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âWhat exactly are people buying?â, is a question that keeps bugging anyone with the time or curiosity to check what is going on in cryptocurrency markets. The question pops up every hype cycle, and it never makes sense. In 2017 people were buying âtokensâ to spend on to yet-to-be-launched websites; in 2020 they were buying âyamsâ, memes play-acting as financial assets; last week, someone shelled out $69 million in cryptocurrency to buy a ânon-fungible tokenâ, or NFT, linked to a digital collage designed by graphic artist Beeple. Now there is an auction for a tweet; currently, the highest bid is $2.5m.