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The Story About A Real OG Crypto Artists — A.L. Crego
A.L. Crego has been making NFTs since 2018 and sees the Web as his canvas…
A crypto OG is a reference used for those individuals that have been involved in crypto for a very long time (or the beginning). In the case of NFTs, real NFT OGs go back to 2017–2018, as that’s the time when early NFTs were minted (the idea and concept are older). A.L. Crego is one of those artists that have been around since 2018 — the first transaction on the blockchain I could find from him goes back to that year on the Makersplace platform. He has been active on multiple blockchains like Ethereum, but recently he has been mainly minting on the Tezos blockchain. Crego has an unmistakable style, using black and white tones and electric animations.
I had the chance to ask him a few questions and learn more from his long and exciting NFT journey…
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How did you discover NFTs?
My first direct contact with them was about mid-2018, thanks to Makersplace, because they contacted me to join their platform. Still, since about 2014, I’ve been familiarized with and very interested in the blockchain itself. I mean, the fact of being able to ‘link’ my digital work with the blockchain to have a way to prove its authenticity. This was curiosity and a kind of need because since I started using the web as a ‘canvas,’ I was always out of Social Networks but watching how people were using other people’s work as theirs… So my approach to NFTs is not something that suddenly happened in my life but more as a concept of something we need.
You have been around for a long time; what is the main difference between those early days?
The main one everybody is feeling is that we are finally being paid for work we were doing for long years without expecting anything…
