What do you think of Immutable X, which has pledged to make all transactions on its blockchain carbon neutral? https://www.immutable.com
> They are typically scams
There is definitely a lot of scams. First most of the ICOs a few years back were scams, and then a lot/most? of DeFi schemes are scams. But I am not scared off of an area just because there are scammers in the vicinity. I think there is a lot of opportunity for what I would term gentrification of what are otherwise lawless areas.
> Even if not explicitly scams, they represent a pointless and inefficient financialisation of bloody everything that no-one except crypto enthusiasts seems to be at all interested in
I think that it will become less "inefficient" over time. I think that what can be sold will be sold if there is a market. There will be a series of fads, just like in real-life. I think this sorts itself out. If you want to believe Beanie Babies are a good thing to sell and speculate on, go for it. I won't stop you. But I probably won't speculate on those.
> The art is weirdly universally alarmingly bad
A lot of NFT art is derivative. But there are tens of thousands of artists who have made NFTs, and many are talented. I think you are cherry picking the copycats and the grifters work.
> As applied to games, they incentivise bad (pay to win) design dynamics
Games for me already went deep into the "pay to win" territory once they landed on mobile. That made a lot of companies quite rich. Thus you may disagree with the dynamics, but they are the main way that mobile games make money.