Think of it — you’ve got wall space in one of the biggest and most successful art galleries on the internet, OpenSea. Maybe it’s not juried, not especially known for its glamor, but actually it has some pretty good local and recent artists, and they’re flourishing.
In days gone by, you’d have four shows at the most, per year, and that’s at four different galleries. They generally have a three-year waiting period to have a show, and that’s if you’re good and your art sells well. Continue reading
Don’t be fighting this trend. It will overwhelm those who resist it. I’ll tell you right now, this is the wave of the future, like it or not. It is so effing mainstream that they are making a Broadway musical about it, and then there are these youtube videos, hilarious but true.
Soon, the blockchain will be overcome, and prices will go down for trades. That’s a fact, very much underlined in history. It’s at that point that you want to already be positioned in the marketplace, and you don’t want to pay the going price for initialization when the price of Ethereum has gone through the roof.
Pay the price now and get it over with. It’s gonna cost ya about $200.00 bucks to get set up to create, buy and sell this shit, so get on it now, while you still can. Continue reading
There’s no doubt about it — NFTs don’t just sell themselves. You can’t just make a couple dozen of them and throw them in the river and expect to see some returns.
There is no magic formula, just hard work and repetitive efforts, and repeatedly slamming yourself against the proverbial brick wall until something sticks, and that may take a while, but, as they say, your time is gonna come.
So in the meantime, while I’m waiting for the money transfers to happen to give me some ethereum to play with, meaning to pay the transfer fees from sales, I’ve put up a few hundred crypto NFTs on opensea. Continue reading
Boy, I can hardly wait until we get initialized. Turns out it may cost more like $150 to do it, but we’ll soon see if we can squeak by. If not, be prepared for another two-week delay until the banks work it out.
Actually, I can wait a while — the auction season is not upon us — we are entering into the fifth season, which in the garment industry is called “the slack season” not because everybody’s wearing pants, but because there’s no business.
You have a wild midnight sale, and — crickets. Continue reading
Up to now, Blockchain has been the major issue, but since I’m assured that Ethereum is handling it, I’ll put it aside for the moment, willing to take it on trust for the moment, watching and waiting, listening for the latest news about Shard Technology replacing blockchain. Vigilant Always, I’ll continue to watch the progress of this project.
In the meantime, I’m taking a few small semi-furtive and very tentative steps into the world of NFT art.
What? You don’t know the difference is between ordinary NFTs and my hardware-stored Wallet Cards? Okay, let’s start at the top: Continue reading
Ethereum states that it has set the goal of 99% reduction of environmental impact with its revolutionary fragmentation “shard” system, so I’m now looking at preparing a few NFTs of the ordinary kind — I was wrong, and I take it back. They’re making a powerful effort over the next two years to reduce the impact of NFTs, although bitcoins will still be using the older technology.