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The funniest thing about NFTs is all the real companies that fell for that shit (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a difference between using electricity and using more electricity, especially a lot more.

EDIT: NFTs are typically minted with Ethereum, which spends a lot of electricity already. If you want to dream up a magical version of a rent-seeking token that doesn't do that, that's cute, but it's not what's happening with rich techbros trying to get people to buy ledger spaces that are associated with ugly cartoons.

I get that you want to pull a "how do you do, fellow leftists" and peddle internet funny money and/or rent-seeking magic ledger spaces here. It's not cool. Stop it.