People say crypto has no use case. Well I completely disagree, because the use case that drew me here is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. I came here for NFTs, because as someone who was a commercial filmmaker at the time, it was the first time digital artists had something they could put their art on that could act as ownership.
Yes, it's a link to an IPFS, or a small file on chain. It's put on a date and time on a blockchain as record or provenance, and essentially documentation of ownership.
And the great thing is people went to SOL, where they literally destroyed their NFTs to degen into memecoins, destroying supply. I got to get art from literal legends like Earl Einharm, a generative artist from the 70s who inscribed on Bitcoin ordinals. I got to hang out on Discord with Jesse Moynihan, the artist for Adventure Time, as he made a bizarre fever dream of short film funded by NFTs, I still have the full set of and meticulously collected. I even own a Damien Hirst piece.
Even the grifts are of interest to me -- an early art AI grift from the original Midjourney engine that stole data from an artist and was winning art competitions, that's absolutely still gorgeous fully accepting that fact. I also have a fraction of a Warhol Soup Can painting that the creator couldn't sell out to save his life and probably rug pulled. Still historically documented.
And I got to see the emergence of new art in the space like aeoniumsky, unsigs, MIO, and Charles Manchin -- and mint their works for nothing or buy for dirt cheap from the secondary market like Yasen, who was one of the first people run out of the space by the IOG cabal.
https://t.co/XmLHb6b0qg is STILL the killer app of Cardano from @SmaugPool.
I got all this for practically nothing, because no one appreciated it because they only cared about quick flips and dumping for more mint gambles, or as a weapon to hurt artists.
And I have the provenance of storing them all in my cold wallet and not touching it. It's like a snapshot of culture over the past 5 years.
So crypto served me well, because as a collector of many things, I've seen and experience true value explode of simply holding and forgetting things and letting them gain time value ✌️
"Before Infinity"
Digital painting, by me. For some time it's all I've been focussed on. Now it's done at last.
Original is much larger than this posted version. Painted in Photoshop using a Huion drawing tablet.
Llongyfarchiadau to 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐝_𝟎𝟎𝟔.
Please check your nft edition number
& contact us to start the logistical proceedings.
The first artefact will be on its way to you soon.
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#AllNomads We continue to pull the threads
join us on our next dispatch from the desert.
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Wow, I won! Thanks so much for this @Threefoldbold and it would be amazing to hold the piece.
But I messed up & forgot to tell everyone I’m in the middle of a journey through time & space and the postal service doesn’t exactly reach me here.
Hold tight nomads. working on a plan
Wow, I won! Thanks so much for this @Threefoldbold and it would be amazing to hold the piece.
But I messed up & forgot to tell everyone I’m in the middle of a journey through time & space and the postal service doesn’t exactly reach me here.
Hold tight nomads. working on a plan
A huge thank you to everyone who joined the desert run. Congratulations to the one holding the booty! we will reach out with the next steps 🙏 See you all in uncertainty ......
@Fwltur@Threefoldbold@_taste32 Well this one will keep my mind busy for a while. Great to see something interesting on the timeline again, thank you nomads.