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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Pretty much all crypto bro stuff, honestly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Every time someone mentions NFT's, I think of this gem and its sequel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

For me it's usually the Bitcoin guy from the "If Google was a guy" sketches

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

i smoked a joint with an one of those ape drawings on the jar last night, that was a Nice Fuckin Toke

[–] [email protected] 177 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (36 children)

The sad thing is the concept wasn’t.

Selling NFTs with no physical existence is what is pointlessly stupid.

Before they came along i considered the idea of a blockchain linked video camera where metadata of footage gets written into the chain to combat fake news and misinformation.

The goal would be to create a proof and record of original footage, to which media publishers and people who share can link towards to verify authenticity/author.

If the media later gets manipulated or reframed you would be able to verify this by comparing to the original record.

It was never a finished idea but when i first read nft i thought this is the right direction.

And then capitalism started selling apes and what the actual disgusting money possessed fuck was that.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The certificate/signature part seems okay for verification.

It's the transferable virtual deeds being sold that are the scam. I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn't really mean anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I mean we use fiat currency

the issue isnt that it is virtual

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Wait just a second! You have a bridge for sale? Tell me more.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Wouldn't a code signing be a simpler way to achieve that? The video camera can produce a hash code with each video and you can always run the same hash function against the video file to confirm that it wasn't tampered with.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When my these first arrived my brother was all about them. Dude was stoked and thought he was the next billionaire. I then asked him what's to stop someone from copying the image? He shrugged and idk man man but im going all in. It was on that day that I knew my brother was tarded

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Tbh I get it from a certain point of view. We all made fun of bitcoin at first but now it's pretty common for people to wish they could tell their younger self to get as much as they can afford.

I get the idea of not wanting to miss out on the next thing that did that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitcoin is still fucking shit. That just amounts to "I wish I was there first in this this pyramid scheme". It doesn't change what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's so funny looking back at it (though it was funny while it was happening too), these new-flavor cryptobros tried so hard to convince themselves that they were in the right, they made "cartoons," games, I think they even planned like an island resort or something around their monkey pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Near the peak of the NFT craze I was gifted (as part of an initial mint) an NFT, which I turned around and immediately sold for $3k. Last I looked it was worth about $200. That's the extent of my experience with NFTs.

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