Once upon a time, I came to Hive to create. Content. And to build. A community — not apps, platforms, or games. I've been clinging to those two verbs tooth and nail for years now. And somehow, it works. I didn't come here to trade, speculate, or pour money into various liquidity pools. From that perspective, Magi isn't as interesting to me as it is to many of you. But the new protocol has something that caught my eye after all. NFTs.
Sure, NFTs are a joke. A joke to make you broke. A few years ago, people were paying insane money for a few pixels that anyone could download for free. You could even print them out and stick them over your bed. So what if someone paid fifty thousand dollars for the one official original? Or even over a million? Ridiculous... And yet, a few days ago, I messaged :
"Hey dude! How goes it? Is there a sensible way to mint NFTs on Magi? and I have this passion project… We talked about it at the event in Alicante... Well, it occurred to me that we could try promoting it this way too."
Yes, Magi allows you to create an NFT series easily, without coding, and in no time at all. For 10 HBD, which is a fair price. So, in just a few minutes, the first series of characters from the comic was born.
Despite its name, the account will come alive in just a few hours. And the comic strips will be published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. It's a "Hive-powered" comic, and we want to share it beyond our favorite blockchain (and we believe the community will help us spread the word). Because, in a way, it’s an advertisement for a social network where even a passion project like this earns its creators a well-deserved reward. Sure, it’s just a few bucks per strip, but what other social network gives you that?
NFTs don't just have to be an investment bubble. They can be a way to support your favorite creators. For ten or twenty HBD, you can buy an NFT of your favorite characters from our silly comic. It’s more of a symbolic gesture of support, but still — what other social network can do what Hive does? And even more so now that we have Magi?
I’d be more than happy to see more NFT series like this pop up on Magi. To me, it’s not a protocol for investing or trading. It’s a tool that allows us to support our favorite creators in a slightly different way.
ŌKINOKO: NFTs for Dummies
You log in using Keychain. So far, so good.
Oh, I already have some NFTs there! Neat!
I’ve got my ten bucks ready. And here here we go:
Processing...
And… ta-da! Hey, I didn’t screw it up!
Let me scribble something down… A name? How about Bone Parade, huh?
Oops, I need somewhere to host the images. Okay, let’s look around a bit… Guess it’s ImgLink for now.
Ta-da! That was easier than I expected.
And now for the first NFT. Grim Reaper’s intro drops in a few hours, so let’s start with this one:
It’s for sale, by the way. I haven’t figured out where the marketplace is yet, but I guess that’ll come in time.
And that’s pretty much it. No-code NFT minting for anyone. Easy peasy. Big kudos to the Magi team!