Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?

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    I also kinda figured the people who are into the Monkey PNGs aren’t exactly the ones who go to meetups

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      I think it’s more that they tend not to get invited to non-monkey PNG meetups. Possibly in part due to their habit of turning any meetup into a monkey PNG one.

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      Have to go out there and put in the work to proselytize their Lord and Savior Blockchain.

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        Blockchain and NFT are not synonymous. All Camrys are cars but not all cars are Camrys.

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          Eh, the relationship isn’t quite the same as that one.

          It’s more like the relationship between a video game framework and a video game. Pygame, Unity, or Godot are not games you can play; they’re tools for programmers to build games with.

          Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams; NFTs are one specific scam.

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            Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams

            By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime. It’s certainly used for that, a lot, but that isn’t what it is for. A blockchain is for keeping an immutable and verifiable record by way of cryptography. That there are a lot of scams doesn’t change what it is.

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              By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime.

              See, the difference is that dollars have legitimate uses.

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                As does Blockchain, which is widely used for such purposes already.

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                    Nope, you can go and check common usage of blockchain tech, plenty of legit uses, especially in banking.

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                Yeah, you’re hating for the sake of hating with no clue why. I’m just going to go ahead and block you, kthxbye.

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                  It’s not for the sake of hating, it’s because blockchain / cryptocurrency / NFTs / etc. are problems in search of a legitimate solution. So far all they’ve found is massive energy wasting and ransomware.

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                    blockchain

                    You are conflating the ideas for some weird reason. It’s like blanket arguing against the internet because things happen on it which are illegal.

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            blockchain is a technology for implementing scams; NFTs are one specific scam.

            No. Blockchain is a technology where you generate a hash of an event that happened - e.g. garage door opened at 7:00am, and then you hash another event - garage door closed at 7:02am, continue doing that for years, hundreds of thousands of garage door movements, and just by looking at the last hash in the event chain, you can verify, in less than a millisecond, that two copies of the blockchain are identical (e.g. the working data set and a backup copy of it).

            It’s just a simple and efficient data integrity checker and it’s shit for scams - because there’s no way to hide your tracks when the feds investigate you… as Sam Bankman-Fried just learned.

            Pretty soon the scammers will realise they’re better off with cash and paper books which can easily be doctored (or simply misplaced - “sorry your honor, we can’t find records for July 2021 anywhere!”).

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              Yep. It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone who got grifted, who knew that buying the equivalent of a graffiti’d up CVS receipt would turn out to be worthless.

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      Sure they are, they’re just always nervous Chris Hansen is going to be there already.