{"id":2865,"date":"2021-03-10T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2021-03-10T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:40:15","slug":"how-crypto-artists-are-cashing-in-on-nfts-while-courting-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2865","title":{"rendered":"How crypto artists are cashing in on NFTs while courting controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLast week, the artist Ben Mauro was dividing his pay cheques into three categories: rent, food, and art. Now, suddenly he is a multimillionaire.Mauro, who has created concept art for films including The Hobbit and video games such as Halo, is newly wealthy thanks to the phenomenon of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. These tokens are a type of cryptocurrency, similar to bitcoin, but each one is unique and cannot be replaced or replicated. They have grown popular among digital artists because they\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3124778\/how-crypto-artists-are-cashing-nfts-while-courting-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLast week, the artist Ben Mauro was dividing his pay cheques into three categories: rent, food, and art. Now, suddenly he is a multimillionaire.Mauro, who has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}