▲ 557 ▼ Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com) submitted 3 years ago by merridew@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world 128 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MimicJar@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] NewDark@unilem.org 2 points 3 years ago If you're talking about an IPFS hash, That's a hash based on the image's content on a very specific network. The same image content will always hash to the same key. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MimicJar@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] NewDark@unilem.org 2 points 3 years ago If you're talking about an IPFS hash, That's a hash based on the image's content on a very specific network. The same image content will always hash to the same key. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NewDark@unilem.org 2 points 3 years ago If you're talking about an IPFS hash, That's a hash based on the image's content on a very specific network. The same image content will always hash to the same key. permalink fedilink source parent