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NFT, I better jot down what I think about it before I let it fade away and forget and allow this thought get back to my face and LOL at myself one day. "Yea I knew it I told you so."

First of all, it is about the crypto currency, block chain technology, Defi (decentralize finance), I couldn't be bother at the beginning, simply because I set my mind at the heaven you know, my treasure is in heaven, I ought to set my heart there cause that is the only way that I don't lost it. So I DGAD what the people want to do with what they have. Or in general the world is moving towards certain thing, good for you, yeah good for you. I'm ok, yeah I'm okay.

Then at the meantime what can I do on this earth now? if I want to go to heaven, my life has to end to get there. From here to there, I'm in between thus I am free to try any route if I please. I should be responsible of what I want to do with my own life.

Therefore I wandered into the world of "future economy. tomorrow now" and engrossed with this NFT art thing for about few weeks. At the beginning there was just reading and watching, then the more I learned the more promising and utopian it sounds. How great is it that I have total freedom how I wanna control my own money instead of letting a centralized party to do it. Then I start to speculate how can I get involved with this perfect world. See all these individuals that successfully made it because they caught the vision. Eventually very soon I pumped in some money as an investment into this attempt, selling nft art sounds cool and right. Little that I know the cost of it.

Shit, Nobody care about the backstory, I just wanna write down what I think about nft art, that's it.

It is bullshit, for now. This is my honest conclusion I have after I spent my money, time, and energy.

I burnt quite some money for listing the art on opensea marketplace, no one teach me how, so I have to DIM. Solely on Ethereum gas fee. And it's because I've spent that much of eth, now it will cost me another sum of eth if I ever wanna cancel it, isn't it just great.

Okay Ethereum's gas fee is idiocy, let's try other market place trades with other coins. Cardano seems promising, the cnft kind a happening, their discord and all that seems legit and lively. Yet I cant even get my policy to make my listing legit, simply because they all sound way better and ready than what truly are. One of the Crypto traits is they all are far from ready even they show you the roadmap. Last I checked, few projects abandoned like a unwanted child. Discord are full of people CAPLOCKing one another demanding refund, I was just sick of it, then I quitted. I left the communities, and unfollowed those twitter's accounts, blocked my reddit crypto-nft's feed, rejected those youtube suggested videos. Suddenly my world is back to the stillness and peaceful vibe, and I enjoy just sitting down and read books to Emma, my firstborn.

Looking back, I'm to be blamed, I am the one who've allowed myself into this greedy venture, and lies and void pursuit. I'm blessed that it doesn't took me much to get out safe but that is another story for another time. What I wish to record is, the idea of Crypto defi and nft all sounds great and promising, no doubt, all dreams start with good intention and great philosophy, but once it was tainted with even a slightest sin, it is fallible for sure. And TBH the idea of Defi sounds great but it is basically 'everyone to himself' policy, strong will eat up the weak; rich, the poor; informed, the ignorance. Perhaps the better word is anarchy.

Nft on another hand, serve as a powerhouse to push forward this defi-volution, in the name of art, selling the idea of value and worth and glorious purpose, to a generation mixed of opportunists, FOMO and survivor-biased-mentality, where can you get a better timeline to do that?

I've yet to give my two cents about what you can buy with you crypto coins.

Anyway here are some of the approach of nft we can have as an artist, my personal view only.

You can try nft art:

1) If you are famous artist

2) If you already have a bunch of arts that you can sell and you are looking for a marketplace online

3) If you are good at marketing, have a lot of followers on inst/youtube/fb/twit (same as no1 )

4) you suddenly have a super great OG idea that was granted to you

You probably, might as well do what you are doing:

1) If you are alone, are working alone

2) If you don't have time for commit high workload but low return

3) If you don't agree with the BS of the whole thing

well the discouraging thing is just discouraging, but the comforting truth is : anyone can start a nft project, based on a person who didn't manage to sell any art in the nft marketplace. So the normal process of selling art is:

make art > list art> make sale > collect money > get rich yay

But the NFT is abit different, it's:

Make art > list art > make sale > collect money > what?

Of course all works are equally hard and painful, especially when it doesn't pay out.

Another side of me do hope someone figure out the problem with crypto and fix it.

Don't remember last time I need to type out my points, I am an artist not an author.