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Why would you want to live in a theme-park on a remote jungle island in a volatile jurisdiction with a bunch of assholes?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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…
If you run the numbers on "artists who know/care about NFTs" vs "Idiots on the internet gullible enough to buy into anythin" I think 10,000:1 is generous.
FTX moved their headquarters to the Bahamas and now they are trying to build it into a crypto-hub too: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sdjcH7KAxgB328RAb/...
Weird sub-communities and ballpits (timestamp 5:05) are not a famously good combination.
https://blog.mollywhite.net/cryptoland-thread/
The level of incompetency and ironical jokes is overwhelming.
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."
Here's a twitter thread detailing the changes: https://twitter.com/jpainio/status/1479863994387161093
The raw side-by-side video is here: https://peertube.social/w/wpDMyuGRYu9ax6Xz3q9Hdi