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  1. Laika
    https://decrypt.co/79125/ethereum-rock-jpeg-sells-for-600k-as-nft-frenzy-continues
  2. Laika
    Imagine if Fanatics in 2026 puts out their first mint. It's 250,000 cards in total. The odds of minting the rarest cards are pretty low so while there might be something like 300 Cavan Biggios the program will only make like 10 Vladimir Guerrero Jrs. By chance, only ONE animated Shohei Ohtani card gets pulled from digital packs. He just won his second MVP in 2025. That card is going to sell for milllllllllions probably. Like, right away.
  3. Laika
    The condition based pricing is just a way that scarcity is created over time, naturally. Say 50,000 gen 1 Charizards were printed but only 500 made it out of the decade in 9/10 or 10/10 condition... NFT minting just creates known scarcity from day 1. You know (or can reverse engineer) the actual odds of pulling a certain type of NFT on mint. With day 1 scarcity you can get somewhat appropriate market pricing a lot sooner than waiting years and years to see what survives and stays popular and in good condition. NFTs would suffer from SOME temporal scarcity increases because certain tokens would get lost in wallets, stuck in dead owner's hands, etc. Over time, who knows what this means as far as comparing traditional collecting to digital collecting. I'm sure there will always be a space for physical card collecting - there will always be aficionados. Will NFT collecting replace some of that market share or just function as a new industry?
  4. Laika
    Yeah it depends. You can never make the token address for the NFT go "poof" and some NFTs can be made with "metadata" that makes it so the visual of the NFT can actually be produced from the on-chain information. But it is true that current setups have the NFTs basically linked to a centralized UI/database. But there are a myriad of ways to do this and some are more lindy than others.
  5. Laika
    Look into it a bit more. Yeah you don't get the physical card anymore but you also get other benefits and you solve a lot of the problems with physical cards. - You can't damage an NFT. It is in mint condition forever, so to speak. - Ownership is verified on the blockchain. Counterfeiting solved. - Transfer of ownership is instant and borderless. - You can have animated or video "cards"! - You can have redeemable NFTs that you can "burn" in exchange for a physical object. - You can still do pack openings. Kids sit and watch streamers open packs from digital trading card games (even non NFT games like Hearthstone). You can import the card collecting hobby, in its entirety, onto a smartphone. This makes the whole hobby so much more accessible.
  6. Laika
    The next couple of years will be crucial for trading card brands. NFTs are exploding but it's still just the tip of the iceberg. The future of baseball cards will be digital. Topps already has an NFT system with WAX. I am not sure if the new company Fanatics has any involvement yet with NFTs. It's interesting that the new deal starts in 2026. People who buy Topps NFT baseball cards in 2021 through 2025 will kind of be getting a piece of history. The first official NFT baseball cards and the last official Topps baseball cards. Hmmmmm smart buys?
  7. Laika
    Crazy that if you had traded him for anything worthwhile you probably make the playoffs in this league. Cody Bellinger single handedly ruined your DDL season. Himself.
  8. Laika
    This would go viral on the Facebook
  9. Laika
    Imagine being a Cody Bellinger bagholder? How many "buy low" offers have you received over the season that you rejected and now want a mulligan on...
  10. Laika
    Can Arozarena smell October?
  11. Laika
    The key is to not overreact. Continue to stockpile good pitching depth from all avenues, make some responsible signings and or acquisitions, and it will work out fine. This year was mostly s*** luck.
  12. Laika
    Not even close
  13. Laika
    Do you know what a strawman is? And I never said you referred to those things. The point is that it's nothing even close to a free market. It is and ways has been a f*** the players over slowly but surely market.
  14. Laika
    Let the market decide? Fine. Let's remove draft slot limits entirely, actually let's just make every amateur a free agent. No draft. And teams have no more cost controlled six years of a player. No salary suppression at all. Make it a real free market, top to bottom. I wonder how much the players would make... MLB is basically an intricate web of rules designed to suppress player salaries. The draft, international signing limits, league minimum and arbitration, luxury tax, draft pick penalties for free agent signings, legislation around minor league salaries... the game is rigged. Let the market decide he says.
  15. Laika
    You probably get a match before you hit the 100th best asset. Maybe anywhere between 50 and 100. Buyer would need to be in a certain kind of situation though
  16. Laika
    Having an MLB organization vouch for you and swear that you are one of the 50 most talented baseball prospects in the world would help a lot. Let's be honest, the USA only cares if the people they issue visas to can participate in the economy in a beneficial way. Hard to argue that an elite baseball prospect doesn't have huge economic upside.
  17. Laika
    Well someone offered me one closer for Shane Bieber so yeah I know
  18. Laika
    Name and shame
  19. Laika
    That's not what misnomer means but you're absolutely right. Sheryl Ring's opinion on this stuff means less than nothing, really. She also does not do this type of law as far as I can tell but is acting like this is all within her realm of expertise.
  20. Laika
    Dan Bard is cromulent at best
  21. Laika
    Would love to acquire someone with both SS and 2B eligibility. Doesn't have to be a great player but needs to be clearly above replacement level. Just looking for insurance here, not someone I will be starting right away. Age doesn't matter. Can move breakout Rockie Connor Joe and/or one my lesser SP like Smyly or Kim. Would also be interested in an elite closer if there's one available. Would pay for that.
  22. Laika
    Pretty sad situation. In Canada he would have like, no negative consequences at this point from a situation like that.
  23. Laika
    It's torture.
  24. Laika
    Interesting. Thanks, cat butthole
  25. Laika
    ouchie
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