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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 7993201, member: 96898"]To me, this illustrates that there now is a part of the population that thinks of the "digital world" as their main reality. From their perspective, objects that exist mainly or only in the internet appear as valuable or even more valuable than their equivalents outside of the digital realm. On the other hand, those wondering about the $860 coin image, including myself, continue to live mainly in the good old-fashioned "carbon world." We use digital media as an easy surrogate for face-to-face communication, not as a virtual place to live in. Thus, we attach more value to houses, shares, cars, bullion, fancy food, shoes, and ancient coins than to NFTs and similar shenanigans. The same principle can be applied to the weighing up of empirical facts vs. Twitter debates, or flesh-and-blood friends and family vs. Facebook contacts. Time will tell who is right. Personally, I like to think of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and online debates as symptoms of a cultural flirt with the possibilities of digital make-believe. Still, it is hard to ignore the real-world influence that this type of make-believe has gained over the course of the last few years. Thinking about the possible consequences of this development is indeed rather nightmarish. To keep this coin related, my Croesus coin is only made from silver and not even a full stater. Nonetheless, I would never trade it for an NFT. I'm firmly rooted in "camp carbon," I assume:[ATTACH=full]1386686[/ATTACH]Kings of Lydia, under King Croesus, AR ⅙ stater, 565/53–550/39 BC. Obv: confronted foreparts of lion and bull. Rev: two incuse square punches of unequal size. 8–11mm, 1.76g. Ref: Berk 25; SNG Kayhan 1019; Sunrise 13.[/QUOTE]

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