I should start a business selling thin air. Thin air from France, thin air from Japan, thin air from Mexico, and so on, you can collect them all, it is super fun. Then I could introduce cold captured thin air, warm captured thin air, etc. Wet thin air, dry thin air for year 3. More fun every year.
Even better, I should sell just a paper (well, an electronic one) stating you own some thin air. Hey, geeks, how cool can this get?
I am sure I could find buyers in the same market as cryptocurrencies.
PS: This is not directed at you, but you expressed the level of pointlessness and... void that reigns in this 'market', so I picked your message to place my joke/rant.
That also reminds me of Yves Klein's Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle::
In the performance piece, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) 1959–62, he offered empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In exchange, he gave a certificate of ownership to the buyer. As the second part of the piece, performed on the Seine with an Art critic in attendance, if the buyer agreed to set fire to the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the river, in order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore). [1]
You joke but I'd be happy to invest if I think that I could sell that thin air after a month for twice what I bought it for. So make THAT happen for thin air and we are good.
Of course, this just shows how bad the air pollution is in China. Then again, water bottle brands like Nestlé's Poland Spring Water are just using "Poland Spring" as a gimmick and a ad-bait. So you definitely can sell thin air at different price based on "where the air was collected."
I'm not kidding when I say that you would be surprised at the size of the market for canned air. I made this same joke several years ago and then looked into it and was blown away.
That typically isn't air (80% Nitrogen 20% Oxygen) but a liquefied compressed gas such as 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane. They're very handy for cleaning things, especially computer heat sinks. Much more portable and cheaper than an air compressor.
This has been done! At least, as a joke. Back in the dot-com bubble the financial website IEX.nl announced an April first IPO for 'F/rite Air' (fried air).
Agreed, for someone with a relatively small amount invested in the crypto market (<1k) I find myself impersonating Gordon Gecko an awful lot. The only thing I can compare it to is my brief obsession with football stats when I used to play fantasy football.
