• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Too bad we as a species didn’t learn our lesson, but people today fall for blockchain scams.

    • Nintendo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

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          You also don’t own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.

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        There’s always some “collector” items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.

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      It was inevitable there’d be a “crypto bad” comment. People who don’t understand it like to announce it every chance they get.

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        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.

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        1 year ago

        Hey look guys, a clown!