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L’insostenibile leggerezza degli NFT

Credit: Kadir Celep

Si fa tanto parlare di NFT che mi è venuta voglia di dedicargli un post. Lo spunto definitivo viene da un articolo pubblicato da Real Life Magazine, rivista online ricca di spunti originali. Ne ho preso alcuni estratti da commentare insieme.

NFT: l’ultima mania del capitalismo finanziario

NFTs are the perfect expression of art-world-as-financial-bubble. As with all bubbles, the details may be obfuscating, but the basic phenomenon is very simple: The more people who can be brought to agree that some arbitrary object is valuable, the more valuable it becomes. In other words, crypto-currencies like Bitcoin and crypto-related investments like NFTs are a pyramid scheme disguised by the Nolan effect. The “valuelessness” of the object and the absurdity of the markets that appear to trade it only seems obvious in hindsight, as has been the case since the early-capitalist Dutch tulip craze.

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