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30 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Imagine being so butthurt that people don't care about your collection of CryptoPunks, and mock you by making your CryptoPunks into their PFP, that you convince Twitter to add a verification badge saying all your CryptoPunks are authentic.
"If you see anyone else with my CryptoPunk as their PFP they're an imposter, they do not own the authenticated, verified version of my CryptoPunk. Unless they minted and verified their own bootleg I guess. But the most important thing: I am not the loser here, they are."
Up next: verification badges for completed Innistrad card lists, Homies series 3, and authentic Wuzzles.
Scrolling through the replies, the number of Crypto evangelists who are replying with some variant of "this looks great, but we need some addition double verification to verify that the person has the original original and not a verified forgery"

I ascend
Gosh, it's really easy to create indistinguishable forgeries and enter them into the exact same ecosystem where the chain of provenance gets extremely tedious to unravel and ownership is basically impossible to enforce? Maybe someone should have seen that coming.

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I find it very funny that such a high % of NFTs are just appeals to the navel gazing myth of NFTs.
Because, surprising no one familiar with how online works, it's a marketplace, and a particularly insular one, so to be competitive you need to appeal to the interests and sensibilities of the patron class
And what are the patron class of NFTs interested in? NFTs and crypto.

So what do you make your NFTs about? NFTs and crypto, of course.
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I have spent days trying to give the NFT artist community the benefit of the doubt, reading their twitter feeds and blogs and the way they speak to one another and come to the simple conclusion that they absolutely have no idea what an NFT is beyond "magic pay-me box"
"NFT" also gets used liberally as an aesthetic shorthand to describe short, abstract animations. Many of the artists are simply excited that literally anyone is paying attention to these types of artworks in the first place.
And to a degree the willingness to ignore the details is understandable. The details of NFTs, how they function, what they really are, is boring AF and deeply stupid. Short, abstract animation is basically impossible to monetize outside of direct patronage.
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The Biden COVID task force is particularly interesting to me because it suggests that the Biden/Harris transition team are just going to immediately start operating like the Executive branch in any capacity that they can.

And, thing is, they probably can get away with a lot?
And this creates a weird situation because the current executive is 1) dysfunctional, 2) only likely to become more so over the next couple months, and 3) when not dysfunctional actively evil.

So "it's not official yet, but let's just listen to the new guy" is REAL appealing.
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That's... not a good thing? But it is a thing. Definitely a thing.
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