Fun with crypto

My friend who is visiting is very interested in cryptocurrencies. He tracks the trends and by most standards would be considered a crypto trader.

I asked him for assistance in accessing the Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) I have accumulated while using the Brave Browser. I had accumulated 114.56822 BAT in a little over a year from just using the Brave browser and seeing some ads, which I don't even notice. BAT is trading at $0.52. 

The Brave browser uses Uphold as a crypto wallet. In order to trade BAT for other cryptocurrencies, I had to transfer the BAT from Uphold to Coinbase. I will tell you it's not as easy as a transfer from one bank to another.  I hope this process will become more seamless in the future.

We listened to a recent episode of The Tim Ferriss Show in which Tim interviewed Katie Haun and had a pretty extensive conversation about crypto assets and trends. One of the concepts they discussed that was new to both of us is something called a non-fungible token (NFT). I'm still trying to wrap my head around what exactly this is and how it will is being used. I get the feeling this will be a topic for a future Doctrine. I don't understand why people are paying the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars of ETH just to own an NFT of some pixelated drawing of a cat.