It started with a simple idea; find a way for an artist to create and sell copy-protected signed and numbered uncopiable DIGITAL art. As you well know, it’s dead-simple to rip off a billion graphics a day on the internet, and up until now, there’s been no way to protect the artist’s work from theft. Now there is, and it isn’t blockchain.
A blockchain is a crypto product that is kept in place by the blockchain technology, and it’s expensive and environmentally harmful and wasteful, and is nothing like the original intention — to give artists a chance to sell signed original digital artwork.
It is from wasteful and harmful blockchains that blockchain NFTs are created. The original idea of the blockchain NFT was that it would trade only in Ethereum cryptocurrency, thus giving “Ethereum” holders fine ORIGINAL digitally stored art that’s protected from theft, but that isn’t what happened. The blockchain NFT doesn’t even contain the .jpg itself, just an address somewhere on the web, where it currently resides.
The Hand-Signed & Numbered CRYPTO USB NFT GorbyToken HARDWARE WALLET CARD is itself a piece of artwork, a “found object” housing a LARGE PRINTABLE .jpg, plus FOUR full-color RARE photo scrapbooks from the artist’s studio, supporting your purchase.
With my system, the artwork itself can be stored within my USB hardware NFT, and it’s identity-protected in the same old time-honored way we artists have been doing it all along, which is LIVE signature and number directly written with a PERMANENT SHARPIE on the REVERSE of the wallet card.
That works for pieces that bring hundreds of millions of dollars at auction — you’ll see many high-end pieces protected in the same way — they’re signed and numbered. Christie’s and Sotheby’s are full of them.
The problem for me is when you TIE THE ARTWORK to blockchain technology, that’s when I get off the blue bus, and walk the rest of the way.
A standard “blockchain” NFT can only be paid for in Ethereum, which is a cryptocurrency. You’ve probably heard a lot about non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, recently, but this is an entirely new concept in how to store and validate/authenticate a Non-Fungible Token, something digital that cannot be duplicated. I’ll explain as we go:
The photo above of a pan-full of gold flakes from the nearby Yuba River can be turned into a graphic that can be made into a Non-Fungible Token that is stored not on the internet, but in a HARDWARE USB digital wallet card, as I said, and then it’s permanently secured inside a third-party PSA type grading slab with identifying information printed on the outside label.
You’re looking at an actual pan-full of gold flakes we got back in 1978 at the Yuba River — 35 people participated in the workshop, and this photo is super-rare and just the .jpg file locked into a grading slab can be traded like a baseball card or a stamp.
The whole thing was an impromptu auction at a tech conference, and it was just a fun idea that was intended to get attendees to buy ETHEREUM virtual currency and spend it on art by an artist named “Bleeple”.
Well, until the wildly illogical and relatively improbable $69 million dollar sale of one of Bleeple’s digital graphics held by blockchain as an online NFT, there was no market for Ethereum — it was just another crypto-currency in a boiling tumult of thousands of crypto-currencies, until that art auction.
The way to create a market for your special cryptocurrency is to give them something special to buy, and art, coins, stamps, cars, musical instruments, celebrity items and historical treasures, race horses, rare books, trading cards and more — anything of possible future value.
The best bait to attract collectors would be stuff that historically has increased in value as time went whistling by.
That’s the whole idea of owning collectibles, plus the fun of assembling the collection, but it’s always nice to know that it will bring more every time it sells in the open marketplace, which is how auctions calculate values, about 15% per trade per season.
You’re paying to convert your cash into vaporware, which they rightly call “ETHER”, meaning that it’s strictly mind over matter, and then you’ll have to pay again to get it back into real money, but that’s the whole gimmick in a nutshell, and I’ll show you how to beat that game, hands-down.
People willingly pay the price of the fake money — pardon me, I of course meant “cybercurrency”. They pay it out of greed, certain that the coins will go up in value by thousands of dollars per week, but it’s not an objective price.
24 hours a day, money-traders agree on a minute-by-minute trading price, and the price lands somewhere between asked and offered, but not because of intrinsic value, but by the market-drivers of the day.
That’s always true, and even in the case of raw high-karat river gold like you see in the photo above — its value can vary by hundreds or even thousands of dollars up AND down.
“Beeple” — his street name is Mike Winklemann — was all over the news channels when he sold an electronic drawing stored in blockchain, called an “NFT” or “Non-Fungible Token” meaning that it can’t possibly be duplicated, for a stunning $69 MILLION dollars.
Is it a scam? Of course it is, but it came about as a result of a fun experiment at a trade tech show, and if it’s a scam, then so are all art, jewelry, fur, sports car, comic, trading card, uniform memorabilia, war relics, antiquarian books, dolls and dollhouses, miniatures, and antique auctions and trade shows, but people love it, and they love to bet on penny stocks and long-shots at the races, and this is one of those things, sort of like the dot-com bubble.
People are blowing away their hard-earned U.S. dollars on cryptocurrency Ethereum-based blockchain-stored NFTs and most folks don’t understand that an NFT is not money.
You can cash in on this craze, especially if you’re an artist, musician, poet or dancer, and I’m going to show you EXACTLY how to buy and sell these little puppies for millions of dollars — if you manage to go viral — and there’s no reason why you can’t, but the market is MADE — it doesn’t just HAPPEN.
Your sales are not going to be to total strangers — you’re going to start with whatever slender social media following you already have now, and the addition of a bunch of bots to your friends or subscribers lists won’t help much — bots don’t buy things.
In the case of an ordinary NFT, ownership is recorded on a BLOCKCHAIN — a digital ledger similar to the networks that underpin bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but the NFT IS NOT CRYPTOCURRENCY. To put it another way, an NFT is not a BITCOIN.
You can’t speculate on the money market using NFTs — they are a one-way street unless you have a definite and ACTIVE market for them, in which case why tie them to a cryptocurrency that can spike whenever you need to pay the extensive and overbearing transfer fees.
It’s not their fault. It takes literally MILLIONS of very active computers working at breakneck speed to authenticate an NFT or a bitcoin. Millions, all over the planet, working at full-speed to solve problems so they can mine the cryptocurrency and make a profit.
Each NFT is a unique expression, so unique that it PRESENTLY can’t be duplicated by anything owned by a civilian, but you can be sure that several governments already possess an antidote.
So, at the moment at least, you can think of an NFT as a unique digital item that nobody else possesses or owns, until you sell it to them.
I have an even more foolproof method of identifying and validating a Token. A unique serial number is ENGRAVED into the body of the USB drive, and we keep a record of what’s inside that thing, so the image has to match up with the serial number on the USB drive.
In addition to that, we have two methods of securing the crypto token — compare the image with the stated image, according to the serial number engraved into the USB.
The second way is to produce the thing on a wallet card, and seal the loaded card inside a third-party NGC type slab, like a benchwarmer or sports card.
Sure, people might have an IMAGE of a piece of art that you bought as an NFT, for example, but they don’t own the original NFT, even though they can easily download the image off the internet.
Putting the image into the USB drive is what makes it unique and collectible.
The prospect of increased value AS A WORK OF ART, not as a type of bitcoin, is what makes the CRYPTO USB GorbyToken so enticing.
There is the definite prospect that, because they can be made to be RARE or SUPER-RARE, you might be able to sell them later on for much more money, as you would with rare cars, coins, trading cards, fine art, high-end jewelry and real estate.
On top of the fact that the wallet card itself is the art object and that it’s signed and numbered to make it unique and special, you get PDF books of all four of my art scrapbooks — Cedar Bar, JazzArt, White House & MoMA — a value of over $400.00, totally free, plus a PRINTABLE high-quality .JPEG of the artwork on the front of the USB Wallet Card, and it’s usable on all media platforms.
Print it and frame it, and save megabucks on shipping!
I’m Sold – How Do I Get One?
You can use various currencies to buy a CRYPTO USB-Stored Nonfungible Gorby Token, including your credit card or paypal. If you find one of my items on eBay, it will offer several payment choices, but whichever currency you decide to pay in, you’ll have to pay to convert currency if you sell overseas, especially if you want to spend it there.
If you trade in foreign currencies, you’ll need to get over to a bank to convert it, and they of course charge a fee for the service and risk — the currencies tend to shift value in the international money-markets, and this happens all the time.
I’ll show you how to cash in on the latest trending art craze, WITHOUT the need to create blockchain cryptos — and more than that, I’ll show you how to actually SELL them for actual U.S. Dollars type MONEY, not cryptocurrency, and I hope to show you how to really make this work for you, especially if you’re a serious and professional artist who actually wants to sell some of your art in ORIGINAL digital form, and make a dent in the art world of the 21st century. I’m on your side, and I want to help.
Forget big canvases and wall art in general.
It’s all on the smartphone now, and you can show your collection on your computer screen, so the wall art is dying out, in favor of carousel projection of fine art on your giant TV screen.
So, you’ll want to start a small “test” collection, hopefully of some of my artwork. Okay, where do you begin? Well, you can find one or more of the NFT marketplaces, and that’s where you’ll want to start.
One look at the mess and outright garbage should give you a clue that this is a total scam, built upon the get rich quick schemes they always use to bilk innocent idiots out of their retirement money.
OpenSea is a big marketplace — think of the website as an online gallery where you can browse digital art, trading cards and other collectibles, but BEWARE, it’s dangerous for a newbie, and there are many tricks, traps and seductions.
Just visit OpenSea — I do not intend for you to actually BUY anything there — just look around and see what they’re doing to cash in on the craze.
Nothing.
They are already on the marketplace where people with Etherums are looking to spend them.
The OpenSea Marketplace works like an auction house, where you offer bids on items and hope you’re the winner, but some listings let you “Buy now” for a set price, keeping in mind that this is all in Ethereum, their very own cryptocurrency that they’re hoping you’ll buy and use.
But before you begin to buy, sell and trade NFTs, you would need to add some money to a digital wallet from which you can spend it, and that gives you a clue as to who is really making ALL the money in this hustle — the money-changers at the Temple, the wallet-makers and the blockchain miners.
So, OpenSea uses a blockchain cryptocurrency called “ETHEREUM”, which you’ll have to buy at a premium, so the real folks behind all this can skim some off the top, which is the whole gimmick, and you pay to get out of the cryptocurrency and back into real money, on the other end of the transaction.
The only way to win in this very fixed game is to get a price that allows you to overlook the cost of sales, which is the whole idea — they’re trying to get you to believe that YOU can sell your NFTs for millions of dollars, too, but believe me, you can’t.
If you happened to sell an NFT for $69 Million dollars, you don’t worry about the fees and the total cost of conversion, but if you sell it for $15.75, there’s a lot to worry about, and you’re about to lose some $800.00 in trading fees, which is what they DON’T want you to know.
Think of a TRADING FLOOR or MARKETPLACE as sort of a video game arcade. You want to play some games, but before you play the games, you need to buy some quarters, or in this case, tokens representing a flexible currency, like a subway token.
Same idea here, but these tokens are called ETHEREUMS, and instead of buying lots of tokens, you’re probably going to start small, with fractions of one single ETHER, which is currently valued at about $1,891.02 as of today — about a hundred more than several days ago, and it’s on a steady rise, thanks to this gimmick, which makes their stupid virtual coins worth anything at all.
Forget my lapse into sanity there — let’s go back to that digital wallet. Now, OpenSea suggests using a plug-in for the Chrome browser called MetaMask but supports lots of other digital wallets, and here’s where I’d be super-careful about back-doors and other phishing mechanisms to get at your financials.
But wait — I really have no interest in collecting this cryptocurrency crap — I just wanted to sell my art and crafts, and now, everyone lives inside their little cellphone.
Make some photo or illustration and list it for sale right now, but how? And where?
If it ever sells, the funds will transfer to your digital wallet, after which you can use them to buy other stuff or cash it out with the CoinBase app, or you can defer the conversion cost and remain within the bitcoin realm and trade for other virtual things and virtual currencies, but eventually, you have to get out before the market collapses, or you’ll be stuck with a lot of virtual crap with nowhere to go.
There are built-in risks and tons of ecological and economic reasons why this whole NFT thing is nuts, but if you’re an artist, you have no choice but to join the ranks of cellphone artists and collectors, and I’ve found a way to do exactly that, get the same results and benefits, but without the need for blockchain and cryptocurrency.
You can publicize these things with #Shorts on youtube, and of course your facebook and other social media are what really will sell these things — they don’t just sell themselves.
There is no gold-dredge where you can just lower it into the river and it works the banks and digs out the false bedrock. You gotta jump in there in a drysuit with an air tank and pry the stuff up your own self if you want to get rich, and it won’t be quick, so if you don’t enjoy playing in the water, stay out of the gold -prospecting vein.
There’s much more about these CRYPTO USB GorbyTokens, not the least of which is a Token that contains a city-full of virtual properties and buildings that you could lease out to tenants who never visit, never call and never write
Hey, there are more new ideas are occurring to me all the time, and they may very well occur to you, too — the idea of publishing and selling in lots of 10 came to me in a dream that’s commonly called “real life”, and totally UNlike “Real Housewives”.
There are other applications for my USB collectibles, including rare jewelry, rare coins, rare stamps and of course rare artwork ancient and modern, along with all sorts of rare worlds, sculptures and landscapes that were created in the Godd™ Engine just for this medium.
I publish in editions of 10 or, in rare cases, editions of 100, where the item will enjoy a lot of popularity.
Once a First Edition is sold out, it is never repeated. That’s the whole idea of limited editions. There is no exception to this rule.
The WHOLESALE price is for all ten — you own the entire run, and you control the price and rate of release — timing the releases can bring more rewards.
I do not take royalties — if a design goes through the roof, enjoy. Money is not the issue here, it’s about the planetary health and welfare and the public’s right to enjoy life and use it for personal evolution.
Yes, personal. I don’t recommend helping anyone else evolve until you’ve done a bit of the work yourself; you agree?
I don’t release or sell single units.
All my Signed & Numbered GorbyToken USB flash drives are already at the LOWEST WHOLESALE prices. It don’t get no better than $390.00 for a LOT of ten, or $3500.00 for a LOT of 100, with a TOTAL LIMITED EDITION of 100.
There are some GorbyTokens that are priced higher, and the edition limitations will vary greatly, in order to intentionally create various levels of scarcity.
Don’t forget that you’re CORNERING THE MARKET on that particular run, but you mustn’t be greedy. Let the market make itself, and help to create a GorbyToken USB NFT Collecting Community!
Also don’t forget that you’re ACTUALLY selling signed and numbered USB flash drives, not highly protected software — the signature and numbering are the authentication.
The Flash Drive is in itself a Work of Art, and each and every one of those Works of Art is hand-signed and numbered, AND BLESSED, by yours truly.
And that’s the underlying purpose for this whole thing — those signed & numbered USB flash drives will carry my Blessings where needed.
Help is on the way.
See You At The Top!!!
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