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Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. (markets.businessinsider.com)
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Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.::NFTs had a huge bull run two years ago, with billions of dollars per month in trading volume, but now most have crashed to zero, a study found.

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

True, but to be fair, them shiny metals for the longest time were reasonably rare and couldn't be made, and served well for a means of currency. NFTs are pretty ridiculous all things considered. People also "bought" stars too, so yeah, many will buy dumb shit.