• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Just because something is unique doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

    Some people are just discovering this.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not even that it’s unique. It’s just one particular system associates you with something. It’s basically those star registry scams. Except you’re not associated with a star by one particular scam organization. You associated with an image of a cartoon ape by a scam organization! But there’s a trendy technology involved so idiots think that makes it somehow legit.

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      1 year ago

      6444&'"_@@¶&5tyj7tfsdyoohoof

      Behold my one of a kind unique string of characters. Me I own this tangible property. But lo! For only 0.42069lol “BTC-lts33” (a REAL and stable currency that is NOT speculative AT ALL) I will maintain a CSV on my server (192.168.6.9/wp-admin/test/test2/myPage.php) I will serve you a guaranteed locally unique identifier (starting at “3” (I’m holding on to the other two strings for a rainy day)) that points to the row with this string, so you can show off that YOU are the sole owner of this totally unique investment property.

      This server is guaranteed up, with 100.00000% uptime since this morning

    • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Try telling that to sports memorabilia collectors though.

      “Look at my hockey jersey!” “Yeah, so? I have the same one.” “Yeah but you’re wasn’t signed by Wayne Gretsky.”

      Or even trading cards, or comics. Or hell, even plain w-shirts with a brand logo on it for $250. People assign arbitrary values to stuff all the time. I don’t understand it at all, but there’s a whole ton of people that just eat that shit up like it’s candy.

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        1 year ago

        That arises at least somewhat more organically around a real interest that millions of people have been enjoying and obsessing over for generations. So it’s not fair to say it’s totally arbitrary.

        The logo stuff is weird though. That’s definitely more “Veblen” like the high price point is itself a flex and desire for, if not true luxury, then the appearance of opulence.

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          1 year ago

          Well no, in my example the shirt is the image and the signature on it is the NFT bit. Physically, it’s just a bit of ink, but the shirt itself is no different than one you can go pickup at the store.

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            1 year ago

            In your example what happens if the shirt is sold to someone else? In the NFT case the signature changes.

            The shirt analogy doesn’t work well, but NFTs are great for transferable tickets.

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        1 year ago

        It can have real value if you use it to fertilize a square meter of dirt and plant corn on it. Shit + water + seeds = food.