The fundamental critique of any "What about the Panopticon!" paranoia. 99.9% of the time, you don't matter and nobody is going to invest the resources in watching you specifically. That said, there's layers to this kind of mass monitoring. The more flags you trip, the higher on the priority list you get.
I'm far more willing to believe that some crytographer at the NSA figured out how to do a side-hustle shilling NFTs or that an investment bank's guerrilla investing team cooked this up, than that Joe Biden's Pentagon has a Deputy Undersecretary of Bored Apes dedicated to convincing people that spending $5000 on a piece of bad digital art is a good idea.
The fundamental critique of any "What about the Panopticon!" paranoia. 99.9% of the time, you don't matter and nobody is going to invest the resources in watching you specifically. That said, there's layers to this kind of mass monitoring. The more flags you trip, the higher on the priority list you get.
I'm far more willing to believe that some crytographer at the NSA figured out how to do a side-hustle shilling NFTs or that an investment bank's guerrilla investing team cooked this up, than that Joe Biden's Pentagon has a Deputy Undersecretary of Bored Apes dedicated to convincing people that spending $5000 on a piece of bad digital art is a good idea.