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• The one thing you need to know about the metaverse

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.19 • 2022-05-09

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  Nike is trying to convince a court that the metaverse is a real place, where the rules of the real world (as I think of it) do not apply.

  If it succeeds, it will be a revolution in thinking on a par with the introduction of the theory of relativity. Because the one thing you need to know about the metaverse is this — it is not real. The tools that create the metaverse create projections into the real world, but the metaverse itself is no more real than Pandora.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.19.0, 2022-05-09).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Are NFTs a plague on humanity or a technology you can tame?

  Posted on February 7, 2022 at 02:43 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Seemingly out of nowhere, people are paying thousands or millions of dollars in cryptocurrency to buy NFTs, otherwise known as “nonfungible tokens” (a term I’ll explain in a moment). Can NFTs be good tools for you, or are they too corrupted by the bad reputation they’ve earned because of recent schemes and scams?

  NFTs are nonfungible because they are unique tokens. Each token is written to a blockchain by a maker or a seller of physical or virtual merchandise. (For an explanation of blockchain technology, see my June 7, 2021, column.) Here’s how to distinguish fungible and nonfungible.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.06.0 (2022-02-07).

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