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The irony of the article is that two of the highlighted artists (Anders Hoff, Lia) are now selling their work through NFTs. The market for generative art prints
by mattdesl 5y ago
The irony of the article is that two of the highlighted artists (Anders Hoff, Lia) are now selling their work through NFTs. The market for generative art prints is extremely niche.
Importantly, what the technology gives digital artists (myself included) is a strategy to distribute, document provenance/ownership, and monetize primarily digital media in a primarily digital manner, rather than expecting them to rely on non-digital print media & spatial activations. It becomes yet another avenue for artists to earn revenue on their work.
It should also be noted that this article is several months old, which is basically a decade in crypto/NFT land.
- LegitShady 5y agoThe art has no value in digital space. I can even copy paste from wherever it's displayed, or take a screenshot, etc etc The value is in a piece of blockchain which makes it speculation scam. That someone made money from a speculation scam doesn't make it less of a scam.
- adnzzzzZ 5y agoI make games. Do my games have no value in digital space because someone can pirate them? Is it a speculation scam to sell the game on Steam and make money from it when people can just get it for free elsewhere? Your argument makes no sense and is retarded.
- LegitShady 5y agoThe game has value for its utility and fun. It has no inherent value outside of that. If your game was a number on a blockchain such that only one owner could play it would that make your game more valuable? What if anyone could play it but only the blockchain owner could say they own it since the playing is just looking for art nfts? For art nfts anyone can look at and enjoy the art without owning the blockchain. Now some speculator can claim to actuakly own a rare pepe, is all It is a speculation scam. I know a dozen artists pumping them out now and they're all in on this speculation scam turning out high res icons attached to a piece of blockchain some poor idiot will speculate is valuable. If it's so valuable why don't they just keep it for themselves? Why have a market? Because it's all just a speculation scam. Why don't you just hold your super valuable game to yourself so no one else can play it? Because it only had value if it's played. Art nfts value is in owning something anyone can look at and gain the same function for without any nft at all. Rare Pepes
- adnzzzzZ 5y agoWhat about supporting artists financially is a speculation scam to you? Do you hate art? Do you hate the fact that artists can now make a living properly? What's wrong with you?
- LegitShady 5y agoArtists have had Patreon and donation pages and art sales without any sort of nft. The nft just provides a speculation scam to attach to a url pointing to a piece of art. The speculation scam is the problem. Its selling to suckers who think they can resell for more money to other suckers. I know of a former comic artist that couldn't crowdfund 15k for a comic book but made hundreds of thousands of dollars on nfts of monkeys with zero artistic merit and a lot of generative type work. Its just a scam with people trying to get in on the ground floor thinking it's the new Bitcoin. I think speculation scams should be illegal
- adnzzzzZ 5y agoWell and I think anyone who disagrees with me should suffer eternally as they watch the entire world be consumed by the "crypto scam" and are powerless to do anything about it.
- LegitShady 5y agovery mature. It's no surprise to me that an advocate of this MLM speculation scam is unhappy people recognize it for what it is, I'm just surprised you couldn't do a better job defending it before resorting to nonsense.
- dang 5y agoBreaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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