I miss the days when blockchain was the latest bullshit. Anyone remember NFTs? Ah, simpler times.
@aral they could be compartmentalised. It was nice
@aral they're not only still around, they're on the Moon now. Jeff Koons' sculptures, with attached NFTs in that private mess that flew to the Moon and landed sideways.
I want to hug my knees and cry.
@aral Remember "metaverse"??
@aral Ah yes, that was a great time. People stole my music and sold it as NFTs. Now AI is stealing my music
@aral I was nostalgically thinking about the 3d printed houses yesterday.
@aral There was a guy in the neighborhood in which I used to live whose license plate read “IHODL”
@aral I never understood the hype around NFTs.
Why did (does) anyone buy into guff like blockchain? Most get-rich-quick scams are simple, because they only work on simpletons. To even understand what blockchain is, you have to have a few dozen connected live neurons. I'd have expected that to be enough to make people think, "Oh, hey, this is for fools, not me!"
But that's not how it went.
Why?
@aral So what's the latest and greatest on the #SiValleyGrift scene ?
@aral big data, small problems
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Never thought I'd miss those old days when blockchain's still a thing!
@aral I miss copy pasting peoples NFTs in reply to their tweets and watching them have an absolute meltdown about it.