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NFT fans fall for Snoop Dogg impersonator

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6 July 2022

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Josie Ford

Should that be Beedfack?

Feedback’s whirlwind romance with non-fungible tokens took another knock this week on learning that a celebrity impersonator called Doop Snogg and the man who hired him, Isaac Kamlish of NFT start-up Fair.xyz, arrived at a New York NFT festival to a blizzard of business cards hurled by star-struck CEOs who thought, against all available evidence, that Doop Snogg was the real Snoop Dogg.

Was tulip mania ever this weird, Feedback wonders, putting our autograph book back in our pocket and heading for the West Coast and a bite to eat at NFT-themed burger restaurant Bored &…

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