Edward Snowden, whistleblower for the National Security Agency, said that he was worried about how certain privileged firms or individuals in the digital space could be able use nonfungible tokens (or NFTs) in the gaming sector.

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.