Moonbirds NFT Holders Fuming Over Canceled PROOF of Conference - Kevin Rose has confirmed that the 2023 PROOF of Conference will no longe... - https://dailycoin.com/moonbirds-nft-holders-fuming-over-canceled-proof-of-conference/ #zzzeditorspicks #gaming&nfts #kevinrose #moonbirds #zz_index #zz_top #nfts

Nifty News: PROOF cancels NFT conference, Bitcoin meme creator cashes in $150K and more - The conference known as “Proof of Conference” was slated to run i... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/nifty-news-proof-cancels-nft-conference-bitcoin-meme-creator-cashes-in-150k-and-more #michaelwinkelmann #garyvaynerchuk #bitcoinwizard #taprootwizard #nftmembership #alexisohanian #nftdiscovery #hospitality #kevinrose #nftreview #ordinals #yugalabs #zillow #proof #memes #yelp

Moonbirds creator Kevin Rose loses $1.1M+ in NFTs after 1 wrong move - Among the nonfungible tokens (NFTs) stolen from the PROOF co-foun... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/moonbirds-creator-kevin-rose-loses-1-1m-in-nfts-after-1-wrong-move #openseamarketplacecontract #arranschlosberg #chromiesquiggle #maliciousactor #onchainmonkey #ryanseanadams #floorprice #fixedfloat #kevinrose #moonbirds #autoglyph #feetpix #proof

Think that paying to have the #blockchain say that you are the “owner“ of a JPEG everyone can see on the internet was often silly enough? Think again. #KevinRose shares the good news that legendary collectibles can now be sliced into tokens so that we poor late arrivers can pay to have a blockchain say that we are the “owners“ of a little piece of what another blockchain says is the legitimate instance of a JPEG everyone can see on the internet.

Progress!

The hosts ask #KevinRose why $DOGE is still a thing. Answer (from memory, and paraphrasing): the power of community, backing a project, a shared purpose, building something together, blah blah blah.

Too kind, too rosy (too cynic and self-serving?)

I’ll say it upfront: I like #blockchains. I think that they’re exciting #tech and that there’ll be use cases for them — and I have invested a little bit in a few crypto projects (eg, $BTC).

However.

The amount of nonsense in the #crypto world in general, and around #NFT’s in particular, is astonishing. Proponents and advocates should be the first to call BS, for our own benefit.

I listened to this recent #episode of the #Bankless #podcast with #KevinRose (of Digg fame), and in that spirit, I’ll mention here five idiotic or at least naïve ideas expressed in the show: