[TrevorAustin]

For fine art, maybe? For music, writing, theater, film and television, video games: seems like it's mostly about the enjoyment the patron gets from interacting with the art. The social signaling part strikes me as kind of squicky.

Maybe NFTs turn out to be a way to redirect that gross status-seeking impulse, to turn it into incentives to create art and income for artists without copyright, DRM, and associated ugliness. That would be a pretty cool hack! There's a decent chance it works.

[kranke155]

This is exactly what's happening. As a part of the NFT community/digital artist, I've never seen artists happier.

[zepto]

What artists? All the NFT art I’ve seen has been either generative cartoons or internet memes.

[kranke155]

The ETH scene is sociopathic/absurd/ridiculous. Most non shit art is on Tezos, where indie artists from all over the world are killing it.

https://hicetnunc.art/

And a more organised storefront at https://objkt.com/

https://www.fxhash.xyz/ is doing generative art straight on the blockchain.

I have an account on Twitter as @CryptoAntonioni and I share decent art, avoid the trash.

[zepto]

Interesting - very good to know about the Tezos scene.

As for fxhash, I don’t see that being much more than a ‘because we can’. Nothing on there strikes me as worth money, since there is an infinite supply of art like that and there is no distinguishing character to it. The point of a Non-Fungible token goes away if the art itself is fungible.