Heh, listening to this reminded me that I bought a 20x20 chunk of https://thousandetherhomepage.com back in 2017 to advertise an app, mostly on a lark. The site was largely inactive for a while, but I see it's been seeing a lot of recent sale activity as well. I find it funny that I can sell my tile for about 8x what I bought it for, but I'll probably just hang on to it as a souvenir... (Agree that NFTs in general... Source: about 2 years ago

No, that one was already claimed. https://thousandetherhomepage.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago