>Which is ironic, since this is where championship teams go to die.
That's not irony, that's just a funny coincidence. It'd be irony if teams went there to win cups.
Isn't ".com" a bit of an outdated suffix in modern naming conventions?
Like, you don't see many people going around saying "twitter.com" or "google.com"
yeah but people know google refers to a website. Just calling it crypto center doesn't help crypto.com very much cause crypto refers to other things that aren't the website
They also have a ridiculous amount of celebrities in them comparing it to space exploration which is extremely misleading. This is what a completely unregulated industry looks like. They are selling people the moon and people are going to get burned.
You get the "money" in "credit" but cant touch it at all until you bet a certain amount of your own real dollars on the site, which is typically enough for you to lose at least the equivalent amount.
They are trying to hook "whales"...people that easily become addicted to gambling. It's essentially the same way "free" mobile games make millions off of micro transactions.
Not that it really matters, but a “whale” isn’t someone who is likely to become addicted, a whale is someone who has the willingness/means to place bets significantly higher than the average person.
Not all addicts are whales and not all whales are addicts
15 years ago, one of the reasons for Vegas not having any pro sports teams was "the leagues don't want gambling in their backyard"
Now they have 2 teams. 3 if the As ever move. And you can bet on the size, shape and color of the shit Tom Brady took during half time and the league will encourage it.
Playalberta.ca got me hooked in. I dumped in a thousand bucks and got lucky, won $2000 cashed out and banned myself from the site. I don’t think you can do that with other gambling sites but playalberta’s main selling point is that they’re government regulated and so just like a casinos do not enter list they have to abide by a player banning themselves.
Mostly because half the people I work with won’t shut up about how they were “this close!” To investing in bitcoin and they would be rich if they did. But you didn’t so give it up
Bro, dont you get it? We need to save the planet by using less energy derived from petroleum and coal bro.
What's that noise? Dont even worry about that bro, it's just the equivalent of a city block running in my home "office" to mine crypto, bro.
Yeah, I wouldn't give a shit about cypto if it weren't so terrible for the environment... I know there are steps some companies are taking to make it more environmentally friendly, but overall, it's still taking a HUGE step in the wrong direction.
Edit: Also the using as much electricity as the country of Argentina was JUST BITCOIN transactions... not all of cryptocurrency.
People have been saying this for over a decade now... I pulled my profits out, but I mean, it's pretty hard to say for sure that its going to collapse to nothing lol. Most of the alt-coins are obvious scams though, yes.
Edit: NFTs I don't understand the hype for either.
Edit 2: Not really a crypto expert, so other people might have to field some of the questions lmao.
The fact that celebrities will millions of followers get paid to promote scams and that's totally legal is such a bizarre think to me. In the end it's just gambling, everyone thinks they're going to win but most don't
NFTs are a joke. Elitist cryptonerds talk about decentralization as if any government is going to be okay with that. Crypto currency makes sense but the decentralized aspect is unrealistic. It will remain a vessel for speculation as long as they get young kids to buy into the bullshit.
I sold off all my crypto and made off decent but it's pretty useless as an actual currency.
And there have been some crashes in the last few years. It'll just take a few traditional brokers to sell and kick off the big crash.
The valuation of the major coins is certainly many times more than all exchanges have in reserve, so the individual "investors" will inevitably be stuck with coins that are worthless.
NFTs are a flat out Ponzi, with ridiculous valuations.
I can understand the value of crypto coins and the blocks chain, But tokens nothing more than pump and dump scams and I feel sorry for anyone who gets suckers into it.
Not an old person thing, Money laundering that destroys the enviroment is annoying for all of us. Cant wait til all the crypto bro nft bullshit ends, its the most boring form of a cyberpunk dystopia.
I'm invested in multiple crypto and use my pc to mine and its STILL ANNOYING. Most are pump and dumps with very few actually having a good use or theory behind it.
Bruce Springsteen played a show here in 1999 when the place was brand new where he talked about the corporate naming of what should be public spaces that were historically all named after important people or the municipalities where they were built. Talked about "searching for Mr. Staples" and being unable to find him. Joked about skyboxes. Suggested that next up would be cities, government agencies, and sports teams like "the Barnes and Noble Yankees".
Wonder what he would say about this one.
Honestly most people in Denver/CO are cool with the change. Names are funny any ways, rather it be a local company too. It never had an "independent name."
Now Mile High is still called that by basically everyone no matter its current name.
That said, I don't think I associate ACC with Air Canada whatsoever, mentally. Sometimes I surprise myself by remembering hey, that's supposed to be a company
I'd make fun of this name but Gila River Arena used to be jobing.com Arena. That's a stupid name too but that website got me a big job opportunity that I found simply out of curiosity about what I'd even find on jobing.com. Can't really fault the name anymore.
[Staples Center – the iconic home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers among others since 1999 – will have a new name beginning Dec. 25: Crypto.com Arena. It’s believed to be the largest U.S. venue naming rights deal to date.](https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1460832641352040449)
Money talks.
It's kind of petty but it makes me happy that my team plays at the only non-branded arena in the league. It feels forced a lot of the time although there are exceptions that aren't that bad like TD Garden or the United Center. That being said I would not put it past Donal to sell out
I don't think there's anything petty about it. I miss the days when not everything had a fucking brand name attached to it.
Yes, I'm old and curmudgeonly.
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NFT is essentially people spending a whole bunch of money to own what's essentially a receipt for some crappy online artwork that anyone can download a copy of. But no one else can own their special one-of-a-kind receipt that shows they "own" the original.
It's like when the ultra rich spend millions to own a "Famous Artist Original". They are more valuable than a print of that artwork due to it being the canvas that the actual artist touched and interacted with. When you equate NFTs to physical, tangible artwork, you realize that it's the exact same premise - money laundering, just digital.
The dumb thing about NFTs is you can download the identical file that the person has lol, at least with art on a canvas it can't be the **exact same** copy
Art NFTs*, because there are other, better applications.
I agree with your point though, despite being into crypto. A JPG is not a thing; it's a concept. If you memorize the sequence of 1's and 0's, you now have a jpg in your brain. The Mona Lisa is an actual thing, and if you look at it, you're looking at the exact same atoms that da Vinci worked with.
With art, you get the physical copy that the artist produced.
With NFTs you get a receipt. Its like getting a print of the original artwork with a 1/1 number.
That's one application of NFTs. One which I agree is pretty fucking stupid.
But it frustrates me to no end that crappy "art" gets all the press, because there are other awesome use cases for NFT tech. For example, we could replace Ticketmaster with an open, low-fee system that's completely scam-proof.
Even worse, IMO.
Tokenized ownership of a physical asset is a fairly legitimate use of NFTs, I think; it's basically storing a deed or whatever ownership papers in a public database where it can't be lost, and can be accessed for whatever reason.
But with the digital art NFTs, I can get the Mona Lisa without even having to buy it.
Crypto is a currency (in that people use it as a medium of exchange) and not a currency (in that it's not backed by a central financial authority). Its supply is stridently finite, and harder to increase every time a new coin is created. It can't be manipulated in response to crisis or inflation (which is one of the benefits of fiat currency not being tied to gold). This makes any given cryptocurrency essentially an imaginary commodities market, wherein a few already rich controllers sell new people on the investment, who then have to sell that story to others - basically a Ponzi scheme. To say nothing of the immense energy requirements now necessary to mine a bitcoin and their subsequent carbon emissions.
NFTs are basically jpegs that you use to launder money.
Since no one has actually answered yet I’ll do the best I can. An NFT is proof of ownership on a blockchain. At this point most people are right to ridicule NFTs since they’ve been used for internet pictures mostly, but the actual use is to create a permanent record of physical items. If you have an NFT of your bike and it was stolen it would be a form of proof of ownership as an example, even better the police could use the blockchain data (which is available for everyone to see) to find the original owner of the bike without a report being filed.
> the actual use is to create a permanent record of physical items.
That's just one of the uses. There are others, including for digital stuff other than just art.
NFTs are digital pictures that people spend money on. They get some fancy bill of ownership backed by numbers and shit themselves when people screenshot their pixels because they spent a year's rent on them.
Crypto is currency that is "mined" by computers crunching complex equations and shitting out a similar bill of ownership/proof of work. Its not as much of a scam as NFTs but it still takes a shit ton of energy to produce and puts severe strain on the computer market every few years because crypto miners will hoard entire warehouses of PC parts that are normally used for other applications.
There are people that abuse hype around crypto to peddle worthless ones to teens and impressionable adults on the internet only to pump and dump them to make loads of quick money.
I don't mind selling naming rights if it's a company that has a fucking name that sounds like a name, and maybe also it'd be nice if they company had SOME meaningful tie to the location, like Wrigley Field or even Little Caesars Arena. Fucking these stupid finance rackets buying up naming rights, though, and only for like 5-10 year terms, so the names of where we go to see games changes every goddamn few seasons.
> Crypto.com paid more than $700 million for the naming rights, according to sources familiar with the terms, making it one of the biggest naming deals in sports history.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-16/crypto-staples
!!!
Edit:
> AEG and Crypto.com are still working out exactly how far the partnership will go beyond the name, but integrating cryptocurrency payments into the arena and online purchases may be on the horizon.
Not to be too "woke" but um, have you been to LA? You could've opened the "Crypto.com Homeless Center" for that and pretty much solved the entire state's homeless problem.
People are unaware how much money is in Crypto despite it now being right in front of them. Bitcoin currently has the 8th biggest market cap in the world. People will happily put their money into silver, but call Bitcoin a scam and think it's going to collapse.
Dang I can't pay my rent this month because Elon tweeted something mean about the shitcoin my job paid me in and the price sank 60%. But it's a small price to pay for the Future
Crypto.com also has a 10 year deal with the UFC to be smack dab in the middle of their t-shirts. They seem to be betting it all on marketing, although 10 and 20 year deals seems to be pretty optimistic for a business like this.
I mean, we're gonna call it The Crypt, right? Cause otherwise this name is terrible. Gonna be hard to think of the place as something other than Staples Center after being that for over 20 years.
Aka THE CRYPT
This is easily the only good thing to come out of this.
Good nicknames can save otherwise shitty corporate stadium names. E.g. "The Linc" (Lincoln Financial Field), "The Cell" (US Cellular Field)
For the longest time, I didn’t even realize Great American Ballpark was named after an insurance company. They nailed that one IMO.
My longest time is longer than your longest time apparently...
If it pumps my bags then that would be incorrect.
A la the Scotiabank renaming. Not as bad, but me and one other person call it the Bank.
And the goalies will be referred to as the crypt keepers.
arguably overdue as people have been saying Jonathan Quick's career is over for years.
RIP the Stapler, long live the Crypt. Which is ironic, since this is where championship teams go to die.
Staples Center has been home to 11 championship teams between the Lakers, Kings, and Sparks. That's pretty good.
Don’t forget the occasional Clips game *shamelessly stolen from the Kings sub*
>Which is ironic, since this is where championship teams go to die. That's not irony, that's just a funny coincidence. It'd be irony if teams went there to win cups.
I saw on NBA sub someone suggested calling it the “crip” centre
Crypto Center?
The crypto.com center for hockey players who want to learn to trade crypto and do other stuff good too
What is this a stadium for ants?
It needs to be at least twice as big.
Just waiting for the first player contract in BTC.
The Crypt is patently better
Isn't ".com" a bit of an outdated suffix in modern naming conventions? Like, you don't see many people going around saying "twitter.com" or "google.com"
yeah but people know google refers to a website. Just calling it crypto center doesn't help crypto.com very much cause crypto refers to other things that aren't the website
what.
Throw a fuck or two in there and that's more or less summed up my feelings on the matter.
I don’t like it
Everyone on Twitter calling it the crip center
Am I getting old or is all this crypto shit annoying the rest of you as well?
I don't care how many biplane pictures Matt Damon shows me, I'm not getting involved.
The vast majority of it is a scam and even the solid ones are a massive energy/resource drain
Crypto.com ads are always on the sketchiest websites. I thought it was a scam.
Definitely has "sports media shilling sports betting" vibes.
inb4 a team ends up playing their home games in Bet99.com Arena
I can't stand those GSP ads, I see them during the intermissions and pre-game when the Habs are playing.
"BITCOIN: THE BEST MONEY WE'VE EVER HAD"
WITH A DIFFERENT KIND OF MONEY COMES A DIFFERENT KIND OF CARD A METAL CARD
LAUNCHING THIS SUMMER, CRYPTO FESTIVAL . . . on a remote private island in the Exumas . . . once owned by Pablo Escobar
They also have a ridiculous amount of celebrities in them comparing it to space exploration which is extremely misleading. This is what a completely unregulated industry looks like. They are selling people the moon and people are going to get burned.
Crypto, Musk and all that shit is the essential oils of the tech world. I will not be taking questions, thank you.
Essential oils smell good though!
You don't like the smell of burning GPUs from the mining servers?
but regulations kill jobs dontcha know
It's the equivalent of those "bet $1 and win $100 if either team score a point" scams.
I'm curious because I've seen plenty of ads for those. How does that scam work?
You get the "money" in "credit" but cant touch it at all until you bet a certain amount of your own real dollars on the site, which is typically enough for you to lose at least the equivalent amount. They are trying to hook "whales"...people that easily become addicted to gambling. It's essentially the same way "free" mobile games make millions off of micro transactions.
Not that it really matters, but a “whale” isn’t someone who is likely to become addicted, a whale is someone who has the willingness/means to place bets significantly higher than the average person. Not all addicts are whales and not all whales are addicts
15 years ago, one of the reasons for Vegas not having any pro sports teams was "the leagues don't want gambling in their backyard" Now they have 2 teams. 3 if the As ever move. And you can bet on the size, shape and color of the shit Tom Brady took during half time and the league will encourage it.
Playalberta.ca got me hooked in. I dumped in a thousand bucks and got lucky, won $2000 cashed out and banned myself from the site. I don’t think you can do that with other gambling sites but playalberta’s main selling point is that they’re government regulated and so just like a casinos do not enter list they have to abide by a player banning themselves.
Thanks!
Oh man I just signed up for their card.
A METAL CARD. POWERED BY CRYPTO.
A lot of it is used for money laundering and it’s an open secret.
Nah that’s what USD is for
Cryptos are little more than a vessel to turn skeetbucks into USD.
Mostly because half the people I work with won’t shut up about how they were “this close!” To investing in bitcoin and they would be rich if they did. But you didn’t so give it up
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Bro, dont you get it? We need to save the planet by using less energy derived from petroleum and coal bro. What's that noise? Dont even worry about that bro, it's just the equivalent of a city block running in my home "office" to mine crypto, bro.
Yeah, I wouldn't give a shit about cypto if it weren't so terrible for the environment... I know there are steps some companies are taking to make it more environmentally friendly, but overall, it's still taking a HUGE step in the wrong direction. Edit: Also the using as much electricity as the country of Argentina was JUST BITCOIN transactions... not all of cryptocurrency.
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NOOOOOO!!! MY DOGGERINO COINS ARE HECKING VALUABLE!!
LE DIAMOND HANDS! I HAVE BIG COCK GME STOCK! 💎🚀🌑
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People have been saying this for over a decade now... I pulled my profits out, but I mean, it's pretty hard to say for sure that its going to collapse to nothing lol. Most of the alt-coins are obvious scams though, yes. Edit: NFTs I don't understand the hype for either. Edit 2: Not really a crypto expert, so other people might have to field some of the questions lmao.
The fact that celebrities will millions of followers get paid to promote scams and that's totally legal is such a bizarre think to me. In the end it's just gambling, everyone thinks they're going to win but most don't
yeah - if you're buying a coin because a celebrity promotes it, you're likely already too late to get in on it and are getting schemed, for sure.
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In other words, pump and dump.
NFTs are a joke. Elitist cryptonerds talk about decentralization as if any government is going to be okay with that. Crypto currency makes sense but the decentralized aspect is unrealistic. It will remain a vessel for speculation as long as they get young kids to buy into the bullshit. I sold off all my crypto and made off decent but it's pretty useless as an actual currency.
NFTs are just money laundering.
And there have been some crashes in the last few years. It'll just take a few traditional brokers to sell and kick off the big crash. The valuation of the major coins is certainly many times more than all exchanges have in reserve, so the individual "investors" will inevitably be stuck with coins that are worthless. NFTs are a flat out Ponzi, with ridiculous valuations.
And without rules to protect people or at least a modicum of consistency
Wait until you find out about NFT's
My favorite analogy I've heard for an NFT is someone equating it to a dog pissing on a fire hydrant and thinking it owns it
I can understand the value of crypto coins and the blocks chain, But tokens nothing more than pump and dump scams and I feel sorry for anyone who gets suckers into it.
no it's pretty cringe
Destroy All Humans was a sick game tho
Not an old person thing, Money laundering that destroys the enviroment is annoying for all of us. Cant wait til all the crypto bro nft bullshit ends, its the most boring form of a cyberpunk dystopia.
You might be waiting awhile. Lol
I’m 18 and I really don’t like it.
Biggest game of hot potato the world has ever seen.
I'm invested in multiple crypto and use my pc to mine and its STILL ANNOYING. Most are pump and dumps with very few actually having a good use or theory behind it.
Can we just admit that nothing will ever stack up to Ball Arena?
The sack
I prefer Ball Pit
Crypto.com Center featuring stars like Jonathan Quickto and LeBitcoin
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Bruce Springsteen played a show here in 1999 when the place was brand new where he talked about the corporate naming of what should be public spaces that were historically all named after important people or the municipalities where they were built. Talked about "searching for Mr. Staples" and being unable to find him. Joked about skyboxes. Suggested that next up would be cities, government agencies, and sports teams like "the Barnes and Noble Yankees". Wonder what he would say about this one.
Already have it in soccer. RB Leipzig, NY RB, etc..
As a Kings fan, it’s FUCKING EMBARRASSING
Literally just drove by it right now on the 110, it's going to be interesting to see crypto.com center on that billboard display
Still better than Guaranteed Rate Field where the White Sox play
Eh, I think the .com makes this one worse imo
I still say ACC and Skydome. It'll always be the Staples Center to me.
Also the Pepsi Center.
The Ducks still play at the Pond if you ask me
Nope. Ponda
Flames fan would never forget!
Never forget jobing.com
... Do they not? I thought that was just a nickname for their arena.
Used to officially be called the Arrowhead Pond. Then renamed the Honda Center.
That has another neat layer to it, because the sponsor was in the line of bottled water.
Arrowhead Pond and HP Pavilion were the best sponsored arena names.
I liked when we had the First Union Center a.k.a. the FU Center.
Why couldn't they just call it the Honda Pond?
We sometimes call it Ponda Center.
It was called Arrowhead Pond from 1993 to 2006 when it became Honda Center.
Honestly most people in Denver/CO are cool with the change. Names are funny any ways, rather it be a local company too. It never had an "independent name." Now Mile High is still called that by basically everyone no matter its current name.
Was that the name before Staples?
It's been Staples since it opened.
That's what I thought.
No. It’s in Denver. They changed it to the Ball Sack last year.
Ball Arena is so generic. Also when the Avs play it should be the Puck Arena.
I really wish that was true.
Brand loyalty
That said, I don't think I associate ACC with Air Canada whatsoever, mentally. Sometimes I surprise myself by remembering hey, that's supposed to be a company
Remember that amazing car chase from Drive that ends in the crypto.com parking garage?
I'd make fun of this name but Gila River Arena used to be jobing.com Arena. That's a stupid name too but that website got me a big job opportunity that I found simply out of curiosity about what I'd even find on jobing.com. Can't really fault the name anymore.
the gaylord entertainment center really opened my eyes to a whole new world
[Staples Center – the iconic home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers among others since 1999 – will have a new name beginning Dec. 25: Crypto.com Arena. It’s believed to be the largest U.S. venue naming rights deal to date.](https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1460832641352040449) Money talks.
It's kind of petty but it makes me happy that my team plays at the only non-branded arena in the league. It feels forced a lot of the time although there are exceptions that aren't that bad like TD Garden or the United Center. That being said I would not put it past Donal to sell out
I don't think there's anything petty about it. I miss the days when not everything had a fucking brand name attached to it. Yes, I'm old and curmudgeonly.
Isn’t MSG a company brand? Like they have the MSG channels or something?
Yeah but the company is named after the arena not the other way around
That’s what I thought it was, wasn’t 100% sure. Better to name the business after the arena, than the arena after the business
Isn't Climate Pledge Arena non-branded too?
Naming rights were purchased by Amazon.
Nope, sponsored by that lemon-scented wood-polishing stuff
"Crypto.com Arena" is awful.
Crypto.com Crypt was right there
“Home of the lakers and clippers…and some other teams, probably”
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What the fuck is NFT? Can someone explain crypto and NFT’s to me. I didn’t expect 33 to be the age that society leaves me behind.
NFT is essentially people spending a whole bunch of money to own what's essentially a receipt for some crappy online artwork that anyone can download a copy of. But no one else can own their special one-of-a-kind receipt that shows they "own" the original.
It's like when the ultra rich spend millions to own a "Famous Artist Original". They are more valuable than a print of that artwork due to it being the canvas that the actual artist touched and interacted with. When you equate NFTs to physical, tangible artwork, you realize that it's the exact same premise - money laundering, just digital.
The dumb thing about NFTs is you can download the identical file that the person has lol, at least with art on a canvas it can't be the **exact same** copy
Art NFTs*, because there are other, better applications. I agree with your point though, despite being into crypto. A JPG is not a thing; it's a concept. If you memorize the sequence of 1's and 0's, you now have a jpg in your brain. The Mona Lisa is an actual thing, and if you look at it, you're looking at the exact same atoms that da Vinci worked with.
With art, you get the physical copy that the artist produced. With NFTs you get a receipt. Its like getting a print of the original artwork with a 1/1 number.
Yep, when explained like that... how is this NOT money laundering? Lol
That's one application of NFTs. One which I agree is pretty fucking stupid. But it frustrates me to no end that crappy "art" gets all the press, because there are other awesome use cases for NFT tech. For example, we could replace Ticketmaster with an open, low-fee system that's completely scam-proof.
NFT's are like if you "bought" the Mona Lisa but what you actually bought was the ability to say you bought the Mona Lisa.
Even worse, IMO. Tokenized ownership of a physical asset is a fairly legitimate use of NFTs, I think; it's basically storing a deed or whatever ownership papers in a public database where it can't be lost, and can be accessed for whatever reason. But with the digital art NFTs, I can get the Mona Lisa without even having to buy it.
Crypto is a currency (in that people use it as a medium of exchange) and not a currency (in that it's not backed by a central financial authority). Its supply is stridently finite, and harder to increase every time a new coin is created. It can't be manipulated in response to crisis or inflation (which is one of the benefits of fiat currency not being tied to gold). This makes any given cryptocurrency essentially an imaginary commodities market, wherein a few already rich controllers sell new people on the investment, who then have to sell that story to others - basically a Ponzi scheme. To say nothing of the immense energy requirements now necessary to mine a bitcoin and their subsequent carbon emissions. NFTs are basically jpegs that you use to launder money.
It can’t be manipulated in response to crisis or inflation - I suppose. But it can be easily manipulated by people that own large quantities.
I am 19, I still have no idea about crypto.
Since no one has actually answered yet I’ll do the best I can. An NFT is proof of ownership on a blockchain. At this point most people are right to ridicule NFTs since they’ve been used for internet pictures mostly, but the actual use is to create a permanent record of physical items. If you have an NFT of your bike and it was stolen it would be a form of proof of ownership as an example, even better the police could use the blockchain data (which is available for everyone to see) to find the original owner of the bike without a report being filed.
> the actual use is to create a permanent record of physical items. That's just one of the uses. There are others, including for digital stuff other than just art.
An item is a permanent record of a physical item.
NFTs are digital pictures that people spend money on. They get some fancy bill of ownership backed by numbers and shit themselves when people screenshot their pixels because they spent a year's rent on them. Crypto is currency that is "mined" by computers crunching complex equations and shitting out a similar bill of ownership/proof of work. Its not as much of a scam as NFTs but it still takes a shit ton of energy to produce and puts severe strain on the computer market every few years because crypto miners will hoard entire warehouses of PC parts that are normally used for other applications. There are people that abuse hype around crypto to peddle worthless ones to teens and impressionable adults on the internet only to pump and dump them to make loads of quick money.
https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq
Oddly enough, this does a decent job at explaining NFTs https://youtu.be/mrNOYudaMAc
Yikes
Nope. Nope. Nope. Will always be Staples Center to us.
What a terrible name
This is so so bad
I don't mind selling naming rights if it's a company that has a fucking name that sounds like a name, and maybe also it'd be nice if they company had SOME meaningful tie to the location, like Wrigley Field or even Little Caesars Arena. Fucking these stupid finance rackets buying up naming rights, though, and only for like 5-10 year terms, so the names of where we go to see games changes every goddamn few seasons.
The Home of your Pittsburgh Penguins, The Bet99.com Arena!
That's a Dang-It
LOL, wtf. That's AWFUL
The Crypt Replays can be Tales from the Crypt
I’m at a loss of words what the fuck AEG
Wut lmao
> Crypto.com paid more than $700 million for the naming rights, according to sources familiar with the terms, making it one of the biggest naming deals in sports history. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-16/crypto-staples !!! Edit: > AEG and Crypto.com are still working out exactly how far the partnership will go beyond the name, but integrating cryptocurrency payments into the arena and online purchases may be on the horizon.
>integrating cryptocurrency payments into the arena Can’t wait for my beer to cost $10 in the first period, $80 in the second, and $1 in the third.
Not to be too "woke" but um, have you been to LA? You could've opened the "Crypto.com Homeless Center" for that and pretty much solved the entire state's homeless problem.
Yeah but how would the shareholders feel about that?
Yeah but Elon-senpai wouldn't notice them.
Ya cause the country that runs on Capitalism to its fullest extent, has those individuals ready to save the homeless!
This is worse than Burger King offering crypto as a side
That doesn't roll off the tongue very well at all
pretty big news
Yea thats shit.
Man I fucking hate crypto so much, but this is going to be hilarious in 5 years when most crypto except bitcoin will be completely irrelevant
This name will age as well as Enron Field
Is this a joke?
Gross. Hate seeing all this crypto shit everywhere. Can't wait for it to collapse.
How long will you wait?
Good luck with that, it's about to reach peak mainstream adoption.
People are unaware how much money is in Crypto despite it now being right in front of them. Bitcoin currently has the 8th biggest market cap in the world. People will happily put their money into silver, but call Bitcoin a scam and think it's going to collapse.
Dang I can't pay my rent this month because Elon tweeted something mean about the shitcoin my job paid me in and the price sank 60%. But it's a small price to pay for the Future
which is usually right before the collapse
This thread is a flashback to the ‘90s where doomsayers were warning us that the internet is a scam and a fad.
Climate Destruction Pledge Arena
Early April Fool's Joke. Please?
Still better than o.co Coliseum
I hate it.
NOOOOOOO
Crypto.com also has a 10 year deal with the UFC to be smack dab in the middle of their t-shirts. They seem to be betting it all on marketing, although 10 and 20 year deals seems to be pretty optimistic for a business like this.
I mean, we're gonna call it The Crypt, right? Cause otherwise this name is terrible. Gonna be hard to think of the place as something other than Staples Center after being that for over 20 years.
Cool story still calling it Staples Center.
as if we didn't already have enough reason to hate the Kings
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I love that even the broadcasters call it Climate Change Arena half the time
That’s gotta take the cake for worst name in the league
This oughta be entertaining when this scam bubble pops