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by bennyelv 563 days ago
I’d argue that what an NFT really is is a vehicle for laundering huge amounts of dirty money.

The banana, the angle of the banana the certificate itself are all theatre, designed to be a plausible high value good that can be created from thin air with the sole purpose of being an excuse to transfer someone some money that they can then claim to be legitimate earnings regardless of where the money originally came from.

Anyone who gets suckered into this scene without understanding its true nature is, well, a sucker.

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Agreed. Anyone want to buy some Hawk Tuah crypto? That painfully young influencer seems like an expert in it...