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Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.

We have been attributing a huge value to a metal that’s mostly remarkable for being yellow and shinny for millennia, one of the biggest investment bubbles in history was over a flower, and people thought that using a loophole to profit from the arbitrage of international reply coupons was going to last forever. Hell, people paid for fake property titles for land on the Moon and Mars. It’s not that surprising that some people think that buying a random number in a distributed database is an investment.

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eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yellow, shiny, and untarnishable/non-poisonous. The latter are very nice properties to have for jewelry, as your skin will eat away most metals over time.

People like looking pretty, that has consistent value other than using it as a medium of exchange/ store of value.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Don’t forget the beanie babies, which just like NFTs were created to be scarce and be seen as an investment.

Turned out the same as well.

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kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I didn’t get the “arbitrage of international reply coupons” reference. What’s that one?

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- jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s what Ponzi told people he was doing. And in the beginning he was, and it was working, but then he started paying investors with other investors money.
  
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  - AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    And in the beginning he was, and it was working
    
    I might be wrong, but to my recollection, he never got it to work; in the beginning, he merely believed that he could eventually get it to work, and that the first fraudulent payouts to early investors were originally intended as a temporary way of buying time without losing investors.
    
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- who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The OG ponzi
  
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UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, the really smart people bought whole stars!

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bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
True, but to be fair, them shiny metals for the longest time were reasonably rare and couldn’t be made, and served well for a means of currency. NFTs are pretty ridiculous all things considered. People also “bought” stars too, so yeah, many will buy dumb shit.

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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

remarkable for being yellow and [shiny]

Yes, but also very rare, and effectively impossible to create or destroy.

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