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@the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs

NFTs could have been a cool and fun way to support digital artists you like. It could have been the digital equivalent of going to an art show and buying an original painting from a favorite artist. Yes, a print of the same paining is just as good and a lot cheaper, and even though you own the original paining you still don't own the copyright for it, you only own the canvas, but none of that is the point of owning art. It's fun to own the original painting and you are supporting artists you like by buying their work. No one ever mocked someone for owning an original painting instead of a print.

NFTs could have been like that if crypto-bros didn't ruin them.

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MacCruiskeen

@1dalm @the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs nfts we’re never going to be that because you were never really buying a thing, just the pointer to the thing. If you want to support artists, just buy their things and give them money.

Loki Scarlet

@1dalm @the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs

NFTs were never gonna be that because that's not what they're for. That's just the PR campaign. NFTs are tokens carrying programs called "smart contracts", which are meant to automate things like contract enforcement. Ever seen reports of malicious NFTs emptying people's wallets? That's the intended use case, but used maliciously.

Making them into expensive links to jpegs was a mistake.

RodneyPetersonTalentAgency

@reallokiscarlet @1dalm @the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs

So you’re talking about a scheme similar to the piece of shit that used to be the owner of the Las Vegas Review Journal, Sherman Frederick?

His idea was to sue everyone who linked to or quoted LVRJ stories. He even set up a corporation for it. A few people got duped into paying 10K settlements via threat before a judge told the fuckhead to knock it off.

Copyright troll shit. From a newspaper publisher. And a so called minister.

Loki Scarlet

@RodneyPetersonTalent @1dalm @the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs

Think more like if your gym membership card was harvesting credit card data while it sat in your wallet.

Rasmus Kaj

@1dalm @the5thColumnist @thomasfuchs
NFT:s wasn't "ruined" by crypto bros, they were _invented_ by crypto bros as a way to scam people who wants to support art into giving the money to crypto bros instead of artists.

What you say NFT:s could have been is just the sales pitch for the scam.

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