• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Anyone who didn’t sell after the idiocy of the NFT market is a fuckin bagholder through and through.

    An NFT market was stupid to begin with, because it’s trying to use endless amounts of CPU cycles to enforce an “ownership” system that is genuinely unneeded and only serves to benefit Capital and Capitalists.

    Hell yeah let’s burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s

    Later, they would shut down the same market, after barely over a year and a half.

    This was and is a company with no concrete plans for the future that was spinning its wheels since its core business was failing and continues to fail.

    Diamond hands? More like Sunk Cost Hands.

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      Hell yeah let’s burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s

      It’s an apt comparison but NFTs are sooo much worse than skins. At least there’s an opportunity to “enjoy” skins as well as show them off during an activity you’re doing anyway.

      With an NFT it’s just “look at this picture I own!” and nothing else

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          Yes. The data for the image isn’t hosted in the block chain of the NFT. The NFT is basically an unfalsifiable digital signature of authenticity.

          They’re popularly used for digital art, but can be paired with any technology as a digital signature.

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          Neither of you are correct, technically, although you shouldn’t feel bad about that as it’s what 99.9% of people think. An NFT is a representation of ownership on the block chain ledger. It can represent ANYTHING, houses have been sold as NFTs as well as many other things.

          I’m curious about the claims of the guy above you as well, I certainly don’t know for sure, but I don’t see why it should take incredible amounts of energy to maintain block chain, and it sounds like that user is conflating crypto mining with NFTs.

          Note: I am not promoting either, please don’t buy crypto or pointless NFT images!

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            2 months ago

            I’m glad some people understand beyond the headlines, I think NFTs could be really neat as a way to have some sort of in-game item or w/e, fully transferable and all that 🤷‍♂️

            Especially since most nfts I’m aware of are on the ethererum blockchain, which now uses orders of magnitude less electricity from the switch off of PoW

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          2 months ago

          You’re right but I was assuming NFT dorks would pull up their NFT wallet (?) and click them

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      2 months ago

      Akchually, NFTs don’t even burn CPU cycles to enforce ownership. At best it’s all created and sold by a central party, and at worst the whole thing runs on his laptop.