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How “nft” trended on Hacker News

“Nft” was mentioned 14,577 times on Hacker News between 2011 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2021 with 1,450 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “nft” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
14,577
Peak month
Dec 2021 (1,450)
First seen
2011
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What the chart shows

NFTs first appear on Hacker News in 2011 but only became prominent during the 2021 boom. The curve peaks in December 2021 with 1,450 mentions, and the lifetime total is 14,577 mentions, heavily concentrated in that year.

Discussion was largely critical or satirical: framing NFT projects as MLMs for tech elites, John Cleese “selling” the Brooklyn Bridge, Steam banning blockchain games, and a torrent collecting NFT images. After 2021 the topic declined sharply.

Top Hacker News stories about “nft”

  1. 1.NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites 797 points · 652 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT 445 points · 387 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform 379 points · 436 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana) 229 points · 245 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art 224 points · 767 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme 211 points · 345 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.An NFT without a blockchain 185 points · 355 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.The NFT market bubble has popped? 171 points · 326 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value 169 points · 254 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools 167 points · 243 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.An NFT That Saves Lives 138 points · 203 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs 132 points · 181 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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