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Or not. If you've been living under a rock, crypto prices are deservedly going through a rough time.



I didn't intend it as 'investing' advice. Regardless of recent crashes, all NFTs are valued (by at least one person) infinitely higher than they 'deserve'.


That's incorrect. Most NFTs don't sell. This you see with the naive giving away their NFTs on Twitter after hoping minting NFTs of their art would finally help them to get somewhere. A large chunk of the ones that do sell are being bought by the artist themselves to save face or attempt to spark demand.

This is without even getting into stuff like this: https://thatkimparker.medium.com/most-artists-are-not-making...


My 'one person' was the 'minter'. They presumably think it ought to be worth something. I don't, so I haven't.


This lady has media coverage so that is a leg up that most NFT charlatans don’t have.


All things deserve to be worth exactly what somebody is willing to pay for them.


That’s a pithy axiom, but it ignores the reality that people are often willing to pay because of misunderstandings, inadequate information, fraud, lies, and cons.


Are you trying to dunk on NFTs, or Wall St? Sorry I can’t tell…


Maybe on the idea of market prices being inherently just, and every transaction being implicitly fair, that your statement implies?

Does a senior manager at a big corporation, when accused of sexual harassment, deserve a $90 million golden parachute? While someone who quits their job to care for their severely disabled child deserves nothing?


Asking what people deserve is a fundamentally stupid question in the context of valuation. Whatever your idea of “fair” is, it has basically no bearing on economic valuation, which is governed by the laws of supply and demand.


And yet here you are, posting about "deserve" and "worth"

Or were you just trying to say "The amount people are willing to pay is the market value" ?


You’re aware that this is a conversation about asset prices, right?




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