The Onion’s Guide To NFTs
The Onion provides a helpful guide to understanding the basics of NFTs.
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Q: Who does the NFT market target?
A: People who have met all their material needs and still can’t fill that empty hole inside of them.
Q: What types of digital tokens are available?
A: NBA clips already on YouTube, memes already on Imgur, and tweets already on Twitter.
Q: How is Mark Cuban involved?
A: He’s the perfect celebrity billionaire to be quoted in articles to give NFTs an air of credibility.
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Terry Crews Has His Own Cryptocurrency Because Why Not?
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Soon you could be spending money minted by Terry Crews certainly an exciting piece of news if that’s been an ambition of yours.
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The former NFL player, actor, and game show host just launched his own social currency via the startup Roll, a platform that allows so-called “creatives” to crypto-monetize themselves and their own content via what is essentially a decentralized blockchain-based crediting system. The company says it sees itself as a way for people like Crews to engage with their fans and audiences in an entirely new way.
(Reuters) - just setting up my twttr - the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post, sent from Dorsey s account in March of 2006, received offers on Friday that went as high as $88,888.88 within minutes of the Twitter co-founder tweeting a link to the listing on Valuables by Cent - a tweets marketplace. Old offers for the tweet suggest that it was put for sale in December, but the listing gained more attention after Dorsey s tweet on Friday.