My thoughts on @opensea moving to USD in GIF:
There is so little of any importance people try to generate engagement with utter dross.

seeing some chatter today around opensea's decision to default to USD prices. let me share a few thoughts.
first, you can always swap back to crypto with the flip of a switch. so anyone who prefers seeing pricing in crypto of course still can. perhaps there are ways we can make

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