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Fixing the Toxic NFT Brand

by Jeffrey Alan Scudder

How can we move beyond the viral anti-NFT memes that prevent people from using this technology? Jeffrey Alan Scudder has some ideas. A killer app, a user-friendly wallet, a media campaign touting the achievement of the Ethereum Merge and other initiatives could help. These solutions follow up on his previous video, in which he describes the problems.  

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