Anyone in the NFT game?

I made a hard pass on the crypto currency years ago, NFT is no different and I will actively restrict/block anyone related to it. I simply don't wish to engage or humor anyone affiliated to it either
Not to mention that it won't hurt my life experience to filter that stuff out. Got plenty of entertainment ready at hand that don't involve toxic practice or marketing.

It's a GOOD question!
With all the voices on Tapas, let me shed you some light.

First, I need you to remove and forget about all the NFT knowledge you had learned from whoever and whatever person you learn it from.

Secondly, I need you to understand what is Decentralised Storage System and IPFS.

Third, I need you to re-learn how a Non-Fungible Token works and help artists in the future.

If you are unable to do that, sorry, better keep the idea to yourself at this time.

If you can do it. Let's continue...

Key point 1: NFS as Proof of Membership
Where it is a tool to ensure your supporter is able to directly reward you and access your content after they pay you. It is like a service, it helps you to manage your supporters without the need for a centralised platform.
Example Tapas, you need to go through Tapas to connect with your subscriber. With NFT, the interaction between you and your subscribers are two-way, direct. You may code your system to manage the NFT owner, like a membership system.
- Is that an advantage? Yes and no! NFT will only help famous and larger artists who already have some followers and fans that they are able to be independent on their own. But small artists like those in Tapas still need a CENTRALISED community here to support each other. So NFT generally does not benefit the smaller artists in a whole.
- Personal take: at the moment, too many hypes and scams in the realm. A lot of people are on NFT just for the money and not for the art. So we need time to wait for it to cool down. Again, it will still go to the question above. Will it benefit small artists like us? Nope.

Key point 2: NFS as Intellectual Property Rights
The more valuable feature of NFT is that you may permanently date your works on IPFS and secure it and no one shall be able to tamper the data that is already on the chain. That is some strong form of protection over your work. However, is that something you can bring to the court for any potential violation of IP rights?
- Let's look at the case of Beeple. He explicitly uses the trademark of Disney and sells his work as an NFT. Disney was unable to bring him to court for many reasons. One is the method of exchange for the NFT is not in an enforceable currency, another issue is, the location where it took place.
- Thus, it comes to a question, if we are the original author, how can NFT protect our IP other than protecting our claim of the published date? At the moment, it does nothing other than that. Due to no country having established any policy or rules regarding that. That's why we haven't heard Disney took any legal action on Beeple yet. And he is lucky, that he gets away with it. But all came back to the fact that others may still steal your work and sell it. Therefore, NFT is not a good IP protection tool.

Key Point 3: NFT as Tool of Royalty
One advantage of NFT is its ability to reward the author with the pre-programmed royalty system. Example, author issue NFT, sell it to owner A, and then owner A sell it to owner B, the part of the selling profit will be rewarded to author automatically. This system is designed to fix the problem of existing auction system that does not benefit the original author.
- The royalty system does help the author, but it will only work when the author themselves can become famous and highly desirable.
- This system can also be useful if you use NFT as membership. It means your membership can be transferable yet you still earn profit from part of the transfer activity.
- This might be something promising for artists. However, one must read the smart contract to learn whether this system was programmed properly into or not. At the moment, a lot of NFT services smart contracts are still not publicly accessed, means, they are not fully open source! You'll be surprised, the site might tell you they are open source, in fact, how many of you seriously go and check their git and try to run their git? I would like to let you know this truth, very very little! Artists, most of us are not engineers and not educated in computer science (I am professional, and also a "person in the art" <- legal term) thus, a lot of them fall in a trap of fraudulent NFT platforms.

Summary...
To issue an NFT, it is expensive! The cheapest that I know of, well still cost around USD1 for a single file. If you are not using the IPFS, there is no point to do an NFT. Unless you are focus on key point one, which is the membership management, yes, may be you will have better success. But if all you want is to get rich quick like Beeple, you better don't involve in the realm! As for the environmental concern... well, I guess those who wrote about those long long argument never really know where the major environmental impact really from. I can always post more long long long articles that counter that. but then, will they read it? nope! As in Tapas, there aren't many novel readers, most are comic readers. So I doubt people will read my reply too. LOL.
okay, so let me just do the same thing... yes, by sharing some long long article for the pro-blockchain argument on the environmental issues. So this is not trying to start a war in this forum okay, if you really into it, you may read it. if not into it... it is still okay to be ignorant. Here's one SHORT article, please take note about the source of the article is from OECD:
https://www.oecd.org/finance/Blockchain-technologies-as-a-digital-enabler-for-sustainable-infrastructure-key-findings.pdf1
And another additional note about the environment. If you are still drinking with a plastic straw, if you are still ordering take-away with disposable containers, you're contributing to the harm of the environment way worst than using decentralised technology!

Who am I? I'm a professional technologist. My comments above were not paid and It should not serve as any financial advice.

But I hope one day the decentralised technology shall redeem itself and may the next generation of interconnectivity and trust be developed into something that can benefit the world. Peace!

LOL. We have a term for that: TL;DR

I don't do NFTs, it seems like the ethereum dudes get the most of it and not the artist.

I find this joke pretty funny, NFTs are nothing but a scam by morons who get mad at people for using the save picture feature on every device

I'm pretty frustrated reading this thread, tbh. There are a lot of folks in here yelling pretty loud that don't know what they're talking about. There are a lot of people passing judgements about crypto in this thread that don't own or know the first thing about crypto or the crypto space. This is how misinformation gets started and gets spread.

Take the environmental concerns for example. Do you even know why the carbon footprint for some crypto is so large? There are many MANY different blockchains, and are secured in a variety of different ways. Some are proof of work, some are proof of stake, some are proof of authority, etc. On top of that, there are significant variations on each of these proof methods that make each blockchain unique. Proof of work often gets blamed for being the environmental offender, though there are networks like Helium that use a wholly different version of proof of work that requires almost no energy at all by comparison. There are also many blockchains that are making moves to eliminate the vast majority of their carbon footprint by moving to different proof methods. Ethereum for example will be going proof of stake towards the end of the year. I haven't even touched on multilayer blockchains here, or the incentivization for carbon neutral renewables by the crypto miners themselves, dumping money into the renewable energy markets.

NFTs are stored on a vast number of different blockchains, each with their own unique ecosystems and pros and cons. Crypto is an extremely complex and rapidly changing environment. Claiming that "all NFTs are bad for the environment" is not only naive, but straight up wrong. Claiming that crypto in general is a scam or a pyramid scheme shows a complete lack of experience with the space. These are gross oversimplifications. These are things you say when your opinion is second hand, and regurgitated from opinions you read on the internet. Do your own research. Nothing is black and white, especially something as vast and complex as cryptocurrency, and you need to have real active experience in something in order to understand it properly.

Please stop yelling opinions about things you don't understand. You're doing far more damage than good.

I don't like how people hyper focus on the environmental side when there are a lot of issues with NFTs that people do not talk about.

A great example of how deep and complex this topic is, which is exactly my point. This is not a black and white issue, and is vastly different depending many factors like on who's minting the NFT, what blockchain it's on, what the NFT contains, current and future regulations, copyright laws, financial laws, etc. etc. etc. I could go on.

I'm an active professional in the technology and art fields, but I'm not an expert in international law, global financial markets, or bleeding edge encryption tech, and afaik neither is anybody else in this thread.

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