I Tried to Understand NFT Art. It Wasn’t What I Expected. – CNET [CNET]
For three days I ran around a New York City NFT convention, toured physical NFT art galleries and spoke to the artists and entrepreneurs building this new realm of digital property — and of course, tried to understand what people even do with their NFTs. I learned NFTs are much more than collecting overpriced cartoons of bored apes using cryptocurrency — although there are plenty of people trying to get rich off various pixelated animal heads.
![Bridget Carey scanning a QR code to buy an NFT called Independence.](https://i0.wp.com/www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/16ed20dbb7c707ad503898c25e1475fca2689fd8/2022/08/17/62ee4d5d-8b76-41b5-8631-261ebe943c3c/nft-2.jpg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)
This new way of buying and selling digital property is — no question about it — absolutely wacky. A lot of it is also problematic. Yet to my surprise, while immersing myself, I found a side of it all that is almost hopeful and inspiring in its potential for the art world, and I learned what it will take for NFTs to be part of our everyday lives.
You can follow my quest to understand NFT art in the video embedded above.