I’m a maker who printed his own NFT. Here’s why it feels different than buying a figure off the shelf.
Been sitting on a couple NFTs for a while now, nothing crazy expensive, just picked them up when I was messing around with crypto a few years back. Saw that post about the Pudgy Penguin figure and it got me thinking about whether turning digital assets into physical objects actually adds value or if it's just something people do to show off on a shelf.
I run a small shop on Etsy and make stuff by hand, so the idea of physical versions of digital art isn't foreign to me. But the gap between someone mass producing a licensed figure and some random person printing a 3D version of their own NFT seems pretty wide in terms of what it actually means for the asset.
Like does owning a physical version of your NFT change how you feel about holding it long term? Does it make you less likely to sell? I genuinely don't know the answer and I think about it more than I should for a guy who spends most of his day behind a stove.
The physical collectible market and NFTs crossing over feels like it either works really well or completely misses the point depending on who's doing it. Just my 2 cents.
