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Re:Web3 is going just great by Barrin92 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:55PM (#29557549)
Instrumentalizing a show whose essential message was that living in a post-scarcity society is possible and where people pursue their interests genuinely rather than in the name of economic gain to make a case for crypto is so on brand with the actual post we're commenting on you could put it directly on the website

Let's just listen to the man himself for a second, while we're talking about star trek and money: https://youtu.be/PV4Oze9JEU0?t=143

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Re:Web3 is going just great by neilparikh on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:17PM (#29557911)
It's even more ironic, because the entire point of NFTs is to create artificial scarcity in an environment without scarcity (the digital world).

I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies, and I think you'd be right, but I find cryptocurrency projects in general seem to lean heavily into the scarcity aspect, and promise that early adopters will be able to cash in that scarcity later.

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Re:Web3 is going just great by 3np on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:44PM (#29558329)
> I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies

Not even a major aspect. Just like neither are the main aspect(s) of Web3.

Despite what con artists and puppet farms on Reddit and Twitter are pushing.

(The web3 moniker in its current form came years before the first NFT contract)

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