Edward Snowden, whistleblower at the National Security Agency said he was concerned about the possibility that certain individuals or companies in the digital world might have the ability to use NFTs or nonfungible tokens in the gambling industry.

At the BlockDown DeData online conference, Gavin Wood and Snowden were co-founders. though he had seen some use cases for nonfungible tokens to raise funds for causes, he is concerned with the technology “creeping into gaming.” The whistleblower described certain aspects of the metaverse as “horrible, and heinous, and tragic” for aiming at capitalizing on users’ virtual escapes.