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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And I want to pass along to you part of a conversation that we had during a live salon the other day.

It's about NFTs, which have been making a lot of news lately, non-fungible tokens.

Now before I play this recording, I want to make it clear that I am not recommending that anyone begin investing their savings in digital art.

And that's what some of the NFTs are. Something like a digital baseball card. The main

difference between an NFT and a regular digital file, as far as I can tell,

is that NFTs are like baseball cards that have been signed by either the person on the card or the artist or musician who created it.

This is really very simplistic, but it's the metaphor that I use to first start getting my head around this concept.

And to be honest, I still don't fully understand why people are willing to pay thousands of dollars

for a signed copy of a digital file.

However, after our conversation in the salon the other night, and then after spending more time

looking into NFTs a little deeper,

I still don't intend to buy any of them, but, however, I do intend to begin creating them.

And that's why I'm podcasting this conversation. It's to suggest to some of our fellow

saunners that maybe this is a way for you to make a little bit of extra money for

your creations. So now, here is our conversation about NFTs. But tonight, I thought, you know,

I know that I said the topic is NFTs, non-fungible tokens. And, you know, that actually leads directly into what I think

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