{"id":1382,"date":"2022-04-01T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:57:25","slug":"frank-talks-about-crypto-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/frank-talks-about-crypto-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Talks About Crypto &#038; NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/a-frank-discussion-about-non-fungible-tokens-and-cryptocurrency\/Content%3Foid%3D35197368&amp;text=%22This+is+like+betting+on+the+horses%2C+with+no+horses.%22+Frank\">&#8220;This is like betting on the horses, with no horses.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><cite>Frank<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank is a shrewd if uneducated Vermont smartass who would not be out of place in a modern version of the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu).  After seeing all those Super Bowl ads, he has some trenchant thoughts on NFTs, Bored Apes and cryptocurrency.<br><br><em>&#8220;Sounds like stock, without the company,&#8221; he observed. &#8220;Even betting on horses, there&#8217;s an actual horse you can read up on. This is like betting on the horses, with no horses. Even Beanie Babies and pet rocks, you got a thing. I found a Beanie Baby at a garage sale; my granddaughter liked it. Twenty-five cents seemed kind of steep, but it was worth it for one smile. So I still don&#8217;t understand, what do you get for your money?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/a-frank-discussion-about-non-fungible-tokens-and-cryptocurrency\/Content?oid=35197368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the whole thing over at Seven Days Vermont.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franks&#8217;s pretty smart, though he&#8217;s not big on schooling and doesn&#8217;t even read that much. But he asks good questions, and somehow after you talk to him for a while you know more than when you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[11,521,523,524,522,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}