Given the furry community's aggressively negative response to NFTs when they became buzzworthy earlier this year, it's reasonable for that to be the focus of the story. Lindsay Lohan just happens to be the Troubled Former Child Star (tm) who's promoting this particular nonsense, but it could have been anyone. The interesting part of the story, at least from a Flayrah standpoint, is "fly-by-night company mixes minor celebrity and tech buzzword du jour to try and sell don't-call-them-furry adoptables to non-furry audience."
Whether or not NFTs are particularly useful in this context is relevant -- I don't think they are, as I discussed above -- but cryptocurrency in and of itself probably isn't, except to the degree it's being used as a marketing technique here. "Blockchain" is currently stuck with being a word marketers use as an invocation of technosorcery. Paradoxically, I don't think blockchain anything will start being truly useful until it becomes boring enough to just be an implementation detail.
Given the furry community's aggressively negative response to NFTs when they became buzzworthy earlier this year, it's reasonable for that to be the focus of the story. Lindsay Lohan just happens to be the Troubled Former Child Star (tm) who's promoting this particular nonsense, but it could have been anyone. The interesting part of the story, at least from a Flayrah standpoint, is "fly-by-night company mixes minor celebrity and tech buzzword du jour to try and sell don't-call-them-furry adoptables to non-furry audience."
Whether or not NFTs are particularly useful in this context is relevant -- I don't think they are, as I discussed above -- but cryptocurrency in and of itself probably isn't, except to the degree it's being used as a marketing technique here. "Blockchain" is currently stuck with being a word marketers use as an invocation of technosorcery. Paradoxically, I don't think blockchain anything will start being truly useful until it becomes boring enough to just be an implementation detail.
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