I agree with Newman's on this - catering to crypto speculators is little different then catering to comic speculators, and Comicsgate has catered to them plenty.
I suppose I could make some jab about how, just like highgrounding about "not wanting to be a youtuber" before running a QAnon grift channel, Doug's highgrounded in the past about "delivering dollar value over milking paypiggies", and it's hard to imagine anything more "milking a paypiggy" then charging a crypto speculator $1000 for a JPEG of a shitty doodle. For that kind of money you could buy physical original comic art.
But for $300,000 I can't even begrudge him or Smiller or Gary Shipman for making that kind of money. For $300,000 I'd happily eat crow over some dumb rhetoric I made on youtube over some e-slapfight two years ago.
That said, I don't really find "just make NFTs" a very compelling or relevant proposal for blacklisted comic creators or for prospective customers who want to buy comics from blacklisted comic creators, a fertile source of tard drama, or an interesting topic of discussion in general.