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Oh hey, a wild PhilosophyTube reference! Go check out their channel. If you like this kind of wit, you'll find it incredible.
Just don't look up her history with contrapoints if you still want to enjoy the channel
The skinwalker actually has talent.
If you gaze long into the pump'n'dump, the pump'n'dump gazes also into you
*Gazes into you and pump'n'dumps* :3
It's a shame that NFTs were immediately used for speculation.
The applications for things like E-Tickets was really cool! No third party required to trade and proof of ownership is self evident.
The technology will continue to develop in the background, more slowly, but steadily. Once society is ready to use it for something other than rabid speculation, it will be ready I suspect.
I don't have twitter, but that Diogenese comment deserves cake
I think one of the early macabre fantasy writer had a short story about a carny who was selling shadows to some geeks and then he got got and it wasn't pretty.
I member when they wanted to add this complicated solution to an already complicated process (making videogames).
Truly the machine spirit of middlemen.
What is the intrinsic value of a piece of paper? Money is a social phenomenon.
Money is a social phenomenon
Perfectly explains why NFTs don't work. Nobody believes in the value of some bits on a blockchain, so it has no value.
Well some people do. And when some people believe a thing against all reason, we call that a cult. If they get big enough it's a religion. I worry about the future of the techno priesthood.
Odd, there's a significant part of the world population that doesn't believe the Canadian paper money I have has any value and will demand payment in their local paper. Does Canadian money have value?
You'll find this question already answered in the comment you replied to.
Money is a slice of the gdp.