Quote from: nutildah on Today at 06:08:33 AM

Well I mean, at least you're not doing the whole "fake bids" thing.

Can I make a suggestion? You should make just 1 NFT edition of each print. You've made 999 and are selling them for $5k a pop... Kind of takes away from the specialness of something when there are 998 copies of it out there for sale.

It would also be a good idea to make some sort of descriptive back story for the piece: how did it come about? who made it? what's the artist all about? what does this piece mean?

Just my 2 cents.

There is description in press release and on Opensea. It summarizes intent of images without over explaining. The observer is then free to interpret the art while supported by meta thematics.

I have at a few times deconstructed imagery entirely to audiences and they enjoy it but it doesn't impact anything beyond that specific interaction. It is not like they are suddenly amazed on a profound level simply because of deconstructionism because they already were in a process of forming advanced personal interpretations.

One of them were alot more relevant than my original intent so the benefit of over explaining is limited.

But I agree, if a professional curator compiles complete information in presentation it is on another level and will certainly benefit sales. It is not within my area of skills to make anything more advanced than what is already presented and I don't have access to anyone with those skills.

999 edition may or may not be too much. Nifty mints often move into hundreds but on the other hand Cryptopunks are 10k NFTs but everyone unique. 999 is the maximum but practical distribution at $5000 will grow very slowly, perhaps 1 to a dozen per year.

If 1 buyer picks an entire x999 lot of a series it might aswell be considered a single at $4 995 000. There are liquidity benefits in that instance for collateralization reasons. Metapurse for example fractionalized 5000 everydays by second layer NFT fund which is open to public participation.

My point is that 999 units when NFTs is not necessarily too much it depends how or if it is redistributed outside institutional circles, and who is the owner.

For example, 999 units when 567 are in retail hands, certainly dilutes value compared to 99 units, so it is worthy of consideration but not right now because the Museum retains 99.85% of ERC-20 supply.

So all these NFTs 20x999 plus x999 book versions plus 28 000 units in unpublished sources (about 80 artworks), can be considered as singles until retail distribution takes place. Even so, at $5000 unit price, it will never fall into reckless hands.

It is very easy to fake bids on Opensea using smartphone and sim for $40. I dont think there is even $150 mint fee when distributing by bids/transfers, only 2.5% sales fee plus royalty fee.

I could sustain rank 200 or more on 10 eth weekly volume and by all forms of marketing/visibility methods it is probably the best for short term exposure but logistics of keeping up account appearance is not worth faking it.

All transaction history is permanently recorded on blockchain.

Main marketing methods so far were:

fiverr traffic, doesnt convert

Ad networks such as ojooo, coinpayou neobux adbtc etc, even worse than fiverr gigs unless fiverr is pure bots which is possible

I offered revshare with Coincodex in exchange for 30 day multi channel blast but they want $800 for 200k impressions which is a few hundred clicks. But there is no way for me to audit those clicks and regardless this level of expense really eats into margins, even when $5k piece.

Google ads did not convert and they also suspended account same with MS, linkedin.

Waves mass transfer airdrop does convert but very small money.

This project can only be monetized by insider whales like Metapurse, Nifty, Christies, Binance and top 20 exchanges.

So this will probably not happen because they are aware and yet do not move in on it.

I thought crypto would be easier than selling with gallery or websitr, but it seems it is all controlled by same interests at the economic elite.

I already sold waves supply cheap 2 years ago so this ERC supply is going into the grave with me. I rather burn it on my deathbed than give it away for others to profit.