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This has to be a scam of some sort, but i don't even see how the people at the top are making money.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if these weren't a scam, they use intensive computer resources to add a layer of property ownership bullshit on top of an existing open data architecture simply so certain people can claim "ownership" over information. It's a way to push the ideology that we should have "ownership" over the things we post to the internet, rather than it being a memetic collage of humanity.

All knowledge is based on previous knowledge. For knowledge to grow, access to information is important. NFTs is an attempt to make technology move backwards and deny access to information via technological means. I'd personally rather have places like Sci-Hub, which is dedicated to sharing information freely for the benefit of science worldwide.

Worse than just being a rejection of the open nature of data and how easily it can be transferred, it doesn't actually do what it claims to do. One of the people who helped create the NFT spec in a programming jam calls out NFT peddlers by pointing out an NFT doesn't contain any actual art, it only has enough bits to hold the URL to a piece of art. Technically, if the server the hosts your NFT disappears.... so does your NFT. Because the NFT itself is just a hardcoded link to a piece of art that is verified by a series of hash-checks.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, but this is just a scam. It's about getting people to pay money for wisps of digital vapor.

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

it's really not a scam because people know exactly what they're buying, they just beleive in a crazy backwards concept

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If I convince you to believe in a crazy backwards concept of magical water, and I use that to sell you homeopathic "medication" for your actual medical condition, I am still a scammer even if you believe in it.

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But NFTs don't lie about curing diseases, they claim to be a receipt to a code that's associated with an image. Which is honestly what they are. The issue is that it's extremely overvalued but there's nothing legally fraudulent about that, just consumers who have overvalued a dumb concept. I hate them but I'm just saying it's not technically a scam

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Hate to break it, but homeopathy also is legal.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

You sound like you need more amethyst in your diet. Only a negligible amount more though, obviously.

[-] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

If you buy it from me, ill sell at a lower price then you sell to him. we all win!

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It's the profit cycle! Everyone wins!

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

exactly my point.. you can't just call something a scam because you think it's stupid

but nah just downvote me for being right

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

this is the most accurate take on NFTs I've ever seen

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