck it. out of curiosity, i took at a look at a contract. lots of junk about timestamps and ids and whatever. i'm here for the actual art though. let's look at this one on rarible.

it's a tulip. moving on.

artists pay to list pieces, buyers pay to place or cancel bids, artists pay to accept bids. this is all paid in speculative funny money that you need to buy in advance.

sure seems like a system where people with money/audience can benefit from this at the expense of others. the more people buy the funny money, the higher the perceived value of the funny money. the higher the perceived value of the funny money, the more expensive it becomes to mint and make/accept bids.

IT SURE SEEMS LIKE some people are gonna get rich at the expense of others