At first, I thought I was going to write about Facebook doing a complete rebrand as a company and their transformation into "Meta". On Oct 28th, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company Facebook was more than just the platform Facebook and that the company name no longer encapsulated everything the company was trying to do. And just as  Google in 2015 had a restructure into parent company Alphabet, Facebook (the company) is now Meta. But as I did more research on what that entailed, I realized it's not really Facebook (from here on out Meta by the way) that I care about. Meta is just one small piece of this mess. Because, and call me cynical, I am one of the many who believe that Mark is just trying to move past all of the large pitfalls his company has recently encountered. I mean everything from large Instagram and Facebook outages to the recent whistleblower and the "Facebook Papers" cannot be good for the company name. I mean since really the beginnin

 So I am currently writing a bit of a longer piece on Facebook/Meta and that whole metaverse business that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to get his grubby hands on. But yesterday I saw a small piece of news that I just could not ignore. Now I know it seems like I might be turning into an NFT page, but here's the thing. I'm not, but the next few pieces are going to focus on NFTs and crypto but that's because that's what's in the news! It's all I see so what can I do! Anyway, this is less of an actual piece and more of a quick grumble. So many of you probably remember that back in early 2021 Beeple sold the most expensive NFT at $69 million. Well, by all technicalities, that was just beat on Oct 28th by Cryptopunk 9998 . This NFT, which as far as Crypto Punks go isn't even that rare, sold for an absolutely mindblowing 124,457 Ether. In USD, that's a total of roughly $532 million. Imagine that for a second. Half a billion dollars in crypto. And not just any cry