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    3 months ago

    Naturally, Schaefer’s “Burning Bank series” quickly endeared him to one particular community of financial pirate investors: the Bitcoin community. […]

    Schaefer recently created his first NFT series as well, he says. –source

    welp :/

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      3 months ago

      Sure, NFTs suck, but that doesn’t even put him in the same continent, let alone neighbourhood of evil that banks are in…

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        3 months ago

        My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they’re in a barely regulated industry and they’re fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.

        As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.