The point is that crypto bros claim that this is just as real as any other property (see real estate thread) while simultaneously believing that the law shouldn’t apply because it’s on BLOCKCHAIN. Check out the post that I quoted which thought that NFT marketplaces blocking the sales of these items “completely invalidated the concept of blockchains” (lol) or Hbob whining about LIZ saying crypto should be regulated. They legitimately think this is some kind of self-governing sovereign citizen technology that they are the leaders of and should be outside the scope of legal jurisdictions.
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I have a whole entire thread for this to avoid mucking up this thread too much for people who just want to do some crypto hustling.
leaders of and outside the scope of legal jurisidictions in the real world is… those fucked up places where boys get thrown out before they hit 18 so the creeps can marry as many girls as possible
Old news, but maybe relevant here …
The Unstuck NFT discord has now made a collective 250k off the McRib NFT
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I don’t know when, it could be 10 years or more, but it’s not going to end well for the crypto bros.
from the NFL thread, in case anyone wanted to know if now was a buying opportunity or not
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It’s easy for me to imagine why people might be more sympathetic to (yet another) DeFi scam as opposed to some rube coughing up the keys to his gifs. The former is a technical attack vector and affects many people at once, whereas the latter is one annoying donk getting taken by an unsophisticated scheme. My experience reading about these things is that there’s a ton of victim blaming in the latter cases (on discord and Twitter), and then those same people tend to get rustled if there’s an intervention because BLOCKCHAINS. That Tweet I quoted wasn’t a unique find–the reason I posted it is because it’s the same argument I’ve read ad nauseam.
Bitcoin is like the new “internet cash with a limited supply” in the fears of heading into an electronic cashless society.
So you get the gold bugs, the rich who want to hide their money, and illegal businesses all on board!
Yeah, it rules
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Over 1 trillion dollars worth!
now more than ever…
I think there is a distinction between an intervention by third parties stopping blockchain transactions and holding the scammers legally liable. I don’t think anyone is opposed to the scammers being punished (if they are somehow caught), including possibly being forced to return the money.
I think what people are opposed to if third parties taking actions to try to limit how the blockchain works. The whole point of the blockchain is that it’s decentralized and third parties are not supposed to be able to control it. So when OS blocks a sale of the stolen NFTs people are upset because they fear the slippery slope that OS and other third parties will try to exert more control over what transactions are allowable on the blockchain. Yeah, this one was a clear scam, but do you really trust OS to be the arbiter of these type of decisions.
As for the victim blaming, the internet if full of douches and crypto is probably a bit worse in this regard. I’d bet if you read twitter/reddit regarding people that got caught by Nigerian scams or similar, you’d probably see similar victim blaming.
Buy low and get Tucker Carlson to do a story on it.
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It’s going to be huge when they start using ̶b̶e̶a̶n̶i̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶b̶i̶e̶s̶ NFTs in catalytic converters.
I would’ve guessed in the NFT world that would increase the prices
should’ve stuck with the sexism I guess
Can’t be too overt. The rape victim NFTs crashed after people noticed and that was months ago during height of NFT boom (and of a NFT that had quite a bit of hype and was initially doing ok).
i love the brainstorming from you lately. one of these is gonna hit bigly
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I wish I was the kind of person who actually carried through on ideas instead of just came up with them.
i should be a friend and say you should work on that but i’ve seen some of your other ideas
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