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[Link] More Than 80% of NFTs Created for Free on OpenSea Are Fraud or Spam, Company Says

Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com

As the NFT market has exploded, so has the amount of theft and fraud associated with it. Artists are by now familiar with the experience of finding, like in a horror movie, their own art staring back at them in OpenSea's digital gallery, being hawked by an anonymous stranger. 

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[Link] People Have Spent More than $1 Million on NFT 'Girlfriends'

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

Good news: you can now buy a girlfriend on the blockchain. Bull Market Girlfriends, a recently-launched NFT collection, come in a wide variety of genres—you can buy a Beauty Queen Girlfriend, a Devilish Girlfriend, a Good Girl Girlfriend or even an Alien Girlfriend.

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[Link] Someone Bought a 'Banksy' NFT for $340K, But It's Fake

Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com

The market for online status surrounding non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, is expanding at dizzying speeds, and absolutely nothing is normal.

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[Link] National Gallery hands $3 million in looted art back to India

Read: 29/7/2021 www.smh.com.au

The National Gallery of Australia is set to finally purge its collection of artworks associated with disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor with the return of 14 objects worth $3 million to the Indian government.

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[Link] This house has been torn down, but thanks to NFTs you can buy a digital piece of it

Read: 28/6/2021 www.abc.net.au

An ordinary brick home decked to the eaves in colour and light as part of a cutting-edge art installation has been torn down, but collectors can still buy a digital piece of it online.

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[Link] Boy Scouts Will Sell Nearly 60 Norman Rockwell Works to Pay Sex-Abuse Claims

Read: 3/3/2021 www.nytimes.com

The Boy Scouts of America, which is facing more than 82,000 sex-abuse claims, said in a court filing that it would establish a settlement fund of at least $300 million.

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