• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I was pretty shocked when I found out that NFT pictures aren’t even stored in the block chain. NFTs are just records on the block chain with links to images stored on ordinary servers.

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      2 years ago

      There are now Bitcoin Ordinals, which are similar to NFTs but with a sufficient size limit to actually store the media itself.

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        2 years ago

        I’m pretty sure you could always store a full image in an NFT on ethereum, it’d just cost stupid high transaction fees.

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        Interesting, but the scarcity this is trying to manufacture still doesn’t apply to the image itself which can be easily and endlessly copied.