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Stonks are What You Can Get Away With | Eric Jang

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Ten Apes.

Ten Apes. Andy Warhol once said, “Art is what you can get away with.” I interpret the quote as a nihilistic take on “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” — a urinal you found in the junkyard can be considered art, so long as you convince someone to buy it, or showcase it in a museum. All that matters is what other people see in it and what buyers are willing to pay. The 2020’s equivalent of Warhol paintings are Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) . In this essay I’ll explain what NFTs are by motivating them with some interesting real-world problems. Then I’ll discuss why the NFT craze for digital art

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