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Money is a fiction that we all believe in. A dollar has no particular intrinsic value. A similar case could be made for gold, which is mostly useful because it's so inert. For that reason, an NFT could be cash just as much as a lump of metal or a piece of paper, but only if it is, as you say, "exclusive right" to that NFT.
These don't sound like anything exclusive. They sound as exclusive as any other electronic file.
This is one of the odder, though Trump cards top it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises is an excellent book, especially on the creation of money as we know it.
He's been milking that cow pretty hard for a long time. He is relentless in asking for donations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I seem to remember another scheme where the winner got a dinner in La. with Trump, the dinner never happened.
I heard that, at least some of the pictures, are Google stock photos. His face was just photoshopped onto them.
If he makes money with this, it seems like somebody else should be able to. If the picture is a stock photo, and photoshop is just a program, and the picture of an ex president is not exactly a copyrighted thing, then shouldn't others be able to make the same cards and sell them at a steep discount?
If I were to sell the same thing for $49.99, it would be half the price, and your odds of winning anything of value would be exactly the same.
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If I were to sell the same thing for $49.99, it would be half the price, and your odds of winning anything of value would be exactly the same.
Just saw an article that says Trump's cards have sold out.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/...143902988.html
Amazing!!!
The law of large numbers is in effect. Once you have a few hundred million people, or a few billion, then a probability of 0.01% is still a very large number.
That picture looks more like a younger Biden than it does of a slimmer Trump.
Is Trump just Biden in a fat suit?
I mean their policies are hardly distinguishable, but their rhetoric is too far apart.
You guys are ruining Post Race - sad...
Is that even possible? Post Race has survived some pretty strange stuff. It even went fairly dead for a few years.
You’ve done ruint it.
Well, it had a good run. If it was a dog it would be 154yrs old.
I went skiing this week. Now I am back and bored. What do people do when they aren't on vacation?
Work I guess.
I like to organize my socks.
What's a 'vacation'?
I have yet to go skiing. There's too much to do for another week.