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> But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities. At the very least, it co

by caseyf 5y ago

> But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities. At the very least, it could help make online communities more self-sustainable. I buy crypto art several days a week. I typically spend 1 or 2 tez (so $5 or $10) for a "digital print" that offers 10 or 25 editions and a significant number of the artists that I collect from are in Indonesia, Brazil, etc. I'm a collector and a fan and I am enjoying this so much more than Patreon and I imagine the creators are too. It's obviously so much better than giving your work away to Instagram and Twitter for likes or engagement or whatever and then struggling to make money from it by asking for tips or patreon or physical merch that nobody really wants. I think about it like I do my indie vinyl records, art prints, and things like that. I like supporting artists and I like collecting and I really like collecting digital things that are not locked into one person's platform. In fact, the platform I've been using since May (hicetnunc.xyz) disappeared last month when the main developer left and it only took hours for everyone to regroup. As the backend is all on-chain data and the frontend was open source, we hardly missed a beat.

epicide 5y ago
I don't go looking up info on NFTs, so this might just be my self-induced ignorance, but I never hear this argument coming from artists. Not saying one way or the other that artists like NFTs or not, but I only ever hear it from the perspective of the purchaser. Open questions for someone who has sold their own artwork as an NFT: how would you compare it to platforms like Patreon, Etsy, etc? What is the minting process like and how prohibitive/easy was it for you to do so?
- pjc50 5y ago
  Hesitant to promote this even indirectly, but I've noticed some artists I follow on twitter have been fully converted to NFTs, such as https://twitter.com/dblasphemy/ https://twitter.com/dblasphemy/ , an old-school render artist. I get the impression that the difference is that Patreon is trying to get $10 from 1,000 people whereas NFTs are getting $10k from one or two people. dblasphemy appears to have only two buyers for the majority of his work ...
yunohn 5y ago
> the platform I've been using since May (hicetnunc.xyz) disappeared last month when the main developer left and it only took hours for everyone to regroup I don’t closely follow this space, but I remember “hicetnunc.xyz” being shilled on HN quite a bit. How did the platform straight up disappear, on the whims of a single developer? Isn’t this space all “decentralized”?

by caseyf 5y ago

epicide 5y ago

I don't go looking up info on NFTs, so this might just be my self-induced ignorance, but I never hear this argument coming from artists. Not saying one way or the other that artists like NFTs or not, but I only ever hear it from the perspective of the purchaser. Open questions for someone who has sold their own artwork as an NFT: how would you compare it to platforms like Patreon, Etsy, etc? What is the minting process like and how prohibitive/easy was it for you to do so?

pjc50 5y ago
Hesitant to promote this even indirectly, but I've noticed some artists I follow on twitter have been fully converted to NFTs, such as https://twitter.com/dblasphemy/ https://twitter.com/dblasphemy/ , an old-school render artist. I get the impression that the difference is that Patreon is trying to get $10 from 1,000 people whereas NFTs are getting $10k from one or two people. dblasphemy appears to have only two buyers for the majority of his work ...

yunohn 5y ago

> the platform I've been using since May (hicetnunc.xyz) disappeared last month when the main developer left and it only took hours for everyone to regroup I don’t closely follow this space, but I remember “hicetnunc.xyz” being shilled on HN quite a bit. How did the platform straight up disappear, on the whims of a single developer? Isn’t this space all “decentralized”?