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Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.::NFTs had a huge bull run two years ago, with billions of dollars per month in trading volume, but now most have crashed to zero, a study found.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All my apes, gone

This is even funnier in retrospect

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I still think NFTs could be used to make a form of DRM that is actually fair to the consumer, by maki g it so you can resell your digital goods and also make it so your digital rights don't vanish as soon as the seller gets bored. But nobody in a position to make that happen wants that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (18 children)

DRM =/= fair to the consumer.

DRM as a concept seeks to limit your digital rights. Any DRM of any kind is a form of punishment to the consumer. You bought it, it should be yours to do with in perpetuity as you please.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

NFTs or blockchains are not needed for this. You could just implement selling or transfers in the content platform.

I do think using contacts for escrow and having the sale being independent from the vendor are cool features, bit not at all essential ones.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Mostly used for money laundering

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'd say there's a fair number of people just speculating.

And a couple people get lucky and make it big. And that's promoted. Cuz it looks great.

But like a lot of the big movements, are money laundering as you said, or a way to bribe people. This politicians wife's cousins son sold an NFT for 4 million that's amazing!

But we get this with traditional art too. Any market where there isn't commodity pricing, price discovery is flexible, so it can be used for lots of social reasons

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Now? Probably?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone with the ability to read who bought one deserves what happened to them. The sellers are probably still laughing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

99 times out of 100, it was the seller selling it to himself to artificially inflate transaction numbers and nudge the price up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but that's the thing with scams. They make thousands of attempts, but they only need that one sucker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Remember? Fuck no.

It was what for like 5 minutes during a year with a million other more important things going on to pay attention to that thing that kids with only somewhat rich parents used to try and scam their way to being as rich as the kids with really rich parents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me you don’t know anything about the blockchain without telling me you don’t know anything about the blockchain

…is what Techbro Legion (for they are Many) would say if they didn’t have to put all their stuff in hock to recoup their losses

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Turns out it was "not knowing anything" all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You wouldn't right click a car would you.......

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A load of rich stupid people got fucked over. Beautiful.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

pushes glasses up I believe what you meant to say is that its a buyer's market. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's a free market. Anyone can come up and say that they are willing to pay millions for an indifferent_insect_boat_club.jpeg at any moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was just another form of money laundering though 'art'.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

GOT EM! They were all confused and excited that it might be the next Bitcoin..All I need is one good con like this and I can get off this fucking hamster wheel!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh no….anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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