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Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. (markets.businessinsider.com)
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Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.::NFTs had a huge bull run two years ago, with billions of dollars per month in trading volume, but now most have crashed to zero, a study found.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

99 times out of 100, it was the seller selling it to himself to artificially inflate transaction numbers and nudge the price up.