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Purchasers of worthless digital monkeys sue worthless digital monkey auction house after realizing that worthless digital monkeys are worthless (arstechnica.com)
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The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I dunno. That’s kinda neat. Maybe in like 20,000 years humans will be exploring the Mongostein system.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You missed the part where literally nobody else will look to those registries to see what random people named them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t NASA do it? I dunno. I always thought it was kind of neat, but ultimately pointless.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nope. The names are entirely unofficial. No one uses them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I've got a 50,000 dollar picture of your nephew

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