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Bitcoin would be the best for commissions
5 years ago
I really hope I'm not offending anyone I may be referring to in this journal. I'm just stating a concept I have in mind for how to pay for art that I think should happen more often.
Keep in mind I'm not an expert so I'm going off of what I know and trying to infer/fill in the blanks for what I don't.
I notice a lot of artists on FA for example don't use bitcoin for commissions and use Paypal exclusively.
It'd be a lot better if more artists either used bitcoin exclusively or together with Paypal or whatever else.
See, the thing about bitcoin is, it's pretty flexible to use compared to normal money online. I mean normal money through like Paypal is just represented through data. That's not the actual money that's just the data for the money. Bitcoin is both the data AND the money. I mean it's cryptocurrency run by a blockchain that's all electronic and shit. Regular money is just bills and coins that can be represented with paychecks and numbers and all that but is they're not one and the same.
Bitcoin is one and the same when it comes to its presentation through data as well as being the data itself.
Now why is this important well regular money is really tedious to work with since it's separate from its physical nature and data representation. Like with Paypal to work with normal money you to hook it up to a credit card which is hooked up to a bank which holds at least some of the physical money on hand. It gets complicated with all the connections you have from the bank to whatever to you as well as transferring/transporting the money.
With bitcoin you don't have all that convoluted crap. You just have wallets, the bitcoin, the people with the wallets paying each other, and the blockchain servers. You don't have to have a bank, credit card, checks whatever because the data is the money and the data is easily transferred around electronically.
Okay now maybe this is a bit long winded but I'm trying to explain it as best I can.
How is it easier to pay artists in bitcoin than regular cash? Well for one bitcoin can be earned in it's complete data/actual form online. Like there's this cool site called cointiply where you can earn bitcoin: https://cointiply.com/home?intent=faucet
You do surveys, faucets, click ads and other ways to earn actual bitcoin. The surveys are the best way to get bitcoin efficiently. This is how I earned most of my bitcoin was from this site.
I wouldn't be able to do all this with normal money with all the banking, credit card, bureaucratic whatever connections you need to work with normal money.
I mean can you just earn actual physical dollars that you can put in an electric/computer wallet you readily spend online? You know the actual money not just flim flam data representing it. Well the answer is no, you can't but with bitcoin you can. The data IS the money after all which makes it so easy to move.
Now did I buy commmissions with bitcoin? Yes I have! I even helped the artists I bought them from set up bitcoin to get paid in. I linked them to bitcoin wallets, I paid them, they did the commissions and it was done. Without bitcoin I couldn't do all that at all.
So I see a lot of artists that still use Paypal only and I feel sad because if I wanted a commission from them I wouldn't be able to pay them. I mean Paypal has all these hurtles for me to use that I can't overcome. Bitcoin doesn't.
I feel these artists could have more customers if they accepted bitcoin too. I mean lots of people are getting on board with bitcoin and not with Paypal. Yeah there are still a lot of Paypal users but with all the bitcoin user involved it would be worthwhile to accept their money too.
If you can't pay with Paypal but you can with bitcoin then that would be awesome to accept!
Paypal is just a mess with all the connections and permission you need to operate it. So if people just can't use it then they're pushed out of the art market from those that only accept that.
So basically as many people as possible should be using bitcoin to a degree. It would really help pay for art as well as other things and even create more freedom from the state due to its decentralized non-elitist nature.
Keep in mind I'm not an expert so I'm going off of what I know and trying to infer/fill in the blanks for what I don't.
I notice a lot of artists on FA for example don't use bitcoin for commissions and use Paypal exclusively.
It'd be a lot better if more artists either used bitcoin exclusively or together with Paypal or whatever else.
See, the thing about bitcoin is, it's pretty flexible to use compared to normal money online. I mean normal money through like Paypal is just represented through data. That's not the actual money that's just the data for the money. Bitcoin is both the data AND the money. I mean it's cryptocurrency run by a blockchain that's all electronic and shit. Regular money is just bills and coins that can be represented with paychecks and numbers and all that but is they're not one and the same.
Bitcoin is one and the same when it comes to its presentation through data as well as being the data itself.
Now why is this important well regular money is really tedious to work with since it's separate from its physical nature and data representation. Like with Paypal to work with normal money you to hook it up to a credit card which is hooked up to a bank which holds at least some of the physical money on hand. It gets complicated with all the connections you have from the bank to whatever to you as well as transferring/transporting the money.
With bitcoin you don't have all that convoluted crap. You just have wallets, the bitcoin, the people with the wallets paying each other, and the blockchain servers. You don't have to have a bank, credit card, checks whatever because the data is the money and the data is easily transferred around electronically.
Okay now maybe this is a bit long winded but I'm trying to explain it as best I can.
How is it easier to pay artists in bitcoin than regular cash? Well for one bitcoin can be earned in it's complete data/actual form online. Like there's this cool site called cointiply where you can earn bitcoin: https://cointiply.com/home?intent=faucet
You do surveys, faucets, click ads and other ways to earn actual bitcoin. The surveys are the best way to get bitcoin efficiently. This is how I earned most of my bitcoin was from this site.
I wouldn't be able to do all this with normal money with all the banking, credit card, bureaucratic whatever connections you need to work with normal money.
I mean can you just earn actual physical dollars that you can put in an electric/computer wallet you readily spend online? You know the actual money not just flim flam data representing it. Well the answer is no, you can't but with bitcoin you can. The data IS the money after all which makes it so easy to move.
Now did I buy commmissions with bitcoin? Yes I have! I even helped the artists I bought them from set up bitcoin to get paid in. I linked them to bitcoin wallets, I paid them, they did the commissions and it was done. Without bitcoin I couldn't do all that at all.
So I see a lot of artists that still use Paypal only and I feel sad because if I wanted a commission from them I wouldn't be able to pay them. I mean Paypal has all these hurtles for me to use that I can't overcome. Bitcoin doesn't.
I feel these artists could have more customers if they accepted bitcoin too. I mean lots of people are getting on board with bitcoin and not with Paypal. Yeah there are still a lot of Paypal users but with all the bitcoin user involved it would be worthwhile to accept their money too.
If you can't pay with Paypal but you can with bitcoin then that would be awesome to accept!
Paypal is just a mess with all the connections and permission you need to operate it. So if people just can't use it then they're pushed out of the art market from those that only accept that.
So basically as many people as possible should be using bitcoin to a degree. It would really help pay for art as well as other things and even create more freedom from the state due to its decentralized non-elitist nature.
