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Lock-in Vending Machine
de_RUEI, 2021on hic et nunc
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hic et nunc
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A project of Claw Machine Documentary in Taiwan Total 100 version, 001-100

“The primitive ancestor of smart contracts is the humble vending machine.” Nick Szabo 1997

Players fish for toys from pools in the claw machines. They action, they win, they get a prize, and they repeat.

They thought they were masters of their destinies, yet they are only the puppets of mass production and consumerism. The phytoplankton of contemporary times, the tiniest bits in the food chain of capital.

These NFTs are the photographs of claw machine from Taiwan street-corner, ordinary but diversified. Token in 🪙 & Toy out 🕹. Who’s the toy?