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Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 36 points 3 years ago (3 children)

[Bored Ape NFTs can now be purchased for just $50,000 each.]

You can also buy my special doodles for $12 million each.

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  • [+] 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Oh it's even stupider than that.

    In most cases it's, A. Just a link which happens to be a jpg. Which means it the website wants to change the jpg they can or if the website goes down it points nowhere.

    Or B. Just a hash, which might supposed to be a unique representation of a specific image, but really is just a string of characters, so different sites might disagree what that image is.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I'm looking for a rendition of the Sistine Chapel with God as Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd as Adam, like it was in the Taxi days, ideally done in oils. All I've got is a buck, but my social account has followers. If I post it, you'll get exposure. What can you do for me?

    NFT's were actually a very clever plot put together by us starving artists to combat the hordes of choosing beggars that infest the internet. We all knew it was a scam, just like limited edition glichee prints, but there hasn't been a time in history when artists made enough money not to have to scam folks to survive, so we figured we were more than justified taking the tech-bros for a ride.

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