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True but what if in buying those stars you were supporting space research? That’s all NFTs are right now - a novel way to invest in artists. And that’s remarka
by kranke155 5y ago
True but what if in buying those stars you were supporting space research?
That’s all NFTs are right now - a novel way to invest in artists. And that’s remarkable, and good enough for me.
- mc32 5y agoThat’s fine, but in many cases people believe these are investment instruments rather than seeing them as a donation. If these purveyors made it clear these were Donations, then yeah, that’s okay. Maybe Wikipedia can sell NFYs to “articles” and avoid the donation button?
- kranke155 5y agoI think it’s pretty clear there’s a market for them, which attracted a bunch of knobs. But yes I see them as a direct way to fund artist’s work, particularly digital artists, who before this had to content with likes on Instagram! An NFT is a way to say “hey I like this so much I’ll pay you to keep doing it”
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI can do that without "buying" a star. It is actually possible to just give money to people, NFTs didn't invent it.
- miracle2k 5y agoConvince more people to just hand out money to artists then!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoLook, if people are just saying NFTs are a human psychology hack to get people to donate more money to artists, then that's fine, but call a spade a spade. Don't blow smoke up my ass about how it's a game changing revolutionary technology that does things that simply can't be done without it.
- kranke155 5y ago“Hacking human psychology of money” But that’s exactly what it is. It is revolutionary for the people who couldn’t do it before.