This article by the author/podcaster Seth Godin [1] highlights the issues with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) [2], built on the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It extends t

This article by the author/podcaster Seth Godin [1] highlights the issues with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) [2], built on the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It extends the ideas introduced in an Everest Pipkin post [3]: > Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological. The ecological issue is due to the energy consumption required to perform (some^) cryptocurrency computations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Godin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Godin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token [3] https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3 https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issue... ^EDIT: added “(some)” cryptocurrency computations based on Tenoke’s comment