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Speaker 1: I'm Stacy Marie Ishmael, Managing editor of Crypto for Bloomberg Views,

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Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg Crypto at Daily Bloomberg. I heard

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Speaker 1: podcast It's Wednesday, August t n T a non fungible token,

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Speaker 1: largely digital obt s. What is the actual use case

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Speaker 1: of these decentralized assets. At the height of n f

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Speaker 1: about buying collections like Boardy Club. Non fungible tokens aren't

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Speaker 1: just pictures of monkeys, though, even if that's how most

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Speaker 1: people understand them. They exist on the blockchain, and buying

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Speaker 1: cryptocurrency like Ether. But all the link between n f

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Speaker 1: For more on n f T s and how and

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Speaker 1: whether they're holding up these days, I'm joined by Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: reporta Pratana Pokash. N f T s fundamentally I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you go back to the definition, is it's about

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Speaker 1: a certificated ownership prota. Welcome. Yeah, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's an absolute pleasure. We're gonna talk about n f

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Speaker 1: lot to unpack over there, so I'm excited, excited to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Excellent. I was reading your story that

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Speaker 1: you wrote for Bloomberg Quick Take, which I'd love for

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Speaker 1: you to just tell our listeners a little bit more

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Speaker 1: you know, for sure, I want to hear your perspective

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Speaker 1: on average n f T prices, how they're doing compared

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Speaker 1: into all those things. Tell me more about what quick

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Speaker 1: take is, all right, So quick take are an explanatory

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Speaker 1: so there's no jargon there, there's no complications. You just

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Speaker 1: As you were proporting this out, given everything that you've

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