Bill Gates: NFT Is a ‘Silly Theory’

At the Climate 2022 event hosted by TechCrunch in California Bill Gates sarcastically said, "The expensive digital image of monkeys will change the world."

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“Virtual asset projects such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a greater fool theory.” - Says Bill Gates,

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The 'expensive digital image of monkeys' referred to by Bill Gates seems to mean the Board Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) produced by Yuga Labs.

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