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A well-known Wildeism goes that friends stab you in the front, which is true enough to make the quip worth remembering. It came to mind over the last week or two as I pondered the recent decision by Coinbase to get into the NFT game.
A few facts will help detail why the Wilde reference fits the moment:
a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen sits on the board of Coinbase, a company that his firm backed before it went public.
a16z led OpenSea’s Series A, a $ …
