What is NFT Art? 

NFT, (Non-fungible token), art refers to digital assets stored on a blockchain that represent content or even physical items. Art mediums that NFTs can represent include digital drawings, paintings, music, animation, film, poetry, or books.

Opinion is very divided on NFTs, and it is an extremely volatile market, currently in a downswing. Like many aspects of the art world, it can seem like a moral ghetto patrolled by heartless scammers preying on both artists and collectors. 

However, I personally think NFTs also have great promise. This market has the ability to democratize art collecting, giving anyone with an internet connection and an extra few hundred dollars the opportunity to begin. It supports non-commercial, independent digital art and a community around that new art form. Currently those communities are mostly on Discord and Twitter, (X). 

For concerns about energy use, for me this is no longer an issue with ETH, (Ethereum). According to the Ethereum Foundation, the new Ethereum Proof-of-Stake system initiated in 2023 consumes 99.95% less energy than the old Proof-of-Work system, (which used to require thousands of random number-crunching computers to work, like bitcoin currently still does).

If you’re interested in buying NFT art, you’ll need to start with a digital wallet to purchase cryptocurrency from blockchain platforms like Ethereum, which I recommend. You can start with Gemini, one of the largest and oldest crypto brokers, then a Metamask wallet to access the OpenSea marketplace, linked to here.