funge
verbUS /fʌnd͜ʒ/
Etymology Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.
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Economics, Sciences to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:funge.
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Economics, Sciences to be substituted thus
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Business, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Finance Humorous To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT.
- The most expensive NFT to date was sold for $91.8 million. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, regain your composure, then enlist in the noble crusade to funge tokens until the day you die, then I’m afraid you’re already a willing prisoner to the blockchain and my sworn enemy.2022 February 1, “I Will Funge These Tokens If It's the Last Thing I Do”, in Points In Case:
- Look, here's 15 memes about non-fungible tokens, and I guess technically the memes themselves have been funged because they all come from places on the internet, but really, that's getting into the weeds.2022 April 2, Aiden Walker, “15 Freshly Funged Memes About NFTs”, in Know Your Meme:
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- Python script to Funge NFTs. It scrapes OpenSea for a given list of NFT collections and downloads a certain number of NFTs from each collection or the entire collections.2022 October 2, dmonea, “nft-stealer”, in GitHub:
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Business, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Finance Euphemistic, Humorous Euphemistic form of fuck.
- GET FUNGED2022 December 2, Blake Montgomery, “NFT Shop Flooded With Fakes Stops Nearly All Transactions”, in The Daily Beast:
- Luckily, MSNBC reported in May that NFTs are in low demand and high supply, which means the entire non-fungible market is non-fungibly funged up.2022 July 25, Ana Valens, “I Can’t Get Over VTuber Ironmouse Making Fun of NFTs”, in The Mary Sue:
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Business, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Finance Humorous A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs.
- Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?2021 December 3, Nick Miller, “The world’s gone mad for NFTs. But what are they?”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
- True Love Will Funge You in the End2021 April 16, Rachel Rascoe, “Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines”, in The Austin Chronicle: