The entire internet seems to be hell-bent on giving me FOMO on NFTs. But I don't care - my life is not any worse off for not owning things like rare collectible cards, and it will certainly not be worse off without these.
I consider that it's probably better to own physical items like raw metal than electronic items if the world goes sour. You can almost always trade a piece of copper or iron for some food.
It's not that hard if you have the materials. If you have to make your own saltpeter, it's a lot more trouble. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-G... [wikihow.com]
I consider that it's probably better to own physical items like raw metal than electronic items if the world goes sour. You can almost always trade a piece of copper or iron for some food.
Trade lead for food.
Pack a gun in your survival kit. Otherwise your survival kit becomes my survival kit.
Do you know in reality what keeps you safe in world gone to chaos, exactly the same thing that keeps you safe now, Community. Nothing else but community, how people working together can achieve much more than people working alone.
Got a gun in your survival kit, get bitten by a venomous spider, shit happens you know and you die. Got a crossbow with exploding darts, trip and break you leg and you die. Slip and take a really nasty whack on the noggin, not matter what you have, unless you have people around yo
Another missing option: "No, and neither does anyone else."
What is the value of having some stranger sign a note saying you called dibs on something neither of you have any control of?
Until I navigated my browser over to opensea dot io and experienced the clusterfuck going on over there. Even worse if you have webfonts disabled for security reasons. Even when you do download Metamask, the browser plugin ETH wallet that the site requires for any sort of use, the experience doesn't improve.
Lots of kinks to work out before this stuff can graduate from beanie babies to something socially useful.
I'll be putting my own NFT -- a beautiful digital illustration based on the popular childrens' story "The Emperor's New Clothes", up for auction shortly. Bidding will start at $40,000,000.
You got as much right to declare things, as anyone else. And certainly more right to call it a scam, than the freaking scammers themselves.
(Just like liars got people conviced, that malevolent concealment "is not lying". Even though it is exactly the same: Saying something that's different from the truth. In this case, saying nothing, while the truth would u have required saying something.)
Sooner or later, somebody will find a critical vulnerability in the blockchain concept, and the whole house of cards will come crashing down. It's an interesting experiment, and might lead to better variations in the future, but I'm not ready to trust my hard-earned money to a piece of software that could be hacked.
Sure, banks can be hacked too. But there are legal protections in place in that event. If somebody hacks my bank and steals my money, the FDIC guarantees that I get my money back, even if the ban
I was going to vote "What is an NFT?". But then I remembered you had an article on NFT's yesterday. Is this a test to see how well we remember recent articles?
Bingo. People investing in NFTs want to know how valuable they are. This is coming from someone who owns NFTs though... The reality is the only thing that matters at the end of the world are goods that either sustain you or defend you... Good thing the only one's betting on the apocalypse are religious zealots and the likes.
I've decided that I will start a series of NFTs. This will consist of a full color, high-resolution picture of my first bowel movement every morning. Bidding starts at 1 per NFT. Be part of history and own tokens of my bowel movements! Some are guaranteed to include corn, blood, red wine residue, and other easter eggs, and we will guarantee that there will be good variation in consistency and overall ambience, often related to my intake of leafy green vegetables, beer, dairy, and other dietary items that wi
At present, NFTs are solely being used to create artificial scarcity, in order to separate fools from their money.
Maybe, sometime in the future, a reasonable use for NFTs will turn up. This has not yet happened.
The obvious use case is as a digital deed to objets d'art. If it ever became mainstream, you could check the provenance of a piece you are thinking about buying by scanning its corresponding digital token id.
How can you be sure that the digital token relates to that object and not another one? How do you know whether or not to trust the creator of the digital token?
At present, NFTs are solely being used to create artificial scarcity, in order to separate fools from their money.
Maybe, sometime in the future, a reasonable use for NFTs will turn up. This has not yet happened.
I could see NFTs being used as a way for libraries to loan digital material.Libraries pay to legally lend out books, etc. NFT could assure the library does not loan out more digital copies of a book than it paid for.
I cannot understand why anyone is willing to pay for this shit. I certainly am not interested. This is for people who are rich enough to throw their money away on pure bullshit. And even literal bullshit deserves to be more valuable.
I heard that XRP scam coin was the one they were going to use? The team told me so in a press release, and that they had contracts and partnerships with every single bank, business, human and pet in the world. Incidentally the circulation increased after that news story came out. I never understood why...
I don't own baseball cards or pokemons either (Score:2)
The entire internet seems to be hell-bent on giving me FOMO on NFTs. But I don't care - my life is not any worse off for not owning things like rare collectible cards, and it will certainly not be worse off without these.
You gotta admit it's pretty cool though.
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I consider that it's probably better to own physical items like raw metal than electronic items if the world goes sour. You can almost always trade a piece of copper or iron for some food.
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What nonsense is that? Food has value in a crazy world. Wrenches do too. Raw metal seems worthless.
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I consider that it's probably better to own physical items like raw metal than electronic items if the world goes sour. You can almost always trade a piece of copper or iron for some food.
Trade lead for food.
Pack a gun in your survival kit. Otherwise your survival kit becomes my survival kit.
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Do you know in reality what keeps you safe in world gone to chaos, exactly the same thing that keeps you safe now, Community. Nothing else but community, how people working together can achieve much more than people working alone.
Got a gun in your survival kit, get bitten by a venomous spider, shit happens you know and you die. Got a crossbow with exploding darts, trip and break you leg and you die. Slip and take a really nasty whack on the noggin, not matter what you have, unless you have people around yo
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The professional "offended" communities will be the first to go. I'm sure they will be offended by their situation.
Re: I don't own baseball cards or pokemons either (Score:1)
Re: I don't own baseball cards or pokemons either (Score:1)
They are not electronic.
They are information. Merely a meta-layer on a medium.
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I'm gonna build an ETF of NFTs so that we can mitigate against any one losing value.
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my life is not any worse off for not owning things like rare collectible cards, and it will certainly not be worse off without these.
You gotta admit it's pretty cool though.
My life is not any worse off for not admitting that it's pretty cool.
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You gotta admit it's pretty cool though.
It's really hard for me to think of the "remastered" nya cat as cool or worth paying for. It's right here, you can have it for free [twitter.com]. The original is free too. [youtube.com]
Re: I don't own baseball cards or pokemons either (Score:2)
Yeah but if I buy that then itâ(TM)s mine. Youâ(TM)re just looking at my Juan cat. Or something. I donâ(TM)t know but itâ(TM)s mine!
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Missing option (Score:2)
Doesn't this one merit a "oh hell no" option?
Re: Missing option (Score:3)
I was hoping for "I'll only buy CowboyNeal's first post"
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I was hoping for "I'll only buy CowboyNeal's first post"
Sadly, that poll option has been lacking for a while now.
Re: Missing option (Score:1)
The poll submission feature seems to be gone from Slashdot too. Where can you even submit a poll on /., nowadays?
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Was thinking about making some NFTs (Score:1)
Until I navigated my browser over to opensea dot io and experienced the clusterfuck going on over there. Even worse if you have webfonts disabled for security reasons. Even when you do download Metamask, the browser plugin ETH wallet that the site requires for any sort of use, the experience doesn't improve.
Lots of kinks to work out before this stuff can graduate from beanie babies to something socially useful.
First DeFi, now NFT (Score:3)
WTF?
Re:First DeFi, now NFT (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: First DeFi, now NFT (Score:1)
BizX owns Slashdot.
Need I say more?
NFT auction announcement (Score:2)
I'll be putting my own NFT -- a beautiful digital illustration based on the popular childrens' story "The Emperor's New Clothes", up for auction shortly. Bidding will start at $40,000,000.
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You have the same problem I do. I have plenty of NFTs...that no one buys from me.
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I'll be putting my own NFT -- a beautiful digital illustration based on goatse.cx, up for auction shortly. Bidding will start at $40,000,000.
FTFY
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A "giant scam" would have to be something a lot of people have heard of.
I looked up https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nft-boom-digital-collectibles-rcna430 [nbcnews.com], had a wtf moment and am now going to move on with my life.
Re: How? (Score:1)
Why are you implyingnit isn't?
You got as much right to declare things, as anyone else. And certainly more right to call it a scam, than the freaking scammers themselves.
(Just like liars got people conviced, that malevolent concealment "is not lying". Even though it is exactly the same: Saying something that's different from the truth. In this case, saying nothing, while the truth would u
have required saying something.)
AUSTRALIAN MEME KINGPIN BROWN CARDIGAN AND LUSHUX (Score:1)
Blockchain crash is inevitable (Score:2)
Sooner or later, somebody will find a critical vulnerability in the blockchain concept, and the whole house of cards will come crashing down. It's an interesting experiment, and might lead to better variations in the future, but I'm not ready to trust my hard-earned money to a piece of software that could be hacked.
Sure, banks can be hacked too. But there are legal protections in place in that event. If somebody hacks my bank and steals my money, the FDIC guarantees that I get my money back, even if the ban
Missing Option - Creating your own NFTs & PROF (Score:2)
Here's my NFT:
The Spain Rain Refrains on Trains
Now pay me $10M for it.
Re: Missing Option - Creating your own NFTs & (Score:2)
Do you accept RightwingNutjobCoin?
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Re: Missing Option - Creating your own NFTs & (Score:3)
The photo is that rainbow kitty nft thing. That cool?
Is this a test? (Score:1)
Re: Is this a test? (Score:2)
Bingo. People investing in NFTs want to know how valuable they are. This is coming from someone who owns NFTs though... The reality is the only thing that matters at the end of the world are goods that either sustain you or defend you... Good thing the only one's betting on the apocalypse are religious zealots and the likes.
Oh yeah? (Score:2)
Well, your face is an NFT.
No honest and rational person does (Score:2)
No Tulip Bulb futures, Amway, percentages of Nigerian Gold Stashes or Florida "beach front" timeshares either.
My NFTs! (Score:2)
Technically speaking, we all own NFTs. (Score:2)
Fools and their money (Score:2)
Re: Fools and their money (Score:2)
The obvious use case is as a digital deed to objets d'art. If it ever became mainstream, you could check the provenance of a piece you are thinking about buying by scanning its corresponding digital token id.
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How can you be sure that the digital token relates to that object and not another one?
How do you know whether or not to trust the creator of the digital token?
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At present, NFTs are solely being used to create artificial scarcity, in order to separate fools from their money. Maybe, sometime in the future, a reasonable use for NFTs will turn up. This has not yet happened.
I could see NFTs being used as a way for libraries to loan digital material .Libraries pay to legally lend out books, etc. NFT could assure the library does not loan out more digital copies of a book than it paid for.
Re: Fools and their money (Score:2)
wtf? (Score:1)
Artificial Scarcity .... (Score:2)
is Artificial...
The thing you own is the NFT, not the item, and there is nothing to link a copy of the item to the NFT....
Why are these polls about things we ignore? (Score:2)
This is clearly just clickbait trying to push some stupid tech that nobody cares about and will probably wither into nothing sooner than later.
They should have an option "I don't care at all what X so never mention it again."
Nobody selling a Slashdot NFT here? (Score:2)
SMH. Golden opportunity to sell an NFT for Slashdot itself.
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Can't wait to buy my limited edition Goatse
certificate of authenticity (Score:2)
Kind of like buying crap from say Franklin Mint but you only get the certificate of authenticity and no actual product.
XRP though? Kidding.. (Score:1)
Let me tape this $20 to my worthless drawing (Score:1)
I went the other way (Score:1)
I only own FFTs (Fully Fungible Tokens).
Yes I just made that up.
Yes that means I will be a billionaire by lunch tomorrow.
NFW! (Score:2)