Celebrate Art this December

The first thing you will have to do is set up a crypto wallet. I want everyone to be safe in this world so I would strongly advise you to get a hard wallet first before setting up your Metamask or other soft wallet that you will use on the platforms. I use Ledger X which you have to verify with both wallets for the transactions to go through. For soft wallets I use Metamask for Ethereum/Polygon, Kukai for Tezos and Phantom wallet for Solana blockchains. A hard wallet is something you will have to purchase. I use Ledger Nano X which costs $149. There are other ones out there that you can use but this one is preferred. There is a Ledger S but it does not have all the crypto currencies available. Then you can set up the Metamask through that. I have friends that did not do this and are now trying to hook up their current Metamasks to it and having a hard time. Think of a hard wallet as your bank and the Metamask as your wallet you carry on you. DO NOT buy from a 3rd party store like Best Buy. Buy directly from Ledger because if someone opened that box and got the seed phases out they will steal your currency. NEVER give your seed phases to anyone including your mother! LOL! Here is a link to the ledger store. https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-x The best videos to learn about crypto and wallets is Crypto Dad on Youtube. Here is a link to Crypto Dad. Type anything you want to know about crypto in the search and it will come up, such as how to set up a Ledger wallet. https://www.youtube.com/c/CryptoDad Try to have the highest quality images you can. Opensea and Known Origin allow 100MB, Foundation is 50MB. I usually stay around 25 to 50MB. The cost of putting NFTs up on the blockchain depends on if you are paying gas fees and how many (Foundation you pay a gas fee to mint, a gas fee to list and a gas fee to do an auction). The price of gas and crypto fluctuates like the stock market (ie. last month I had a piece that sold for .1 ETH which was $100 and now .1 ETH is $170). It is fairly easy to list an NFT, marketing is the hard part, as it is with anything you sell. You need to join communities where you can post your work and be a part of twitter groups. There are also Facebook groups. My live Twitter space called Christian NFT Lounge meets on Mondays at 10am EST and Wednesdays at 2pm EST. We talk about everything from Jesus, NFTs and even our kids. We get to know each other on a personal level. We also have a Twitter DM prayer and praise group and a support DM group to retweet each other's posts. Sometimes we have 2 people in the space and other times we have 50. Some who come into the space are not Christians, but all are loved by God. It is truly a ministry. We also have a Metaverse Galleries on Spatial and we have praise and prayer meetings on Thursdays at 4pm EST. Just take one step at a time. It is not as hard as it looks to set it up. It took months before I listed my first piece. I have people in my twitter spaces that have been there for a while and have not minted yet. I am here for any questions you may have. I am also able to meet you in my virtual gallery where it is easy to chat live. I am excited to have you with us on this new journey of being a light across the world. Blessings! Bonnie Terminology Gas - NFT gas is the fee you pay to execute any transactions on the blockchain. These fees are used to pay the people who operate the computers that execute the transactions. Gas fees are determined by the current demand on a blockchain, at the time of a transaction. Gas fees are usually less on Sunday mornings. Gas is very low right now. When I first started it was in the 100's. Here is a gas tracker website. Gas tracker https://ethereumprice.org/gas/ https://www.useweb3.xyz/gas?source=ethgas.watch&referrer=ethgas.watch Blockchain - Blockchain technology is a decentralized, distributed ledger that stores the record of ownership of digital assets. Any data stored on blockchain is unable to be modified, making the technology a legitimate disruptor for industries like payments, cybersecurity and NFTs. Top crypto currency coins used for NFTs - Ethereum, Polygon, Wrapped Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Tezos Minting - Minting an NFT means converting digital data into crypto collections or digital assets recorded on the blockchain. The digital products or files will be stored in a distributed ledger or decentralized database and cannot be edited, modified, or deleted. Shilling - NFT shilling is when someone promotes an NFT and encourages others to invest in a specific NFT. Essentially, it is crypto goods marketing. When people on social media say, “shill your NFT”, it means to show or drop a link to your non-fungible token so it can be viewed and potentially purchased. NFT Platform Information Ethereum (ETH) platforms use Metamask Wallet Opeansea is the most popular it will cost you a 1 time gas fee. Then after that it is free to list because it is not actually minted until it is purchased. Opeansea also has Polygon which uses wrapped ETH and it is free to mint and purchase. Many people (myself included) are complaining about Opensea because there have been issues with error codes and people not being able to purchase. I have lost 3 sales because of them. They are by far the biggest NFT blockchain and I think are having a hard time keeping up. https://opensea.io/ Another good ETH platforms is Foundation . https://foundation.app/ Super Rare, Niftygateway and Known Origin are great but you have to apply to get on these platforms. Solana (SOL) platforms use Phantom wallet It is a few dollars to list with Solana. The best platform for that is https://exchange.art/ . Tezos (TEZ) platform use Kukai wallet. It is less than a dollar to list and the best NFT platform for that is https://objkt.com/ I have a friend that loves Cardono (ADA) blockchain but I don't know anything about it. Voice takes crypto but also takes credit cards so some love that platform. https://www.voice.com/ Check out all the different Crypto coins! Pray and do what is best for you and your audience.