The explosion of NFTs and art-world-adjacent cryptocurrency could only happen now, and maybe it had to happen now: the technology arrived just in time to engage a broad disenchantment with traditional gatekeepers. Skepticism for politicians, banks, and news-media aligned with reckonings around inequality, race, and gender to create a power vacuum. Ameri…
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