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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

:cassandra-flummoxed:
> trend has obvious flaw
>
> flaw leads to inevitable conclusion
> surprise

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

tfw what you purchased was not an ape, nor an image of an ape, but a claim to a link to an image of an ape

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago
[–] RaspberryTuba@hexbear.net 83 points 1 day ago (7 children)

They weren’t putting the image’s base64 encode on the blockchain or something like that? Just a URL?

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 89 points 1 day ago (2 children)

yes. It's too expensive to put the actual image on the blockchain so they just put the urls

immutable ledger my ass

[–] blame@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

theres no way its too expensive when youre paying over $1m for it.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

well the url is still in the chain isn't it? put up one of the classic shock images or a ytmnd of nelson laughing.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep people were clowning on it from day 1 for this exact reason

[–] fox@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, among other reasons you could also put exactly the same image onto the chain as often as you wanted because there's no actual relationship between the NFT functionality and whatever it was linking to or defining.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could also copy and paste it for free

[–] fox@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah we all know right click save, but I feel it's a deeper critique that the asset itself can be infinitely reduplicated on the same chain because there's no guardrails or security or relationship between token and asset.

Moxie Marlinespike had a good bit where he sold nfts that would change to the poop emoji

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[–] coolusername@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

NFTs made me dislike humanity more as a whole. A large percentage of influencers were using them to scam the public.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

hey its the thing that was extremely obviously going to happen happening

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are we back to laughing at people who believe in IP now?

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We never should have stopped

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait, who stopped? Show yourselves!

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[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if I call it the people's democratic intellectual property, is it cool now?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

one time i read about some libertarian scheme to fund some kind of UBI with "royalties" for ancient inventions like the wheel and firemaking.

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[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 day ago

They got funged

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago

Right click --> save enjoyers vindicated again

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he forgot about his slurp juice

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

this is what happens when you don't use multiple slurp juices on one ape

[–] blame@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

man spends a million dollars and cant be arsed to encode the image in the blockchain

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is just like when my parents sold my beanie babies at a garage sale. Had my shit all figured out. The babies. Pokemon cards. I was gonna live large but look at me now

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pokemon cards are still out there selling for obscene amounts of money. Beanie babies, not so much.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

(Image is legible when opened in new tab)

E) also, underrated subtle detail is the ex-husband representing himself vs the ex-wife who hired a lawyer for the "divvying up the stuffies" civil case

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Maple the bear was the first to go

One of the worst #1 picks of all time. Like when the Clippers took Michael Olowokandi over Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce in '98

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is one of the funniest things this site has shown me

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I been keeping this one in my back pocket for years :smuglord:

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

If I were that judge I would quit on the spot. It would send me into an existential crisis about what this society is and how many years of education and training were undertaken for this moment.

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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You see any of those videos where adult children were storming costcos to fight over a pallet of cards? Just omg living in this country is a daily humiliation ritual

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[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Such a simpler time. When a Paris Hilton could go on Jimmy Fallon and show him her ape. It aged like bejeweled Von Dutch trucker hats.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Probably should have just downloaded the image.

This is such an obvious thing to happen, I can't spend a hundred bucks without looking into it, let alone a million

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want them to sue and be ruled against because the URL to the dead jpg still exists.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Legally you only own an entry in a distributed ledger that contains the value "https://dumbassclub.scam/18e67ddf-8469-404c-9820-0eab4631c905.jpg".

pronounjak-rage

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

clueless Now that they don't exist, the law of supply and demand demands that my NFTs are infinitely valuable

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago

Even if you did the good old "right-click, save" trick them as the owner and you still have your image on your hard-drive, if the link is dead then you can't prove that your specific image of a baboon's ass is linked into that nft that is supposed to be worth X amounts of fiat.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

push me to the ETH

all my apes are dead all-my-apes-gone

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

I was having a bad until I read this postdata-laughing

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

most logical economic system

[–] shallot@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

Should have used the slurp juice smh

[–] Bruja@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

Oh, this person is genuinely sad about this and big into crypto and username is literally NFT “PicturesOnBlockchain”. The cognitive dissonance has not hit them that the whole thing is a grift and this isn’t a single solitary unfortunate incident.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

rare

wym "rare" you can literally reupload the same picture into a new NFT

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Lmao get rekt

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How can crypto broes not taking advices from the goldbugs that if the assets is worthless if you don't own it tangibly

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