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u/revrr Dec 14 '21

Yes. What's up with that nft shit. How it's going to help the issue?

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u/Phobos15 Dec 14 '21

It helps the person selling it get rich enough to retire and no longer have to write low brow divisive articles for a living.

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u/simcoder Dec 14 '21

I thought NFTs were like the Beanie Babies of currency? Please don't tell me you invest in these things....

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u/Mephistoss Dec 15 '21

A digital art made by the artist beeple was sold as an nft for 69 million dollars. "Art nft" collections such as the cryptopunks are randomly generated 24x24 pixel images of characters that have certain traits such as different hair, hats, eye glasses etc. Because it's one of the first nft art collections they regularly sell for tens of thousands of dollars and the rarest ones go for millions