NFTs and their fans enjoy a coming-out party in Times Square

Buzzing NYC conference showcases rise of the blockchain-based phenomenon

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Billboards in New York City's Times Square showcased different digital art featuring NFTs all week during the conference. (Photo by Jack Stone Truitt)

JACK STONE TRUITT, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, the tropical-themed restaurant and hotel in midtown Manhattan, is not usually the most exclusive place in New York City.

But it was standing room only beneath the propeller-plane-themed ceiling fans on Monday as some of the biggest names in tech shuffled in and out of the urban resort -- not to drink pina coladas and don flip-flops, but to wax poetic about non-fungible tokens.

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