All my apes, gone
This is even funnier in retrospect
Mostly used for money laundering
I'd say there's a fair number of people just speculating.
And a couple people get lucky and make it big. And that's promoted. Cuz it looks great.
But like a lot of the big movements, are money laundering as you said, or a way to bribe people. This politicians wife's cousins son sold an NFT for 4 million that's amazing!
But we get this with traditional art too. Any market where there isn't commodity pricing, price discovery is flexible, so it can be used for lots of social reasons
I still think NFTs could be used to make a form of DRM that is actually fair to the consumer, by maki g it so you can resell your digital goods and also make it so your digital rights don't vanish as soon as the seller gets bored. But nobody in a position to make that happen wants that.
DRM =/= fair to the consumer.
DRM as a concept seeks to limit your digital rights. Any DRM of any kind is a form of punishment to the consumer. You bought it, it should be yours to do with in perpetuity as you please.
NFTs or blockchains are not needed for this. You could just implement selling or transfers in the content platform.
I do think using contacts for escrow and having the sale being independent from the vendor are cool features, bit not at all essential ones.
Now? Probably?
Remember? Fuck no.
It was what for like 5 minutes during a year with a million other more important things going on to pay attention to that thing that kids with only somewhat rich parents used to try and scam their way to being as rich as the kids with really rich parents.
Anyone with the ability to read who bought one deserves what happened to them. The sellers are probably still laughing.
99 times out of 100, it was the seller selling it to himself to artificially inflate transaction numbers and nudge the price up.
Yeah, but that's the thing with scams. They make thousands of attempts, but they only need that one sucker.
You wouldn't right click a car would you.......
Tell me you don’t know anything about the blockchain without telling me you don’t know anything about the blockchain
…is what Techbro Legion (for they are Many) would say if they didn’t have to put all their stuff in hock to recoup their losses
Turns out it was "not knowing anything" all the way down.
Probably?
It's a free market. Anyone can come up and say that they are willing to pay millions for an indifferent_insect_boat_club.jpeg at any moment.
pushes glasses up I believe what you meant to say is that its a buyer's market. /s
A load of rich stupid people got fucked over. Beautiful.
Oh no….anyway.
GOT EM! They were all confused and excited that it might be the next Bitcoin..All I need is one good con like this and I can get off this fucking hamster wheel!!
Clever assholes convinced fools that they had "the next big thing". The "smarter fools" realized the problem and offloaded their losses onto greater fools, a considerable portion of which are now wondering how to catch an even greater fool than themselves.
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