{"id":1029,"date":"2021-04-03T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/03\/nfts-are-helping-artists-solve-a-vital-problem-who-owns-digital-artwork\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T09:03:20","slug":"nfts-are-helping-artists-solve-a-vital-problem-who-owns-digital-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/03\/nfts-are-helping-artists-solve-a-vital-problem-who-owns-digital-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"NFTs are helping artists solve a vital problem: who owns digital artwork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital art can be easily and endlessly duplicated, but non-fungible tokens allow buyers to confirm ownership<\/p>\n<p>The artist Kevin Abosch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/culture\/craic\/potato-photo-sold-1-million-irish-photographer#:~:text=Irish-born%20Kevin%20Abosch%20has,most%20expensive%20photos%20ever%20sold.\">has sold a picture of a potato<\/a> for $1.5m, made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somamagazine.com\/kevin-abosch\/\">neon sculpture<\/a> inspired by cryptocurrency, and even sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/05\/arts\/design\/cryptocurrency-blockchain-art-kevin-abosch.html\">his own blood<\/a> on the blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>So in many ways, entering the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) was the next logical step for the 51-year-old Irish artist, whose work explores themes of digital currency and value.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/apr\/03\/non-fungible-tokens-digital-art-artists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1597cbf492af4dd72cfe5a57970f945f12ae0feb\/0_231_4707_2824\/master\/4707.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b66f9470485b385cff69a5edcbcd515\" title=\"NFTs are helping artists solve a vital problem: who owns digital artwork?\" \/>Digital art can be easily and endlessly duplicated, but non-fungible tokens allow buyers to confirm ownership<br \/>\nThe artist Kevin Abosch has sold a picture of a potato for $1.5m, made a neon sculpture inspired by cryptocurrency, and even sold his own blood on the blockchain.<br \/>\nSo in many ways, entering the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) was the next logical step for the 51-year-old Irish artist, whose work explores themes of digital currency and value. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital art can be easily and endlessly duplicated, but non-fungible tokens allow buyers to confirm ownership The artist Kevin Abosch has sold a picture of a potato for $1.5m, made a neon sculpture inspired by cryptocurrency, and even sold his own blood on the blockchain. So in many ways, entering the world of non-fungible tokens &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/03\/nfts-are-helping-artists-solve-a-vital-problem-who-owns-digital-artwork\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFTs are helping artists solve a vital problem: who owns digital artwork?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}