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With me so far? Now for the krazy alchemical step: let’s say we ''burn'' the Mona Lisa. Obliterate it. We may need Robert Langdon to help with that, I grant you, but let’s just say. What is the value of my token now? EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION BUCKAROONIES AM I RIGHT???
With me so far? Now for the krazy alchemical step: let’s say we ''burn'' the Mona Lisa. Obliterate it. We may need Robert Langdon to help with that, I grant you, but let’s just say. What is the value of my token now? EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION BUCKAROONIES AM I RIGHT???
===Is everything as it seems?===
===Is everything as it seems?===
This might seem a preposterous question. But perhaps the buyer and seller are in fact the same single person, perniciously trying to create an artificial market. If so, ''so what'' if the only bid is 500 bucks? ''It’s still 500 bucks.'' That’s a month’s work in some places. If this ''is a'' scam — and I have no idea — it is so ironic it is almost an artwork in itself.
This might seem a preposterous question. But perhaps the buyer and seller are in fact the same single person, perniciously trying to create an artificial market. If so, ''so what'' if the only bid is 500 bucks? ''It’s still 500 bucks.'' That’s a month’s work in some places. If this ''is a'' scam — and I have no idea — it is so ironic it is almost an artwork in itself.