I agree in some respects, except that the whole point was to dump it on somebody else. Many of the ATH payments are VERY likely total bullshit that got the next guy to pay $500K thinking he caught a great opportunity.
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I personally know someone who bought a monkey for 25k so it definitely happened
I personally avoided shitcoins and NFTs, but my younger cousin and her husband decided that after they exchanged all of their fiat savings for ETH, they decided that Prime Ape Planet NFTs were the next good-buy so they put all of their ETH together and bought an NFT, paid 3 ETH, at the time ETH was over 5k CAD.
The creator of the Prime Ape Planet NFTs was their friend IRL who gladly took their life savings.
Literal scum the people who pump that bullshit