Scams, Art Theft and NFTs

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I was considering adding NFT's to my portfolio, but while delving into it, I was dumbfounded to the vulnerable position it puts creators in. The crypto wallets alone are all phishing apps. And the biggest complaint I was seeing for MetaMask and Coinbase wallets was the users crypto currency were getting stolen. Like 1 out of three reviews were people warning the users "Don't use this app, your crypto currency will get stolen." It feels like swimming with sharks to get bait fish. I'm currently researching Ledger, which is a hardware based crypto wallet, and appears to be safer than many of the other forms, but my research is incomplete. More later.

Cheers and thanks for posting this. I get scammers daily on my IG account and am seriously thinking of abandoning it. "I love your artworks. It is very impressive, beautiful, and unique. Is it for sale?" … (as NFT's?) click here to mint your artwork so I can suck $500.00 out of your wallet.

Until better controls are put into place, it truly is a feeding frenzy for sharks.

I got scammed 😢

Way too long video with a lot of digressions. Just give the essential info and spare us the repeats. Thanks.

Opensea is making a killing on all GAS fees

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Someone on Instagram dmed me and asked if they could buy my art as NFT for 1500 pounds each. I feel like its a scam but is it?

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This "decentralization" thing is really bullshit, the "great" opensea and other marketplaces like known origin and bla bla bla have been banishing artists from countries that suffer sanctions from others (mainly the USA), so cuban artists, Iranian artists, recently Russian artists and etc, this is already fucked up and not "decentralized", but since there's no regulation to that they can do this and whatever, another point is about curated platforms, even though they're a backstep on "decentralization" they indeed have far less scams and art theft and etc, I'm talking Superrare on ethereum, Formfunction on Solana, maybe Foundation? about the environmental impact I totally get it and that's why I'm not on ethereum and I don't plan to be there anytime soon, but there are low impact blockchains round there like Tezos (with an amazing community) and Solana which is growing a great ecosystem, ofc that's also debatable from the "decentralization" point because Proof of Stake is by itself a progressive centralization process

As someone who used to scoff at "environment activism", I am now really alarmed by how much we used to just minimize issues like climate change. And things like computers running at top performance to run these crypto systems is just something most people will dismiss as "overblown hysteria". Of course, I now know better.

I live in the pacific and I can say from first-hand experience that the changes brought by global warming are very real and we are always the first ones to feel the effects. We used to get a few storms every year now we get so many tropical depressions and they often lead to flooding and other disasters.

What really broke my heart is that just last year I saw a recent google earth image of our southern islands (the most beautiful ones you'll ever see) and you can actually see just how much of it is now underwater. I didn't think it could come to this in just a few years. I remember thinking "nah, I'll be long dead before we see any actual effects of global warming- they're just overreacting" but yeah it really did happen so fast. I don't know what we can do now. Can these changes even be reversed? I hate that I think the answer is no.

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Thank you so much for making this. By far the best breakdown I’ve seen on the topic and approached logically from a more human element.

One way to see it from a step back is to remember that NFTs are merely digital contracts of ownership. A text file in the blockchain. It's something that in our digital era creates a new revolution, especially if we'll invest more into VR and our lives "dissolve" into digital forms of all sorts. Whether we like this direction or not we can at least say that an ownership contract of my own artwork will protect it much more than before, it's a copyright document. I've successfully had one of my artworks removed from Opensea by contacting them and most platforms require you to prove you are the creator of whatever you mint.
However, as everything that starts with hypes and trends, the way this has been used with art (or "art") has been clumsy, often toxic and speculative in the worse manner. A lot of money started circulating, therefore a lot of scams. But that's not an inherent problems of the NFT, like we shouldn't get enraged at forks if someone uses them to poke at people. So I see these hypes and scams will gradually reduce and stabilize. My main concern however is the anonymity of transactions. If this is not resolved then there aren't many legal battles to be won in the "metaverse" and someone will always try to make a quick profit out of stolen artworks, cos even if they get caught after selling one it's too late.
Other than that my feelings about NFTs are mixed: I find the new tech interesting especially for digital artist, there's potential. I would like for digital art to be recognized as fine art and be priced accordingly, and only an NFT might achieve that, not a print. However seeing how the fine-arts world and its market is not in a better position either I'm not too hopeful, but then again, it's not an NFT problem. It's how it's being used.

Everyone I know who have NFTs are in it for the quick hopeful cash grab not how the project maybe implemented in reality, it's caveman mentality chart Pointe thing go up good good. Nobody cares about the underlining issues.

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