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How JR Bissell Is Rejecting The
Volatility Of Digital NFTs And
Encouraging His Clients To Invest In
NFTs Backed By Shipwreck Treasure
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It feels like every day, there's a news story about the volatility and excitement of the stock market. With all the press
swirling around, it can be easy to get caught up in the excitement and put money down on a risky decision without
thinking it through. JR Bissell is working to provide his clients with an alternative to the risk of betting on the stock
market by providing them with the very first NFT to be backed and redeemable by a physical artifact. With his
company, Pirate Gold Coins, he has made 10 high end shipwreck treasure coins into NFTs to be sold.
" "At any point in time, the NFTs can be sent back to
be burned, and we are able to ship you the physical
shipwreck coin. All NFTs are 1 on 1 representations,
of course, because they claim ownership of the
physical piece itself, ours are the first to be backed
by physical items," Bissell outlines.
With the increased spending seen in the market as people are dropping hundreds of thousands to acquire NFTs in
the digital realm, it only seems natural to turn physical items, such as Bissell's shipwreck treasure artifacts, into
these NFTs. Prices have continued to skyrocket on what is considered digital artwork, without any physical backing
to what the ownership represents. The issue, however, is that ownership of these items is easily influenced by
trends following Twitter and Reddit.
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" "Stocks can influence our emotions everyday based
on theoretical gains or losses. People will have a
good or bad day based on their stocks positions even
without ever selling them. The saying, "Only thing
worse than being in the stock market is being
married to someone in the market." Until someone
sells the stock, they never made or lost anything.
However, their daily emotion is tied to their
positions regardless of selling,” Bissell explains.
When NFTs came to the forefront of the cryptocurrency world, Bissell wondered who was going to determine their
prices as they moved forward to the future. Curious if NFT pricing would follow the same rules as the high end art
market, with dealers and collectors following billionaire and oligarch taste, or if online message boards such as
Reddit groups and Twitter trends would steer where the money flows.
On the flipside, collectibles are different. They do not come with highly fluctuating prices under the influence of the
global market, and therefore an easier and less stress inducing investment for the consumer.
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" "In this uncertain new market, I believe having these
NFTs backed by a physical artifact such as shipwreck
treasure will add significant stability to the piece in
the form of a safety net. The NFT will always be
worth at least the price of the physical artifact,
which remains very stable. In addition, the
population of shipwreck treasure compared to the
volume of the cryptocurrency industry, where
there's tens of thousands from a single series like
cryptopunks, are significantly rarer. The amount of
shipwreck treasure will, for the most part, remain
fixed indefinitely, which in turn, makes its value
stable," Bissell says.
If the stability against the fluctuation of cryptocurrency and stocks wasn't enough to turn the tide towards investing
in physically backed NFTs, JR reminds his clients about the status and clout that follows owning a piece of
shipwreck treasure.
" "Although it sounds funny, it's still worth
mentioning that owning a rare piece of our planet's
history is very exciting. It's a great conversation
piece with friends and family, or even potential new
clients. Although owning a large share of stock in a
company gives someone status, it's not quite as
glamorous and alluring of a status symbol as
owning an original Monet or an ancient Egyptian
artifact," Bissell states.