The benefit of being an artist on a bitcoin standard, or at least the hope, is that over time it liberates you from having to focus entirely and unwaveringly on the commercial environment and the commercial tastes of the mainstream. If you are on a bitcoin standard, and you have achieved some level of flexibility, some level of financial security through bitcoin, then you are free to make whatever kind of art you want, without pandering and catering by necessity to mainstream tastes. Instead, you get to pursue things that push boundaries, riskier things, experimental things, etc. You get to hew to YOUR vision, not pander to the ever-changing, ever-fickle tastes of the commercial mainstream.   In the same way that people say great leaders don’t follow public opinion, they create it, great artists don’t conform to mainstream taste, they create new taste. Or they fundamentally transform it.