{"id":4545,"date":"2022-01-29T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/huge-mess-of-theft-and-fraud-artists-sound-alarm-as-nft-crime-proliferates\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T08:37:15","slug":"huge-mess-of-theft-and-fraud-artists-sound-alarm-as-nft-crime-proliferates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/huge-mess-of-theft-and-fraud-artists-sound-alarm-as-nft-crime-proliferates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Huge mess of theft and fraud:\u2019 artists sound alarm as NFT crime proliferates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The digital marketplace for NFTs grew to an estimated $22bn last year but companies face challenges monitoring stolen art<\/p>\n<p>When Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up by her.<\/p>\n<p>Van Baarle is a popular digital artist, with millions of followers on social media. She\u2019s one of a growing number of artists who have had online images of their art stolen, minted as unique digital assets on a blockchain, and offered up to trade in cryptocurrency on the NFT platform OpenSea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/jan\/29\/huge-mess-of-theft-artists-sound-alarm-theft-nfts-proliferates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4d964f6c557ceacbf8ec761335cd4115dc414b1\/0_416_6240_3744\/master\/6240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=da4c576a9719a0e39236f295df1f2350\" title=\"\u2018Huge mess of theft and fraud:\u2019 artists sound alarm as NFT crime proliferates\" \/>The digital marketplace for NFTs grew to an estimated $22bn last year but companies face challenges monitoring stolen art<br \/>\nWhen Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up by her.<br \/>\nVan Baarle is a popular digital artist, with millions of followers on social media. She\u2019s one of a growing number of artists who have had online images of their art stolen, minted as unique digital assets on a blockchain, and offered up to trade in cryptocurrency on the NFT platform OpenSea. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital marketplace for NFTs grew to an estimated $22bn last year but companies face challenges monitoring stolen art When Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/huge-mess-of-theft-and-fraud-artists-sound-alarm-as-nft-crime-proliferates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Huge mess of theft and fraud:\u2019 artists sound alarm as NFT crime proliferates<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4546,"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\/4545"}],"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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}