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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•edit-28 months agoToo bad we as a species didn’t learn our lesson, but people today fall for blockchain scams.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink35•8 months agoty beanies are infinitely less of a scam than crypto too. even if your beanie baby was worth nothing, at least you still had a physical stuffed animal that you can wipe your tears with. wtf are people doing with their Google drive hosted jpeg?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-28 months agoThat’s NFT. Not quite the same thing. Built on crypto tech, sure, but just a subset of the tech and how it ended up used was very much a scam.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoYou also don’t own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoThere’s always some “collector” items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-36•edit-28 months agoIt was inevitable there’d be a “crypto bad” comment. People who don’t understand it like to announce it every chance they get.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•edit-28 months ago99% of blockchain “projects” are scams, they’re right. Doesn’t mean there aren’t some with actual merit and that aren’t scams, though.
Too bad we as a species didn’t learn our lesson, but people today fall for blockchain scams.
ty beanies are infinitely less of a scam than crypto too. even if your beanie baby was worth nothing, at least you still had a physical stuffed animal that you can wipe your tears with. wtf are people doing with their Google drive hosted jpeg?
That’s NFT. Not quite the same thing. Built on crypto tech, sure, but just a subset of the tech and how it ended up used was very much a scam.
You also don’t own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.
There’s always some “collector” items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.
It was inevitable there’d be a “crypto bad” comment. People who don’t understand it like to announce it every chance they get.
99% of blockchain “projects” are scams, they’re right. Doesn’t mean there aren’t some with actual merit and that aren’t scams, though.
Such as?
Hey look guys, a clown!