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Post by arcticbull »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #179
arcticbull wrote: post #33

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They also sent a cease and desist to one of the folks making fun of them on twitter - for making fun of them, on twitter. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1479974074986209286?s=...

"They also sent a cease and desist..." They sent a request to cease and decease . Under the laws of Cryptoland, there are no second chances.

True libertarian utopia.

If you haven't read this, it's super funny [1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

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Post by benhurmarcel »

RF_Savage wrote: post #81
marginalia_nu wrote: post #73

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Wasn't this the literally exact thing NFTs was supposed to prevent?

Yet nothing in NFT's prevent it. Even if every artist minted everything they ever post as an NFT it would not prevent it. At most there would be a "first to file" authenthicity mechanism in the NFT storefronts like OpenSea.

> At most there would be a "first to file" authenthicity mechanism in the NFT storefronts like OpenSea.

Just alter a pixel or put a minor filter, you’re good to go.

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Post by jessym »

arcticbull wrote: post #211
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #179

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"They also sent a cease and desist..." They sent a request to cease and decease . Under the laws of Cryptoland, there are no second chances.

True libertarian utopia. If you haven't read this, it's super funny [1]. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

Thank you for sharing, this is amazing

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Post by seba_dos1 »

lottin wrote: post #82
marginalia_nu wrote: post #73

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Wasn't this the literally exact thing NFTs was supposed to prevent?

No, NFTs serve no purpose. As far as use-cases go, they have none.

To be fair, they do actually have some, but all of those can be better served without a blockchain, which as implemented doesn't even help with decentralization, let alone other claimed things.

Well, unless you count market speculation - that's what NFTs currently excel at.

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Post by nathias »

iSnow wrote: post #188
nathias wrote: post #176

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Youtube vs peertube vs odysee is a good comparison between web2, fediverse and web3. Youtube is popular and garbage, peertube unpopular and garbage and odysee unpopular and not garbage.

Sounds a lot like "The People's Front of Judea" vs. "Judea People's Front"

exactly, "Judea People's Front" are wankers

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Post by jtsiskin »

easrng wrote: post #208
thrwyoilarticle wrote: post #202

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Are there a limited number of NFTs, then? INT_MAX?

tokenId is a uint256, so there are at most 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639935 NFTs per contract.

Comparable to the number of atoms in the observable universe.

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Post by egeozcan »

shrikant wrote: post #198
egeozcan wrote: post #189

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The thing that saddens me the most is that cats used to own the internet, and I find the monkeys not so fascinating. I was also hesitating to post this because I was afraid that some cryptobro or what-you-call-them would take this complaint literally and open an NFT trading site for cat pictures. It's incredible how they don't see how bad these projects look, so my concern is real.

Boy have I got some bad news for you... https://www.cryptokitties.co/ is a thing.

The absurdity makes this more fascinating than cringe-worthy, if I'm being honest :)

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Post by sombremesa »

mdni007 wrote: post #205
jsheard wrote: post #75

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The island they are eyeing is Nananu-i-cake in Fiji: https://www.privateislandsonline.com/south-pacific/fiji/nana... It's at least a real island that's really for sale, but Cryptolands renders present it as being freestanding in the ocean rather than right next to the mainland and another island as it is in reality

Actually surprised that a private island would only cost $12m.

How about $68k?

https://www.privateislandsonline.com/canada/novascotia/big-t...

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Post by harambae »

notahacker wrote: post #110
perihelions wrote: post #25

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It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…

Repelling scam savvy people with CGI renderings of monuments to previous crypto scams and a slot machine with a flashing "Scam Alert" is unusally direct. It's almost like they've gone beyond filtering out the savvy and gone straight for the making sure nobody feels sorry for the "investors" angle

These were the exact scenes in the cartoon that made me briefly confused if this was an elaborate parody or real (the only thing that made me realize it must be real is that no one would foot the cost for such an elaborate parody video)

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Post by bryananderson »

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #171
bryananderson wrote: post #117

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Were we ever so different? Perhaps what has changed is not our nature, but the affordances present in our environment. For all our billions of years of evolutionary history until just about last Tuesday, there has never existed a global market with virtually zero cost of creating “goods” to sell. Now, with digital “assets”, there is. The ratio of perceived benefit (make money from selling shitty NFTs or shitty beats)…

The cost isn't zero though, the environmental cost is huge for NFTs in general, just like the billions made on bitcoin are on the back of that.

That’s right, but the cost is externalized to the planet at large. The person creating the NFT does not bear the cost directly.
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