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Readers respond to Randiah Camille Green’s cover story about Detroit artists experimenting with NFTs and cryptocurrency.
Just like Plato’s chair, this, to me, is great news for art. Although already oversaturated with nonsense, there is great work to be found. —Erin Katie Lenchner, Facebook NFTs are the new Beanie Babies. —Frank Cayenne, Facebook NFTs are bad. Don’t get suckered into buying one. NFT scammers are recruiting artists to fool people into thinking that Ts can be beneficial. ut it’s all a gigantic
scam. The concept of NFTs collapses when the scammers run out of “greater fools” willing to spend real dollars on magic beans. —Colin Oatley, Facebook I read the entire article and NFTs still sound like bullshit money laundering. —@kel_belle83, Instagram
Vol. 42 | No. 20 | March 9-15, 2022
News & Views Feedback ............................... 4 News ...................................... 6 Informed Dissent ................ 10 The Incision......................... 12
This is the third article Metro Times has run about NFTs and they *all* have a positive spin, barely touching on any of the problems. Makes me think the owners of MT are invested in crypto... —@ChrisWhy, Twitter
Feature Pluck of the Irish: Detroit’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is back ................................. 14
Editor’s note: The editorial team is not invested in crypto. You’re reading a free newspaper, we have no money to invest.
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