[arista]

It took him 13 years to add all those squares


BBC:
[What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible token.
In economics, a fungible asset is something with
units that can be readily interchanged - like money.
With money, you can swap a £10 note for two £5 notes
and it will have the same value.
However, if something is non-fungible, this is impossible - it means it has
unique properties so it cannot be interchanged
with something else.
It could be a house, or a painting such as the Mona Lisa, which is one of a kind.
You can take a photo of the painting or buy a print but there
will only ever be the one original painting.

NFTs are "one-of-a-kind" assets in the digital world
that can be bought and sold like any other
piece of property, but they have no tangible form of their own.
The digital tokens can be thought of as certificates
of ownership for virtual or physical assets.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56371912

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

[Oliver_W]

I heard of this through comics fandom, some old DC Comics illustrator (not one I'd heard of) had sold some digital artwork for loooaaads of money.

While it is easy to copy, I guess it's similar to getting a gold trophy in a racing game - generally speaking, a silver or bronze will unlock the next track ... but they're not gold! You could always copy+paste a picture of a gold trophy, right? BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME!

That's how I see owning the "actual" digital copy, at least.

Some comics-people were bitching that trading NFT artwork is detrimental because of the datafarms etc (or something, I'm not that techy) but they're mostly D-Grade creators who no-one would buy exclusive stuff from lol, and also they seem to spend their lives on twitter, which in terms of data stuffs is obviously worse!
Apparently there's more to the power consumption thing than I thought, I'll look more into it later...

[arista]

Another Digital NFT Art


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56368868