Cryptoland [video]

Post by walrus01 » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #25

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #10

319 ETH per acre. ($1mil USD today) I'm struggling to find a way to constructively criticize. Project aside, the video is not at all professional to a western audience. (watch all of it, I dare you) It's stylistically tone-deaf for their target market, grift notwithstanding. Who decided that real estate investors need a cartoon? At least Fyre's promo content felt "cool."

It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…

Post by arcticbull » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

pcwalton wrote: post #17

Ironically given the benefits that the cryptocurrency ecosystem supposedly brings to artists, this promotional material contains stolen IP from at least one independent artist [1]. Cryptoland's response was to block the victim [2]. [1]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1478764832967086083 [2]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1479852849932734477

Post by pcwalton » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

katmannthree wrote: post #27

pcwalton wrote: post #17

Ironically given the benefits that the cryptocurrency ecosystem supposedly brings to artists, this promotional material contains stolen IP from at least one independent artist [1]. Cryptoland's response was to block the victim [2]. [1]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1478764832967086083 [2]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1479852849932734477

After browsing OpenSea one may reasonably come to the conclusion that for every competent artist selling NFTs of their art, there are approximately 40,000 low-effort mspaint primates.

Post by perihelions » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 9:41 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #31

perihelions wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…

I think you may be referring to the following: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-... https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82814/secretly-smart-rea... by immediately weeding out the skeptical, they can focus their direct person-hours of communication back and forth labor setting up the scam on the most vulnerable and guillible.

Post by paulgb » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

riffic wrote: post #16

Nice to see PeerTube out in the wild. PeerTube is a software application that implements the interoperable social networking standard, ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube What this means is if you have an account anywhere on this network, say a Mastodon account, you can interact with the video directly. It's a system that works a lot like how email addresses work (that is, a federated social web). las…