{"id":8360,"date":"2022-02-19T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:17:19","slug":"nfts-cryptocurrencies-and-web3-are-multilevel-marketing-schemes-for-a-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=8360","title":{"rendered":"NFTs, Cryptocurrencies and Web3 Are Multilevel Marketing Schemes for a New Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uymLJoKFlW8\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">recent ad<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/crypto-exchange-ftx-sets-up-2-billion-venture-fund-11642163402?mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">cryptocurrency exchange FTX<\/a>, Tom Brady asks seemingly everyone in his contact list, \u201cYou in?\u201d As in, are you going to join him in buying some crypto, and not, presumably, in being a football star married to a supermodel. The pitch is straightforward celebrity-endorsement fare, designed to capitalize on the FOMO that is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2022\/02\/internet-web3-future-fomo\/621481\/\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">standard psychological tactic<\/a> of those who are already invested in cryptocurrencies and related technologies, and who would like the rest of us to come aboard. Mr. Brady has an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchen-to-star-in-20-million-campaign-for-crypto-exchange-11631116800?mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">equity stake in FTX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cYou in?\u201d-style pitch is also typical of successful <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/BL-SEB-97594?mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">multilevel marketing companies<\/a>. Both make a virtue of the fact that our getting \u201cin\u201d will obviously enrich those urging us to do so, by driving up the value of their own holdings or network. And then, hey, the same could be true for us!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nfts-cryptocurrencies-and-web3-are-multilevel-marketing-schemes-for-a-new-generation-11645246824\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent ad for cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Tom Brady asks seemingly everyone in his contact list, \u201cYou in?\u201d As in, are you going to join him in buying some crypto, and not, presumably, in being a football star married to a supermodel. The pitch is straightforward celebrity-endorsement fare, designed to capitalize on the FOMO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40],"tags":[81,1816,5297,5296,502,840,1861],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-generation","tag-marketing","tag-multilevel","tag-nfts","tag-schemes","tag-web3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1645269436_social.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8362,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/8362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}