• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s even worse. You didn’t buy the picture of a monkey, you bought a link which may if you are lucky still resolve to some server somewhere which hosts a picture of a monkey.

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      5 days ago

      That’s technically not true for all NFTs, it’s possible for the data (in this case a monkey jpg) to be stored on-chain.

      And just to be clear, I’m not saying this to defend NFTs

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        It can be, but IIRC in the case of the Bored Ape Yacht Club ones it wasn’t. I think.

        Maybe someone who was smart enough to buy one can chime in and let us know the mechanics.

    • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      To be fair, that’s basically how any deed to a piece of land works too. But at least when you buy land, you can live on it while the government is still solvent (which will be most of us’ entire lives.)

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        I don’t know man…have you seen the news today? Kind of seems like trump is speedrunning the demise of the united states.

        Unless you live somewhere else besides the united states. In which case we’re probably about to abduct all the world leaders. Collect them like pogs, ya know? Do you remember pogs? Well they’re back. In world leader form.

  • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    NFTs were big when I went to prison. Don’t hear anything about it afterwards.

    Prison must’ve been good for something I guess.