Student June Bronfenbrenner at an early Xerox machine photocopying a book, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1976.
Lately, you may be thinking, what exactly is an NFT?
I think I’ve figured it out after literally hours of reading. So let me share that knowledge with you. You might end up being a crypto millionaire after all.
Let’s start with the fundamentals:
NFT stands for Non- Fungible -Token. Still nothing? Well, I can’t blame you for that! “Non-fungible” signifies that it is one-of-a-kind and cannot be substituted with anything else. A bitcoin, for example, is fungible — swap one for another and you’ll get precisely an identical item, if Bitcoin confused you just think of dollar, basically, it’s a fungible item, you can trade it, swap it but you’ll still get the same item after all. On the other hand, a one-of-a-kind trade card is non-fungible. You’d get something altogether different if you swapped it for a different card.
Most NFTs are, part of the blockchain, especially the Ethereum blockchain, as most of them are minted there. Ethereum, like Bitcoin or Solana, is a cryptocurrency, but its blockchain also enables these NFTs, which hold additional information that allows them to function differently from, say, an ETH coin. It should be noted that other blockchains can implement their own forms of NFTs. Like Solana, which at the moment is number 2 in most minted NFT’s.
But what exactly is an NFT? An NFT can be literally anything, such as a collage of small photographs, a space kitten with a rainbow trail, a JPEG of various variations of apes, a music song, or even a virtual place in the metaverse. The possibilities for what an NFT can be are nearly limitless.
Now that you know more about NFTs, you must be wondering where you can buy those fancy items of digital art. In a marketplace, not the one on Facebook, you won’t find anything there. Just like there is a marketplace where physical art is traded, like paintings or jewelry, in the same way, there is a marketplace where you can buy an NFT. Opensea is the world’s first and largest NFT marketplace at the moment.
Why is the value of NFTs so high? Art can have countless copies, but only one original work. That is what makes the original painting valuable and irreplaceable. Let me give you another analogy. If you come into possession of the “Mona Lisa” but want to ensure that it is the original and not a copy, you will hire an expert to do his work and verify that the painting is, in fact, the original.If you want to make sure that the painting is the original and not a copy, you will hire an expert to do the work and verify that the painting is indeed the original. Well, with NFTs, that is not necessary because from the moment an NFT gets minted on the blockchain, the NFT will have a unique cryptographic id that will make it unique, and since the blockchain is a “shared ledger,” let’s say that everyone can have a look, that means that anyone and from anywhere can instantly verify the validity and uniqueness of the digital art.
How do you sell NFTs? Essentially, you’ll post your work to a marketplace and then follow the procedures to convert it into an NFT. You will be able to offer specifications such as a task description and a proposed cost. The majority of NFTs are acquired using Ethereum. However, they may also be purchased with other ERC-20 tokens, but that is something that we will discuss in another article.
How do you make an NFT? An NFT can be created by anyone, literally anyone. All you need is a digital wallet like Metamask or Trust wallet, a small amount of Ethereum, and access to an NFT marketplace where you can upload and convert your work into an NFT or crypto art. Isn’t it simple?
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Welcome back to personal finance with Kakuzu. In this essay, I will be explaining the complicated relationship between crime syndicates and the paper stock market with all us shinobi are used to. For this essay I'll also be....
You know, the entire US economic system is so messed up and so is a lot of your views of it (and I mean on both sides, I also include myself in this since I often don't realize until I *really* think about it) but like. Let's start by talking about taxes. There was a post going around lately that was like
Anyways this is not true. You can deduct INTEREST on mortgage from your taxes. Not mortgage itself. And for renters, in 23 states you can do the same. It's meant to be an offset for property taxes, which, in case you didn't know, are INSANE. Like my family pays more taxes on our house and property then on THE ENTIRE REST OF OUT TAXES, and we're in the top tax bracket. They don't tax you nearly enough on your ACTUAL INCOME but tax you way to much on your property and stock. It's basically based on, if you sold everything right now, what would we then be able to tax you. It's not measuring how much you make on a year to year basis, it's measuring how much you managed to save up over a long period in order to buy your big household a home that has enough space for everyone. It's definitely possible with housing/property taxes for them to cost so much that you can no longer afford your house and land, that you reasonably worked and saved up for. That's kind of unfair. Especially if you bought it when housing was cheap, and since the value on such things has gone up, so have your taxes. You weren't spending an insane amount of money on it. But now it's worth about 1.1 million and you've gotta move out or pay taxes on that. That's a thing that happens.
And meanwhile, a mega rich person who loves the city and therefore doesn't bother with a lot of land is taxed less than the moderately well off person in the previous example.
So the tax system is messed up, people need to pay more based on their actual income and less based on their homes.
Oh another thing with taxes is you know how charitable donations are tax deductible? Yeah only to a certain amount, meaning that there is no incentive for rich people to donate the proper amount given their income. Yes, I think they should give regardless of whether they're going to be rewarded for it, but people who hoard THAT MUCH money are selfish, and they're not going to. My family is not even that rich (dad worth something in the 10s of millions) but the amount we give (no big deal for us) is ALREADY well above the amount you can deduct from taxes. And we don't mind, but the super rich? Do you think they're going to go out of their way to support causes with anything more than petty cash and not be rewarded for it? They're not.
Ultimately, they shouldn't have such extravagant amounts of money in the first place, since they didn't work for it. My dad, which I mentioned previously, works 10+ hours a day, often including weekends. That's real work. His field is high paid and he in particular is high paid since he's the only one who can do what he does, and he gets extra for INVENTING most of the things his companies are based on, which he, you know SPENDS TIME STUDYING AND WORKING ON AND CREATING. He's not making tons of money just by owning something. That's wrong. All that excess cash should be going to the people who actually do the work.
And I think for the most part everyone acknowledges this, but y'all talking about killing the 1% doesn't realize how broad the 1% is. That includes doctors, lawyers, high level computer scientists, that WORK for their living, and are not exploiting you. Who you're looking to target is the owners, the people who hoard billions or trillions of dollars in wealth. Do you even know how much a trillion is? Let's say you take a rich person worth about 10 million. Ok how much more does someone worth a trillion make? They make 100,000 times more. What can you afford these days with 10 million? A nice house, decent cars for the household members that drive, some land, the ability to not worry about medical bills and to pay for college, plus a bit extra to save or give to charity. How nice. A lot of people don't have that privilege. What about 1 trillion? There is not a house in existence that will make a dent in your finances. You could send your children to any college they want for their whole lives and not make a dent in your finances. You could buy companies on a whim with almost no consequence. It's not right. It's especially not right when other people have trouble paying for both rent and groceries.
And this is why, even growing up rich, I'm such a communist. It is not a fever dream for us ALL to be able to live, comfortable, reasonable lives. The current wealth in the world redistributed, and suddenly everyone could live like I do. It isn't lessening the average person's quality of living. For the vast majority of us, communism done right is nothing but an upgrade. Yeah so a fistful of billionaires and trillionaires will be really upset. They'd still have enough to live comfortably and yet they're the ones who own so much they can effectively block any progress in this direction. It's pure selfishness.
Benedetto Garacci, from Adweek Portfolio (1988)
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