They could trade copies of NFT pictures.

"Is this where I can buy the Fork Knife? And the Ajax Legends?"

Agreed on its usefulness, though its almost like Hawley is shooting himself in his own foot with the reasoning-- punitive measures against a corporation for speaking? Sounds suspiciously like a breach of the 1st Amendment. If he stopped at "the age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over" he'd have a much better chance...

unless he's intentionally wanting this to fail and just wasting more time in Congress pandering to a portion of his base.

Wasn't so much AAC but Apple's DRM that they later removed (and yes I do blame the record companies for them having to use DRM in the first place).

Apt analogy.

Plus that would make most crypto companies, many of which are very VC-oriented, pretty much the Antichrist.

You you're saying people shouldn't shit on crypto because the startup-VC cycle is also bad? That's a pretty unconvincing argument.

We are getting closer and closer to The Valeyard.

Safer than banks alright, where do I sign up?

You sure have a strange hill you want to die on.

It doesn't, its another solution in search of a problem.

A virtually-scarce virtual product.

They want none of the regulation but all of the protection.

Can't have one without the other.

As has been proven time and time again, regulation isn't the problem here. On the contrary its the deregulation and associated theft (algorithmic or otherwise) that is the problem.

Aw man, all you needed to mention was "but her emails!" and I could've nailed BINGO