Recently, NFT or non-fungible has become more and more popular in Indonesia. What's more, after the viral figure of a teenager named Ghozali Everyday who sold his selfie photos as NFTs with a value of billions of rupiah.
Seeing this, it seems that NFT is indeed promising to create coffers of money.
The following is a list of people who got rich after buying and selling NFT:
- Ghozali Everyday
Ghozali is a young man from Solo who sells his photos in NFT form. The price of one photo is sold at a price of 0.001 ETH, which is around Rp. 48 thousand. While the total photos sold were 933 photos. Unexpectedly, 230 NFT have been sold. Ghozali also felt that he did not expect this.
The cheapest Ghozali Everyday NFT collection is sold for 0.28 ETH or around Rp. 13.5 million. With a total of 933 collections, Ghozali's NFT business is worth almost Rp 12.6 billion.
"That's the value of the total purchase, some say it's up to Rp 12 billion. But for example, if someone buys Rp 20 million, I get 10% and so on. The total income is around Rp 1.5 billion," said Ghozali.
- Lana Denina
A man who works as a painter, Lana Denina from Canada has earned US$ 300,000 or equivalent to Rp. 4.2 billion (exchange rate of Rp. 14,300) from selling his paintings which are used as NFTs. Unexpectedly, the income was obtained in just a month.
Quoting from CNBC, Friday (1/14/2022) Initially, Denina was interested in NFT because the technology could strengthen proof of ownership of a work of art. He even admitted that he did not understand what NFT was.
Currently, the collection that Denni sells is a painting edition called Mona Lana, which includes 500 unique portraits of women. He called his paintings representative of black people and their culture.
With NFT technology, according to him, galleries, which are usually done offline, are an old way to sell art. Currently, NFT is one of the options for selling works of art, especially for artists.