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NFTs aren't art – they're just the Cult of Crypto's latest scam

11 pointsby ppjimalmost 3 years ago

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676234e117almost 3 years ago
Dan Olson&#x27;s tone and bias is grating.<p>&gt; Why is the art of NFTs just so dang ugly? -- The folks who are steering all of this, the guys who are in charge, or the guys who go out and make something like Bored Ape Yacht club, like they&#x27;re just hollow inside. They don&#x27;t understand art. They don&#x27;t understand culture. They don&#x27;t watch television. They don&#x27;t watch movies. They don&#x27;t read books. They don&#x27;t read comics.<p>A comment like reveals the interviewer and interviewee have not looked very far into the NFT art space. Like seeing a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sale and saying that all art is hollow, and all artists have no culture. The highest selling art does not represent all art.
smoldesualmost 3 years ago
&quot;In February 2018, it was noted that Salon was preventing readers using ad blockers from seeing its content. Such users are offered a choice of disabling their blocker, or allowing Salon to run an in-browser script, using the user&#x27;s resources, to mine Monero, a form of cryptocurrency.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Salon.com#Cryptocurrency_mining" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Salon.com#Cryptocurrency_minin...</a>