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Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by cunidev »

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."

Reading this comment and opening the video, for the first 30 seconds I thought this was some real island that some rich fanatic bought and tried to resell to crypto folks.

Turns out, it's just a plain old scam.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by fimdomeio »

I'm very confused. I was seeing the video and then the website as if it was a joke. But then it started to look like it wasn't very funny and that it wasn't a joke.

But... crypto, the crazy amounts of energy it uses, rising sea levels, and putting rich crypto people on an island.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by mw888 »

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…

“Peer tube is supported by the non-profit...”

You’re correct, this is different from true web3, which would be fundamentally self sustaining.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by shrikant »

egeozcan wrote: post #189
jsheard wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's impressive how quickly the NFT space has abandoned any semblance of selling unique artwork, and converged on ten thousand variants of "randomly generated animal pictures" with half of them being monkeys because they're cargo-culting Bored Ape Yacht Club. Ironically in trying to create "digital scarcity" they've lowered the bar to entry so far that their "scarce" assets are buried under an endless avalanche of ne…

The thing that saddens me the most is that cats used to own the internet, and I find the monkeys not so fascinating. I was also hesitating to post this because I was afraid that some cryptobro or what-you-call-them would take this complaint literally and open an NFT trading site for cat pictures. It's incredible how they don't see how bad these projects look, so my concern is real.

Boy have I got some bad news for you...

https://www.cryptokitties.co/ is a thing.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#199

Post by cinntaile »

cinntaile wrote: post #59
riffic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wishes aren’t magic. There's a difference, morally, between doing someone harm and a desire for someone to be harmed.

How is the moral difference between wishing and doing relevant? It doesn't help determine if wishing something bad can be morally questionable, which was my claim that you disagree(?) with.

Please explain what is wrong with my reasoning. I'm here to learn.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by ccbccccbbcccbb »

glennvtx wrote: post #150
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…

Never ascribe to malice, what may be explained by mere incompetence?

Never see a pattern where there is a pattern.

(I grant everyone the right to call this law after themselves)

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