😎 Starbucks NFTs are cool

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Here’s the line-up for today:

• ☕️ Cool Coffee NFTs

• 💔 The BEST bear market crypto scam

• 🫣 BLUR did this??!

• ✋ Don’t diss SATOSHI

• 🤣 Milky Meme of the Day

Let’s kick-off! 🔥

☕️ Starbucks NFTs are cooler than you think

Starbucks.

It’s the coffee shop you go to if Third Wave coffee is full and you have the compulsive need to spend a lotta money on bad coffee. 😮

But NOW it’s also the coffee shop that NFT degens hit up to get coffee and flip NFTs.

The reason degens love Starbucks?

The Starbucks Odyssey NFT program which is taking off 🚀 🚀 🚀

Back in December 2022, Starbucks launched 4 NFTs as – stamps.

YES STAMPS!!

This is the only time in history you can collect stamps and still say you’re cool. 😎

Starbucks launched 4 stamp collections:

• Doing Good Journey Stamp

• Bean to Cup Journey Stamp

• Coffee Heritage Journey Stamp

• Holiday Cheer Edition 1 Stamp

🥱

These ☝️ collections have already reached total sales of $150,000.

🤯

$150,000 IN LESS THAN 2 MONTHS. THAT’S RS 1.2 CRORE!!

That’s still lesser than the amount spoiled teenagers spend on Starbucks coffee [read: desserts] in a week.

But out of the 4 NFT stamp collections, 1 collection accounted for 80% of sales.

It’s the 🎄 Holiday Cheer Edition 1 Stamp 🎄

This one 👇

Why? 2 reasons.

👉 Limited Edition: changes every holiday season

👉 Limited Supply: only 5,000 NFTs

So, they’re kinda like normal NFTs?

Kinda, in 2 ways.

1️⃣ Incredibly high price.

These NFT collections have a floor price of $2,000 a pop. That’s almost as much as a Starbucks Venti Triple Chocolate Tiramisu Frappuccino (with vanilla whip cream of course! 💁🏼‍♀️)

And the funniest bit? 🤭

The highest Holiday Cheer NFT is listed at:

😆 😆 😆

$69,696,969

🤣 🤣 🤣

I swear it wasn’t us, but whoever listed this NFT is a CERTIFIED STRAIGHT DOODH LEGEND!

2️⃣ Earned NOT bought.

The Starbucks Odyssey NFTs can be earned (in the most boring way possible) by:

🏟️ Taking part in virtual tours

🔖 Doing Starbucks coffee quizes

☕️ Buying drinks at Starbucks IRL

Idk what’s worse – drinking Starbucks coffee, going for a virtual tour of how Starbucks makes its coffee or drinking Starbucks coffee while going for a virtual tour of how Starbucks makes its coffee.

😭 😭 😭

Oh yeah, and then taking a quiz about it. 🤢

But hey, if at the end of this ☝️ I get points that I can use to buy NFTs worth $2,000, I’M SO IN.

Doodhwala’s take:

When Starbucks got into NFTs, we were hella sus. Kinda like when I see a Starbucks with no college students using it as a library. 🤨

But this is HELLA NEAT! 👌

Customers get rewarded for drinking diabetes-infested coffee and there’s even a secondary market for this.

Let’s just hope Starbucks:

• rolls this out globally

• improves earning programs

• gives out better NFT utilities

And NFT degens don’t pump it up like it's a random shitcoin.🤞

Oh btw — areya watching Third Wave? Don’t let the NFT wave miss you 😉

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💔 Love is evil: The BEST crypto scam in the bear market

Remember that line from Eminem’s, Space Bound?

“Love is evil, spell it backwards I’ll show you” (love = evol 🤯)

Man…it felt like we unlocked a deep secret of the universe after listening to it. 🤷‍♂️

But turns out, Eminem was right. Here’s why:

Crypto scams have been rampant over the past couple of years.

However, the revenue generated from these scams dropped significantly in 2022.

👉 2021 → $10.9 BILLION

👉 2022 → $5.9 BILLION

The main reason for the drop in revenue?

Bear market blues. 😬

Scams usually take in less revenue from victims when crypto prices are trending downwards.

$BTC ⬇️ = Scam Revenue ⬇️

So scam categories like:

• Investment scams (25 din mein paisa double)

• NFT scams (25 din mein JPEGs double)

….just don’t work.

Cuz people don’t have enough money to put into these scams. 🥲

But the ONE big scam category that thrives in the bear market is— ROMANCE SCAMS 💕

Yeah, we’re not kidding. (Scammers love LOVE ❤️ )

Wtf is a Romance Scam? 🤨

It's basically when you have been Tinder Swindled. 🥲

Romance scams have had the most revenue-per-victim in the past year.

An average victim of this typa scam lost around $16k! 😬

It’s nearly 3x more than the next biggest scam type. 🤯

Romance scams work in the bear market because the victim’s goal isn’t to get rich quickly.

If that were the case, they’d invest in $DOODH. (not financial advice 🤷‍♂️)

But rather, the goal is to help someone they believe to be a potential romantic partner.

Damn. 💔

These kinda cases have also been growing quite a bit.

So how do we stop this? 😅

Well, the next time you feel lonely or heartbroken, TURN OFF YOUR INTERNET and do something else like:

• Go to the gym

• Prank call your sibling

• Refer a friend to the doodhwala

• Pick your nose while watching The Office

Do anything except fall for someone's dreamy eyes on the internet.

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“We deliver FASTER than you last”

“Prices LOWER than your dating standards”

“Book your SOLO trip to Paris because no one will go with you.”

(wait, am I the only one who gets these emails? 😭 😭 😭)

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📈 Chaach and Charts: BLUR did this??!

Blur.

It’s what your…err… *anime-*obsessed friend watches on his laptop at 2am. 🫣

It’s also the latest airdrop in the NFT market. 🙄

This week, the NFT aggregator, airdropped close to 300 million $BLUR tokens to loyal users. We wrote about it here and here in case you were too busy during Valentine’s week to notice. 😭

After the free money (read: airdrop), what did NFT degens do?

Put it in a low-cost savings bond ❌

Buy an IPL team – NFT Nawabis? ❌

Spend it all on fresh doodh jk you can get that for free from us 🥛

Bought more and more NFTs ✅

This led to a 🚀 growth in NFT trading volume in ETH (Blur airdrop was for Ethereum NFT traders only).

Chegg it 👇

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🔎 Google

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Our identities can be revoked or deleted faster than a Dunzo delivery. 🛵

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🍼 Crypto doodhshots: Don’t diss SATOSHI

• 🌖 LUNA accepted here: Daniel Shin, the co-founder, of Terra Luna bribed the CEO of a South Korean e-commerce company to accept LUNA as payment.

• 1️⃣ 3️⃣ th Rule: Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson asks his followers to help him set up a Bitcoin Lightning Network address to accept BTC.

• 🟠 Orange pill: The Matrix actor Keanu Reeves says Bitcoin is an ‘amazing tool for the distribution of resources’ (remake of The Matrix with a third pill?)

• ☕️ $2k for [bad] coffee: Starbucks launched their Odyssey NFT rewards-program on Polygon in December and already total sales have reached $150k, with NFTs going for $2k.

• ✋ Don’t diss SATOSHI: Hackers are threatening the director of a spoof movie based on Satoshi Nakamoto by sending him “unsettling videos.”

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That’s all for today bhaiyo aur bheno! Naale Sigona!

Aakash "Dahi Cheeni" Athawasya & Arvind "Doodh Peda" Krishna

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