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The guy who created this just profited ~80k, clearly. And yes, you can create more grumpycat users on other platforms, make an NFT out of those and try to sell it.

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Given the huge amount of free coins floating in the system from the prehistoric days, chances are the guy who created this is also the guy who bought it, or a close friend. That was even already shown to be the case for the massive sale last week -- the purchaser was the owner of an NFT startup.

The entire thing is a scam designed to get time in the news. Never forget what kind of folk you're dealing with in this space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

This is exactly what I thought to. Similarly some artworks value is pumped up with fictitious buys and sales so it makes it into the news (at least in that market these type of sales don’t go unnoticed).

There are scummy folks in every space, can't generalize the way you did at the end there.

clearly false. the same person can sell and buy because it's anonymous.

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