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Justin Cone is a LA based actor/producer/director with a theater background and a military family. He has worked on TV shows like Glee, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, and Secrets and Lies, and music videos like Avril Lavigne's Bite Me.
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Justin Cone. Actor: Glee. Justin Cone is an LA based actor/producer/director. Having studied under professionals at the historic Springer Opera House from the age of ten and, later, as a BFA alumnus of Univ. of Miss., Justin has translated his extensive theater background into film, television, and development.
- Introduction#
- The Basics#
- How Can I Make My Own Nft?#
- NFTS For Digital Artists: The Promises Being made#
- Other Questions#
- Contact#
- Changelog#
Who is this guide for?#
This guide is for digital artists and designers curious about cryptoart and NFTs. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably… 1. heard about Beeple selling an NFT for $69 million dollars at a Christie's auction. 2. been confused by what NFTs are. 3. wondered if you could get in on this whole thing before it disappears. This guide has been intentionally written as a high-level introduction for general audiences.
What this guide isn’t#
This is not a technical guide. I’m not going to explain the details of the technology involved. You can visit the further readingsection below if you want to go deep. If you’re the type of person who likes to start sentences with, “Well, actually…” then this guide is not for you.Please go away. Cryptopunks, a pioneering NFT project from 2017.
Who am I?#
I’ve been a designer, technologist, and communicator for over 20 years. Many guides to cryptoart and NFTs are written by a) groups that stand to benefit from them or b) zealous individuals who drank an entire gallon of crypto kool-aid in one sitting. I am neither. I’ll shoot straight, and I’ll skip the jargon and acronyms when I can. (And trust me: I haven’t been drinking the kool-aid. I find this topic fascinating, but I’m a skeptic—as you’ll see below.)
What is cryptoart?#
There’s no universally accepted definition of cryptoart. For now, let’s use this:
Okay, so what is blockchain technology?#
Think of blockchains as giant spreadsheets1 that can be viewed by anyone. I know: Boooring! But wait! These spreadsheets have ✨special rules✨. 1. You’re not allowed to delete or change rows in the spreadsheet. 2. You can only add a new row after the last row. (Weird, right?) 3. When you add a row to the spreadsheet, a network of computers do a bunch of super complex math to confirm that what you added is okay. (Even weirder.) 4. If you try to sneak a change into the spreadsheet—like, I don’t...
What are NFTs?#
Now we’re getting to the juicy stuff. 🍋 NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. But what does that mean? Don’t worry about it. Seriously. Other guides try to explain fungibility, but I’m not going to. It’s boring and too technical for our purposes.3 The keyword to remember is token.We’ll come back to it in a minute. For now, let’s think of NFTs as digital collectibles.In the real world, pretty much anything can be collectible, given the right conditions: stamps, books, Pokémon cards, spoons. (No...
Thanks to the burgeoning NFT scene, there are a growing number of tools and platforms that allow you to tokenize (or “mint”) your own NFTs with just a few clicks.
Hang on, I can’t hear you over the deafening noise of the NFT HYPE MACHINE™. Let me just… flip this… off. Wow. So much better.Now we can talk. If you listen to the True Believers, you’ll hear a lot of promises being repeated: 1. NFTs give artists the power to monetize their work. 2. NFTs will make you rich. 3. NFTs eliminate middlemen. 4. NFTs allo...
Why are so many NFTs ugly?#
Because so much art is ugly.
What’s with all the memes and gimmicks?#
Cryptoart is rooted in the world of cryptocurrency. At the time of writing, there are over 6,000 different cryptocurrencies. Digital currencies are non-visual. They’re social constructs. You can’t see them or touch them. (Some of them you can definitely smell, though.) It makes sense, then, that people who have something to gain look for “viral” ways to spread the gospel about their chosen cryptocurrency.
Can cryptoart auctions or marketplanes be gamed?#
Sure. Just like any auction, price and demand can be manipulated by bad actors. Thanks to the inherent anonymity of blockchain transactions, it’s easy for someone to, for example, make 30 bids from 30 different accounts to create aritificial demand for an NFT. Similarly, NFT traders can artificially drive up value by “wash trading”—buying and selling something to/from yourself, making it look like that thing (an artwork, a collection, or an entire marketplace) is much hotter than it actually...
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Justin Cone: 01:18:20 And that I think has the potential at least to open up new categories of wealth generation and wealth management to haven't existed before, you know, one thing that's like worth pointing out is like when in the nineties, when the internet thing was happening and so many scams were going on and so much money was blown and ...
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