Travis Uhrig is the founder of Curio Cards and he organizes the Bitcoin meetup group in San Francisco, which boasts over 6,000 members. He has a background in science and business and has worked as a system administrator at an environmental non-profit: "Nothing to do with crypto at all," as Travis says. Then in May, he quit his job altogether to become full-time crypto. This is around the same time that he launched the first set of Curio Cards. Curio Card's mission is to create a platform for artists and collectors that finally benefits artists. As it states on their website: "Until now it's not been possible to sell digital artwork without massive fees, theft, or restrictive DRM." Curio Cards is changing that. The project is doing phenomenally well, with over a thousand cards sold and artists making on average $300 - $900, according to Uhrig. Any artist can submit their work for free to be voted on at community.curio.cards. So why do this? According to Travis:

"Crypto needs artists, is my sense. Everyone always says that bitcoin is too complicated to explain to people, but you'll look at subcultures -- hip hop, hipster -- all these different groups, they have very complex rules of engagement, very complex rules of etiquette, and not everyone understands them -- and it's just fine because musicians and artists and writers and reporters have explained them to us. I think that's what Bitcoin needs. It needs artists to help explain the culture and help define it. So I really liked the idea of creating a project that can get people that don't have any Bitcoin, don't have Ethereum, don't know anything about it, but they're really talented, and it’s a way for them to get involved."

Travis’ long term goal is for the entire project to be decentralized so that the community selects the art and moderates itself. Travis’ biggest problem right now? He needs more artists.

"I want to open up the selection. I don't want to be curating anymore. I want to let the community decide which artists are included, which is why it is very important to me that we get the word out because I want to get as many artists as possible to submit their work.

"I don’t think that you should have to have crypto. That’s a big part with what we do. That's why we don’t charge the artist, because I can say, 'Hey, we'll create cards for you,' but it costs -- say it costs me $60 in Ethereum fees to make the cards. It would make sense for me to tell the artist to pay me $60 in Ethereum and pay your fees, right? But we don't do that. We just cover the fees for them because I want to have artists that don't even have Ethereum, who don’t know how to do that – this is how they get their Ethereum, by selling their cards

"I think once the word gets out, they’ll start to understand, because artists are willing to experiment and try new things in pretty much any other field. So once they’re aware of it, I'm offering them a free way to get their stuff turned into an Ethereum asset. That's how we can get some cool submissions. We need to get the word out to artists."

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