I'd rather deserve it. I carve traditional Coast Salish poles and panels. Nobody commissions a pole hoping it goes up in value. They want it still standing when their grandkids are named.

When your money loses value every year, wealth has to hide somewhere. A painting with no fixed price makes a great hiding place, because it's worth whatever two people agree on. Once art's job is storing wealth, the real buyer is a balance sheet, and hype is how you put a number on something nobody can price. How good the work is barely matters. That's how mediocre work ends up selling for millions. The market rewards whatever is easiest to put a price on.

I'm currently working on a 3 part article about this very topic and how organizations like @Bitcoin For The Arts help. I'll share when it is finished.