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Once upon a time, I came to Hive to create. Content. And to build. A community — not apps, platforms, or games. I've been clinging to those two verbs tooth and nail for years now. And somehow, it works. I didn't come here to trade, speculate, or pour money into various liquidity pools. From that perspective, Magi isn't as interesting to me as it is to many of you. But the new protocol has something that caught my eye after all. NFTs.

Sure, NFTs are a joke. A joke to make you broke. A few years ago, people were paying insane money for a few pixels that anyone could download for free. You could even print them out and stick them over your bed. So what if someone paid fifty thousand dollars for the one official original? Or even over a million? Ridiculous... And yet, a few days ago, I messaged @tibfox:

"Hey dude! How goes it? Is there a sensible way to mint NFTs on Magi? @honeydue and I have this passion project… We talked about it at the event in Alicante... Well, it occurred to me that we could try promoting it this way too."

Yes, Magi allows you to create an NFT series easily, without coding, and in no time at all. For 10 HBD, which is a fair price. So, in just a few minutes, the first series of characters from the @dead-pets comic was born.

Despite its name, the @dead-pets account will come alive in just a few hours. And the comic strips will be published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. It's a "Hive-powered" comic, and we want to share it beyond our favorite blockchain (and we believe the community will help us spread the word). Because, in a way, it’s an advertisement for a social network where even a passion project like this earns its creators a well-deserved reward. Sure, it’s just a few bucks per strip, but what other social network gives you that?

NFTs don't just have to be an investment bubble. They can be a way to support your favorite creators. For ten or twenty HBD, you can buy an NFT of your favorite characters from our silly comic. It’s more of a symbolic gesture of support, but still — what other social network can do what Hive does? And even more so now that we have Magi?

I’d be more than happy to see more NFT series like this pop up on Magi. To me, it’s not a protocol for investing or trading. It’s a tool that allows us to support our favorite creators in a slightly different way.