MY NFT JOURNEY, SO FAR …
Why are we talking about Non-Fungible Tokens? There’s 69 million reasons … I was giving a talk back in March, a week or so after the $69 million sale of an NFT at auction (note, it was not bought with dollars, but with 42,329.453 ETH, Ethererum, the world’s second biggest digital coin, by a “cryptocurrency billionaire”), and was asked about them in the question period. I admitted that it was all Greek to me at that stage, but the scale of the acquisition seemingly out of the blue made me wary that a fad had broken onto the scene. So I set about learning about NFTs. It’s been like a game of snakes and ladders; a possibility of something new and exciting, of climbing to new aesthetic heights, followed by a slide back down to earth.
Like most things that seemingly come from nowhere, there is a longer history that’s not well known. I
