The DAO of Pooh

Las Vegas
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William D. Cohan
December 15, 2021

You’d have to be living on Mars with Elon Musk not to have realized by now that most asset prices are historically overpriced: In addition to Tesla (worth more than $1 trillion even though it makes most of its profits from selling carbon credits, not electric cars), there are the famous meme stocks, such as GameStop, AMC and Hertz; there’s the publicly traded New Jersey deli (until very recently valued at more than $100 million; now still valued at a head-scratching $77 million); and of course Bitcoin, with a total value of more than $900 billion. That’s to say nothing of the many cryptocurrencies you’ve never heard of—Monero, anyone? Meanwhile, an NFT sold recently for more than $90 million and a ranch in Montana sold for $200 million to Rupert Murdoch, who is 90 years old. You get the idea.