Some recently sold Lunduke Journal NFTs
These are like super nerdy baseball cards. And I'm loving it.
I tell ya. I’m getting more and more convinced of the value of NFTs all the time. Especially what talking about supporting artists.
Primarily because… it’s just so much fun.
I’ve been purchasing some lower priced items from a few of my favorite artists out there. For me, it’s quickly becoming like collecting Baseball cards was when I was a kid. Except I am directly supporting the artists I love in the process.
Really brings a smile to my face. Maybe I should share some of my personal collection so far to show people some of the art I’m enjoying. In the meantime…
Here are a few recently sold NFTs from The Lunduke Journal (each of these directly supports the work I do… so thank you to all who purchase them!):
I’m a big fan of Haiku. Somehow I knew the Haiku “Tux on Tour” NFT wouldn’t last long. :)
There’s still plenty of them left in that collection (with more being regularly added), covering everything from C64 to Windows XP (seriously). (Also some of the transactions from the Tux on Tour NFTs gets donated to open source projects. Because that’s just a good thing to do.)
This one actually has a few more available. I minted 10 of these… and put them up for sale for just a few bucks in ETH. Sort of as a way to make it easy to get started with buying NFTs. A nice, cheap way to see what the process of buying and trading NFTs is really like.
All of the other NFTs I’ve created only have one available so far. Which means the person who purchases them… is the only person who owns it. Until they decide to sell it to someone else.
I’ve standardized on trading on the Polygon Blockchain (which I talk about in this article on NFTs). The benefit there — among other things — is much lower fees for buying and selling. Makes working with NFTs just so much more accessible and fun.
Anyway, just wanted to share as this has has been such a fun (and weird) journey into the world of NFTs. I started out slightly skeptical of NFTs… and have now gotten to the point where I view them as sort of a fun, nerdy version of baseball cards… only better.
Honestly, it’s made me feel a bit like a kid again. Picking up packs of baseball cards. Sorting and organizing them. Showing them to my friends (and sometimes trading them).
I absolutely love it when technology triggers those bits of happy nostalgia. Somehow NFTs have done that… while building something entirely new. I’ve been able to toss in a few dollars here, a few dollars there, and rekindle some of that same child-hood joy.
It’s rather nifty.
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