NFT roundup: digital pets, NFT art, crowdfunding charitable donations, NFT tickets to see NFTs, Degenerate Apes

Buy the rumor, sell the news

Quick programming note: I’m converting this newsletter from a broadly-focused one to one narrowly focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). I have become rather obsessed with them as of late, as I think they facilitate the digital fulfillment of mimetic desire. And, as Peter Thiel realized when he made an investment in Facebook, mimetic desire is an extr…