An Artist Discovers the Environmental Dark Side of NFTs
Suddenly, everything is NFTs, NFTs, NFTs. It’s amazing how an emerging technology can break big, and seemingly overnight, be on everyone’s lips and in their media feeds.
Such is the case with NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. This is a new kind of file format used on a blockchain that is unique and identifiable, allowing digital files to be authenticated. This has been especially exciting to the art world, where digital artists can now “mint” their work as an NFT and sell it as a certified original.
This video is the story of one artist, Ten Hundred, who was thrilled to fall down the NFT rabbit hole. Until he started hearing and reading about the alarming potential environmental impact of NFTs.
Here, he tells his story and what he understands about the downsides of NFTs. For now, he has decided to skip selling his art as NFTs.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
