How to link an NFT to a digital art piece, and why it’s currently pointless

This week I have seen a lot of activity concerning non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and digital artwork. I assume that you are reading this because you already know what an NFT token is, but are a bit confused about what they signify, what the fuss is all about, and how to take advantage of them.

So instead of explaining how they work, I am going to look at the following questions:

• What are people actually buying when they purchase an NFT from a collectibles site, and
• Does what they get match their expectation in any kind of meaningful way?
  As of 15 March, 2021, we are in the middle of another crypto gold rush. And as is always the case with gold rushes, except for a lucky few gold prospectors, most people are going to lose out.

Although the shovel-vendors will turn a tidy profit.

And what is worse: this time the pros...more

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Sometimes it is easy to be overwhelmed by what's going on in the world (and your own little piece of it) - the looming bond bubble (September or October 2020 bust?), the scammers that are still getting away with defrauding innocent/ignorant people (See On Yavin break it down with the Chamber on the second Thursday of June, 2020 - tickets on Eventbrite and findable on YouTube soon too), the HUGE initiatives that are in the works to positively impact billions with digital agentcy and affordable distributed data processing and storage(Three Fold), the children who've died because sanctions made medicine too expensive, the islands still recovering from hurricane damage and bracing for more extreme weather (global warming or....??), the plastics polluting our oceans, the wild fires, speaking of fires and looting...I still can't shake the knowing that WE ARE SO CONNECTED!, the pain of parents,...more

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I'm not taking a vaccine. point blank period. When you are a child, you act as a child. When you grow up, you're supposed to put away those childish things. My siblings told me about the Boogeyman. That told me dat fool lived under my bed and would grab my feet at night if i wasn't careful. I used to jump like 3 feet off my bed at night because i believed dat nonsense. Now, of course, me and da Boogeyman are good friends... yeah... anyway, I feel like lies we were told as kids and young adults in order to explain the society in which we live on a level of adolescent understanding are somewhat excusable. However, they are still lies. Some will say those lies were meant to protect you. But since when has a lie protected anybody besides the person telling it?? If the Truth will set you free, what will a lie do?

The psychotic and intermingled web of influence between the educational and corp...more

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I always knew something was up... The rules just never seemed to make sense to me and i've always tried to bend and break them wherever i could. Conversations with my brother around the theme, "We ain't supposed to live like this..." have become too commonplace in the recent years. We're frustrated with our condition and it's fueled by the ever-growing access to information about what truths have been neatly tucked away from us by evil, opportunistic capitalists... These disgusting swine-like sub-humans have worked tirelessly to stave off the inevitable flow of information and technology to the people. And I must add that they've been increasingly creative in their adaptations to social change; but evolution has its limits. A creature can only adapt so much before it has to accept that it no longer fits in the world it's trying to adapt to. I'll save my dollars for special art projects, ...more

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I just wanna see credible, tangible proof. Nobody's asking for or requiring proof as a condition of these extreme measures. People who question the determining factors behind the hysteria and the need thereof, are ridiculed; called irresponsible, conspiracy theorists. Where's the proof? A nurse friend of mine told me the test consists of a nasal swab. Then they send off the sample to labs and await results. He told me he'd never seen a physical positive test result but he could see what the disease was doing to people. He said it ate away their lungs, and their kidneys as well, and that their urine looked like tea or coca-cola. How can blockchain help??

Blockchain can't cure people of diseases; not directly. But let's skip to the future where the entire health industry has been blockchained. The information about the source and spread of this disease would be logged and spread around the ...more

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Blockchain has made me an even more avid historian. I've found some deep-seated pleasure in gazing as far back into the past as i can while paralleling that with this amazing future i see riding on the wave of blockchain. I talk to people about the on-coming crash of the US Dollar. Most people understandably can't wrap their heads around it. It's the monetary system my great-grandparents knew and used. All i've known is the "Almighty Dollar!!" as sang by The O'Jays. And that rhetoric towards the USD has helped sustain it as a faith-based fiat for almost 100 years. When governments mismanage money, they collapse. Empires using fiat currency historically have a 100% failure rate. So what does that mean for the greatest global empire the world has known?? No one i know has lived through the collapse and rebuilding of a government system of a major world power. What does it look like?

My dad ...more

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I can see that as a headline of an article i'll have to write in the near future. Or maybe right now. Over these Christmas holidays, governments and their agencies have been moving decisively against crypto. Uzbekistan just banned all crypto sales. Youtube is removing crypto-related videos from several accounts. The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) just released an official warning against investing in crypto for 2020.. and then there's China.

I'm blessed to be in the company of some very dope people doing some very dope stuff; so i not only see the potential of blockchain, i get a front row seat to the birth of several applications that will change the way humanity interacts. So if i can see it... i know those brilliant world leaders can see it too. And because i make sure to study what is happening with the world financial market, these brash blanket bans hav...more

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