Wtf is “loot” now?
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I was promised climate action on the blockchain and all I got was sketchy gifs and something called “loot”
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This is loot
collisions.substack.com/p/gimme-the-lo
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I’m playing on team curmudgeon on this whole thing
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Is there a curmudgeon loot sack?
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I totally forgot that! Which is so ironic because the Hindi meaning in verb sense is of robbing, stealing, *taking something away* — vs *adding something*, in the current game sense (ie, Loot as belonging)
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One lesson from Loot-mania this week:
At surface level NFTs appear to be about ownership. But, they are really about membership.
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“Loot” made popular by book The Anarchy by our is the first ever word from Hindustani to enter English.
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