Let’s be clear: If crypto was an essential part of the experience that actually added value to these apps you would not have to beg people to include it 

Now that I have acknowledged that to assuage my conscience, I will also say I am a weak pathetic spineless worm who will probably capitulate. I have ideas

this is both true but wrong

besides the facts people like to pay other people and this increases their satisfaction with the experience, and that people like to collect things, and people like artifacts with their name and face on it

the add a silly mint is like amoeba version of what might be built out of world with durable public social little artifacts like this floating around, getting combined and remixed, etc

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I can see this but I also can’t. I used to feel this way but then realized I was amassing a giant digital junk drawer. 

I felt bad too because during a down market I spent $$ that appreciated so rapidly in the recovery that I felt stupid because in hindsight I was paying way too much for trinkets. It made me very wary of spending ETH. 

I want to share the optimism that people will use the composability and extensibility of these artifacts in cool ways. I will meditate on that

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What I am realizing is I might be outlier trying to extend my preferences. I suspect in the end we will find we are all just pigs at a never ending trough

question i guess is how much is the slop-demand and how much is the slop-supply?

The fluctuating prices are something I’ll never get over mentally. I knew I was going to lose my money and yet you can’t help but get the ick when you put $25 into your friends project and within 24hr that becomes $5

paying a lot of $$$ for things based on speculative value doesn't feel right

paying tiny sums of $$$ to support things you like and adding hardness to certain interactions / pieces of data does feel right

similar to your comment the other day about buying a coin to support vs buying a coin to speculate, but even more so