New Crypto Platform Seeks to ‘Tokenize’ Time Itself

The crypto industry has largely turned on its ability to “tokenize” (which is really a fancy rebranding of the word “monetize”) all sorts of stuff. Indeed, the NFT market notably managed to turn what was little more than digital receipts for web files into an industry (temporarily) worth hundreds of billions of dollars. There’s truly no end to the amount of wealth that can be generated when morons are willing to waste their money! Now, however, a new crypto platform claims to be monetizing our very experience of temporality itself. The Block reports on a company dubbed Time.fun, which is described as a “tokenized time platform.” What the hell does that mean? It’s a lot simpler and dopier than you might initially think. Traveling to the platform’s website reveals a searchable interface where users can surf for “creators” and influencers and pay them to interact with you for an allotted (often quite short) period. “Time Is Money” the site reads. In essence, Time.fun is a little bit li ... Read full article.