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

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.