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Re:Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K by lovedswain on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:05AM (#26489338)
Given the huge amount of free coins floating in the system from the prehistoric days, chances are the guy who created this is also the guy who bought it, or a close friend. That was even already shown to be the case for the massive sale last week -- the purchaser was the owner of an NFT startup.

The entire thing is a scam designed to get time in the news. Never forget what kind of folk you're dealing with in this space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

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Re:Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K by tartoran on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:27AM (#26490886)
This is exactly what I thought to. Similarly some artworks value is pumped up with fictitious buys and sales so it makes it into the news (at least in that market these type of sales don’t go unnoticed).
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Re:Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K by kobasa on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:41PM (#26498154)
There are scummy folks in every space, can't generalize the way you did at the end there.
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