John Phipps

It’s almost touching that the NFT world sees itself as radical

John Phipps reviews two podcasts that try to explain the unexplainable: non-fungible tokens

Beeple's $69 million NFT sees 'tired art, recycled pop, bad taste, political spectacle and hyper-speculation swirl and coalesce into modern life’ 
issue 17 April 2021
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Some things are explained so many times that they become unexplainable: we can only relate to them as something complicated that needs to be explained. The global financial crisis was like this. Crypto-currencies were like this too. The newest thing that exists to be explained is the world of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

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