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

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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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[–] BigHaas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

The periphery will simply align themselves with the existing Chinese pole of influence, why the need for a block chain? Surely a totally new economic technology would take decades to legislate, specify, code, verify, and implement? There's no way it happens as a reaction to something, it would be like a space race level of effort