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I’m not very smart and I won’t claim to understand this NFT business on any comprehensive level. Cool, digital art can now be bought and sold, but this really only benefits a few people and widens the growing divide online between those whose art is visible to begin with and everyone else. People love it and people hate it, and already, corporations and record labels and celebrities have rushed to the crypto-gold mines in search of the next windfall.
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Enter Paris Hilton.
In an interview with Coindesk last Friday, Hilton claimed she dreamed in NFTs now, having pivoted almost her entire brand the burgeoning collect-a-thon. She told the outlet her interest in cryptocurrency was sparked by a dinner party conversation with Ethereum founders in 2016, later investing in bitcoin and ether. Seems she struck it rich in the process, as the influencer-turned-DJ-turned-occasional reality television star recently launched an Instagram acco