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The problem of (Ethereum) CryptoArt

I spent the past 15 years flying to festivals, galleries, events, art fairs to exhibit and distribute my work while building my art practice. Most of these projects are unsustainable, so when I decided to lower my impact and cut plane travel, I started looking at alternatives.

The CryptoArt market is a new way for artists to distribute digital works to collectors: often digital images and video files. The blockchain technology provides secure ownership, traceability, artist commission on second market sales and a thriving market place, with platforms emerging quickly: Nifty Gateway, SuperRare, MakersPlace.. It’s a vibrant and welcoming community, a place to discuss the works with collectors, and it brings a lot of benefits that the Art market fails to provide.

With no travel involved, and a mostly digital distribution, this new model looks like it has the potential to become a sustainable practice for artists. That’s until you understand the magnitude of the environmental impacts of the current blockchain: It is a DISASTER.


Edit May 2020:
While the Ethereum platforms such as NiftyGateway, SuperRare, Makersplace, KnowOrigin, Rarible and Foundation have failed to address the issue, and still offer no alternative to Proof-Of-Work, there are already 30+ CleanNFTs platforms, low-energy consumption and ethical alternatives to Ethereum.

The leading platform HicEtNunc has just past 100,000 NFTs in less than 3 months of existence and has now more daily users than OpenSea.

Today was supposed to be my second CryptoArt release on NiftyGateway.

Considering the insane and unnecessary waste of electricity involved, I’ve decided to cancel the drop until the issue is addressed.


THE IMPACT OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION

So you may wonder: Why is energy consumption so important?

Understanding and reducing our consumption(s) is the defining challenge of our time, and the tomorrow’s “habitability” of the planet depends on our actions today.

Today, the Crypto infrastructure relies mostly on fossil fuels (64% of the world’s electricity: coal 38%, oil and gas 26%). The CO2 emissions, combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse.

The energy production infrastructure is out of our sight, and we often have the feeling that electricity is abundant, limitless and we disregard its impact. This concept is best described by Rob Nixon as “Slow Violence“.
Most of us pay the bills and don’t worry about it, but to grasp the magnitude of the impact, you have to see it. The largest coal mine of Europe being just 1h30 from my studio, I’m now going there on a regular basis to document and understand the scope of our growing energy consumption.


In a nutshell: In order to produce electricity, we extract coal, forests are razed, people expropriated, villages and churches destroyed, the air polluted, and the entire region is being turned into a wasteland. 270 000 Tons of CO2 are emitted at Hambach, each day.

We, as technologists, softwares developpers, and energy consummers, are at the core of extractivism (ie: this mine runs on Autodesk softwares).

After witnessing so much destruction and despair, I decided to support activist groups opposing coal mining, and also to act on a personal level, auditing my own consumption, in order to reduce it. Here’s the data:


Blog post: The Energy Consumption of the Studio


With consistent efforts, alongside a hard decision to also cut plane travel, I am now reducing my consumption by at least 10% every year.
From 4.618 kWh (2018) to below 3.800 kWh (my 2020 target), I was on a good track to reach my objective of responsible degrowth.

This was before I released CryptoArt.


THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON CRYPTOART PLATFORMS

I knew that CryptoArt requires significant energy consumption, so I decided to limit my first proper release to 6 pieces: a series around the platonic solids. (See Twitter thread). The work was available as a editions (53 in total).

After a lot of work, discussions and preparation, it was released on Nifty Gateway. It sold out in about 10 seconds. I’m really thankful to the team for their support and advice, and especially to Duncan who helped me craft this release and was one of the first to collect my work.

In order to assess the impact of the sale, I then asked the platform some details about the CO2 emissions and energy consumption.

Despite several requests, they did not provide any information.



THE ACTUAL IMPACT OF MY DROP ON NIFTY GATEWAY


Understanding that the information was not available, I reached out to Offsetra, a carbon offset company familiar with the impact of blockchain technologies. We went through the details of transactions. It turns out that the 53 edition emitted about 80kg of CO2 each, and worst, every resale by collectors continues today to increase that impact. [Note: Offsetra calculates carbon footprint for ETH wallets, not smart-contracts or individual tokens]
Their tool is available on https://carbon.fyi/

Then my friend Memo Akten (artist, engineer and PhD) started a remarkable investigation, over weeks of research he created a set of tools to assess your crypto wallet (available on http://cryptoart.wtf ). He also wrote an in-depth article about The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt.

To this date, there is no information available on any of the platforms to inform the users about the insane waste linked to those transactions.

It turns out my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years.

This lack of transparency basically ruined two years of efforts.

After Memo’s article, Nifty Gateway finally responded to confirm the magnitude of the damage. The individual bids have no impact, as the transactions are already off-chain (which is better than most platforms !), but no mention of the terrible impact of large open editions, which create the most damage. They are working on a solution that could reduce impact by 99%, using NFT Scaling, now delayed until April 2021. But there is still no information, no warning to inform the artists. Transparency wasn’t, and still isn’t, a priority.

We should not have to investigate, or rely on external parties to get critical information about the impact of releasing CryptoArt and NFTs.



And it keeps increasing, now at 9,139 kWh, see breakdown on CryptoArt.wtf

HOW TO REDUCE EMISSIONS, NOW:

In a distant future, Ethereum will be updated to ETH2 based on the PoS (Proof-of-stake) consensus. This will reduce drastically the energy consumption of the network, but it has been “coming soon” for the past 6 years.

<< We’re waiting for ETH2 >> is the lazy response of most ETH platforms, to avoid addressing the issue today, but here’s what the platforms can do, now:

1 – Transparency and ‘Best practices’:
Provide clear information on the impact, and how to minimize it. ie: limit the amount of transactions, avoid large editions.

2- “Ethereum Scaling
We can reduce the impact, today, by 99% (according to Nifty Gateway) by implementing Layer2 scaling. A system like Harmony can be deployed on any of the existing platforms, is compatible with ETH wallets and requires minimal backend work while allowing a reduction of the energy consumption required per transaction. Matic/Polygon seems to offer a similar alternative for existing platforms.
Harmony, Avalanche, Cardano are all PoS (impact reduction of 99%), and have Art platforms in the making, and should be ready within the coming 2-3 months. Here’s an extensive guide to Eco-NFT, by Memo Akten.

“NFT scaling” can be deployed in weeks and reduce 99%* of energy waste.

This should be the absolute priority, before any further release of CryptoArt.

*(figure provided by NiftyGateway)


3 – Minimize on-chain transaction:
Keep all unnecessary transactions off-chain. Ie: Bids should become transactions only when a sale is confirmed, to avoid Tons of CO2 emissions per NFT.

In my opinion, platforms that are serious about their impact should put on hold their upcoming releases, and urgently implement NFT scaling before any further release.
It’s also important to provide the artists detailed information about their impact and how to minimize it.

I personally invited and introduced artists and friends to the CryptoArt space, without understanding the insane energy waste, and I share part of the responsibility of their impact. I am now urging them to put their sales on hold until these problems are addressed and implemented by the platforms.

The first platforms to solve this issue will lead the community, and drive artists, collectors away from the irresponsible, non-ethical ones.

I am in contact with the teams at Nifty Gateway, Super Rare, Foundation, Known Origin and MakersPlace, and I will liaise with them to follow up, and share on this page any significant progress they make.

Update, March 10th 2020: The platforms still haven’t responded with a clear plan to reduce their footprint significantly. The best option to reduce NFT’s footprint is to drive artists and collectors away from these platform, to more ethical ones like hicetnunc (already PoS).

15 eco-friendly platforms are already available today, and are confirmed to be a viable alternative for artists. More will be announced soo.

Update, July 2020: The largest NFT platform @opensea now offers MATIC payments, a PoS alternative to Ethereum. While it doesn’t solve the problem of ETH, a Proof-of Stake / Layer 2 solution can reduce the impact of each transaction by a factor of 1,000+. Also: no gas fees.

50 eco-friendly platforms are now available. http://cleannfts.org/


Here are some articles covering this story:
Wired: NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate
Art Forum: Chain Reaction
Hyperallergic: As NFT Sells for $69M, Artists Question Environmental Impact of Blockchain
ABC news: NFTs are setting the creative world alight. Are they also bad for the planet?
L.A. Times: $69 million for digital art? The NFT craze, explained
The Independant: The new ‘bitcoin for Art’ trend explained
Engadgets: NFTs are both priceless and worthless
Gizmodo: How to Fix Crypto Art NFTs’ Carbon Pollution Problem
Cultbyte: It’s Time to Rethink. The Carbon Cost of the NFT Boom
Business of Business: The blockchain “scaling” civil war is underway—and the battleground is carbon


A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM

Of course this particular issue of consumption, revealed here by the magnitude of the damage, isn’t tied to CryptoArt. It is embedded in our society: I participated in one night projection mapping events, music festivals and Art fairs that thousands of visitors fly to, exhibitions running with tens of projectors and servers, from GPU render farms to gadgets we order on amazon, all these have terrible impact too.
And in many cases, a responsible and informed use of NFT may even have a lower impact than our current lifestyles. Personally, I will invest all my previous CryptoArt profits into a drastic reduction of my heating (currently fossil gas) by insulating the building, investing into a heat pump, switching to renewables. This should help me cut my overall consumption(s) by 60%.

In that regard, I don’t think the issue is CryptoArt itself, the real problem is when downplay, avoid or delay the urgent reductions that are required now.


THE CONFUSION ABOUT CARBON “OFFSET”.

Offset is often suggested as a potential way to cancel or reduce our CO2 impact. It is a dangerous misconception:

While these projects and investments are great, it will have no impact on your own CO2 emissions. None.

In fact these are often used as an excuse, to avoid reducing your emissions in the first place and to delay further the hard decisions we have to make.

What about carbon capture ?
The technology just does not exist at scale, we can not make plans or rely on a technology that may just never be deployed.

What about planting trees ?
We worked on a project with Juliette Bibasse to study that idea: << How many trees to make a Forest >>


Here are the many reasons why this will never cancel your CO2 emissions:

IRREVERSIBILITY:
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions (63 % of crypto) are irreversible: while coal, oil and gas formed over 6 to 10 Millions years, it was stored permanently underground, trees can only hold CO2 temporarily, over their lifetime (and sometimes a little beyond, until decomposed or burned).

TIMESCALE:
A tree planted can only capture about 60 kg of CO2 over the first 10 years. Those trees are likely to be sold and cut before they capture any significant amount of CO2. To get an idea of the problem, 55 600 trees are cut every minute, a profitable business with more influence and power than NGOs.


It will take a tree 12 years
to offset the minting
of a single NFT

A tree captures ~5.9kg OF CO2/year during its first 10 years

Tools like “green certificates“, “carbon credits“, (alongside offsets, carbon capture and tree planting) are actually used by the fossil fuel industry to justify the expansion of their business, and their main excuse to avoid any reductions.

While many offset companies are scam, I like the approach of Offsetra on this: first reduce all your impacts, only then offset will start making sense.
Edit: Offsetra has just done a fundraiser using Ethereum and emitted large amounts of CO2 in the process. Using PoW (while they could be doing it on PoS instead, and reduce emissions by 99%) is not only stupid from a CO2 emission standpoint, but it also destroys the viability of the concept of Offsetting.



So there is no way around this topic, let’s not find excuses or try to buy off our guilt, but let’s focus on reducing our impacts, now.

It was a difficult decision to cancel my release after all the work done, and I had to investigate and have numerous zooms and calls to write this heavy post instead, but it feels like the only reasonable option. I am available to help the platforms who are willing to accelerate the transition, and I will be vocal about any efforts in that direction.


CLIMATE ACTION

As tree planting and individual actions won’t be sufficient, I suggest supporting activists opposing the fossil fuel industry on the ground. Groups like Extinction Rebellion, Ende Gelaende, Fridays for Future, are using civil disobedience and do non-violent, direct actions to block the coal, oil and gas infrastructure. Follow my “climate action” newsletter to find out more creative ideas to accelerate the system change we need.



POINT LIGHT

Let me finish this long post with a glimpse of the works I was supposed to release today. I won’t go into details yet, but the Point light series are projections of light in space, and it will be deployed as a set of instructions, to setup the installation.

I am putting this series, and all new NFT releases on hold for the moment, until a responsible and ethical platform emerges.


Thanks to Memo Akten for raising the alarm, to Offsetra for the insights, and to all the artists, collectors, friends and people on Discord channel: Eco-NFTs for the support, discussions, advice and proofreading.


Comments

  • Dankrad Feist

    février 19, 2021 at 1:15

    Thanks for raising this problem, it should definitely on anyone’s mind and continuing to run on proof of work when much better consensus algorithms are now available is simply not defensible.

    I would like to comment on you writing “In a distant future, ETH2 and PoS (Proof-of-stake)” would be implemented. Proof of stake is already running in parallel now (the beacon chain was launched in December), and we are rapidly developing the merge where the ETH1 chain will use this consensus algorithm (and thus get rid of proof of work). This point is probably about 1 year away now, give or take. I wouldn’t call that distant future (but some might).

  • Joanie Lemercier

    février 19, 2021 at 1:47

    I was told 2 years yesterday. The thing is that these vague and uncertain objectives are often used to delay action.

    NFT scaling is available today, and can solve the problem, so let’s not wait one more day.

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  • Dankrad Feist

    février 19, 2021 at 12:47

    Please do use scaling. I just want to put the distant future into perspective, that’s all. I don’t think it’s fair to put it in a basket with “we will have nuclear fusion in 30 years” or “we will go zero carbon in 2050”, this is running now: https://beaconcha.in/
    I’m optimistic and think we can do it in one year, someone much more pessimistic might think it takes two years, I agree.

  • Joanie Lemercier

    février 20, 2021 at 4:20

    It is mentionned, you can find this exact link is in the very first paragraph of the article. 😉

  • Otis West

    février 19, 2021 at 5:34

    There are already superior alternatives to ETH.
    Which are getting used already. Maybe the are even going to overtake ETH (due to it’s problems) in usage this year.
    Like BSC (Binance Smart Chain) and Zilliqa (zilliqa.mintable.app) .. just to name two

  • Gene Kogan

    février 20, 2021 at 12:17

    Hi Joanie!

    Respectfully, I disagree with you and Memo on some (not all) of your points. Full disclosure, I am just beginning to enter the NFT space myself (and art market in general), and moreso I’m very interested in and optimistic about the core technologies, and wish to see them succeed.

    I applaud you for pushing for environmentally sound scaling, and I support these projects and follow some of the research closely. There are already some decentralized exchanges on Ethereum layer 2, which account for a small amount of the transaction volume, but are more efficient and a blueprint for the future. Although I’m not really interested in trading platforms/exchanges, I suspect they will mature over time and help influence the NFT platforms and also enable interesting non-financial applications. It’s possible that your raising the issue more publicly will accelerate adoption and development of efficient scaling, and if it does, you and Memo should be commended for your role.

    The principle you stand for (we need to reduce energy waste as fast as possible) is valid and just, and I fully concur. I disagree however that it is necessary or productive for you to suspend or even delay your NFTs, or to try to persuade other artists to follow. I don’t think this accomplishes much, and may even detract from your cause. I think being active in the space, and bringing value and attention to it, while constructively pushing for improvements (which is what you have been doing all of this time) is much more effective. It brings attention and wealth into the space, which drives the innovation. Even people who don’t care about the environment want to move towards layer 2 for the sake of scale/throughput/low fees. The reason we’re not there yet isn’t for lack of care, but because the scaling technologies are still fragile and experimental. It’s not clear how simply not participating changes this.

    First, a technical point… The statistic of “energy per transaction” you and Memo often cite is misleading and I think based on a misunderstanding of how blockchains work, and what the energy is used for. The energy expenditure of a blockchain is a function of the total amount needed to secure it in a decentralized way, not (in principle) the amount of transactions it processes. In PoW systems, the difficulty of the PoW for a block is set artificially to consume just enough power to prevent a 51% attack, and a new block of transactions is mined on Ethereum roughly every 15 seconds, no matter how many transactions there are. For the last few weeks/months, the demand on Ethereum has been peaking, which is making for high gas fees (there’s not enough space for everyone). If you don’t mint your NFTs, there’s a downward pressure on the fees, and another transaction swoops in to take your place at the lower cost (or there’s just one less transaction, it doesn’t really matter). The point is that the amount of power consumed by the network is largely unaffected by your decision either way. The only way to actually use less power is to adopt L2 platforms — which I cautiously support — or to organize larger-scale boycotts which have macro effects on the value of Eth — which I oppose on the grounds that it’s destructive, mostly distracts from L2 adoption, and is arguably a futile endeavor when there is so much demand for limited space on the blockchain. And I think it’s a loss to this ecosystem not to have your work in it.

    I would also argue against the idea that the total energy expenditure as it is today is “wasted”. My view is that blockchains have the potential to create open, permissionless, borderless financial systems, and that this could be of tremendous utility to the world, most especially people who do not have free access to financial services. I find that much of the opposition to crypto (especially of the more polemic variety) is from people who don’t appreciate or care for this, nor have the patience to let ambitious technologies mature. I think we’ll look back on it in similar light as the internet, which also provoked plenty of skepticism back when its adoption numbers were similar to what blockchains have now (say late 90s). This whole field is still just 12 years old… It is normal for promising new technologies to have high up-front cost before it gets cheaper/faster/less energy-intensive/more available, from cars to TVs to internet to smartphones, etc. In my opinion, the high R&D cost of early-stage crypto is worth it.

    Note that I’m as new to this as most of us, and not 100% confident in my case, and I’m very open to rebuttals.

  • Gene Kogan

    février 20, 2021 at 12:30

    Hi Joanie!

    Respectfully, I disagree with you and Memo on some (not all) of your points. Full disclosure, I am just beginning to enter the NFT space myself (and art market in general), and moreso I’m very interested in and optimistic about the core technologies, and wish to see them succeed.

    I applaud you for pushing for environmentally sound scaling, and I support these projects and follow some of the research closely. There are already some decentralized exchanges on Ethereum layer 2, which account for a small amount of the transaction volume, but are more efficient and a blueprint for the future. Although I’m not really interested in trading platforms/exchanges, I suspect they will mature over time and help influence the NFT platforms and also enable interesting non-financial applications. It’s possible that your raising the issue more publicly will accelerate adoption and development of efficient scaling, and if it does, you and Memo should be commended for your role.

    The principle you stand for (we need to reduce energy waste as fast as possible) is valid and just, and I fully concur. I disagree however that it is necessary or productive for you to suspend or even delay your NFTs, or to try to persuade other artists to follow. I don’t think this accomplishes much, and may even detract from your cause. I think being active in the space, and bringing value and attention to it, while constructively pushing for improvements (which is what you have been doing all of this time) is much more effective. It brings attention and wealth into the space, which drives the innovation. Even people who don’t care about the environment want to move towards layer 2 for the sake of scale/throughput/low fees. The reason we’re not there yet isn’t for lack of care, but because the scaling technologies are still fragile and experimental. It’s not clear how simply not participating changes this.

    First, a technical point… The statistic of “energy per transaction” you and Memo often cite is misleading and I think based on a misunderstanding of how blockchains work, and what the energy is used for. The energy expenditure of a blockchain is a function of the total amount needed to secure it in a decentralized way, not (in principle) the amount of transactions it processes. In PoW systems, the difficulty of the PoW for a block is set artificially to consume just enough power to prevent a 51% attack, and a new block of transactions is mined on Ethereum roughly every 15 seconds, no matter how many transactions there are. For the last few weeks/months, the demand on Ethereum has been peaking, which is making for high gas fees (there’s not enough space for everyone). If you don’t mint your NFTs, there’s a downward pressure on the fees, and another transaction swoops in to take your place at the lower cost (or there’s just one less transaction, it doesn’t really matter). The point is that the amount of power consumed by the network is largely unaffected by your decision either way. The only way to actually use less power is to adopt L2 platforms — which I cautiously support — or to organize larger-scale boycotts which have macro effects on the value of Eth — which I oppose on the grounds that it’s destructive, mostly distracts from L2 adoption, and is arguably a futile endeavour when there is so much demand for limited space on the blockchain. And I think it’s a loss to this ecosystem not to have your work in it.

    I would also argue against the idea that the total energy expenditure as it is today is “wasted”. My view is that blockchains have the potential to create open, permissionless, borderless financial systems, and that this could be of tremendous utility to the world, most especially people who do not have free access to financial services. I find that much of the opposition to crypto (especially of the more polemic variety) is from people who don’t appreciate or care for this, nor have the patience to let ambitious technologies mature. I think we’ll look back on it in similar light as the internet, which also provoked plenty of skepticism back when its adoption numbers were similar to what blockchains have now (say late 90s). This whole field is still just 12 years old… It is normal for promising new technologies to have high up-front cost before it gets cheaper/faster/less energy-intensive/more available, from cars to TVs to internet to smartphones, etc. In my opinion, the high R&D cost of early-stage crypto is worth it.

  • Kyle McDonald

    février 20, 2021 at 1:30

    Gene, we agree Ethereum uses electricity. How do we divide up responsibility for those emissions? Memo and others use gas (not transactions) to estimate a proportion of our responsibility. This is not a technical issue, just a question of ethics and accountability. Arguing “it doesn’t matter whether you personally use the blockchain or not” is like arguing “it doesn’t matter whether you fly or not, the airplane is still going take off”.

  • Otis West

    février 20, 2021 at 1:52

    Wow my comment got deleted. Censorship is strong even in progressive artists discussions.
    Sustainability only where it fits into my own narrative, congratulations. Hypocrisy prevails, from the far right side all the way to the far left side.
    Ethereum is a bankers chain as almost any other crypto. It is used to enslave mankind to the digital ID. Even TOR was created by the CIA.
    However people need to withstand the division temptations by the elites. Those who don’t understand that, are just naively serving their agenda.

  • Joanie Lemercier

    février 20, 2021 at 4:22

    Your comment wasn’t deleted, it was just waiting approval, to avoid spam and viagra pills ads to take over.

  • Jeremy dePrisco

    février 20, 2021 at 4:23

    Thank you for posting this. I have been considering getting involved with Cent.co, which is another platform that you don’t mention in your article. But I think now I will hold off until I better understand their platform and the environmental impact.

  • Scott Draves

    février 20, 2021 at 9:15

    Thank you Gene for engaging. I agree with you blockchain is interesting and has potential worth exploring.

    However I have to disagree that implies or justifies using it as is to sell art — one can explore by writing code (https://www.hyperledger.org/) and developing applications where the blockchain really adds value (human rights, journalism), or maybe somehow optimizing the current system. But bitcoin is so expensive to the environment by so many orders of magnitude it is hard to imagine an incremental solution. Compared to regular transactions, coin is a disaster. Developing countries are using regular bank-backed systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payments_in_India. Crypto is not going to help the poor, it’s going to enable money laundering on a yet larger scale (instead of more scrutiny and safeguards to reduce it which is what we should do).

    Secondly this deflects responsibility because the carbon burn is not directly tied to individual transactions or artworks. Sounds like the old dodge of saying “well we don’t know that your kids cancer was bad luck or the chemical plant in their neighborhood”. Users of the blockchain are responsible for the blockchain’s carbon. Benzene causes cancer.

    So I hate to criticize any artist who has found a way to pay the rent, but I gotta draw the line at crypto-utopia. The way forward i would bet on is more like twitch or the app store. I actually have an idea for this — will contact you offline!

  • Otis West

    février 21, 2021 at 1:27

    Oh i`m very sorry and have to apologize. I haven`t been aware of that mechanism.
    I take back my criticism of course. Thank you for clarifying.
    Thank you also for your great artistic activism.

  • Joanie Lemercier

    février 22, 2021 at 12:52

    No problem, I appreciate your feedback !
    These are unconfortable issues to write about, and tbh I wish I didn’t have had to look into this at all in the first place 🙂
    Thanks !

  • Joanie Lemercier Calls for Crypto Art Boycott – HOLO

    février 22, 2021 at 4:11

    […] – Joanie Lemercier, on the staggering environmental cost of crypto art. In an impassioned op-ed published on his website, the French artist slams leading market platforms for inaction and a lack of transparency and calls for a crypto art boycott until the issue is addressed. “The first platforms to solve this issue will lead the community,” he writes, “and drive artists, collectors away from the irresponsible, non-ethical ones.” joanielemercier.com […]

  • Tomas

    février 26, 2021 at 8:47

    I like how the tech-Afficionados always point to the future for the solutions for the inevitable problems novel tech brings about. It is analysed in detail in the book “Diffusion of Innovations” by Rogers. There he detailed the total annihilation of Sami culture when snowmobiles were introduced, amongst other examples. New technology *always* brings with it unforeseen consequences, most recently mobile phone addiction causing total myopia amongst schoolchildren and the growth of bone spurs out the backs of their skulls, as well as social media leading to hyperpolarised, paranoid dilusional segmentation of society and pogroms in Myanmar.

    Today, we are arguably less than a decade away from passing over a critical point in global climate that will lead inexorably to the end of this current golden age of civilisation. The only way to avoid this is a huge, total societal pivot in behaviour that entails everyone going through what you went through, absolutely minimising resource use. Instead, it’s almost as if the size and seeming inevitabilty of our horrific future is so overwhelming we are instead racing towards it in some kind of death pact.

    It’s a safe bet that by 2035 these cryptoassets will have held their value as well as the previous speculative bubble assets like the Beanie Babies. Not that anyone will be caring about that so much if even the rosiest climate predictions come to pass.

    We’re organsing the deck chairs on the Titanic, or more accurately, having a fireworks show on the Hindenburg.

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  • James Phillips

    mars 2, 2021 at 6:05

    Disagree with Gene Kogan’s statement that layer 2 is the only way to solve this. Scaling on layer 1 will have the same effect.

    What is crucial is more transactions being secured in each block: such that each individual transaction uses less POW.

    I understand that ETH, which is popular for NFT releases, is near it’s layer 1 capacity due to some design choices (aggressively fast block times, Turing Completeness which can limit parallelisation in transaction processing).

    I would point out that Non-Fungible Tokens are available on other chains like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as well using the Simple Leger Protocol: but the lack of Turing completeness means no Digital Rights Management, which I think is a waste of time anyway.

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  • Claus Eckert

    mars 2, 2021 at 4:59

    Hi,
    Greetings from Columbus, OH. I am very impressed by the art the studio is producing and the honest post. Foregoing profit that doesn’t fit one’s moral compass is very laudable. I wish there were more people (including one very rich Musk) that would be more critical about cryptoart and cryptocurrency in general. One small note about carbon sequestration: While I agree about the overall assessment, I think there might be some slight ambiguity that could lead the reader to misunderstand how trees capture carbon and how and when they release that carbon. Here is a great primer: https://extension.psu.edu/how-forests-store-carbon. Trees that are used for construction do not release carbon unless the building burns down or the wood starts to rot. This doesn’t change the overall assessment and we cant plant ourselves out of the probem but tree plantings shouldn’t be so easily dismissed.

  • Crypto art awks: Is real sustainability a creative life of openly correcting your cock-ups? – momozo

    mars 5, 2021 at 5:10

    […] As Joanie Lemercier explains with exacting dismay, her hopes to be part of a whole new way of navigating the art world – a much more sustainable and egalitarian one – ran aground fast. […]

  • Tomas

    mars 6, 2021 at 12:07

    This hasn’t happened in isolation, crypto is ridiculous right now. I get so many cold calls every day with people trying to sell me crypto currency. I met with some VC guys who want me to sell shares in my startup with crypto, it’s nuts.

    With this crypto we are building our global Easter island statues.

  • GREG STILES

    mars 8, 2021 at 5:52

    Joanie, I commend you for your efforts. If http://cryptoart.wtf/ is true, there is much work to be done. I think the media is currently focusing on how much money artists can potentially make through NFTs and the benefits of ownership… but at what cost? Platforms such as Rarible and Makersplace need to be more transparent about the energy usage for minting a simple .gif file, and it’s potential impact. I’m now looking at NFTs in a different light. Thank you for holding the torch…

  • Energivore, spéculatif, non réglementé… A qui profite vraiment le « crypto art » ? – Crypto-NFT

    mars 8, 2021 at 5:14

    […] artistes ont écrit sur les coûts environnementaux liés au « crypto art ». Sur son blog, Joanie Lemercier, spécialisé dans les projections de lumière dans l’espace, explique […]

  • The Carbon Drop – Studio Joanie Lemercier

    mars 22, 2021 at 9:50

    […] month, after a difficult but necessary conversation about the insane CO2 footprint of most* CryptoArt and the lack of transparency from most platforms, we teamed up with friends and artists to try […]

  • Emma

    mars 31, 2021 at 6:19

    Thank you so much for setting all this information out. I’m an energy and climate analyst and am analysing the emissions from NFTs for a client who is working really hard to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Accord. They want to create a unique piece of digital art and auction it for charity as part of their environmental and socially beneficial giving. However, they don’t want to do something that’s going to increase emissions unnecessarily. I’d be super grateful for any advice – as digital analysis is fairly new to me and I’m only just now modelling energy consumption and emissions across the internet and clients’ clouds, getting my head round the energy surge needed for NFT creation is quite a challenge! If the client commissions an artist who auctions the work on hicetnunc for example, how much energy would be consumed? Is it even possible to sell the art this way (i.e. to the highest bidder?).
    I agree with you completely about offsetting, and have done a lot of research and writing about this side of the global heating prevention drive. Unfortunately, carbon credits and offsets are not designed to physically remove the amount of carbon on their labels within a timeframe commensurate with the reporting period of companies who are claiming ‘net-zero’ or ‘carbon neutral’. As you rightly point out, it takes a trees 25 to 100 years to absorb 1 tonne of carbon, by which time the initial emissions that are being offset have been around in the atmosphere increasing the greenhouse effect.
    It’s great to read such intelligent writing – thank you

  • Mauro

    mai 29, 2021 at 2:44

    Thank you to share this so important issue ! Have you heard about Hicetnunc platform that works with tezos … it´seems that using this platform you spend almost 99% less energy than ethereum… Do you have any information about this tezos blockchain …? Thanks you !

  • Crypto Art Boom: Changing the Art Market | Artland Magazine

    juin 24, 2021 at 2:40

    […] costs. “I do understand why they want to surf the wave because they could be set for life,” Joanie Lemercier told Wired Magazine in an interview. The French artist known for his perception-bending light […]

  • How Bad For The Environment is Your Digital Footprint?

    juin 30, 2021 at 2:29

    […] the associated energy costs. The sale would use, in just 10 seconds, enough electricity to power the artist’s entire studio for two […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Rich People Trades

    août 17, 2021 at 8:35

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:40

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Green Money Gazette

    août 17, 2021 at 8:42

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:48

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Investment Digger

    août 17, 2021 at 8:48

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:50

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Profit And Politics

    août 17, 2021 at 8:52

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:53

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:54

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    août 17, 2021 at 8:55

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Healthy Investing Tips

    août 17, 2021 at 8:57

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Invest Daily Pro

    août 17, 2021 at 8:59

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – The Classy Investor

    août 17, 2021 at 9:03

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Dominate The Markets

    août 17, 2021 at 9:04

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    août 17, 2021 at 9:05

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    août 17, 2021 at 9:06

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – 5G Investment News

    août 17, 2021 at 9:07

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

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    août 17, 2021 at 9:08

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Smart Parents Rich Kids

    août 17, 2021 at 9:08

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Pretty Profits Daily

    août 17, 2021 at 9:09

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Open Source Trades

    août 17, 2021 at 9:10

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    août 17, 2021 at 9:11

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    août 17, 2021 at 9:11

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Bank Your Winners

    août 17, 2021 at 9:12

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  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – The Daily Launch

    août 17, 2021 at 9:13

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Energy Investors Daily

    août 17, 2021 at 9:13

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Savage Investing Secrets

    août 17, 2021 at 9:15

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – BLACKFOX

    août 17, 2021 at 9:15

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Free Voice Gazette

    août 17, 2021 at 9:16

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Smart Mind Rich Wallet

    août 17, 2021 at 9:18

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – The King Of Stocks

    août 17, 2021 at 9:19

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Be On Top Invests

    août 17, 2021 at 9:20

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – American Investment Report

    août 17, 2021 at 9:21

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Healthy People Societies

    août 17, 2021 at 9:25

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Gold Medal Investments

    août 17, 2021 at 10:13

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Insta Wealth Daily

    août 17, 2021 at 10:14

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Great Market Vision

    août 17, 2021 at 11:09

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Success American Investors

    août 17, 2021 at 11:15

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Big Auto Insure

    août 17, 2021 at 2:14

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Fun Safe Guard

    août 17, 2021 at 2:15

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Wizzard of Wellness

    août 17, 2021 at 2:16

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Tech Auto Report

    août 17, 2021 at 2:19

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Empire Gains Daily

    août 17, 2021 at 2:21

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Ice Guard

    août 17, 2021 at 2:38

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | My Credibility

    août 17, 2021 at 2:54

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Value Politics

    août 17, 2021 at 2:55

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | The Daily Debrief

    août 17, 2021 at 3:08

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Open Source Trade

    août 17, 2021 at 3:12

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | Global Gains USA

    août 17, 2021 at 3:19

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment | The Reducted Reports

    août 17, 2021 at 4:11

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – Sharks Mind

    août 17, 2021 at 4:11

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • The delicate balance between NFTs and the environment – True Shield Usa

    août 17, 2021 at 4:12

    […] This required altering an approach that had resulted in him flying to various events (festivals, galleries, etc.) over the previous 15 years, as he wrote in his blog in February 2021. […]

  • NFT Art is Shaking the World – All you need to know – Apna Art Adda

    août 18, 2021 at 7:06

    […] Further, Lemercier released a statement explaining the problem of crypto art. […]

  • True or false? A single NFT can power a European household for 1.5 months – Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin News

    août 23, 2021 at 6:47

    […] artists and platforms are starting to cancel NFT plans as a result. Digital artist Joanie Lemercier canceled his second Nifty Gateway drop after becoming aware of the environmental impact of the platform’s […]

  • NFT Với Tranh Cãi Và Lo Ngại Về Tác Động Môi Trường – Kênh Bit

    août 25, 2021 at 11:56

    […] đang bắt đầu hủy bỏ kế hoạch NFT. Nghệ sĩ kỹ thuật số Joanie Lemercier đã hủy bỏ đợt giảm Nifty Gateway thứ hai của mình sau khi nhận thức được tác động môi […]

  • NFT-Kunst: Was es ist, wie es funktioniert und was es für die Kreativbranche bedeutet – BizRevise

    septembre 13, 2021 at 11:12

    […] Transport physischer Werke zu den Museen dieser Welt sah. Lemercier veröffentlichte daraufhin eine Stellungnahme, in der es um die mangelnde Transparenz von Kryptokunst-Plattformen während seiner Nachforschungen zu ihrem Energieverbrauch […]

  • Tezzards are the start to something special on Tezos – cryptonewmedia

    septembre 15, 2021 at 10:31

    […] in the Tezos ecosystem) is in the range of 60MWh, a continuous draw of 7 kilowatts. Compared to Ethereum, these numbers differ by a factor of over two million, between six and seven orders of magnitude. […]

  • ¿Verdadero o falso? Un solo NFT puede alimentar un hogar europeo durante 1,5 meses – Cryptos al Dia

    septembre 21, 2021 at 5:23

    […] empezando a cancelar los planes de hacer NFTs como resultado. El artista digital Joanie Lemercier canceló su segundo lanzamiento de Nifty Gateway tras conocer el impacto medioambiental de las ventas de la […]

  • NFT art: what is it, how it works and what it means for the creative industry – ArtsViral.com

    octobre 4, 2021 at 12:35

    […] to transporting physical work around the world’s museums. Lemercier went on to release a statement documenting the lack of transparency he faced from cryptoart platforms when investigating their energy […]

  • why digital art has such a massive carbon footprint – NFTs Tales

    octobre 14, 2021 at 10:08

    […] the associated energy costs. The sale would use, in just ten seconds, enough electricity to power the artist’s entire studio for two […]

  • Crypto Art Has a Climate Problem, and There’s No Easy Fix | Digital Trends | GadgetsMonster

    novembre 1, 2021 at 1:11

    […] with significant measures like ditching air travel and integrating rainwater into his studio. His NFT launch erased the progress of those efforts in a matter of […]

  • Thecoinfin

    novembre 9, 2021 at 3:17

    Thank you Gene for engaging. I agree with you blockchain is interesting and has potential worth exploring.. I’m an energy and climate analyst and an analyzing the emissions from NFTs for a client who is working really hard to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Accord. I

  • Thecoinfin

    novembre 9, 2021 at 3:21

    Thank you Gene for engaging. I agree with you blockchain is interesting and has potential worth exploring.. I’m an energy and climate analyst and an analyzing the emissions from NFTs for a client who is working really hard to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Accord. can you check my comparison of Ethereum VS bitcoin and share your feedback.

  • True or false? A single NFT can power a European household for 1.5 months – KnuRich CryptoCurreny News

    novembre 12, 2021 at 7:20

    […] artists and platforms are starting to cancel NFT plans as a result. Digital artist Joanie Lemercier canceled his second Nifty Gateway drop after becoming aware of the environmental impact of the platform’s […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – Bitcoin Crypto

    novembre 13, 2021 at 3:20

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – LEPTABIT

    novembre 13, 2021 at 3:27

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum . […]

  • BtcNews – Сrypto news from around the world that everyone should know

    novembre 13, 2021 at 3:27

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum . […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – Crypto Breaking News

    novembre 13, 2021 at 3:33

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc "descontinuado" – cryptoshitcompra.com

    novembre 13, 2021 at 3:34

    […] Los primeros acólitos que migraron a Hic et Nunc desde los mercados de Ethereum fueron artistas de inteligencia artificial como Joanie Lemercier de Francia y Memo Akten de Turquía. Ambos dependen de una gran cantidad de potencia informática para generar su trabajo y ambos han mencionado las preocupaciones ambientales como factor clave por su decisión de abandonar Ethereum. […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc ‘Discontinued’ – Crypto Watch Daily

    novembre 13, 2021 at 4:01

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc ‘Discontinued’ – The Blockchain House

    novembre 13, 2021 at 4:05

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc ‘Discontinued’ – Crypto Coin Gossip

    novembre 13, 2021 at 4:23

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued'

    novembre 13, 2021 at 4:36

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – The Crypto Coint Report

    novembre 14, 2021 at 4:07

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • China X The NFT Files: Memes in The Mirror | The China Temper

    novembre 14, 2021 at 6:10

    […] with burning Banksy’s work “Morons” (White) and keeping it online, scandals with the ecological impact of NFT-production due to high levels of energy consumption remain. But who […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – CryptPublisher

    novembre 14, 2021 at 9:06

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc 'Discontinued' – CryptoInChain

    novembre 14, 2021 at 10:06

    […] The first acolytes to migrate to Hic et Nunc from Ethereum marketplaces were AI artists like France’s Joanie Lemercier and Turkey’s Memo Akten. Both rely on a lot of computing power to generate their work and both cited environmental concerns as the key factor for their decision to abandon Ethereum.  […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – World eNews Online

    novembre 25, 2021 at 12:15

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – BBC Business Update

    novembre 25, 2021 at 12:16

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained

    novembre 25, 2021 at 12:18

    […] combined with continued growth in consumption are pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”. French artist Joni Lemercier explains In a blog post he explained the reasons for canceling his crypto-art […]

  • What’s an NFT and the way does it work? The ‘bitcoin for artwork’ defined – wikimarts

    novembre 25, 2021 at 12:27

    […] with a gentle progress of consumption is pushing us in direction of a local weather apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier factors out in a weblog put up explaining the explanations they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – YoursBulletin

    novembre 25, 2021 at 12:57

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What's an NFT and the way does it work? The ‘bitcoin for artwork’ defined – Sailing Suncharters

    novembre 25, 2021 at 1:03

    […] a gentle progress of consumption is pushing us in the direction of a local weather apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier factors out in a weblog publish explaining the explanations they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – Business Fast

    novembre 25, 2021 at 2:44

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – World Daily News

    novembre 25, 2021 at 4:57

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – diverob

    novembre 25, 2021 at 10:17

    […] a gentle progress of consumption is pushing us in the direction of a local weather apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier factors out in a weblog put up explaining the explanations they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – freeinfos

    novembre 25, 2021 at 10:21

    […] a gentle development of consumption is pushing us in direction of a local weather apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier factors out in a weblog put up explaining the explanations they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What’s an NFT and the way does it work? The ‘bitcoin for artwork’ defined – tarcare

    novembre 25, 2021 at 11:00

    […] gradual development of consumption is pushing us in the direction of a local weather apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier factors out in a weblog submit explaining the explanations they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The 'bitcoin for art' discussed – Edu-Crypto, Become an Expert in the art of trading

    novembre 26, 2021 at 2:39

    […] with a constant development of intake is pressing us towards an environment armageddon”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a post discussing the factors they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – Yahoo Finance UK – bc

    novembre 26, 2021 at 3:37

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – United Kingdom

    novembre 26, 2021 at 8:08

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • How Do Your Online Habits Affect Your Carbon Footprint?

    novembre 28, 2021 at 10:03

    […] you jump into the next app or website hype. You don’t want to make the same mistake as artist Joanie Lamercier, who made a monumental NFT art sale only to be horrified by its environmental impact […]

  • Bitcoin consumes more energy than countries like Argentina or Ukraine – The Canadian

    décembre 5, 2021 at 2:11

    […] Lemercier He saw how all the energy expenditure that he had managed to reduce in recent years he was going to ruin for selling six works on the Internet. The process involved an emission of 5,669kg of CO2, a figure that will grow every time a buyer of […]

  • – NFT Culture | NFT & Crypto Artists Curating Ideas

    décembre 7, 2021 at 5:46

    […] May 2021, French digital artist Joanie Lemercier canceled the release of six upcoming crypto-art pieces after calculating that the energy costs involved amounted to […]

  • NFTs Are Hot. Can They Be Sustainable? – NFT Culture | NFT & Crypto Artists Curating Ideas

    décembre 7, 2021 at 5:46

    […] May 2021, French digital artist Joanie Lemercier canceled the release of six upcoming crypto-art pieces after calculating that the energy costs involved amounted to […]

  • The Climate Impact of NFTs and Crypto-Art | The Genius Tips

    décembre 14, 2021 at 6:22

    […] to technologists such as Memo Akten and Offsetra, he determined that each NFT in the set emitted approximately 80 kilograms of CO₂, totaling 4.24 tons. This quantity of CO₂ is approximately 7% higher than the average U.S. […]

  • Art On Fire – A Suitable Concern

    décembre 14, 2021 at 4:47

    […] IIn November 2020 French artist Joanie Lemercier saw a resounding success when they released fifty three pieces of NFT artwork on an online marketplace called Nifty Gateway. The release quickly netting Lemercier over £12,000 pushed the artist to begin working on their next set of pieces. However, just before the second release was due in February of 2021 Lemercier pulled out citing environmental concerns. […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – News Concerns

    décembre 16, 2021 at 5:42

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – Short Nex

    décembre 16, 2021 at 5:57

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – SHIBA STORE

    décembre 16, 2021 at 6:00

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art […]

  • What’s the Big Deal With NFTs? – World NFT News

    décembre 16, 2021 at 6:49

    […] visual artist and environmental activist had planned a release of several works as NFTs before realizing the environmental toll and cancelling the entire project. In his defense, he was looking for more sustainable ways to exhibit his art, which usually […]

  • What’s the Big Deal With NFTs? – iNFO Vi

    décembre 18, 2021 at 12:24

    […] visual artist and environmental activist had planned a release of several works as NFTs before realizing the environmental toll and cancelling the entire project. In his defense, he was looking for more sustainable ways to exhibit his art, which usually […]

  • What’s the Big Deal With NFTs? – Book Library

    décembre 18, 2021 at 1:54

    […] visual artist and environmental activist had planned a release of several works as NFTs before realizing the environmental toll and cancelling the entire project. In his defense, he was looking for more sustainable ways to exhibit his art, which usually […]

  • What’s the Big Deal With NFTs? – Savvysavingreviews

    décembre 19, 2021 at 7:26

    […] visual artist and environmental activist had planned a release of several works as NFTs before realizing the environmental toll and cancelling the entire project. In his defense, he was looking for more sustainable ways to exhibit his art, which usually […]

  • NFT – o filho prodígio da blockchain – Marcel Serrano

    décembre 31, 2021 at 7:04

    […] artista visual francês Joanie Lemercier parou de trabalhar com NFTs quando descobriu o consumo energético que eles […]

  • 100 possible landscapes – Studio Joanie Lemercier

    janvier 7, 2022 at 4:42

    […] estimated CO2 footprint of about 110 kg of CO2.This is the reason why I am still advocating for a Ban of Ethereum NFTs and […]

  • ▷【 Tezos NFT Marketplace Hic et Nunc "descontinuado" 】 2022

    janvier 8, 2022 at 4:03

    […] Los primeros acólitos que migraron a Hic et Nunc desde los mercados de Ethereum fueron artistas de inteligencia artificial como Joanie Lemercier de Francia y Memo Akten de Turquía. Ambos dependen de una gran cantidad de potencia informática para generar su trabajo y ambos han mencionado las preocupaciones ambientales como factor clave por tu decisión abandonar Ethereum. […]

  • Null and void. – Studio Joanie Lemercier

    janvier 10, 2022 at 1:40

    […] platform without addressing the core issue (replacing PoW by to PoS), I cancelled my participation (again) to the carbon drop and shared insights in the following […]

  • NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and the hidden environmental impact – MCC.EXCHANGE

    janvier 13, 2022 at 4:12

    […] on the blockchain ledger. One digital artist estimates that producing six works of crypto-art used more electricity than her entire studio consumed over a two-year period. Some alternate methods for creating NFTs have come onto the scene recently that could have less of […]

  • Marbles and pinky promises – Youpi !

    janvier 24, 2022 at 3:09

    […] joannie Lemercier The problem of (Ethereum) CryptoArt […]

  • Technologie. Pourquoi les NFT suscitent de plus en plus de débats – Le Progrès – Smaaks

    janvier 24, 2022 at 5:24

    […] de la blockchain sous sa forme actuelle: c’est un désastre », écrit-il sur la page qu’il consacre au problème sur son site internet (à lire en […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – NFTs Tales

    mars 6, 2022 at 1:14

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – NFTbuzz

    mars 6, 2022 at 3:48

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – World NFT News

    mars 6, 2022 at 6:07

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – CryptoBullNewsflash

    mars 6, 2022 at 6:36

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – CryptoNews365

    mars 6, 2022 at 10:26

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – Suuchle Crypto News

    mars 6, 2022 at 10:59

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star Online – 4 NFT NEWS

    mars 6, 2022 at 1:28

    […] in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website. Despite the youth wanting to save the planet, it seems we’re intent on destroying it as well. […]

  • NFTs are for imbeciles – Northern Star – CRYPTORAQ

    mars 6, 2022 at 4:02

    […] One vocal voice against NFTs is artist Joanie Lemercier who found out that “my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” according to Lemercier’s website.  […]

  • What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained – The Independent – Auto Robot Demo

    mars 10, 2022 at 3:07

    […] combined with a steady growth of consumption is pushing us towards a climate apocalypse”, French artist Joanie Lemercier points out in a blog post explaining the reasons they cancelled their crypto-art release.Defenders will say […]

  • CryptoKitties and Sorare, the most harmful Ethereum NFTs for the environment – Naira Talk Today

    mars 18, 2022 at 10:24

    […] the use of NFTs on the Ethereum network, due to their high energy consumption. In February 2021 she suspended the release of her crypto art on the NiftyGateway platform, due to “the senseless and […]

  • NFTs – you will not get rich from reading this – stu sontier

    mars 27, 2022 at 2:03

    […] The problem of CryptoArt […]

  • Metaverse: The Savior of Sustainable Fashion, Or Is It A New Form Of Greenwashing? – Qiwei Chen

    avril 4, 2022 at 3:46

    […] Now the question is, is digital fashion verified as an environmentally friendly commodity? In fact, the pollution problem from digital fashion may be even worse, and it may even develop into a new disaster, light artist Joanie Lemercier documents the consequences of her once published work, “It turns out my release of 6 CryptoArt works consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the… […]

  • Controlling Web3 Carbon Footprint – Polkadot News Today

    avril 29, 2022 at 11:13

    […] cost of crypto art “unreasonable.” French artist Joanie Lemercier has since 2021 been raising awareness of the “disastrous” impact of the Ethereum on the environment and the need for more sustainable […]

  • True or false? A single NFT can power a European household for 1.5 months – CryptoCurreny News

    juin 12, 2022 at 4:10

    […] artists and platforms are starting to cancel NFT plans as a result. Digital artist Joanie Lemercier canceled his second Nifty Gateway drop after becoming aware of the environmental impact of the platform’s […]

  • The Environmental Cost of NFTs and What We Can Do About It – Kirk Coburn

    juillet 14, 2022 at 8:02

    […] in February 2021, French artist Joanie Lemercier canceled his release of several works after he discovered the environmental cost of NFTs. He noted on his website that […]

  • Alexander Smith

    août 12, 2022 at 11:27

    NFT technology brings exciting new opportunities to creative people, but of course, energy costs must be kept to a minimum.

  • Indie Game Publisher Loses That NFT Feeling

    septembre 13, 2022 at 8:14

    […] are minted on blockchains like Ethereum, which consumes lots of electricity to validate transactions and create more Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the network. Ethereum […]

  • why digital art has such a massive carbon footprint – All About Pakistan

    septembre 17, 2022 at 8:46

    […] the associated energy costs. The sale would use, in just ten seconds, enough electricity to power the artist’s entire studio for two […]

  • Explorando El Futuro Incierto De La Sostenibilidad NFT – Bolsa De Valores De Chile Magazine

    septembre 27, 2022 at 3:44

    […] artista francesa Joanie Lemercier ha escrito extensamente sobre su preocupación de que la criptoinfraestructura se base principalmente en combustibles […]

  • Exploring the Uncertain Future of NFT Sustainability | NSC Blogger

    septembre 27, 2022 at 3:46

    […] artist Joanie Lemercier has written extensively about his concern that crypto infrastructure is primarily based on fossil fuels. His work requires […]

  • Exploring the Uncertain Future of NFT Sustainability – Wealthyfie™

    septembre 27, 2022 at 5:05

    […] artist Joanie Lemercier has written extensively about his concern that crypto infrastructure is based mostly on fossil fuels. His work calls for […]

  • Controlando la Huella de Carbono Web3 – NFT News Today | NFTeando

    novembre 11, 2022 at 8:45

    […] ecológico del criptoarte como «irrazonable». La artista francesa Joanie Lemercier es desde 2021 crear conciencia del impacto «desastroso» de Ethereum en el medio ambiente y la necesidad de opciones más […]

  • Learn How to Make NFT Art: 7 EASY, Practical Steps to Follow in 2023

    mai 25, 2023 at 9:37

    […] artist Joanie Lemercier was so alarmed after discovering just how substantial the environmental costs would be, he decided […]

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