It has been widely discussed that art is used as a façade for everything from money laundering to concealing cp. The article I just read raised a lot of red flags for me. First off, the winning bid for this piece of, in my opinion, non-aesthetic digital creation is disgustingly high. We already know that the "art" pieces of suspected pedos are not reflective of beauty, but instead exhibit chaos and morbid ugliness that any normal person who lays eyes upon the pieces would experience revulsion. Example: Tony Podesta's art collection. https://pizzapartyshutdown.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/tony-podesta-and-his-taste-in-artwork/ https://archive.ph/Ao3Sc It's also been tossed about how digital currencies are the preferred method of payment for cp because it's difficult to track and easy to move on the dark net. Now, I don't know much about nonfungible tokens, so it seems as though this is getting popular among the wealthy who like to spend ungodly amounts of money on things that truly serve no purpose given we're living in CoVID times when us little people are getting strangled with rising costs of food, fuel, and utilities everyone needs to live. It's also been discussed how cp images can be hidden in digital formats. "Steganography: how al-Qaeda hid secret documents in a porn video" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/steganography-how-al-qaeda-hid-secret-documents-in-a-porn-video/ https://archive.ph/wip/KIJTz Here's a bit from the article about this piece that sold for an outrageous amount: > Christie's auction house sold its first purely digital artwork Thursday for a record $69 million, the highest price paid for an NFT, or nonfungible token. > The work, “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” is by Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the name Beeple. The work is a collage of 5,000 drawings, one created and posted every day for the past 13 and a half years. > Originally created with pen and paper and now mostly illustration software, the sketches run the gamut from an angular line drawing of his first baby to Hillary Clinton and well-known cartoon characters. > The winning bidder owns the work in the form of a unique string of code, called a nonfungible token. The piece has no physical presence and will be "delivered directly from Beeple to the buyer, accompanied by a unique NFT encrypted with the artist’s unforgeable signature and uniquely identified on the blockchain," Christie's said. > "The first 10 minutes of this sale we had more than 100 bids placed. We went from an opening bid of $100 to more than $1 million. We had bidders from seven different countries," Davis told Yahoo Finance. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/digital-artwork-sells-record-60-million-christie-s-first-nft-n1260544 https://archive.is/wCdx2 I'm not saying that Beeple (I wonder where this nickname came from?) is selling "artwork" with embedded illegal images, but I feel that this type of "artwork" that is selling for massive amounts of currency needs to be looked into more deeply.