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I& #39;ve just posted this NFT-revenue-splitting-to-support-opensource-projects feature proposal for @hicetnunc2000 and would very much love your support/upvote or at least thoughts/consideration:
https://hicetnunc.featureupvote.com/suggestions/182875/revenue-sharingsplitting-from-each-purchase">https://hicetnunc.featureupvote.com/suggestio...
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Isn& #39;t it ironic a 3D render, GIF, art piece made w/ open source tools not just quickly yields more income, status & higher incentive than putting in 1000s of hours working on the tooling/frameworks/community which allowed people to create & benefit from such works in 1st place?
As much as we celebrate digital art, its democratisation, diversity, free access etc. - where& #39;s the acknowledgment from the NFT crowd of the thousands of people who& #39;ve been working on these creative tools used to make the hot-selling works NFT platforms are being flooded with?
If a 30sec GIF made w/ Processing (or OF, or Blender, or....) can make $1000s within a few hours, where& #39;s the incentive for people passionately working on these tools, yet struggling to make similar amounts in a year? What& #39;s wrong with our value judgement here? Is it wrong? 
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Of course, we& #39;re now already seeing the NFT world organizing into new tribes & communities (which are real/valid) - but I& #39;m currently having high hopes for particularly the H+N crowd (as chosen home for much the generative art glitterati) to pay more attention to these matters...
...and to be a leading light for the other platforms. To clarify, I& #39;ve just started dipping my toes into this scene and as much as I can see a lot of benefits to artists/makers, I fear/sense the smell of short-lived gold rush blinding/misdirecting our long-term incentives...
Proof-of-Stake vs Proof-of-Work is just one aspect which NFT platforms can set themselves apart with, but there& #39;re many more to consider IFF (if-and-only-if) the real interest is in creating an artist-focused, rather than speculative economy...
Artist-focused also doesn& #39;t just mean NFT artists supporting each other by collecting each others pieces. If the platforms aren& #39;t curbing or at least addressing the underlying speculative nature, they WILL eventually succumb to pure speculation & all the other negatives it brings
TL;DR this isn& #39;t a hot take or subtweeting anything - just my personal view after 0.5 weeks of getting more into this exciting world and trying keep an open/critical mind...
