Frankly, it sounds a little desperate when the owner of a mostly empty office building opens itself to Bitcoin bids. After all, when the cryptocurrency can drop more than a third of its value in two months, just how much can you count on getting?
But focusing on a single would-be set of crypto transactions—or being entranced using a so-called non-fungible token, or NFT, to get a 75-year transferable lease on a co-living space in San Francisco—is missing the really big picture.