The market of people willing to free mint is so so much bigger than those who will pay $1 and that’s the new alpha to spread your art and ideas around.

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I’m still really conflicted about artists effectively valuing their work at zero even with the potential of protocol fees. Something feels wrong about it

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The internet already has done this to all art and media. The bull market mania gave false hope and that is never coming back. Zora gave us an internet native way to monetize our work. If you want to be an Internet artist you need to make best use of the medium.

I’m not opposed to offering free mints for the byproducts of a creative process but for the actual work itself? I’m all for exploring new ways for creators to monetise but I fear this creates a paradox where we reduce the value of artistic expression

Yeah that was in the back of our minds and we considered a free mint, but the idea of saying “I want your attention and the value of the work is secondary” doesn’t feel right.

Call me toxically optimistic but I believe the promise of web3 is to find new models to value art, not recreate the attention economy

It depends how you are thinking of value. Soulquest would have made more eth and had more than an order of magnitude of fans as a free mint.