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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the issue with this statement is that collectors are paying $1 regardless to the platform every time they mint. plus gas fees.  makes more sense for an artist to charge $1 at minimum to match what the platform makes, instead of the potential 44 cents they'd make from rewards.

I will take 1000 mints at .44 is better then 100 mints at $1 every time.