maxmoon@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investmentEnglish
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1 year agoScammer: “Buy a Jpeg everyone can download”
Investor: “Sounds like I can get rich with that. How much does one cost?”
Scammer: “20,000 to 50,000”
Investor: “Okay, I take four!”
People download jpegs instead of buying NFTs and making fun of it
Investor: “I lost all my money. I sue you!”
Imagine you would travel back to the 1990s and tell someone that in the 2020s people will pay about 200k for a link to a jpeg, but everyone can download the jpeg. They will not even understand why the future is so messed up, but they will ask if we have flying cars, yet?