Co-founder of Nifty Gateway: If you play NFT only for money, you will not achieve long-term success

If the NFT mania makes you feel exhausted and overwhelmed, maybe this time you should listen to some more sensible opinions from the NFT circle and add some thought.

Duncan Cock Foster, co-founder of NFT trading platform Nifty Gateway, told Decrypt that he is tired of all profit-seeking behavior.

The NFT craze in February and March is "shaking up," Cock Foster said. Since then, interest has waned. So is Cock Foster's patience.

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He's tired of artists or musicians emailing and saying, "Hey guys, we need to call and talk right away. I need to launch my NFT within the next week before the NFT hype dies down!"

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He sees this as a red flag. "If that's your attitude, you probably won't have long-term success in the NFT space," he said.

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But, according to Cock Foster, this gritty approach is ultimately a good thing: He thinks it means the market will work toward more sustainable growth.

While artists and marketplace operators have been growing the industry into something of value over the past few years, many still believe that NFTs will be short-lived.

Nathan Beer, head of content-zce at SuperRare, said in a panel discussion that many critical views confuse NFT technology with NFT art.

Cock Foster said that today's NFT opponents also include those around 2018, when CryptoKitties were the focus of attention. These people were yelling at the time that NFTs would never take off.

“Some people are a bit like Peter Schiff,” he said. (Note: Peter Schiff is a long-time Bitcoin critic, a Bitcoin skeptic through and through) “He keeps making [the same Bitcoin criticism], and he keeps making more and more mistakes every year.”

Cock Foster believes that time will also prove NFT haters wrong.

But what about the environmental damage that critics lashed out at NFTs? Ethereum's proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain consumes a lot of energy to verify transactions, including those for NFTs.

Such concerns are widespread, Beer said. Regardless of the NFT, the Ethereum network is always running at maximum capacity. "So whether it's zero transactions or a million transactions, it will have the same impact," he said.

Griffin Cock Foster, brother and co-founder of Cock Foster, said ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake (PoS) will reduce its energy consumption. That's where he hopes to draw attention, "not to the artists who are minting NFTs."

Cock Foster believes that NFT's energy consumption is not immoral, and for blockchain believers, "electricity is worth it."

Beer said there are calls for the development of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that would allow members to buy small amounts of NFTs instead of whole tokens.

Others are eager to show off their NFTs and are chasing digital displays that support rich multimedia assets.

If operators manage to convince artists to keep making NFTs, and customers to keep buying them, NFTs can continue to ride the wave.

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