If mk can shit on Daily Beast I can shit on Vice. They're hipster assholes who primarily exist to convince you they're cooler than you are by dogging on everything and everyone. This has been their mission statement since 2001. Back then, at least, they were intended for out-of-touch marketing flacks to track "youth trends" to better pander to consumers. The aggressive shift from GenX's AdBusters/No Logo aesthetic to the Millennial adoption of all things branded is due in major part to Vice.

And it's dumb shit like this. Let's rewrite for truth:

Man Cannot Browse his $500 Asset on his Platform of Choice Due To Software Incompatibility, Rights Issues

There's no "kind of" about it. It's like saying YTMND cartoons have disappeared because Chrome no longer supports Flash. And we've got anecdata of 1, and it's all because the dude bought infringing content that was deliberately altered to get past the contract.

But Vice will happily serve you up a stock photo of a white jackass dismayed by his laptop.

Vice is ostensibly journalists. So... they could have dug up a picture of "moon ticket #29". But they didn't, and they didn't say they couldn't. They could have interviewed "darpalabs" except their Instagram is now 404 and they are a fart in the wind. They could have asked a property manager in Ontario with zero sophistication why he spent $500 on "moon ticket #29", a $500 NFT covered in SpaceX branding, from an outfit called "darpalabs."

Vice's take?

This is all illustrative of a common problem with Ethereum and cryptocurrencies generally, which despite being immutable and unhackable and abstractly perfect can only be taken advantage of via unreliable third-party applications.

It's the applications, guys. It's not that there will always be hucksters ready to skin the rubes and the less you understand something, the more likely you are to be the latter. But then Vice doesn't get to tart up a dog-bites-man bullshit story about a jobless jackass trying to go to the moon for $500 and the Nigerian Princes who took his money.