Day 1,648: flog, mugshot, punter, capricious

Artists and museums are still creating or collecting non-fungible tokens (nfts). As are those looking to flog an image. Donald Trump is selling his mugshot for $99 a piece; he plans to have the suit he was booked in cut into pieces, made into cards and given to punters who buy at least 47 nfts in a single transaction.

In August an American court ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission, America’s main markets regulator, had been “arbitrary and capricious” when rejecting an effort by Grayscale, an investment firm, to convert a $17bn trust invested entirely in bitcoin into an exchange-traded fund (etf).

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Artwork of the day 
he Capricious Girl
Antoine Watteau
Date: 1718
Style: Rococo
Genre: pastorale
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dimensions: 42 x 134 cm

Word of the day 
flog: to sell something illegally:
mugshot: a photograph taken by the police of a personwho has been charged with a crime:
punter: a customer; a user of services or buyer of goods:
arbitrary: based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason:  using unlimited personal power without considering other people's rights or wishes:
capricious: likely to change, or reacting to a sudden desireor new idea:

Quote of the day
“Hymie, listen! Picking up a dozen punters in the shit house is one thing; taking on a whole bloody Afrikaans school is another. You don’t know these buggers like I do, these guys don’t gamble, the Afrikaans are very religious, you know.’ ‘Greed, my dear Peekay, transcends religion.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One