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Linda Xie

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Linda Xie's personal blog at linda.mirror.xyz covers business and economics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Beginner's Guide to NFTs”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2021–2021first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Linda Xie's Mirror essay as an introduction to NFTs, covering how they prove ownership without a central authority and their use against fraud in collectibles markets.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A Beginner's Guide to NFTs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Best article on NFTs is this introductory article by Linda Xie https://linda.mirror.xyz/df649d61efb92c910464a4e74ae213c4cab... TL;DR - NFTs help prove ownership without needing a central authority (which is a big deal) e.g. have you ever been misled and bought a fake concert ticket? It's also huge for the collectibles market which is plagued with high-levels of fraud (which is a billion dollar industry). - NFTs can…

    Comment linking /df649d61efb92c910464a4e74ae213c4cab150b9cbcc4b7fb6090fc77881a95d

    on “A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M”
  2. Submitted A Beginner's Guide to NFTs as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Beginner’s Guide to DAOs as a story · 2 points

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