The hype of virtual running shoes is actually "drumming and passing flowers"
A pair of virtual running shoes, priced from 5,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan, sold millions of pairs in a few months.
This pair of shoes can neither be tried on nor touched, so why are people still throwing a lot of money?
Or is it the speculation behind it?
It is understood that virtual shoes have new gameplay such as "running to make money": after users buy virtual running shoes, they can obtain virtual currency through running, and then directly realize the virtual currency.
Many people regard this as a way to make money, hoping to get rich overnight by "frying shoes".
Earning while running sounds beautiful.
But like all "Drumming and Passing the Flowers" games, early participants may benefit, and the risk increases as the game progresses.
The price of virtual currency itself is not stable. Once malicious shorting occurs, the hot money in the market subsides, or the regulatory policy changes, the game will crash and the value will return to zero.
It is not difficult for those with discerning eyes to see that there is no essential difference between "frying shoes" in the virtual world and "frying shoes" in real life. They are all traders making gimmicks and harvesting ordinary investors with unknown reasons.
In the virtual world, investors have nothing but nominal ownership. Once the game is over, they become empty-handed "takers", while the dealers standing behind the scenes make a lot of money.
Virtual shoes are based on NFT (non-fungible tokens), and there is still a suspicion of "special currency" and faces regulatory risks.
At present, my country strictly prohibits virtual currency speculation transactions, and the legal nature and supervision methods of NFTs have not yet been clarified.
The financialization tendency of virtual shoes may also lead to hidden dangers such as speculation and fraud, illegal fundraising, gambling and money laundering.
After the virtual shoes exploded, projects with related concepts emerged one after another.
No matter how trendy the concept is, the practice of turning virtual objects without physical support and application scenarios into the equivalent of real money and making them into sky-high prices is suspected of being a "Ponzi scheme".
This kind of game built on a castle in the air and attached to concept hype, it is still appropriate to be cautious.
Relevant departments should also be more vigilant, strengthen supervision, and make malicious speculators pay the necessary price.
At the same time, it is necessary to actively popularize science and make it clear to the public that some so-called technological innovations are actually false concepts of "selling dog meat". It is not advisable to blindly follow the trend.