A few fairly disconnected thoughts: 1) It could be a scam of sorts, but one that the parties are in on. For example tax fraud or an attempt evade capital contr

A few fairly disconnected thoughts: 1) It could be a scam of sorts, but one that the parties are in on. For example tax fraud or an attempt evade capital controls. 2) Leave aside digital anything, art has gotten really weird lately. The self destructing Banksy thing, the banana duct tape thing—-I could see being knowingly, publicly scammed as some kind of bizarre performance art. I guess the super rich are really bored. 3) The most reasonable spin on it I could think of is what if there was a limited edition print where the print itself wasn’t limited edition. There were as many prints as anyone wanted to buy for the cost of production, but the artist sold a small number of certificates of authenticity. It still seems kind of pointless and scammy to me but it’s at least closer to understandable.