DrQuint,
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Crypto Bros Losers would be really mad at reading that, if they weren’t busy fellating the owners of BoredApes after they made them blind.

What? No, that’s not a joke.

theverge.com/…/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sun…

“Had a good time with the homies who also got their eyes burned”. These people are unbelievably down there in the pathetic human scale.

LinkOpensChest_wav,

What the fuck. I’ve been to many, many clubs and shows with creative lighting, and never once heard of or experienced a problem like this. This had to be reckless ignorance on the event planners to result in something like this. Holy shit.

RIP_Cheems,
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t even buy the photo, you buy the hyperlink to the photo. In a sense, your buying the treasure map to gold, but you can’t have the gold.

Flumsy,

Its like buying gold on the stock market pretty much. You cant have it in your hands but you still own it and it has value

Freesoftwareenjoyer,

No, you buy a certificate of ownership. That’s what NFT is.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

OP, I’ll buy it for eleventy billion and one spiff coins.

Kanda,

The Mona Lisa is just a canvas with paint on it

Honytawk,

You forgot the part that it is 500 years old and made by a significant historical figure.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

And it’s got “This is a fake” written in felt-tip pen on the canvas.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a good thing they haven’t X-Rayed it yet. That might change the course of history. Although I suppose not as much as stopping life from ever existing on the Earth in the first place.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Yeah. We’ve just got to hope that no one manages to re-create the missing verses to Kubla Khan.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Pff. You get a time machine out of the deal. Worth it.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

And have to live with a couch stuck in your stairway? Not a trade-off I’d be willing to make.

Kanda,

So if an NFT was 500 years old and made by Obama then it would be the same?

MaxHardwood,

Fine art is valued for taxation and insurance purposes

UnverifiedAPK,

So I have news for about NFTs…

kworpy,

“This comment is an NFT and if you screenshot this I will sue your ass without hesitation. Please paypal me 4500 USD if you would like this comment, and don’t mess with me. I got my whole crypto gang on my side. We will fuck you up if you try stealing this comment, so don’t fuck with us.”

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Why are they asking for fiat currency?

Tremont,

“This comment is an NFT and if you screenshot this I will sue your ass without hesitation. Please paypal me 4500 USD if you would like this comment, and don’t mess with me. I got my whole crypto gang on my side. We will fuck you up if you try stealing this comment, so don’t fuck with us.”

Obi,
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Omega_Haxors,
samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar
MrSlicer,

To be fair most art is just pictures (using the term picture loosely). That’s not why the nft is dumb.

Omega_Haxors, (edited )

They’re not even pictures. They’re hyperlinks to pictures that may or may not even be there.

Famously, it’s uncommon that your “NFT” ends up hyperlinking to a picture of a rug because the people running it know it’s a scam.

Flumsy,

They are actually not hyperlinks, more like certificares of ownership over a picture (or a “token”, as the name suggests)

Omega_Haxors,

Go away, feddit de you never have anything useful to say

Flumsy,

Oh yes, generalizing. At least you didnt write any racist jokes (yet)…

GoodEye8,

It’s very expensive to add the actual image picture into the blockchain, so most NFTs actually contain a hyperlink and the NFT owner “owns” (because to my knowledge there’s no legal base to assert ownership) only that hyperlink within their token, not the image itself.

Flumsy,

Thats true but they also usually contain things like the pictures hash so as long as you have the file you can always claim it (even if the hyperlink becane invalid).

GoodEye8,

Pretty much any kind of data related to the image is useless for verifying the actual image. For instance saving the exact same image with a different compression algorithm will make a new hash.

DeepGradientAscent, (edited )
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

eleventy billion

That’s… not a number. Yet.

some_guy,
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