$300M Crypto Long Liquidations — 5 Things To Know In Bitcoin This Week

Wow… much to think about!

When a popular Neo-Nazi webcomic made this pro-Bitcoin comic in December 2017, Bitcoin was at $19,650. It crashed almost immediately after this comic came out, leading me to make this image on the one-year anniversary of this comic

Bitcoin then became mega-popular, and I got a lot of Bitcoiners sending me smug asks. 

Today, Bitcoin fell below $19,650 again, having lost 70% of its value since November, so I get to make an updated graphic

If seeing that bubble comic made you buy bitcoin and you HODLed for five years, you’ve lost money.

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What’s an NFT?

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?

Disclaimer: All information in this blog post is provided only for informational reasons. My views are entirely my own. I make no guarantees about the information’s correctness, completeness, applicability, or validity. I shall not be held accountable for any mistakes, omissions, losses, or damages resulting from its presentation or usage. All information is supplied “as is,” with no guarantees and no rights conferred. I am not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice.

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Mel Lindstrom, from American Photography Showcase 12 (1989)

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