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NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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It's stupid at face value. No pyramid required. You cannot intrinsically link real world items to tokens. The source of truth is the real world, not the token. Add an unlimited supply of unique things, and how could anyone expect to make money from this?

This felt really scammy to me. Like straight out of the grifters' handbook.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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NFTs are paying for a signature in a blockchain that links to a random URL. If you're lucky, it's IPFS and it'll go down when people stop hosting it. If you're slightly less lucky, it's whatever platform you went through that's operating an IPFS tunnel because cryptobros can't figure it out, and it will go down whenever your flavor or the month NFT site goes out of business, which is any time between six months and 5…

Is it not possible to put the "owned" data itself on the NFT blockchain? If so, that does seem like a serious flaw.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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So basically: NFTs are a scam since the early adopters are not very good artists. And there is no unique value in them since its just Pepe memes, which are stupid to be NFTed, since it's just Gifs? Oh and let's not forget about the Ethereum fees and how shitty the tech is. This really reminds me on how everybody perceived internet in early noughties, when everybody was telling me it's shit and it will never ammount t…

Critical thinking says NFTs could work for say reselling tickets or something where you need to transfer the proof of ownership.

The NFT Art market as it is seems to be about equivalent to the real world autograph market. It is likely vastly overvalued and the current sales are just people buying and hoping they can sell for more later like a Beanie Baby

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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post #3

It's stupid at face value. No pyramid required. You cannot intrinsically link real world items to tokens. The source of truth is the real world, not the token. Add an unlimited supply of unique things, and how could anyone expect to make money from this?

If you're thinking that the purpose of NFTs is to link real world items to tokens, you have a very weird view and would do you better to continue reading up on NFTs. In its most basic form, a NFT is simply a cryptocurrency token with the total supply of 1. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyone claiming anything else clearly don't know what they are talking about. The source of truth is the token, as it's only about the…

That belief is incorrect, but extremely common, so it's dubious to describe it as weird. Indeed, the fact that so many people hold that belief is at the root of the whole NFT situation.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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So basically: NFTs are a scam since the early adopters are not very good artists. And there is no unique value in them since its just Pepe memes, which are stupid to be NFTed, since it's just Gifs? Oh and let's not forget about the Ethereum fees and how shitty the tech is. This really reminds me on how everybody perceived internet in early noughties, when everybody was telling me it's shit and it will never ammount t…

ELI5: What can NFT achieve that a combination of Twitter + public key cryptography cannot achieve? As far as I can tell the only benefit is "decentralization" and just like BTC, the average user is beholden to bank-like entities for all their transactions anyway, so you get all the cons of existing monetary systems without the insurance.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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Ironic coming from a website like fstoppers. What exactly is the "value" of fine art photography ? Why do people pay exorbitant amounts for basically a few hours of photos during their wedding, given that a wedding might end up divorce ? People pay for whatever has "intrinsic" value to them. If Digitally generated/cryptographic art is it, so be it.

Everything is valued economically at whatever people will pay for it. But true value is independent of the price. Van Gogh sold almost nothing in his short 10 years of producing and killed himself because he thought he had no value and didn't want to burden his brother (he had some mental issues of course). Now his art is priceless. Value changes over time, things that people truly love will go up over time, things that have no real "value" will go away. Most of the "art" NFT's I've seen have no real appeal beyond a few minutes; I would happily take the money though if people offered it, but not feel any real value was traded for it, so it would seem less than rewarding other than the money.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

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post #17
post #3

It's stupid at face value. No pyramid required. You cannot intrinsically link real world items to tokens. The source of truth is the real world, not the token. Add an unlimited supply of unique things, and how could anyone expect to make money from this?

>You cannot intrinsically link real world items to tokens. Patents & trademarks?

Not blockchain tokens.

The interesting facets all come from the legal consequences of ignoring them, not the serial number or whatever.

Re: NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

#30

Let people do whatever the F they wanna do with their money. If they lose it, shrug , it’s their money. I hate this idea of people telling other people what to do or what’s good for them.

Ain't that the bitch of freedom?

You have to put up with what other people do with it.

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