I'm a musician (when not being a software architect) and I'm somewhat shocked by the number of artists getting excited about NFTs and thinking this is the ticke

I'm a musician (when not being a software architect) and I'm somewhat shocked by the number of artists getting excited about NFTs and thinking this is the ticket out of stream-poverty. It's ridiculous - the NFT gives the consumer nothing. The whole reason vinyl has resurged is because music consumers want to own a thing. Something they can hold, and feel like they had some kind of transactional relationship with the maker. The NFT is emperor's clothes: they get no musical value at all from it. It's just a way of donating money with a bunch of environmental destruction rolled in for no good reason. I fear that many of my colleagues spending time chasing this are just going to have wasted a ton of time and money they could have spent making art, because the novelty will wear off pretty damned quick.