Acknowledging that this volatile scene was not going to resolve in a month but that I couldn't have all my eggs in one basket, I grabbed the 2K stake money and asked around. Everyone talked about apes, lions, tigers, bears, turtles, frogs, birds, things made of clay. I glanced over the art; most of it was childish or ugly, computer-generated recursive mixes of traits versus nontraits. Take a 2-d animal, give it a hat, glasses, pipe, shirt, different background, and voila, you have an NFT. I didn't need to like the art; I needed the current marketplace to like the art.
In the discords, they wanted you to level up, so by speaking, you can do that; by inviting others, you can do that. Basically, you became the marketing division for the latest hyped NFT. I didn't have anyone to send invites to, so I didn't join groups where that was the only way to get perks. My interest in art and the stuff that was selling like hotcakes, were different. I needed to learn what was coming in the future.
For the first time, the Cardano NFT environment held a tradeshow (CNFT), a virtual one due to the pandemic, and tickets were limited to 2500 and were 150 apiece. I had already translated the currency in my head to read like dollars. $150 bucks for access to future developments and 26 FREE NFT's would be dropped to everyone who had a key. The young man had bought two, but they were selling out quickly. I grabbed one, and they were SOLD OUT within the next 5 minutes. No more tickets to OZ.
I felt giddy. I was a winner! I was going to OZ! I was getting 26 NFTs that I could flip right away that only 2500 people in the world had access to. As they were free, I could sell them for whatever the market would bear. I didn't have to dive into 26 random discords, and I hope my luck was good. These projects were already vetted. After selling all 26, I'd more than make up the price of the ticket, Definitely more than $150!! Jackpot. I was figuring this stuff out. The young man sold his second ticket for $900.
"Wow!" I said. Why would someone pay $900 for this ticket?" He told me the ticket was a "Lifetime Ticket." I had actually purchased an entry into every future tradeshow. Basically, a key to the Cardano Country Annual shindig! Every tradeshow would air-drop NFT's for free. I was going to have a steady supply of free flippable tokens!
"Kind of wished I'd bought two myself now."
He shrugged, "It's hard to tell if it was going to be worth it." At the end of the conference, I got 26 free NFT's. I went to list them, but the marketplace was glutted with them. The NFT's all matched; they weren't unique for each holder. They weren't part of the famous showcase projects. They were just advertisements for the con. Each one was worth 8ADA if that. I put them up on the marketplace anyway. Hopefully, since they are from the first crypto conference, they'd have value to a collector. Someone offered me 10 ADA for the pass that I spent 150 on and that the young man had sold for 900, and I passed on the sale. I didn't want to start making my losses real. Surely, it was worth more than $10.
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