It is becoming clearer as horizon breaks, people on earth cannot get along.
They cannot remain in the same room, at times.
--While we had decades of centralization and that seemed to serve some people better than others, today it is different. There is an inch some cannot allow.
For example, one group of people is willing to give up their freedoms of creativity in order to suppress and oppress another group. They relish the oppression and embrace it like it is a fragrance by Chanel, most wanted, A-list, they'll name their kids after it. The other group wants freedoms, true freedoms and they can tell when they're being sold snake oil or fools gold alternatives to real milk; real truth; real good.
This first group, I will call "The status quo".
It is in this group that all whitelisting companies fall into if they :
- Limit creativity arbitrarily
- Set heavy rules and requirements upon creators
- Regard artistic compensation (commissions) as an obstacle to their accumulation of wealth and power.
Wax blockchain markets are currently ruled by NeftyBlocks and AtomicHub. Ethereum is ruled by OpenSea.
As they grow, their centralized power reveals their "more naughty than nice" corporate identity.
Not only are the principles of decentralization violated via Know Your Customer policies being forced on artists : they want video interviews, your ID card, who knows, maybe next your tax returns? Oh, wait, they're already doing that part. Next will be your thought process!
And yes, you may say this is the long arm of the government tax laws and limiting liability...reaching down into the deep and messy NFT pools of creators and companies. But it's more than that.
Consider, how when we applied to get whitelisted for a new collection, we found our artistic integrity called into question -- regarding "what" materials were used to create said artworks. By the sheer fact of having opinions all their own, the gatekeepers of this particular blockchain marketplace were silencing, stemming and curtailing freedom.
Before long, this will be their response to whitelisting requests: "Did you make this using AI? If so, we don't believe in AI and cannot support you here."
-- Hold on, we're already here in late 2022!
Markets are refusing to give creators their right to be seen and to share their works publicly. The world is not friendly to freedom anymore. The status quo group hates freedoms but they'll say its for your own good or to cover liabilities. But test their argument for 5 minutes and you'll find they're selling you a knock off freedom. Fools gold. Snake oil freedom.
- And with that, we firmly set our sights on truly decentralized markets opening, including all the software needed to make this a reality.
- Peer to Peer markets will eliminate the need for ALL centralized market gatekeeping on the blockchain.
- Only Peer to Peer (P2P) markets and software will truly remove the self important self designated role of the arbitrary artistic regulator.
- The creation of "playlists" (addresses on wax, eth, sol compiled into "liked" groups people can create and manage on chain P2P), would curtail and negate the existence of these marketplaces altogether. Their role would be relegated to inconsequential, if you have been "whitelisted" by them according to their prejudices or not.
- Most collections of NFTs are creative, meaning they do not have financial aims and most do not achieve any kind of financial gains above $500 a year. There is no reason to stifle bloggers who make less than $500 a year, so why do it to NFT creators?
NFTs cannot be allowed to exist, according to the status quo... They've already grumbled and griped about them in a dark ages-superstitious way (eg, Green Energy NFTs? Bitcoin energy usage?).
If PDF's were invented yesterday, the status quo would be all for banning them. This is how it is with NFTs today. This is also how it is with Artificially Generated Art.
To the trendsetters, the little guys, the innovative pioneers of our new tools and new decade, I say, damn them. Damn them and onward!