Last year, I wrote about crypto and NFT security, and now I want to help you choose between two of the top hardware wallet brands: Ledger and Trezor. Remember, the main job of a hardware wallet is to keep your seed phase (12-24 words) cold (offline). With software wallets (like Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust, Coinbase Wallet, … Read more
My brain completely broke when I discovered that people were buying pixelated jpegs for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Who in their right mind would spend that money on a digital image when they could just as easily right-click and save the image to their desktop? Curiosity got the better of me. I tumbled down … Read more
People outside of the NFT community often say that NFTs are used exclusively for money laundering or that they’re Ponzi schemes. Rather than addressing these, I’ll refer to the first eight posts in my “NFTs for Rookies” series, where I explain the potential for NFTs to be uncensorable, immutable, and interoperable digital property. That being … Read more
The vast majority of NFTs will likely have little or no monetary value, similar to most paintings, movies, and music—the best of the best gains attention and cultural prominence while everything else becomes irrelevant. However, even though most NFTs may not be valuable monetarily, they could still have value to anyone with a smartphone. In … Read more
In the crypto and NFT world, there are tons of bad actors, phishing sites, rug pulls, and other scams. This doesn’t mean there are no good actors in crypto or that the whole thing is a scam, just that when there’s money on the line, people will always look for ways to take advantage of … Read more
Many people ask me: which NFTs should I buy? Usually, I say to not buy anything because many come into NFTs looking to make a quick buck, but that’s not realistic in the current market. If you’re looking to invest in crypto, my advice is to buy bitcoin and ether weekly and hold them for … Read more
Today, we’ll learn how to buy an NFT on an open marketplace using a self-custody wallet. Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Tezos are the main smart contract blockchains that have active marketplaces for NFTs. And to buy NFTs on these blockchains, you’ll need some of the blockchain’s native currency to pay for the NFT and the … Read more
To kick off our NFTs for Rookies, we explored what NFTs are and why they’re valuable. Now, it’s time to learn where to buy NFTs. There are dozens of NFT marketplaces, but each can be categorized into one of two types. The first type is a centralized curation marketplace. These markets require no crypto knowledge … Read more
It’s highly unlikely that there’s a personality more suited to NFTs than mine. What’s my point? I wouldn’t have stopped reviewing tech products if I didn’t passionately care about the future of NFTs. But I haven’t done a great job of conveying why I’m so intrigued with them in my NFTs for Rookies guide. So … Read more
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique and tradable digital token that verifies ownership of an asset. Token ownership can represent assets like digital art, images, videos, music, gaming items, event tickets, and thousands of other items. The owner of an NFT has a proverbial ‘bill of sale’ that enables them to prove that they … Read more