Two or three things we haven’t talked about NFT and trust, told by Alice and a wise 🐇.

I have been hanging out in the alleys of digital art for over 20 years and finally a market seems to be rising where skepticism reigned. Maybe it’s thanks to NFT & C, but there’s something which still needs to be understood on how we are using our most precious resource: trust.

“DREAMING OF ELECTRIC UNICORNS”, pixels on the screen (2021).

The very nature of digital objects — duplicable and ubiquitous like no physical objects can be— has always left the world of art skeptical: who would ever invest their money in a work of art without scarcity?

With NFTs, the puzzle seems to have found a solution. Will it last? Probably yes, as long as galleries, artists and buyers will understand the foundations of this technology. In this moment of collective euphoria, with NFT and blockchain mixed like mint and water in a popsicle, it’s important not to get confused: an NFT can exist even without a decentralized ledger. Strange, but true. Obviously this requires trusting some form of authority (for example a trusted time stamp…