Common myths
Everyone new to this arrives with a few assumptions, and most of them are fair. Here
are the ones we hear most, answered straight. If a word is new, the gold links explain
themselves.
"Isn't it just a JPEG I can right-click-save?"
You can save the file, the same way you can photograph a painting. The copy is not the
thing. What an NFT records is provenance: who made a work, when, and everyone who has held
it since. That record is public and cannot be faked, and it is what this archive keeps.
"Aren't NFTs dead, or a scam?"
Plenty of projects were hype, and some were an outright rug pull. That is real. It is also
not the whole story: underneath the noise, artists kept making serious work and collectors
kept keeping it. This site is a record of that quieter part, named artists, honest history,
and no prices.
"Is the art actually stored on the blockchain?"
Almost never. The token lives on-chain, but the image usually lives off-chain, on IPFS,
Arweave, or an artist's own server, and those go dark. That gap between the token and the
art is the entire reason this collection keeps its own checked copy of every file.
"Do I need a wallet, or to buy anything, to be here?"
No. You need nothing. There is no login, no wallet, and nothing for sale on these walls.
Just look, and follow an artist you like. That is the whole invitation.
"Isn't it all just AI and money?"
Some of it is AI art, made deliberately and well, and some of the market was only ever about
money. But most of what is here is a person, in a place, making something by hand or by code,
and one collector who wanted to keep it. That is the reason this site exists.
"Why would anyone pay for something anyone can see?"
For the reasons people have always collected: to support the maker, to own a moment, to keep
a record. You do not have to pay anything to look here. That was always the point.
Still curious?
Start at New here? for the plain-English basics, wander
the Index where every marketplace, chain, and idea has its own page,
or just go look at the art.