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From Blockchain to Culture: What does it take to Sell "Splinterwears" in local Shops?

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The most beautiful aspect of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency is whenever it's expressed in forms thatweaves into everyday living apart from being a "digital" currency in wallets. Most people till now hold the speculations that cryptocurrency is not spendable, and they hold that as an excuse to desuade the ignorant folks from buying in. However, having crypto-branded products in the living room, dinning, and kitchen wares in our homes as well as office gadgets would communicate a whole lot how cryptocurrency can be tangible.

Moreover, having more merchant firms come in and willing to sell everday gadgets and wares with crypto in local shops would be an amazing way to spend and add value to cryptocurrencies world over. I imagine going into a game shop and having to pay for a game console with SPS, DEC, ONEUP and any other game token. I see that coming in the near future especially in developing countries which constitute a ripe market for cryptocurrencies.

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It was beautiful to see those Splinterwears in the recent SPlinterlands AMA update and have them displayed on blockstyle.io virtual market. Those are sweet designs that many would love to rock. Having those branded tshirts around could help communicate more about the Splinterlands game as well as Hive blockchain to those who are not internet freaks. This has been one of my push to promoting Hive communities and tribes. Many people out there may never want to google about Hive on the internet but would love to know more from incription on shirts and home/office wares.

My concerns with the shirt designs is that they are costly when compared to the exchange rates of a developing coutnry like Nigeria with our dwinding Naira value. I see this as a huge retail business option that can go a long way to market Hive and Hive products to the local man.

I'm thinking of one having to purchase these designs as a NFT art and having the resell rights to print them on as many tshirts as possible for the local market. The Spot designs as in the cover image could be printed with about $12 to $20 depending location while quality shirts could go for $10 to $16. That could reduce the cost of rocking those shirts to $22 to $36 against the $30 to $48 value excluding shipping charges.

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I'm loving the innovations around here and I'd love to promote it in every way possible. Let's create Hive local shops and have our Hive branded products reaching the common man there who has no access to the internet yet.