Well, it is kind of a scam to give false promises.
But with what promises was that
rock sold?
There was no such thing, I actually suspect more false promises are in normal auctions, I've seen enough collectibles brochures that make ridiculous claims of those items being one of kind and highly sought by investors are art lovers and how the price for them will only go up for the next ten centuries.
Lies starting from simple things such as promising decentralization and big pumps to overtake bitcoin all the way to bigger lies including making electricity free and curing cancer
But again, no art NFT made any of those claims, nor did NFT promise to solve a thing, other than keeping your favorite baseball picture safe from spilling a drink over it.
On the other side, I would consider those so-called NFT games a scam, this is a different thing, when you must pay in order to start playing, breed with $2k some kitties that will be worth cents, that's different.
But maybe the Blockstream people should stop trashing ICOs and NFTs like every other day on Twitter if they're going to just end up joining the craze in the end. And they're free to change their mind on these things anyway, but nooo, if it's on Ethereum it's bad but if it's on Liquid it's totally fine! /s
I don't give a damn about Blockstream but again they're doing just what everyone does, my database has one more table and is cuter, that's why you should use my services and not the others. The moment I'm going to see the attitude you're expecting from them or anyone else displayed on Twitter I'm going in the basement to wait for the apocalypse.
Not saying that as an excuse or that is normal but one should start ignoring these altogether, at the end of line you just bring more people to talk about them.