PROBLEM:

Creating NFTs can be costly for struggling artists. Even though the cost of minting an NFT on proofofbrain.io is only 6 POB the whitelist fee is 1000 POB. For some this may be a barrier to producing NFTs.

SOLUTION:

A community fund to support struggling artists Hive account@pobscholarship.
This fund was established by Hive account@mineopoly with the sole purpose of helping artists pay the 1000 POB whitelist fee on proof of brain NFTs. The initial proposal for this project was on December 29th, 2021.

GOAL:

The goal of Hive account@pobscholarship is to support the full whitelist fee at proof of brain NFTs to at least one artist each year. Any time that Hive account@pobscholarship's liquid POB reaches 1000 POB a new candidate will be sought out to receive a scholarship.

APPLY:

This scholarship is for exceptional artists who are active in the POB or VYB communities. They are artists who have been creating art that has benefited the community. The art can be in the form of music, audio, video or other visual art that can be minted in an NFT form. Preference will be given to artists who can create in demand collectible art like pob punks, card games, books, puzzles, series, etc...

How to apply

Simply write a scholarship application post including recent works as well as plans for future works. Include the tag #pobscholarship in the post. Link the post to the comments in a recent Hive account@pobscholarship post so I can see it.

If there are funds and you are an exceptional artist contributing to the community then you have a high chance of getting a scholarship. If there is any doubt about who should get the scholarship then I will put it to a community vote.

How to support Hive account@pobscholarship :

1. Send liquid POB to Hive account@pobscholarship. 100% of this liquid POB will be gauranteed to go directly toward sponsoring an applicant's scholarship for whitelisting. If there is too much in this fund and not enough artists applying then I will have to recruit artists or return your gift.

2. Support posts from Hive account@pobscholarship for visibility and to earn rewards for scholarship. Rewards from posts can be converted to POB to help pay the whitelisting fee for another artist.

3. Set Hive account@pobscholarship as a benefactor for a post. The rewards can be converted to POB when the 1000 POB level is close.

4. Be creative. The basic rule is that Hive account@pobscholarship is here to help artists pay the whitelisting fee for POB NFTs.

Here is Hive account@mineopoly's support.

^{Posts from Hive account@pobscholarship will include information about POB NFTs, updates on artists and also contributors. If you do not wish to be mentioned in Hive account@pobscholarship posts please let me know.}

I sincerely request some of our larger POB holders to consider this. Please excuse me for mentioning your names, but I really want to put this new NFT thing to good use Hive account@onealfa.pob Hive account@proofofbrainio Hive account@vyb.pob Hive account@richardcrill Hive account@leprechaun Hive account@trostparadox Hive account@scholaris.pob Hive account@edicted Hive account@vempromundo.pob Hive account@interpretation Hive account@jeffjagoe... We don't need a lot to start. Consider the case of Hive account@jaxsonmurph who has created an entire POB punk series on WAX. Imagine what he can do on POB NFT^^