I hear you all, I get it, with Decentraland due to launch and everything, I get that it might be cool to hang up digital art in your virtual house and stuff BUT not at the prices people are saying we're talking three to four figure sums or more for some pieces!

Decentraland itself has become a bit of a joke, people claiming it will be the next Second Life, I doubt it. The thing with Second Life is, you could get in on the action pretty cheap, things tended to cost $ or $$ at the most, never $$$ or $$$$ and the things that did reach three of four figures or more were relatively rare and few and far between.

With Decentraland the MAJORITY of stuff is expensive so without a small loan and remortgaging your house it's pretty much off limits.

I get there might be other virtual worlds that pop up where you can display collectables and stuff but again, they're all just so expensive.

Not only that but even if something is limited and there's 100 pieces of a collectable digital art, there's nothing stopping someone creating something VERY similar or with a slight modification that is hardly recognisable and minting more. Again, all this would be fine if we were talking microtransactions, I'd get it, but we're not, everything is just so expensive.

Like I said, I get it for good causes like the FreeRoss campaign or say if there was a digital collectable for donating/helping with the Australia Fires Fund or something. I get stuff like that but having a meme that is so easily replicated and purchasing digital copy of that for $$$ or $$$$+ is just such an alien concept to me.

Who's buying this stuff, millionaires, early crypto investors who struck big and can't liquidate most of their funds?

Madness!