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I tweeted refusing to do NFTs [ ] Full day of dogpiles and harassment

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I doubt she was ever offered $1 million. And if this is the case it was likely at some weird conditions. Like the NFTs much reach a certain floor price.

You may be right, but it seems utterly irrelevant to the issue here.

Vast majority of the screen-shotted tweets don't seem any worse than what the author was dishing out (e.g: https://i.imgur.com/ysm7yxp.png - or more often calling them assholes/grifters/immoral). At the same time the sheer quantity of unpleasant replies probably feels overwhelming when you're just one person, and there are a couple of truly awful responses thrown in there.

Seems like the author of the tweet is just as bad as the critics in the screenshot. Perhaps reflective of how they feel and see cryptocurrencies in general.

The first sentence (excluding the subtitle) in the article they linked [0] in the tweet arguing against cryptocurrencies and NFTs in general tells you that they are very angry most likely irrational and it is shown throughout the whole article if you read it.

In the the first sentence of [0]:

> 'I am so mad I had to write this, the world’s most self-evident take: but here is the article you can send to people when they say “but the environmental issues with cryptoart will be solved soon, right?”'

Not the best start into writing a rational critique or convincing the skeptics is it?

[0] https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issue...

As a twitter non-user isn't this how twitter is supposed to work? You put your take out there and some people tell you you are right and other people tell you you suck.

Online mobs are so much easier to form up than IRL ones and they take so little effort or commitment to take part in. The scale of it can end up being pretty unbelievable

On Twitter, a single person can form a mob and harass another, not-very-famous person off the platform pretty easily.

Maybe it is because not only that tweet but they blindly blanket labelled ALL cryptocurrencies as bad for the environment without any compelling evidence to substantiate that claim. Their take on the whole issue can be found in this post [0]. (With some parts of them criticising NFTs in general I agree with.)

To create that claim and only attack Bitcoin and Ethereum as if they represent 'ALL cryptocurrencies' seems outright misinformed and at best fallacious and the best the author of the tweet has got for being against PoS is that it is 'coming soon™'.

If the author believes that 'all cryptocurrencies' 'are an absolute disaster', they're free to take a short position against their favourite disaster coins.

[0] https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issue...

Is this comment an attempt at irony?

Is it true that:

> All cryptocurrencies are bad for the environment?

   Are you sure?

Discuss (with compelling evidence).

I meant because response was a version of the very dogpile tweets the original tweet was complaining about receiving all day...

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