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by DonHopkins 804 days ago
>Perhaps not the thread to discuss.

So you can't deny it's a Ponzi scheme, but you just don't want to discuss it here? But YOU brought it up!

This thread is a FINE place to discuss it, since YOU started the top level thread by shilling your Ponzi scheme here all by yourself, before suddenly trying to cut off the discussion when it didn't go the way you planned, so let's discuss it anyway:

Yes it's a Ponzi scheme on its face (or rather on Fernando Botero's faces ;), and worse yet, it's based on misappropriation of an artist's work, plus you also blatantly infringe on and dilute many trademarks at the same time, for money.

You're not the victim here, so don't try to act hurt that "many around here don't love scarce digital assets" and surprised that "I don't know why you see it as any sort of ponzi". Yes you do know, because it obviously is, and you even tried to make a dishonest weasley disclaimer "I know ... but ..." when you first shilled it here, as if it's wrong and unfair to you that people hate Ponzi schemes and stealing art and infringing and diluting trademarks and shilling on Hacker News.

Dan Olson (Folding Ideas): Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

>If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.

Chris Natsuume (Ninesquirrels): Let me explain Blockchain gaming and Play-to-Earn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzup7XDyq8

>NFTs are a pure scam. Blockchain gaming is a pyramid scheme. Play-to-Earn is not only a scam, it's deeply immoral.

Chris Natsuume (Ninesquirrels): Using NFTs to own ingame objects: Also pretty much a scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IYjsWBbmKI

>In this video, I'd like to clarify and further explain: Using NFTs to own ingame objects is an unnecessarily inefficient byproduct of a larger scam.

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Well you sound very angry. I didn't want to hijack another persons post to discuss an unrelated topic, but happy to discuss. I wasn't shilling anything I was sharing a procedural project related to this very post. These links are great for context on the tone of your reply, but say nothing of my project. As charming as Dan Olsen is (/s) there is a place in this world for digital scarcity, it's interesting, it's valid and even if 95% of the crypto ecosystem is cringe and scams, there are a lot of good people doing good work.