For all the cynical narratives that circulate the mainstream zeitgeist perceiving nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as little more than means of inflating capitalistic principles, every so often projects emerge that disprove those absolute assumptions, and serve as reminders of the essence, soul and founding purpose of the space.
For Amelia, a 9-year-old Polish girl with a lovable devotion to cats, and a budding artistic curiosity, her discovery of NFTs enabled the opportunity to cultivate her interests into a digital passion project.
Cointelegraph sat down with Amelia and her father, Marcin to discuss the importance of parenting children on the value of money, how to recognize and harness their creative talents for good, as well as learn more about the inspiration of Ami’s Cats.
Amelia’s mother is a bookkeeper for an Irish company, while Marcin is a self-titled entrepreneur with a background in graphic design and product manufacturing, who now operates an e-commerce consultancy business advising sellers on Amazon and Shopify.
Residents of Galway, Ireland for 12 years, the family moved back to home in Poland three years ago. Artistic and free-spirited, Marcin describes their parenting style as one which promotes practical learning over educational teaching.
A curious child, Amelia took a modest interest in her father’s work-from-home business — tracking charts, financial spreadsheets and the like — but it wasn’t until he began browsing through little pictures of doodle art, did she become truly fascinated.
Marcin owns an NFT from Gary Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends Series 1 collection, an Aspiring Alpaca with a rare background. To purchase another one from the collection would have cost around 18 Ether (ETH) at the time, too expensive to purchase, so together they decided to create a collection for Amelia:
“I thought that it would be a good idea to try and introduce her. I believe the best way to learn is to do….
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