Digital art selling for tens of millions!? Welcome to the world of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. They have taken the art world by storm in the past few weeks and many of us don't quite understand them or how they work. Ashe & Lyndsey educate each other on what they are, what this means for digital artists, and how there are some serious repercussions.
The artsy fruzzins wheeze, laugh, and snort their way through trying to comprehend this collision of the art world and the digital currency world. And well... you'll see. They try.
Recorded on March 14, 2021.
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