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“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

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Post by detaro »

addicted wrote: post #39
judge2020 wrote: post #8

Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.

Yes, but NFT “owners” get real mad if you right click > Download Image the art they “own”.

as in, there's been a few examples on Twitter maybe and people love to pretend that everyone thinks like that because they like to feel superior.

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Post by wrfitch »

setr wrote: post #36
quakeguy wrote: post #6

Seems it has only around 10GB of data, the rest are zeros hashed. https://gist.github.com/zhuowei/ebd5601f7dd8e5ee186bf302874e... https://www.twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1461576936241733638

I don’t understand; did the author of the torrent toss in a bunch of nothing to pad out the number, or is there that many references to nothing in the NFT chain? The former seems pointless, but for the latter, I’m under the assumption that the NFT chain stores the image hashes directly, and those hashes are enforced to be unique — so there should be only one instance of a zero hash? Or I suppose a ton of images with…

Most NFTs do not hash media themselves; instead, they hash a link to the media that only exists as long as it is hosted. I'd imagine the zero hashes are links that are already dead.

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Post by clippablematt »

input_sh wrote: post #24
crispyporkbites wrote: post #17

NFTs are obviously a bit silly, BUT, it would be nice if things bought on platforms like Steam, Roblox, Amazon, iTunes etc. were transferable to other games/platforms. The platform providers would still need to agree that a specific blockchain / NFT is actually the source of truth, and so it's not really trustless. But the internet itself isn't perfectly decentralized either. I could see a future where developers cou…

I'm gonna copy my questions from another thread about transferable items because I'm genuinely curious about the answers. Why would an asset designed for one game make sense or look good or feel at home in a completely different one? Why would companies make one of them and sell it for a million bucks instead of trying to convince more players to buy it in a shop for two bucks? Is the mechanic of a weapon gonna adjus…

I guess you could point at some metadata/description and let each game render that how it likes?

Eg if I have a red hat nft you could have that as 2d sprite art or a 3d model or just a buff to some other stat or just ignore it.

Why wouldn’t they sell it for a couple of bucks? It doesn’t have to be expensive because it’s an nft, plenty of them are sold for pennies. erc1155 is designed with lots of varying items being created on the same contract.

Why nfts? Because it’s easy to do today and has been getting more and more popular over the past three years. It seems people like them.

People don’t want to download files and import them into programs. Having one login(wallet) that you connect to anything you want and it takes your data and belongings with you seems pretty neat to me.

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Post by tofurocks »

addicted wrote: post #39
judge2020 wrote: post #8

Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.

Yes, but NFT “owners” get real mad if you right click > Download Image the art they “own”.

Nobody cares if you download their NFT, it is a joke on crypto twitter

Re: “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

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Post by clippablematt »

addicted wrote: post #39
judge2020 wrote: post #8

Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.

Yes, but NFT “owners” get real mad if you right click > Download Image the art they “own”.

Nobody cares.

There is more value in being the owner of the thing everyone has, than the thing no one has.

Keep right clicking, we love it.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/

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Post by beardyw »

tomp wrote: post #31
judge2020 wrote: post #8

Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.

Reminds me of Moon Shares from like 20 years ago. You could buy property on the moon and the company would verify ownership for you. Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.

You may just have opened a Pandora's box.

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Post by xondono »

tomp wrote: post #31
judge2020 wrote: post #8

Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.

Reminds me of Moon Shares from like 20 years ago. You could buy property on the moon and the company would verify ownership for you. Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.

> Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.

Except the blockchain only keeps the url, so the “content” doesn’t get any of the properties of the blockchain

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