2021/03/02

Addie Wagenknecht on Non-Fungible Optimism

“In times of pandemics, NFTs and cryptocurrencies are as much about buying certainty as they are about buying assets. They allow you to be hopeful about the future while being pessimistic about the present.”
Addie Wagenknecht, artist and researcher, on the psychology of the current crypto art craze. “It’s a new energy, but largely the same people,” she tells host Hrag Vartanian. “They disrupt flawed systems only to recreate them in the virtual space.”
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