On a bustling Monday afternoon in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, protesters chanted down Grand Street, picket signs ablaze. “God hates NFTs,” a few of the signs read. “Vitalik is the anti-Christ,” said another. “Anti-MetaMasker.” A video of the Westboro Baptist Church-style protest went viral on Twitter, but people eventually realized it was a marketing ploy for a new non-fungible token (NFT) mint ahead of NFT.NYC, the industry’s leading conference that the city would play host to for the rest of the week. The fact that the protest could have been real, along with the brief lack of recognition that it wasn’t, ... (full story)