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My best guess without wasting days and weeks of my life studying this is that some people with a lot of extra money laying around are passionate about blockchai

My best guess without wasting days and weeks of my life studying this is that some people with a lot of extra money laying around are passionate about blockchain, Ethereum contracts and non-fungible tokens so they are attempting to will a system into existence that eventually will stay afloat without their assistance. This system will be extremely useful is what they imagine and as early adopters, they will make their money back. If not, it was money they had to gamble. Of course, I could be imagining all this.

DSingularity 5y ago
So yet another pump and dump by the early crypto?
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  More like early days of Reddit where founders would fake convos between each other to bootstrap the site, but in this example, an economic system.
- okareaman 5y ago
  I think it's much more than pump and dump, or if it is, on a much longer time frame. There is a absolutely spectacular documentary on Andy Warhol by Ric Burns that I think sheds some light. Warhol was relatively unknown before the 32 soup cans. An art dealer in California named Irving Bloom showed them and most people hated them or dismissed them, but by some mysterious process they became like a talisman that divided the hip from the unhip. Later in the documentary Bloom brags about how they're now worth millions of dollars. NFT's of JPG's of rocks are kind of like the soup cans. You either get it, or you don't, but people are betting that the one's who get it will pay good money for all kinds of NFT's in a self-sustaining market. It's very futuristic, like the idea that a soup can could be art. It's not based on anything that happened before. You really have to get the context starting at 1:08:15 where a friend tells him "you like money, why don't you paint pictures of money? You should paint something everyone recognizes, like a can of soup" The Life of Andy Warhol - Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIdjvezp2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIdjvezp2U

DSingularity 5y ago

So yet another pump and dump by the early crypto?

toomuchtodo 5y ago
More like early days of Reddit where founders would fake convos between each other to bootstrap the site, but in this example, an economic system.
okareaman 5y ago
I think it's much more than pump and dump, or if it is, on a much longer time frame. There is a absolutely spectacular documentary on Andy Warhol by Ric Burns that I think sheds some light. Warhol was relatively unknown before the 32 soup cans. An art dealer in California named Irving Bloom showed them and most people hated them or dismissed them, but by some mysterious process they became like a talisman that divided the hip from the unhip. Later in the documentary Bloom brags about how they're now worth millions of dollars. NFT's of JPG's of rocks are kind of like the soup cans. You either get it, or you don't, but people are betting that the one's who get it will pay good money for all kinds of NFT's in a self-sustaining market. It's very futuristic, like the idea that a soup can could be art. It's not based on anything that happened before. You really have to get the context starting at 1:08:15 where a friend tells him "you like money, why don't you paint pictures of money? You should paint something everyone recognizes, like a can of soup" The Life of Andy Warhol - Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIdjvezp2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIdjvezp2U