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Gumroad is a self-publishing digital marketplace platform to sell digital services such as books, memberships, courses and other digital services. It does a roaring trade selling digital comic books.
Brian “Box” Brown is an American cartoonist, recipient of the Xeric Grant, author of the graphic novel André the Giant: Life and Legend and Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman. Recently he has been working for Gumroad. I say, recently.
Brian “Box “Brown tweeted out “so the reason I’ve been ramping up my original art sales is bc my former regular freelance employer has let me know they’ll be…Embracing NFTs so…we had to part ways… it was Gumroad. they employed me for a while and let me do super fun stuff for a while so it was pretty disappointing.”
NFTs – or non-fungible tokens – have naturally received a lot of coverage on Bleeding Cool. Intended to be unique digital records of ownership of anything, including digital files, verified by blockchain technology, there are major concerns with the current NFT marketplace.To make an NFT, you have to “mint it”- register it on the blockchain, which takes energy and costs money, from $40 to $1000, depending. That registration can then be sold on. Creating and maintaining the ownership and registration of NFT artwork uses somewhere between weeks, months, years, and even decades of a First World user’s average citizen’s energy consumption, depending on the work. Ethereum, the digital currency mostly for NFT,…
