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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by yesman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

The way I read the article, the "worth millions" is the sum of the ransom demand.

The funny part is that the exploit is in the "smart" contract, ya know the thing that the blockchain keeps secure by forbidding any updates or patches.

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[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 136 points 6 months ago

No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 32 points 6 months ago

As crazy as it sounds, some people do.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 76 points 6 months ago

They did. For like a week last year. Then everyone realized it was a scam.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

It's a great way to launder money.

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[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

They're priced like police drug busts.

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[-] StupendousMan@lemmy.world 100 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.

[-] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 months ago

What insurance company is dumb enough to insure NFTs?

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Ones that think they can't be stolen

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[-] eclipse@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I'd say more likely to be able to declare a capital loss on taxes.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago

Accurate headline:

Millions of dollars lost as NFTs worth a total of $0 stolen

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Let me get this straight, you can steal an nft but you can't own an nft?

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 37 points 6 months ago

You wouldn't download an NFT...

[-] Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

You very much do own an NFT you purchase, what you don't own is the asset the NFT represents (the shitty RNG generated monkey for example).

[-] regdog@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

I never had a jpeg stolen from me.

What a time to be alive.

[-] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 months ago

No no, they stole the link to a jpeg, careful you will make them angry

Here, take my link to get a feeling

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/db03eae9-a3a9-42df-8cf2-f2aa8bfa2d95.webp

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

Another interpretation is that it's all an insurance scam were something worthless is "stolen by hackers" and then claimed to be worth millions for the insurance claim.

But surely nobody in the "well known as impeccably honest" NFT world would ever do something like that!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 6 months ago

I guess the millions are in the transaction fees

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago
[-] crashoverride@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Think of it like this, when people make drug busts and they find huge amounts of cocaine or whatever and they say oh this is 300 something mod a million is worth of stuff. No it's not. It's maybe like not even half that not even a quarter of that, they just make it up just to make their bust even bigger

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I remember it used to be calculated on the lowest value extrapolated out so a gram of smoke was 20/25 bucks so a kilo of smoke "had a street value of 20,000 - 25,000."

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[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

"Potential losses". I get the feeling that NFT owners got bit by the same bug that bit RIAA executives.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

How do you steal a hyperlink to a jpeg

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago

ITT: a handful of people starting to sweat about their NFT retirement strategy

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

One of the great thing about the AI revolution is that since generating infinite number of unique random (and commonly, bad) pictures of literally anything you can think of takes only seconds, the entire concept of NFT has become completely worthless as it completely destroyed the value-from-scarcity argument. Not that it ever was a good argument to begin with.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 6 months ago

I'm having difficulty with the word "worth". It appears to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Just because the suckers that bought them paid millions doesn't mean that the NFTs are worth millions.

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[-] BadWolf@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago

…Been a minute since I’ve seen this fark headline meme.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Must be a real old-head if you know what fark is. ^me^ ^too^

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[-] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

Did they steal all NFTs?

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