There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs!
An incredibly unjust double-standard!
The Rise and Fall of NFTs:
> 2014
> concept of NFT is introduced
> first collection created
> named Quantum
> made by 2 friends
> to prove art can have digital ownership
> 2021
> after 7 years of experimenting
> the perfect environment is created
> lockdowns, everyone bored and online
> NFTs explode overnight
> kids print money from bedrooms
> $200 → $200,000 in weeks
> a jpeg sells for $69M
> nobody understands it
> everyone wants in
> discord becomes wall street
> your twitter feed = your income
> CryptoPunks become digital artifacts
> their floor prices go to $400k
> top grails sell for many millions
> Bored Ape Yacht Club isn't just art
> but access, status, community
> Facebook launches a metaverse
> people pay millions for digital land
> "people will live in the metaverse"
> celebrities pile in
> Justin Bieber, Steph Curry, Snoop Dogg
> not just buying but launching NFTs too
> top IG pages were launching NFTs
> even Lana Rhoades launched one
> everyone was launching collections
> people spent months grinding
> just to be eligible to mint NFTs
> mint days felt like war
> thousands fighting for supply
> bots everywhere, gas fees reach thousands
> people pay $300… $500… $1000
> just to click “mint”
> and it could fail, but the R/R was worth it
> missing a mint = missing life-changing money
> marketplaces printing billions in volume
> random projects doing millions overnight
> influencers shilling, timelines flooded
> TikTok full of “next 100x NFTs”
> everything goes up
> even bad art sells out
> even scams make money
> ETH was reaching ATHs
> NFT mcap goes from $30m to $8b
> peak euphoria
> 2022
> euphoria continues until April
> the market peaks at ~$40B
> generational wealth was built
> reality hits in May
> too many projects
> not enough buyers
> cash grabs everywhere
> then Luna and FTX collapse
> billions vanish, trust disappears
> liquidity gone overnight
> floors start nuking -50% → -80% → -95%
> group chats go quiet
> people stop flexing
> but there still is a lot of speculation
> few collections still bring good returns
> narrative shifts from flipping to building
> NFT mcap goes from $40B to $5B in June
> "just a small drawback" right?
> 2023
> wrong
> volume down 90%+
> nobody left to sell to... then a spark
> Bitcoin Ordinals: NFTs on Bitcoin
> new narrative but same behavior
> degens return, fees explode again
> btc flips eth in NFT volume
> but it doesn't last long
> regulators step in
> lawsuits begin
> nfts return to being a ghost town
> 2026
> after 3 years of unsuccessful stories
> the aftermath is brutal
> -95% from peak, users gone
> eth below $2,000
> nft mcap below $1.5B
> bags everywhere, exits nowhere
> blue chips struggling
> CryptoPunks fp under $30k
> Bored Apes aren't even worth $10k
> Meta closes their Metaverse
> $150b+ in losses and that's just one project
> the gold rush is over
> the noise is gone
> the idea remains
> the hope for a comeback is stronger than ever
And this represents just 0.1% of the history of NFTs. Writing this final segment I realize how easy we had it and how much fun we had during that bull run.
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NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones.
Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about:
> Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones.
> Cockroaches are steered by sending electrical signals directly into the insect's nervous system
> They can crawl through rubble, tunnels, and spaces where drones can't fly, and troops shouldn't go, transmitting data back the entire time.
> Within one year, they went from concept to field-validated systems with paying NATO customers, including the German military.
The qualities that make them useful for military recon (small, silent, nearly undetectable) are exactly what make them creepy.
...International laws weren't written with cyborg insects in mind.