{"id":919,"date":"2021-03-23T10:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/can-anyone-become-an-nft-collector-i-tried-it-to-find-out\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:54:31","slug":"can-anyone-become-an-nft-collector-i-tried-it-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/can-anyone-become-an-nft-collector-i-tried-it-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts \u2013 so I entered the world of NFTs myself<\/p>\n<p>For years, I\u2019ve kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; a pixelated rendering of a Tokyo streetscape; Jon Bon Jovi doing yoga. They\u2019re sentimental reminders of things I\u2019ve seen online, but I am under no illusion that I somehow own these images. They come from the internet and can be copied, shared and experienced by many people all at once. My collection really is worthless to anyone but me.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/26\/art-amulets-cryptokitties-new-frontier-cryptocurrency-non-fungible-tokens-nft\">Art, amulets and cryptokitties: the new frontier of cryptocurrencies<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/mar\/23\/can-anyone-become-nft-collector-non-fungible-token\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bdd09aabd28e35f2a8a96a24d1d8ffed778eccff\/0_0_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=211c217fa3261619a72acafd04327931\" title=\"Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out\" \/>This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts \u2013 so I entered the world of NFTs myself<br \/>\nFor years, I\u2019ve kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; a pixelated rendering of a Tokyo streetscape; Jon Bon Jovi doing yoga. They\u2019re sentimental reminders of things I\u2019ve seen online, but I am under no illusion that I somehow own these images. They come from the internet and can be copied, shared and experienced by many people all at once. My collection really is worthless to anyone but me.<br \/>\n Related: Art, amulets and cryptokitties: the new frontier of cryptocurrencies  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts \u2013 so I entered the world of NFTs myself For years, I\u2019ve kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/can-anyone-become-an-nft-collector-i-tried-it-to-find-out\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":920,"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\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}