Gee, if only there was some way to have seen this coming before hand...
Yup.
Could have put the money in stock instead and they'd likely have made a profit since then.
Hell, they could have stuffed it into their mattress and it would have been a better investment lol.
Inflation can't even lose this much money is such a short time
The first tweet nft sold for $2.9mil and is now "worth" less than $4.
Like it was worth anything at all in the beginning anyways
Edit: Spleling
Beautiful edit.
Might a a good idea to buy it, I'm sure it will sell for 10$ with some haggling.
🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Were they worth anything to begin with?
A better question would be, did anyone ever even buy them to begin with?
This means that 79% of all NFT collections – otherwise known as almost 4 out of every 5 – have remained unsold.
That is, most of the NFTs included in the OP statistic were listed for sale by their creators, and never recorded a sale. Another important detail is that even for the ones that did record sales, there's no real way of knowing if those sales were real. You can easily make another crypto wallet and buy an NFT from yourself. For more elaborate wash trading, you can find someone with an established wallet to collude with. There are obvious reasons to do this too; building up a history of increasing sale prices could potentially dupe someone into thinking an NFT is a good investment, or you could launder money by selling an NFT to a 'dirty' wallet you also control.
Probably some portion of the market was "real", but the volume is almost certainly much lower than anyone is reporting. Statistics like what the OP article is quoting are just about totally meaningless.
Hundreds of millions collectively, when people were dumb enough to buy them. The problem is that eventually dumb people ran out of money and the worth plummeted to zero.
Cost vs worth. Their pricetag may vary; but they've been worth nothing since their inception.
Just because something is unique doesn’t mean it’s valuable.
Some people are just discovering this.
It's not even that it's unique. It's just one particular system associates you with something. It's basically those star registry scams. Except you're not associated with a star by one particular scam organization. You associated with an image of a cartoon ape by a scam organization! But there's a trendy technology involved so idiots think that makes it somehow legit.
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Behold my one of a kind unique string of characters. Me I own this tangible property. But lo! For only 0.42069lol "BTC-lts33" (a REAL and stable currency that is NOT speculative AT ALL) I will maintain a CSV on my server (192.168.6.9/wp-admin/test/test2/myPage.php) I will serve you a guaranteed locally unique identifier (starting at "3" (I'm holding on to the other two strings for a rainy day)) that points to the row with this string, so you can show off that YOU are the sole owner of this totally unique investment property.
This server is guaranteed up, with 100.00000% uptime since this morning
Try telling that to sports memorabilia collectors though.
"Look at my hockey jersey!" "Yeah, so? I have the same one." "Yeah but you're wasn't signed by Wayne Gretsky."
Or even trading cards, or comics. Or hell, even plain w-shirts with a brand logo on it for $250. People assign arbitrary values to stuff all the time. I don't understand it at all, but there's a whole ton of people that just eat that shit up like it's candy.
That arises at least somewhat more organically around a real interest that millions of people have been enjoying and obsessing over for generations. So it's not fair to say it's totally arbitrary.
The logo stuff is weird though. That's definitely more "Veblen" like the high price point is itself a flex and desire for, if not true luxury, then the appearance of opulence.
🔫️ Always have been
Of no surprise to anyone.
If value is completely dependent on speculation how the fuck do people expect to make money?
NFTs were the perfect technology to identify people who didn't understand crypto. The only reason Bitcoin et al. even almost work is that nearly anything can be a medium of exchange... so long as it's fungible. Which is the F theses Ts are N.
But if all you saw was numbers going up, and you don't know what a Ponzi scheme is, yeah sure it makes total sense to buy a genuine commemorative plate of the Brooklyn Bridge. Why's everyone on your case? It must be worth money! It's (a receipt for a link to a picture of) the Brooklyn Bridge!
Fanbros compare stocks, but stocks are slices of a real company. You control one-zillionth of an actual business. If you own enough, that company will do what you say, because you are literally their boss. No amount of "authentic" Brooklyn Bridge tokens will ever mean you get the bridge.
Everything signifying that the exchange was worth your money is a fiction created by the people who took it. That's how scams work.
But it was nice while artists were able to sell to profit from rich people
Pumped, dumped, done.
Who would have thought?
Wait. They were actually worth something!?
But y'know, everyone who rightfully decried those fuckin things were just FUDing, right?
Guess not!
They always were.
Always have been
Now?
O rly! 🦉
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tens of thousands of NFTs that were once deemed the newest rage in tech and dragged in celebrities, artists and even Melania Trump have now been declared virtually worthless.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a form of crypto asset that is used to certify ownership and authenticity of a digital file including an image, video or text.
The report comes nearly two years after the craze for NFTs swept up celebrities and artists alike, with many rushing to purchase NFT collections of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Matrix avatars.
The drastic downward market shift surrounding such crypto assets “underscores the need for careful due diligence before making any purchases, especially one of high value”, the report said.
Researchers identified 195,699 NFT collections with no apparent owners or market share and found that the energy required to mint the NFTs was comparable to 27,789,258 kWh, resulting in an emission of approximately 16,243 metric tons of CO2.
In order to survive market downturns and have lasting value, NFTs need to be either historically relevant such as first-edition Pokémon cards, true art or provide genuine utility, they said in the report.
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Grass is green...
It must have been really hard for the underpaid researcher to put this report together while doubling over in laughter.
I can imagine being desperate to hit it big, but at least but a lottery ticket or something. That way, the school system (or whatever) gets a few bucks, instead of the fucking Trumps.
69,795 out of 73,257 NFT collections have a market cap of 0 Ether
LMAO!
I hope someone got paid a lot of money for this ground breaking report.
Cryptobois be like
Actually their value is completely unchanged. Price and money are made up and do not reflect value.
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