These are my favorite types of arguments that people use against the prospect of having to learn something new: "We own the high ground by continuing to not understand the subject of discussion."
Pretty much all the counterpoints being made in this thread come from a place of arrogant ignorance, and they largely overlap with the same arguments that no-coiners have been making against bitcoin for years:
- NFTs are a fad
- they're not real
- they're not backed by anything
- they're a ponzi scheme
- they have no utility.
Well, you're wrong, just as no-coiners are often wrong in their attacks on bitcoin. Its just more comfortable to make sweeping generalizations and stick with them forever than make slight alterations to your world view in light of new information.
Two RAREPEPEs (Nakamoto Cards) Purchased in Same Day
https://twitter.com/EmblemVaultBot/status/1563077252983635969
Two wrapped RAREPEPE cards (the original & most valuable Rare Pepe) were sold within a few hours of each other; one for 6.64 BTC (~$142,400) and the other for 6.54 BTC. This is huge, not only in dollar terms and significance, but because the new price floor for these cards in now 12 BTC.
https://twitter.com/EmblemVaultBot/status/1563077252983635969
Two wrapped RAREPEPE cards (the original & most valuable Rare Pepe) were sold within a few hours of each other; one for 6.64 BTC (~$142,400) and the other for 6.54 BTC. This is huge, not only in dollar terms and significance, but because the new price floor for these cards in now 12 BTC.
I almost bought one of those back in 16 or 17 before the $20k pump.. I was there, had the funds, and could have got one for around 0.25 BTC in value iirc..
I didn’t and bought a bunch of other lesser ones..
That Nakamoto Card didn’t just boom out of the middle of nowhere, it always had high value soon after the Rare Pepe project started gaining traction..
It slowly gained and gained value.. From little to 0.25 BTC, to 0.5 BTC, to 1 BTC, all through the pump, and held all through the bear thereafter..
These were and are not some pump and dump.. These early cards always held very well and keep gaining..
Now, for those of you not in the know.. These times were before the term “NFT” existed.. Before OpenSea existed.. Before any of the NFT hysteria ever happened..
We all had TONS of fun doing this! And put down tons of use on Bitcoin doing this..
And now what?
They are commanding the highest price after being moved to the ETH blockchain!
To me this is sickening! How much more Bitcoin does it get than Nakamoto?
WTF?
And to the point of the value being the “art” and “real artists” etc..
Their is more to “art” than simply the supposed quality of the imagery..
Their is an entirely different concept of “art” in memes..
You can be the greatest artist in the world and not be able to create “memes”.. Great memes are the art of condensing one or many points and meanings into a simple concise image that is TRULY worth a thousand words, and the simpler the better.. A great meme is simplicity that describes or represents complex things, and that’s the beauty of it.. The “art” is in the meaning and the simpler the representation the better..