Method idea: Old magazine DVDs = Serious NFT cash

[bartosimpsonio]

People are putting up random graphics and selling them like art for $200 and up+

e.g. some of these:

https://opensea.io/assets
If you got access to a NFT API all you gotta do is load up a billion images from old computer magazine CDs and sell NFTs.

I got like terabytes of DVDs from magazines with these videogame sprites that you could use with Macromedia Director or early Flash.

Old mags graphics are probably not online and their authors probably don't give a shit anymore.

If you got those old CDs laying around, then you can probably find tons of unindexed graphics that can be sold as NFTs. Also old videogame ROMs and graphics and stuff like that, probably copyright expired. Lesser known games had these style graphics and nobody remembers them. Don't use Super Mario of course.

Just an idea for a method using this new craze.

 

[ContentExpert]

This is a good Jr.VIP-thread candidate but on to the concept, this is certainly a potentially lucrative strategy and was considering this the other day as, despite popular opinion, the NFT craze is one I believe will grow over time and can be rather profitable if strategically leveraged using strategies like the ones above, good share.

 

[733899]

I dont get this. What makes this NFT special? As far as I know, everyone can download a copy of a NFT so why someone bother and pay in cash for that?

 

[bartosimpsonio]

This is a good Jr.VIP-thread candidate but on to the concept, this is certainly a potentially lucrative strategy and was considering this the other day as, despite popular opinion, the NFT craze is one I believe will grow over time and can be rather profitable if strategically leveraged using strategies like the ones above, good share.

This got me wondering tho who the art belongs to in the end?

I mean....you NFT the thing and then what if someone else does too?

This is gonna get messy IMO since blockchain transactions are irreversible, first person to claim a NFT basically takes the $ and runs.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

BTW they're selling domain names as NFT's too

https://opensea.io/assets/0x57f1887...034943773350786223100090453891064223160801112

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

I know Bart's blocking me lol but anyway..

..with so many people grabbing random images and tokenizing them as NFTs to try to sell for quick cash, the market's already flooded with random shit like this.

Not that you can't make money, but also have to be reasonable too - people collecting NFTs aren't buying (mainly) from any random motherfucker that slaps up 500,000 random pictures from magazines, they're trying to find collections where either:

a) the person creating the NFTs blow up and all of their future work is worth much more, or..
b) there is a limited collection of pieces (like punks) and the collection itself is what blows up.

Not saying this couldn't make money, but it's a complete misunderstanding of NFTs to naively look at the market and think that it's just a free for all where you just copy paste bullshit and reliably make loads of money.

Would be interested to know if anyone has actually made money from this method?

Far better is to create a collection that has meaning behind it of some sort.

 

[M4DM4X]

I know Bart's blocking me lol but anyway..

..with so many people grabbing random images and tokenizing them as NFTs to try to sell for quick cash, the market's already flooded with random shit like this.

Not that you can't make money, but also have to be reasonable too - people collecting NFTs aren't buying (mainly) from any random motherfucker that slaps up 500,000 random pictures from magazines, they're trying to find collections where either:

a) the person creating the NFTs blow up and all of their future work is worth much more, or..
b) there is a limited collection of pieces (like punks) and the collection itself is what blows up.

Not saying this couldn't make money, but it's a complete misunderstanding of NFTs to naively look at the market and think that it's just a free for all where you just copy paste bullshit and reliably make loads of money.

Would be interested to know if anyone has actually made money from this method?

Far better is to create a collection that has meaning behind it of some sort.

Let the guy dream a little bit he needs it these days

 

[t2van]

People are putting up random graphics and selling them like art for $200 and up+

e.g. some of these:

https://opensea.io/assets
If you got access to a NFT API all you gotta do is load up a billion images from old computer magazine CDs and sell NFTs.

I got like terabytes of DVDs from magazines with these videogame sprites that you could use with Macromedia Director or early Flash.

Old mags graphics are probably not online and their authors probably don't give a shit anymore.

If you got those old CDs laying around, then you can probably find tons of unindexed graphics that can be sold as NFTs. Also old videogame ROMs and graphics and stuff like that, probably copyright expired. Lesser known games had these style graphics and nobody remembers them. Don't use Super Mario of course.

Just an idea for a method using this new craze.

Can't work out what's more concerning the fact you still have a CD-ROM drive or have been hoarding free magazine cover disks for all this time..

At least it wasn't about a floppy disk ... yet

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Can't work out what's more concerning the fact you still have a CD-ROM drive or have been hoarding free magazine cover disks for all this time..

At least it wasn't about a floppy disk ... yet

Now that you mention it. I have zip drives with TONS of 90s shit on them.

 

[t2van]

Now that you mention it. I have zip drives with TONS of 90s shit on them.

Zip drives... do you remember the battle between ZIP & JAZZ drives to see which would become more popular I always like to think they started the drive to a USB stick..

I remember the joys of transferring 600-900mb + over an hour and then praying to the computer gods no files would be corrupt.

Out of interest if you are going as far back as ZIP.. What you got in magnetic tape? lol

 

[Panther28]

Will my inherited dad's magazines from under the mattress work with this method? There are some classic tash's!

 

[Rollfic]

The gas fees are big.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Zip drives... do you remember the battle between ZIP & JAZZ drives to see which would become more popular I always like to think they started the drive to a USB stick..

I remember the joys of transferring 600-900mb + over an hour and then praying to the computer gods no files would be corrupt.

Out of interest if you are going as far back as ZIP.. What you got in magnetic tape? lol

Oh yeah, jazz drives. Hadn't heard that name in ages.

My office had a jazz drive, just for backup. I personally never owned one. We only had one cartridge.

From jazz we went on to CDR. CD recorders and media became cheap and backups were a 5 minute thing.

BTW NFT prices have crashed as expected. The cat's out of the bag.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/silent-crash-as-price-floors-collapse-across-nft-space

 

[bartosimpsonio]

BTW

Non fungible art = NFART