The purpose of the Nordic Bible Museum is to make the contents of the Bible known to the general public. Who wrote the bible? What does it contain? Why was it written? These are all questions they are trying to answer. Now they are going to sell some of the Bibles as NFTs to renew to even more. Simply a kind of “crypto bible”. – Hope it can generate income, says the museum’s general manager Rune Arnhoff. But making money can be a challenge in today’s market, crypto artists believe. This Bible can be yours for 0.04 Ethereum, or approximately NOK 470. Graphics: Screen dump / nft.nobimu.com First museum to sell NFT During the pandemic, the Bible Museum received support from Innovation Norway to create a virtual museum. It was published in its own metauniverse. In retrospect they got another idea; NFT of Bibles. What is an NFT? NFT stands for “non-fungible token” and is a kind of electronic proof of ownership. The solution was created to help people who create digital art to sell and distribute their works. The certificate of ownership is unique and a non-replaceable data unit stored on some kind of digital ledger. NFTs are often associated with reproducible elements such as images, video, audio and other digital files. Although it is possible to copy the file, the NFT shows who owns the original. With that, they are the first museum in the Nordics to get on the NFT wave. – Not many people associate the old book with something so “modern”, but many find it exciting, says Rune Arnhoff, general manager of the Nordic Bible Museum. These are the nine NFT Bibles that have been put up for sale. Prices vary from around NOK 470. According to him, they have already sold a couple of copies. – As a museum, we have a task to convey information. By using NFT, we can communicate this in new ways. Through their own website for sale, everyone can follow prices, transactions and new Bibles that are put up for sale. The page now shows that the museum has sold a couple of Bibles for approximately NOK 470, or 0.04 Ethereum. Others take a break from the market Håkon Evjenth (20) from Bodø has previously produced and sold NTFs. But in the last year, neither the crypto nor the NFT market has done particularly well. Evjenth has therefore taken a break from crypto art. – Before, there were more people who demanded NFTs and fewer people who made them. Now it’s the opposite, he says. An animation created by Håkon Evjenth – which is sold digitally. Håkon Evjenth He emphasizes that what the museum is doing seems interesting, but that it may not be the right time. – It is much tougher to enter the market today due to the world economy and developments in crypto in general. The 20-year-old also points out that those who trade in crypto are often young. However, fewer young people than older people are interested in Bibles and religion, statistics show. – But it can be a positive thing for the museum that they are the first in Norway to come up with something like this, says Evjenth. Several thousand images Regardless of the market, the museum has initiated the project. To make the Bibles three-dimensional, they have used a technology called photogrammetry. They have taken between 5,000 and 7,000 photos of each book, which are then assembled to become a 3D object. – We have never done this before, and we are also entering an unknown landscape, says Rune Arnhoff. The museum is already planning several launches of new NFTs. – We are also looking at the possibility of creating something within holograms, he says. news’s journalist Kasper explains what NFT is.
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Nordic Bible Museum sells NFT Bibles. Kryptokunstner believes there is no market for this now. – news Nordland
