Excerpt from "Ethica...

Excerpt from "Ethical Engagement with NFTs – Impossibility or Viable Aspiration?" by Michelle Kasprzak

"It’s a major simplification to present the NFT scene as something which merely provides a platform for artists of all levels and would-be collectors without drawbacks. Each sales platform has backers with their own ethical orientations and creative aims. Each blockchain which supports the transactions also has technical considerations (including the amount of energy they consume [...]) and the ethos of the community which supports it. Just as it is easy to distinguish the ethical and technical differences in orientation between an open source software project run by activist hackers and a closed-source project funded by angel investors, so do these differences exist between blockchains and NFT platforms."