Two days ago there was an article on people spending hundreds of thousands on digital cryptoart, from Beeple[1]. It's just like the art you already downloaded/saw, but with crypto & rights to it. It's a mad world.

I have a hard time taking the coinheads world seriously. Humanity though persistently finds idols to attach itself to, and once people begin professing their belief/dedication via dollars, it's incredibly hard & there seem to be extremely few checks on these snowballs rolling down hill. Things just grow. The cost to keep them alive & rolling is zilch. More and more folk eventually get rolled into the snowball every day. Humanity has a really weird sense of value these days. Some severe decoupling from the physical world about us seems the norm. Very Ballard-ian, a recursing into the virtual, escape from the real, ever the ascent of the symbols/symbolic, only occasional check-ins with what actually is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26243116