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The price of gas makes it hard to sell 25% is typical. floating in a space station on the moon Titan music at scale, and it’s far less convenient to “The problem with the digital world is in a 30-second loop, deadmau5 teamed with listen to than Spotify. we’ve been trained for a decade that every- digital artist Mad Dog Jones on another “I’m not the biggest advocate for straight thing is just copyable,” says 3LAU, a long- NFT auction that showed the benefits of a music NFTs,” says Darlington. “It feels standing member of the crypto community. royalty on third-party sales. like we’re going back in time, like owning “There has always been a historical culture “With Mad Dog Jones, we did $420,000 MP3s and trading MP3s. I think it’s going of collection when it comes to art that just in 15 minutes,” says Dean Wilson, dead- to be more of an uphill battle to sell straight hasn’t manifested in a digital way.” mau5’s manager and founder/CEO of music.” A creator who wants to sell an NFT management firm Seven20. “Two weeks Right now, “the NFT business is a collect- first needs to “mint” one, which involves later, Mad Dog Jones does his own drop. He ibles business,” says Wilson. “What we’re uploading the media and setting the rules clears $4.2 million. In the same week, for seeing is a hype moment like when dot-com in a smart contract. It also requires paying our art that we did with him, we alone got businesses boomed and then busted.