Making millions selling JPEGs - NFTs and what’s behind the Crypto Art hype with SuperRare Co-founder Jonathan Perkins

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defire is a podcast making crypto more fun, engaging and accessible for everyone. Jonas (@defiremoney) is interviewing the most exciting minds in the crypto-sphere and brings their stories to life. Subscribe for more infos, behind the scenes Sign-up to the Unforkable mailing list, where I share all the cool stuff I find during research at unforkable.cc Sponsor Cryptovalley.jobs is a job board where engineers, designers, analysts, traders, and community builders can find exciting crypto jobs. Visit cryptovalley.jobs and sign up to the email list to get informed when new jobs are posted on the platform. About Jonathan Perkins Jonathan Perkins (@superrareperks) is the co-founder of SuperRare, a social, digital art platform for crypto art and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Jonathan is a musician, programmer, entrepreneur, and digital art collector. In this episode we deep dive into the world of digital art or crypto art. What are NFTs and how can something widely available online still be valuable? How did the crypto art market seemingly blow up over night? Why should you care? We talk about the beginnings of SuperRare and how difficult it was to convince people to take digital art seriously. We deep dive into the NFT boom. From digital art to collectibles to things in between, like CryptoPunks. Finally, we also look behind the scenes trying to figure out who are the people buying all these tokens? Digital Artworks featured in the the show: Click to transmute by pak (also on the podcast cover art) Rainbow Sunset by trippyogi Rebirth of Venus by lilmiquela Find out more about SuperRare at SuperRare.co Beats by Yung Kartz