12/01/2024 X removes NFT profile pictures: What does this mean for crypto art?

One community member on X described the move as “another black eye” for the NFT industry.

X removes NFT profile pictures: What does this mean for crypto art?

The removal of support for nonfungible token (NFT) profile pictures on X (formerly Twitter) sparked discussions among community members on what the move may mean for the NFT space.

On Jan. 10, Xremoved support for NFTsalmost a year after its rollout. The platform implemented the feature on Jan. 20, 2022, allowing paid subscribers to link their NFTs to their Twitter profile pictures. This will turn their profile picture into a hexagonal shape and provide a verification mechanism that the image is an NFT.

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Many reacted to the removal of NFT profile pictures, with some arguing that it would be harder to spot fake accounts, while others speculate that it might be a move to sell exclusive X NFTs in the future.

An NFT holder on X brought up the issue of fake accounts. The NFT supporterarguedthat removing NFT profile pics would make it more difficult to spot fraudulent and imposter accounts. “As if we don’t have enough problems with fake accounts and scams on Crypto Twitter already.”

why did elon remove the hexagon nft pfp from x?

this was an important feature for subscribed users to help identify owners of the nft apart from scammers

i do not support this decision

— drone (@dronerogan)January 10, 2024

Another X userdescribedthe move as “another black eye” for the industry. The community member also brought up the issue of fake accounts and said that the NFT profile pictures allowed users to verify that the person they were interacting with was not trying to lure them into a trap.

Meanwhile, X account Autism Capitalpostedthat the new development marks the “end of an era,” while another person turned to memes to bring up the issue of scammers.

“X removes support for NFT profile pictures”

Fake BAYC pfp scammers:pic.twitter.com/o0TZYQqw5m

— snivy (@solsnivy)January 10, 2024

Meanwhile, community members are speculating on what billionaire Elon Musk plans for the future. On Reddit, one usertheorizedthat the move might be followed by the platform selling NFTs that are exclusive to X. Another usersupportedthe comment by bringing up Reddit’s digital collectibles that successfullyonboarded 10 million usersinto the NFT space.

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/from-code-to-community-how-to-attract-developers-and-users-in-the-world-of-zk-technology

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Inspired by and for the 2018 North American Bitcoin conference in Miami, Florida. The palm tree that has a cracked open Bitcoin coconut suggests that by traveling you can enjoy this tropical digital fruit. The peacock nesting in the tree has spread its wings to flaunt other integrated crypto logos as well. The famous Miami skyline at the bottom incorporates the coins, as well as the code that is transforming the banking buildings that made it. The origin of that skyline is in the 80's cocaine craze, so it is all incorporated into the story of foundational transformation, linked to a global movement. The file size is suitable for an 8K TV. Mr. Moe Levin, the founder of the conference is a collector a physical print of the work. Explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J0ZfPCJdxY&feature=emb_title Upload resolution 8000x4000 PX at 300DPI
The Scion
A young figure caught in a moment of distraction, aware only ephemerally of his unconscious being, as it engages in psychological and psychedelic layer spaces. His right arm casually cradles a moray eel; the figure is comfortable but not truly aware of the potentials for danger in such negligence. His shirt reads “Bello” in Pokemon style font, harkening back to a childhood straddling the millennial threshold. To his right side, out of the unconscious deep, shrouded alien heads propagate as a fractal totem, each new iteration a more sophisticated rendering of emotional masking over the cold mystery of the greys. As the scion of the Budgie-Sattva, the young man, in his distraction, is also simultaneously aware of higher levels of self discovery. To his left a psychological topology sets beneath the oracle side of an 8 ball ,hovering; its message a purest concept of acceptance. The “Scion” lettering is in 80’s HeMan style bold declaration. The lower right side of the painting is like a hybrid of melon, feathers, and seeds. The crystals in the background bring light; conducted, refracted, reflected, and dispersed, to balance the dark shadow of the figure’s physical body. The aura of the scion succeeds in layers to point, with a finger, and the crown chakra, toward a center of a mandala existing as nigh pure application of strokes, in essence painterly abstraction, but also revealing hints of the Aura of migraine, and the bi-hemispherical nature of the brain–noting concerns of the possibility of inherited mental disease. Yet the flourish of chakra as it sets against that center is robust, active, coherent, and reveling against all fear. Fundamentally, the piece speaks to the activation of one’s potential to begin to “Know Thyself”, and find greater awareness out of the enigmas of the mind–as an inculcated seed given to the rich soil of one’s own birthright.
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