My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they’re in a barely regulated industry and they’re fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.
As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.
Sure, NFTs suck, but that doesn’t even put him in the same continent, let alone neighbourhood of evil that banks are in…
My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they’re in a barely regulated industry and they’re fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.
As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.