NFT

noviwu97

RIP to this top 5 most shilled coins in this sub. It was funny seeing the GME shills pivotted to saying how amazing the tech/dev is after the NFT marketplace shut down

SoftJeff

NFT’s and minting were actually so fun. Not sure why it had to completely die off.

MrMpeg

Did you also buy his bible? His NFT's, Go to his university or bought into all his other scams?

GeoSystemsDeveloper

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WeggieUK

My wallets no longer get scam NFT's or tokens anymore. That's when you know it's bad.

mindtrapper

I don't think you researched the Gnosis system enough. Gnosis Pay is like you say but there are partner apps. I have one card which is connected to Rebind and Gnosis App. Rebind offers around 5.5% APY with card auto top up and free IBAN SEPA transfers. Gnosis App offers the cashback. If you have 1 GNO in your wallet you have 3% cashback and if you get their reward NFT (I think you need to invite 3 people that spend 50 Euros with their card) you get +1%. So I get 4% rewarded in their coin (CRC) which I can swap to EUR in my card immediately. Limit is 4000 CRC per week, so 1000 Euros per week. Without NFT it's 3000 CRC (still 1000 Euros). If you want to hold 10 GNO then it maxes out to 5% cash back. Limit remains 4000 CRC (800 Euros per week). Sounds better than your 2 card setup.

ginga_balls

I’m not making fun of anyone. I’m telling you all that you’re retards for buying bitcoin. It has as much value as an NFT…which is none. I hope you’re all holding the bag when this shit crashes to $0…retards

mikegoblin

I have some first edition tops NFT baseball cards from 2020

Charitzo

> it's a Story of value which we create to sell to the next person ata higher price. This sounds awful similar to Butters / Vic Chaos explaining NFT's to the old people.

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If you’re gullible enough to think crypto would ever work as a day-to-day currency for humans, I have an NFT to sell you. Governments, especially super powers, will always protect their control of local currency. Your investment thesis shouldn’t hinge on the world’s super powers collapsing. Crypto is still useful. But the anarchocapitalist vision of replacing all fiat everywhere is a fantasy.

ImpressiveButton4037

Yeah lol I get the vibe its like a NFT but what's a cool catchy name

longview4nearsighted

I'm hoping it will be a come-back-kid. I was really on board with the real world NFT application for things like car titles, mortgages, and other documents that are user specific and could utilize encryption.

hamson2024

I stopped running the program since December 2025. If it was a dependency thing, why didn’t it happen when I was running the NFT trading program? Why it happened half a year later? I just tell my story. You can choose what you want to believe. The problem is that, I can only suspect. There is no way for me to get any evidence.

greenpeppers100

Then you have malware on your computer, used a dependency in your code that’s been compromised, or had some mechanism in your bot that exposed your keys to the open internet. AWS secures more money then the combine market cap of every NFT project your bot was trading, banks use and trust it for infrastructure. They aren’t stealing your keys. And if you can prove that they did, I’d encourage you to sue the hell outta them.

greenpeppers100

Then you have malware on your computer, used a dependency in your code that’s been compromised, or had some mechanism in your bot that exposed your keys to the open internet. AWS secures more money then the combine market cap of every NFT project your bot was trading, banks use and trust it for infrastructure. They aren’t stealing your keys. And if you can prove that they did, I’d encourage you to sue the hell outta them.

sgtslaughterTV

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/g-s1-124463/trump-supporting-prediction-market-companies-in-fights-with-state-gambling-regulators >Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., is an advisor to Kalshi and Polymarket, and his venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, is a major Polymarket investor. I'm the fool? wut? Should I screenshot this and turn it into an NFT?

csfrayer

I'm pessimistic on purely financial assets moving entirely to blockchain - but it's technologically and legally feasible. Representations on blockchains of real world assets will not and cannot ever be immutable. Paper ownership of art is not ownership if someone else has the physical art. Land is not meaningfully "transferred" on the blockchain. You can't NFT physical assets. It's essentially the same reason that blockchain for supply chain management failed - it doesn't matter what the blockchain says if the people responsible for putting the info into the blockchain are putting in bad info.

whatwilly0ubuild

The lily pad analogy is fine for intuition but the technical claims need some pushback. On Solana's "state contention" framing. The characterization of Solana forcing transactions to declare state access upfront is accurate, but "localized traffic jam can lag or desynchronize the global network validator queues" overstates the problem. Solana's local fee markets (implemented post-SIMD-0096) specifically address this by isolating congestion to hot accounts rather than letting it propagate globally. A popular NFT mint can spike fees for that program's state without affecting unrelated transactions. The architecture has evolved beyond the original scheduler limitations. On Monad's "optimistic execution" description. The rollback-and-reorder framing is roughly correct for optimistic parallelism, but the claim that MonadDB allows "multiple processing cores to read the hard drive at the exact same millisecond without locking each other out" conflates several things. Async I/O is about not blocking threads while waiting for storage operations, not about simultaneous disk access. The actual innovation is scheduling compute while I/O is in flight, not magic parallel disk reads. On Hyperliquid being "specialized monoculture." This is accurate. Purpose-built order matching with stripped-down execution paths will always outperform general-purpose compute for that specific workload. The 200k orders/second claim is plausible for a system that only does one thing. The Apple/Linux/Microsoft comparison is narrative framing, not technical analysis. These analogies are more about storytelling than architecture.

TheresNoSecondBest

Same position here, mate. The vast majority of people running core30 don't want the garbage like NFTs neither, but jumping on the 110 bandwagon would create even more problems. Now the 110 gang (I don't like calling them knotzi) is creating unnecessary drama, instead of concentrating on the bigger issues we have. A fine example. One single member of the 110 group posted yesterday 5 posts with zero context. Just a click bite title and a link to a random tweed. Or course the post will get taken down, nobody has time to click on your link titled "Bitcoin under attack" just to see a random X profile with 5 followers announcing a video, another X profile will release the next day. Once the post is removed, he runs to X and complaints about censorship of his spam. Just more drama instead of looking for a solution. So far, I haven't seen a "coreunist" that would fight keeping inscriptions/NFTs on, but perhaps these NFT scammers are concentrating outside of this sub.

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SnooSeagulls4360

NFT-s v2 😃. Hard pass.

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Post is by: willofscott and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/Monad/comments/1u5bkay/a_reply_worthy_of_postingmonad_question_asked/ Dude, Mr OnusunO, how many times do you have to be clued in and prompted with some valid data which should prompt you to do some real indepth research. The research is the way to establish a belief in the thesis of an asset, without the research you have no real reason to be owning it, and that’s full of angst and worry, give yourself a break and create a knowledge based commitment you can set the asset aside after buying it and let it do its thing, you have decided based in data, that will take place in time as far as you can actually know for sure. Plant a stake and go on to other life things occasionally updating your research to see if your thesis is still accurate. This is how institutions select assets, retail guesses or convinces them selves they aren’t guessing when many times they actually are. I have done extensive research and have found that there is a high probability Monad will be a core infrastructural play on the overall implementation of trad fi on to crypto rails, which is in my research 100% going to happen, the rialing of finance. There is no other option, no other superior technology, everything is going blockchain, it will take 1-20yeras for the transition, and monad once mature and established will be a fixed component of this crypto ecosystem. Parallel execution as it has been hard coded with monad, is an advanced proprietary parallel execution variant. It has been developed by Jump Trading experts in parallel computing, why? Because in high frequency trading you cannot run the risk of your trade order or thousands of micro second trade orders to get bottlenecked behind a task like minting an NFT, that could cost millions in losses at that scale. This dilemma has caused HFT firms to become the premier firms to develop the computer science technology called parallel execution or computing. They have millions riding on the line to develop system which have zero lag time to execute millions of trade orders with absolutely zero failure rate. So you apply this same science to crypto and you can run or process transactions the same way, for instant finality with very little expense per transactions. This is a major reason why Mastercard is working with their engineers as they mature and develop the working incubated system to Mastercards needs as they incubate them. They recognized the use of this HFT skill set and applied it to crypto, a new frontier for this tech, hence monad was formed. Parallel execution in layman’s terms… Let’s say you are cruising along and you come to pond, and there is a line waiting to cross over via the single row of lily pads (you are a bug so weight has no relevance), the line is due to every bug has a different crossing time and ability, so the line grows and you wait for your turn and this wait is never the same depending on who needs to cross, along comes a little bug ambulance tries to cross without the lily pads and sinks in the pond lost forever, there is no crossing without these lily pads. Then one day someone adds a grid of lily pads as a solution, but the bugs do not understand why and simply still use the same row of lily pads. And the solution is a no go, the next day they learn to use two rows and there is some improvement…along comes monad and write a sign (code) that explains based on the person in front of you and their speed please select another adjacent lily pad to pass and you are approved to evaluate any lily pad which supports the expeditious crossing. So the bugs quickly learn to use every lily pad in the pond and everyone crosses at their own speed as fast as they can and the line is forever eliminated. The end, or the beginning! That’s parallel execution, the tech other chains established do not have as monad has, other versions but not the monad superior built version which is known to be the shit! ….and it naturally should be, because it incorporates the knowledge of very skilled experienced parallel technicians and engineers tasked with protecting clients money by the billions, that pressure to deliver, that’s precision under fire, that’s who is building monad. Unparalleled engineering, applied to parallel execution. The lack of coin price heavy parabolic moves is the dilution aspects of coming unlocks and an adoption grind expected to take awhile, and whether the dynamics will nullify or accelerate the risk at the point of dilution. There is a case to be made to be invested now, and plan for demand to outweigh supply, and a case to be made for the opposite hence no dedicated price surges as of yet. Also the public opinion of VC dump as if they will simply drop this project as job done we got the one time pump, get a pay day and drop the whole project as a scam. Are you fucking kidding me? That’s the most immature perspective of financial industry, I’ve ever heard, finance will extract ever single value based ounce there is to be harvested, and if the long game hold true substantial gains and/or possibly be a acquisition target of massive value, they will not simply stop the project and let it rot, and not extract this long term value. That will,never happen this way a lot of public seem to think is the game. Stupid gossip ridiculous thinking of the masses, hence why retail lose money and spray liquidity all over the institutions bank accounts. After the unlocks and after things settle down, monad will continue on with working on the system, adoption, onboarding services, and they have enough cash runway to exist along time without running out of funds such that they are almost guaranteed to weather the storm until adoption meets needed demand and survive to be a major blockchain. This is the real payoff time, and I believe a payday large enough even VC and there time lines will want a piece of this action and either buy back in or hold a portion of their bags, the unlock will not be the real payday and pros know this, it’s in 5-7 years from now, and that fits their chartered timelines of these investment firms. This is why this coin is investable, and why in the long term will be generational wealth ticket, question is now or after dilution, both have risks and both have advantages possibly. If your in it for the long haul you buy now and hold and stake your position to gain yield and benefit from the dilution period and extended wait time, and if being your a long term investor you don’t fear drawdown one bit, which long term holders could careless, if they are dcaing constantly and consistently, the yield earned keeps the time invested not dead money, hence why the yield is there at all. Dead money is bad, yield bearing while waiting for a highly probable successful technological advanced blockchain to mature and be revenue generating from the genesis moment is awe inspiring and will make many rich people with giant smiles on their faces. That’s why monad is a good coin. 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St0uty

So what you're saying is, there was a near-perfect decentralised currency, but after some grifters divided the space with NFT & memecoin pumps, everyone just gave up and went back to using dollars (but now on the blockchain!) Kinda sad how easy it was for the banks to still come out on top with this technology lol

LargeSnorlax

The crux of the argument is exposed in that before you would be able to more effectively launder sales, and this is closing a loophole. For some reason people want more legitimacy to crypto as an asset, but also want to be able to sell an NFT to themselves on December 31st for $1 or blatantly wash trade and claim that on their taxes as a loss.

spxflipper6900

The pdf should be sold to you as an NFT, that way you make sure you receive what you paid for.

belavv

> As an NFT collector I find a lot of value in it. Hahahaha

LetzGetz

Anyone with an NFT profile picture deserves to be poor.

Confident_Hunter7506

Dude bridges are hacked regularly. Humanity protocol just got hit for $30m. Hacks and scams account for billions lost every year. Quantum is not the threat and the idea that ETH, SOL and BTC won’t be ready for quantum is straight fear mongering. But AI is already exploiting bad code and that’s quickly disappeared will get worse. I’ve only gotten into crypto since COVID and one thing I’ve consistently noticed is how rapidly the narratives change so that there’s always something to talk about. Remember NFT’s, all but dead

-stankdaddy-

I bought Reddit NFT

silvrdragon52

I bought an NFT in 2021 that there was a fervent challenge to get. I spent weeks preparing to snag one, and when I didn't manage to get one myself out the gate, I dropped $12k to buy one on OpenSea. Did it in front of my coworker who was stunned. Sounds crazy right? Well it was the best financial decision of my life, because in the next 6 months its price ballooned up to about $250,000k, I got into a community of smart people who really knew their shit, met a bunch of likeminded savvy people, got an additional NFT for free which was worth about $40k at the peak, plus tokens that were being generated... then after having little idea how to time or interpret the market it all just faded and faded and faded. I fumbled $300,000+ total. I often think back to a moment where I thought to say in the chats: Hey guys this seems like euphoria, like the euphoria phase. I think about how if I had followed my intuition and sold and then bought BTC in the 2021 dip, I could be retired now, just 5 years later. Live and learn.

quantumEnergy99

I never liked NFT if i am being honest

Raheem_Rex

Oof, that one still hurts to see 😂 Paid $2.9 million for Jack’s first tweet at the absolute peak of the madness, and now it’s worth less than a Starbucks run? The NFT hype was insane.... Felt like everyone lost their minds for a minute there....

beckymargot24

That's exactly why I think NFTs were more useful as a provenance technology than a scarcity technology. They could prove who owned a specific token, but they couldn't make the underlying image scarce. Digital files are infinitely copyable at near-zero cost. The real question was never "Can people copy the image?" Of course they can. The question was "Will people assign value to verified ownership despite unlimited copies existing?" For a brief period the answer was yes. The market later decided the premium was much smaller than NFT enthusiasts expected.

beckymargot24

This is a good reminder that "rare" and "valuable" are not the same thing. The tweet still exists, the NFT still exists, but the market's willingness to pay millions for ownership of a token linked to it largely disappeared. Speculation drove the price up far faster than any underlying utility or cash flow could justify.

Significant-Royal-37

explain it like i'm stupid: why is it still not 0? you never see an NFT anymore, but bitcoin is still worth 60gs?

MedonSirius

NFT Holders https://i.redd.it/m2ly46mxyv5h1.gif

Doritos707

You know it did pump up and people did make profits right? Also a tons of air drops (such as the Rock NFT that was released for BTC holders) and all the different Solana coins that made many people millionaires.

KalozKapitany

NFT hype never came back either.

DrGoozoo

Remember NFT? Someone I know was in the planning phases of BTC, he told me it’s the biggest rug pull in history.

Ericlin0122

No body really cares about crypto nowadays. It has no practical use just like NFT.

Ruzhyo04

Miners are forced sellers. Structurally building sell pressure into your security model that requires prices to go up is… not optimal. Staking better aligns ecosystem incentives with security. And Ethereum has DeFi and actual use cases while BTC doesn’t. I can use ETH to register an ENS name, use it as collateral in a trustless loan, trade it for rETH and earn a passive yield like savings. It’s the most used currency in NFT trades. So it has a real-world anchor.

asyrian88

NFT’s are foreverrrrrrrrrrrr

CapIndependent1815

It is still a very powerful function of crypto - nobody can touch your funds if you do it right. But yes, we don't need a NFT for everything, nor 20000 blockchains

Solid-Individual-913

I never believed in NFT shenanigans but I did believe this shit would do more than what it does right now.

CT4nk3r

hell nah, BTC in 2021 was a bubble, just like how AI is now. Everyone was making BLOCKCHAIN the buzzword. Every motherfuck had their own coin and NFT etc. It was everywhere. (still a bubble, but thats a different point for discussion)

DevastatorPcu

NFT and crypto are definitely not the same. Crypto can have use cases and will have use cases. Like enslaving the masses.

Leynnox

Why are you talking about NFT? This has nothing to do with BTC, NFT was about purchasing the ownership of a digital product, letting you using it for personal and commercial use. The fact people used that for selling chimp pictures, and making billions from people stupidity and greed, that has nothing to do with the tech itself.

CompleteView2799

I said nothing about cashflow or dividends. It is just air. Vapor. Like those silly NFT’s that no one talks about anymore. Poof. That is where we are.

Physical-Profit9447

AI (LLMs specifically) becomes more relevant, profitable in 3 years than crypto in 17 years. I am not saying there is no bubble in AI economy but it is exactly like beginning of the internet. NFT and blockchain have never been. BC is total overhyped BS.

louisremi

You can blame NFT and block chains being hyped beyond the value they actually provided to businesses and consumers. Might be true as well for AI? We'll see

owa00

But your forget, everyone invested in NFT "fOr tHe tEcHnOlOgY"

SeriousGains

TFW you realize your NFT from 2021 that was worth 5 ETH is only worth 0.05 ETH and ETH is only worth $1.6k and $1.6k isn’t worth what $1.6k in 2021 was.

Coeruleus_

That “web3” shit was embarrassing looking back on it. I fell for the NFT crap but the virtual land stuff was way too whacky for me. I don’t know what SAND is but I’m shocked it’s only down 95%

bertleturtleson

Otherside is the bayc metaverse. A bunch of eth and apechain projects there, even a btc Runestone voyager. Lands are not activated yet but the floor is steady. As an NFT collector I find a lot of value in it.

Volgrand

Well I don't know about programming, so I'm going to ask few obvious question as a gamer with over 30 years of experience: What advantage does have building your game in the blockchain over creating it off the chain? Having an NFT in your wallet, for the average gamer, is no different than having it in your steam account. Just more complicated more steps. Whats the advantage? And please don't go with the "You own your nft". Thats hardly any truer than it is that i own my skins on steam... Until steam decides I don't. Which is no different from your game deciding that certain NFT is of no use anymore. On the other hand, most transactions on any blockchain require paying a fee. So... Are they supposed to have the fee coin in their wallets? Which one? If they have to pay fees, is your game really feee? Hope to help ;)

asidealex

Answer me this: 2018 you had the ethereum smart contract hype. 2021 you had the NFT craze. What was the defining hype in 2025? Maybe you'll understand why bitcoin isn't in a good place right now.

s74-dev

It's just because people got jaded with NFTs in general and it's the NFT chain

ByTheHeel

I have never purchased an NFT and idc about anyone who does or who promotes them. It looks cool, so I stole it. Cry

AsbestosDude

Useless? Mate you can literally go to the metaverse right now and rep that NFT for all 3 people in the metaverse to see. Youll be king! And you call that useless?!

HSuke

I attended the very first one (in a metaverse), and all I have to show for it was a useless NFT.

ozera202

Time to face reality, even Michael Saylor is done with the Ponzi schemes. Crypto is in the same with the NFT category with zero use case after all these years other than to buy low sell high. Maybe I should fight kids and buy sealed Pokemon cards and become a scalper ….

Advanced-Summer1572

Been with Solana since March 30 2020. 100% staked since it became available. Definitely see it as the surprise most people don't need coming. Fantastic operation and quality coders, will put it beyond Ethereum in all aspects including Security... Great read. Thanks, you hit on all of the issues, the active solutions and the evolution from tokens/gaming/NFT to financial institutional interest and investment in the present and future.

Former-Substance-359

NFT

MinimalGravitas

> But don't you think they will always keep the price down because they want to avoid high gas fees? Sort of, but that is only half of the equation. The number of transactions will be a lot higher so even if individual fees are low, the total will be high. Gas fees depend on whether or not the network is near or exceeding its capacity. A blockchain has a certain amount of space available for transactions in each block. If the volume of space available is higher than the demand the transactions can be arbitrarily cheap. The gas fee increases as a measure to prevent congestion by disincentivizing low value transactions when there is not much space available. Ethereum has over the last year or so increased the amount of capacity faster than the demand for blockspace, so there has been no congestion, gas has been cheap and so little ETH has been burned. Now there is much more space, so next time demand for capacity starts to catch up with the limit the total number of transactions will be a lot higher, that means that more ETH can be burned while each individual transaction can cost less, win-win. There is already much more gas being used on Ethereum L1 than at the height of the 'ultrasound' meme when the asset was most deflationary: https://etherscan.io/chart/gasused Next time we hit the capacity limit it seems very likey that the cause won't be from short term PFP NFT drops or memecoins, but from much more sustainable projects: https://ethereumadoption.com/built-on-ethereum/

Individual-Towel8799

$2.9M → $5. 🐾 Meanwhile Snowdog launched at $0, told everyone it might stay at $0, and still has more honest holders than that NFT. 🍯❄️ At least the husky never pretended to be worth millions.

MCalchemist

The late comers' sole purpose is to provide capital for early adopters to exit... Sound familiar to a certain kind of financial scheme? I thank god for the NFT craze ripping off my rose-tinted glasses so I could realize this is all speculative bullshit meant to enrich people already ahead of the game. Ironically the exact opposite of the original intention of crypto.

MoonwoventrophyInk

NFT times were wild. Glad I didn't jump on a bandwagon.

casual_snacker

Cowboy State Daily describes the clinic as a “personal museum of Charles Hoskinson’s globe-trotting life.” Dotted throughout the clinic are Hoskinson’s favourite works of art, Roman coins, a replica of the Book of the Dead, and an NFT that was “flown” into space, all on display. There were replica robots from the sci-fi series Lost in Space and The Forbidden Planet, and plans to install several exotic fish and dart frog enclosures. … Plans for the clinic also included hanging dinosaur fossils from the ceiling and the inclusion of Godzilla and Mothra figures. … The decision to fill the facility with oddities left some Cardano supporters angry at Hoskinson’s decisions to torch billions of his ADA on a “vanity clinic.” … Hoskinson claims that his clinic was serving between 18,000 and 20,000 patients.

jb_in_jpn

The people dismissing your thesis are the people who would still try convince us NFT's are still the future. They don't want to be bagholders, and don't want to admit they are. Good riddance. Crypto became nothing more than a scam.

LexxM3

What if they included an NFT with every pizza?

Mundane_March_8421

Getting into NFT’s. Lucky to get out of DeGods when I did. But flushed at least 200k down the toilet.

Coinflip420xd

Same there was a time in 2021 with the NFT boom where i was making 400$ daily just by doing few clicks on "play to earn games" fun timez 😅

Fit-Tiger-6448

Yeah, it’s like the NFT bubble. It will implode soon

Solid-Individual-913

That's exactly right. Most people left in crypto are low IQ that prove buttcoin skeptics right every time. Back then we had promises and whitepapers that had dreams but over time those promises have failed to materialize. And the worst part is that when compared to other rising technologies like AI, we can clearly see that it doesnt take a decade to change the world. Worse, those that blame macro or the global leaders miss the point of a decentralized technology that is supposed to be resistant to that. Crypto narrative was that it was a hedge against everything else because no government can control it. Not China that banned it like 8 times and certainly not USA that is trying to regulate a path forward. But the evidence clearly shows the money is flowing in one direction and that's not to crypto. Money has been flowing steadily to AI stocks and chip stocks consistently. The markets are up despite all the global turmoil. But crypto is struggling and facing a huge crisis. And that is because the use cases are missing. All the uses cases that people mention are crypto related problems. NFT is garbage. DeFi only serves to trade chuck e cheese s coins. But what happened to decentralized applications, pin, id, data, social media and all things that are censorship resistant? We went through covid and you could be in favor or against the vaccine but the fact that social media could ban you from everywhere like Reddit, facebook, google with absolute impunity showed the need for decentralized networks. But where was crypto? Still not ready for prime time. And we are here years later and there is no crypto ready to decentralize control of data. The next time the world governments want to censor anything, there is little we can do. So the dreams persist but the solutions are still dreams. And meanwhile crypto is doing crypto shenanigans. ETH is facing a crisis at the EF where everyone is leaving. Vitalik is busy with Aya Miyaguchi and all that drama but he can't keep developers interest. They are tired of that overcomplicated chain that wasted years pursuing scaling through L2s only to realize L2s were not helping. Cardano took a slower approach but they have nothing useful yet. Solana made a couple different decisions and possibly can dethrone ETH while it struggles with chaos at the EF and the strategy forward but they also don't do anything useful. Because at the end of the day, you need use cases that solve real world problems. AI solves real world problems every day and the use cases just keep expanding. But crypto keeps talking crypto babble to keep the gamblers gambling. And the crypto subs? They look like WSB while Keith Gill was pushing for GME hype. Maybe there was something of value at that time but in the present it's just people dreaming for the next rally. And they missed AI rally which is ironic because now the people in cryptocurrency subreddits sound defensive. In a way they mirror buttcoin clowns but instead of having a position of criticizing crypto because they missed the rally, the cryptocurrency subreddits defend crypto over AI because they missed that rally. And the reality is that crypto may or may not rally again. Nobody knows shit about fuck. But people love speculation. And they want an echo chamber. If you hit them with this reality, you are going to get downvoted. Because they are sensitive clowns that think they can hide the truth or that opinions can change market sentiment.

0100000101101000

Can I upload myself to a NFT on the blockchain yet? What Metaverse hell simulation awaits me

Turbulent-Remove-389

I wish I would have thought of something so stupid as NFT‘s and convince the masses that it’s only a valuable screenshot if it’s an NFT

OcelotHot5287

framing PENGU as a multi-catalyst bet is reasonable but the downside of stacking maybe X season scenarios is that each one is low probability and they're not independent. if solana dumps, meme and NFT seasons on solana probably aren't happening either. hedging that correlation risk matters more than hoping for tailwinds. if you want to trade PENGU with tighter sizing and a thesis attached, markets xyz lets you see what otehr holders are actually doing with their positions in real time.

EdgeQuiet2199

I get the logic honestly. PENGU feels less random than most meme coins because Pudgy didn’t completely disappear after the NFT hype died. At least there’s still a community and brand behind it instead of just “number go up.”

IndustrialPuppetTwo

You could turn that unique Satoshi into an NFT and get $.2 cents for it.

BitcoinArtMagazine

Here’s Grok’s answer… “How many NFT’s of all the NFT’s ever created are currently worthless?” Roughly 95% (or higher) of NFTs are currently worthless or effectively dead. uk.finance.yahoo.com en.wikipedia.org Key Data • Collections level: Multiple analyses (including the influential 2023 dappGambl report, updated in later coverage through 2025–2026) found that ~95–96% of NFT collections have zero or near-zero market value, no trading activity, no sales, and no community engagement. uk.finance.yahoo.com trakx.io colexion.io • Example: Out of 73,257 collections analyzed, ~69,795 (95%) had a market cap of 0 ETH. en.wikipedia.org • Later reports (2025–2026) cite 96% dead collections, with only a tiny fraction (e.g., top 3–6 collections) holding meaningful volume. earnpark.com • Individual NFTs: The percentage is comparably high because most NFTs exist within dead collections. Tens of millions to hundreds of millions of individual NFTs have been minted across Ethereum, Solana, and other chains (exact totals are hard to pinpoint due to spam/low-effort mints and multiple blockchains, but billions in cumulative supply exist when including all variants). The vast majority trade at zero liquidity, with no bids or recent sales. webopedia.com • 79% of collections have remained largely unsold. en.wikipedia.org • Even in “active” collections, only single-digit percentages of supply often see real trading. kucoin.com Context and Caveats • Total NFTs ever created: No single authoritative count exists (estimates range from tens of millions tracked to far higher with unlisted/spam mints). Identity/gaming NFTs alone reached ~12 million by 2026, but this is a fraction of the total. colexion.io fortunly.com • Worthless definition: Zero floor price, no liquidity, abandoned projects, rugs, or spam with no utility/sales. A small elite (e.g., CryptoPunks, BAYC, select gaming/utility NFTs) retains value, capturing most remaining market cap (~$1.8–5.6B total NFT market in 2026). coingecko.com • The market peaked in 2021–2022 (~$17–25B volume) but collapsed sharply; 2025 volumes were down dramatically, with most activity concentrated in a handful of projects. dappradar.com In short, the NFT space mirrors the broader crypto token churn: extreme oversupply, hype-driven launches, and massive failure rates. A tiny percentage holds nearly all value and activity. Always DYOR—most individual NFTs have negligible or zero resale potential today.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Toshoshi0x0

Naw big dawg keep holding. So many times I gave up in the middle of the bear. Done it multiple cycles. Not doing it this time. Missed ETH, sidelined on Defi and NFT(thank god I didn’t get into NFT), then got into the Solana trenches towards the tail end of the bull. Staying locked in this time.

Repulsive_Counter_79

That’s exactly what I’m saying, I’m not talking about myself I’m saying the average degen. (unrelated to my previous point) I personally thing adoption is more about bringing crypto to a level where the average joe can understand how he fits in. A good example is the NFT hype era, everyone knew what they wanted out of crypto ( maybe it wasn’t the best situation) but that kind of mass appeal is critical for the space going forward

RickSP999

NFT is for suckers 🤣

Pineapple-Juice-4

You provide no data for your argument. RWA = 2026 NFT

Neither-Respond6697

There aren’t many that are scalable. Seek for the modular L1 chain with good partnerships and a strong team (Hint: The team created the NFT Standard ERC:721 😉)

Forsaken_Grape8686

Wait till NFT szn comes back haha

themindofmonster

NFT from a jpg, online art perspective is asinine. Where it could make sense is digital commissary in the gaming world.

zesushv

You have covered most areas I would have addressed, well done. To add a few. Blockchain/CryptoCurrency even the playing field for a lot of people especially those of us in third world countries. Before btc, getting paid for services internationally required so many steps it felt like one was seeking space citizenship. Then came eth [smartcontract, defi, NFT, etc]... Now we have stablecoins [a better alternative to CBDC - personal opinion], stocks are coming on-chain to make it more accessible/tradable, etc. There are negatives in this space no doubt, but these negatives do not erase the positive. In as much as I sympathise with OP over his portfolio being down 40%, that is not a negative about crypto... It's just how life/business is, sometimes you are down and if you keep grinding, you might break even or be up.

pointdude

Wtf is a project. I can only recall 1 project outside of money transfer. “Ape NFT.” Enough said.

Zestyclose-Suit-2858

Crypto is all fucking bullshit. The only relevant thing is and always will be Bitcoin in this 'industry'. Proof of Stake is bullshit. Vitalik is a scammer. Hotchikinson (or whatever the fuck his name is), is a classic snake oil salesman. Bitcoin hasn't peaked. The NFT, ICO, bullshit crowd will find a new thing to lure in the masses. Probably. Good luck.

BitcoinArtMagazine

All NFT’s are and always will be worthless unless someone can solve the oracle problem

Kryten_Wolfgang

I was penny pinching with a newborn so I spent $2,000 on a Nelk NFT.

MinuteBusiness8445

man that's brutal, especially with a newborn at that time. NFT space was wild back then and so many people got burned by influencer drops realistically though, getting money back from NFT purchases is pretty much impossible unless there was actual fraud you can prove in court. These guys probably had all the legal disclaimers covered even if the project was trash you could try reaching out to them directly on social media but don't get your hopes up. most of these influencer crypto projects just disappeared when the hype died. sorry you're dealing with this situation

book4225

I remember my father, around the NFT hype period, telling me all this is a useless

BratacJaglenac

Wait, someone made NFT of a screenshot and sold it? Roflmao brilliant...

ChrisM-33

NFT = Bullshit

Enviormentproject

Actually.. a NFT artwork holds 100% more proof of authenticity than a analog painting. The history of a NFT artwork is 100% available and transparent for the public as it is written in the blockchain. Meaning that it’s 100% possible to easily sort out the original from eventually copies. Problem is that 99% of humanity doesn’t understand this, as they in general are totally boomers And yes! That’s a statement 🕺

floppymouthpiece77

At least your debt NFT is actually backed by something real, unlike most of these projects.

Substantial-Mix-6200

I sold an NFT of the screenshot of the NFT for $250