想象一下，拍摄着名的人的肖像 - 让我们说乔治克鲁尼。您将代码嵌入到照片的元数据中，证明您是摄影师，照片是一种，然后您将数字文件销售给艺术收藏家，以100,000美元。与此同时，您在互联网上发布了一张高分辨率版本的图像，以便任何带有计算机的人都可以看到，使用，下载，甚至打印出您的完全相同的“一类”图像刚出售100K。

That’s the best analogy I can think of for the newest trend in speculative art collecting called cryptoart, which is what happens when you combine mostly rich white art collectors who care more about money than art with rich white tech bros who care more about money than art. It can get a little complicated—because it’s tied to cryptocurrency and blockchain—but here are the basics: technologists have figured out a way to make a digital image, which can be replicated ad infinitum, unique compared to any of its identical copies. They have invented something called a non-fungible token (NFT) that they can embed into that digital file to prove it’s the original from which all copies are made.

例如，任何人都可以下载和使用这只猫的GIF无论如何，他们想要的和他们想要的任何形式，而是有人最近以560,000美元的价格购买了NFT因此，他们可以在投机艺术市场上转售它。(It should be noted that, for our purposes here, we’re talking about the cryptoart that is created with the intention of opportunistic profit. Not all cryptoart is. There are artists who work strictly in the digital medium for whom cryptoart has provided the first legitimate way to authenticate and sell their work. There is also黑人艺术家和活动家的运动谁使用加密艺术创造和传播关于社会正义，种族主义和福法罗法的作品 - 以为更好的社会，并且经常为黑人生活而筹集金钱。这些艺术家不是本文的主题。）

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