They didn't waste $100k. They spent $100k on marketing.
Runes is designed to be wasteful in dramatic ways that lead to press coverage like this. It's a marketing strategy.
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LOL imagine participating in a known scam and then you rug yourself without even getting entry into the scam, sure is interesting the mind of a rune ape
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Leeroy Jenkins at it again!
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Good.
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A fool and his Bitcoin are soon departed
To the Bitcoin network, a Runes mint is just a meaningless piece of data.
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This masterpiece (of shit) sold for $7.7 million. And it was #8 most expensive NFT.
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You print money... you use that money to buy shit, there is no correlation with other currency, I have a hard time with this simplification, they buy a shit... with ETH (more shit) that is the news... how much those ETH could be in fiatcoin is just fuel for FOMO, but in reality that person maybe get 100k ETH via printing or via smartcontract bug and doesn't care to fuel some meme for free.
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They've also wasted millions on valid Rune mints.
ZING!
GOTCHA!
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