He’s a prize cunt and I’m glad he’s in jail.
Will watch though!
These NFT’s will be worthless.
As Mick said, more bitcoin than sense.
The supply will be come too great since basically anything digital can become an NFT and the demand will dry up.
It’s fucking stupid.
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Yeah I thought that too. He gives away the AIDS drug for free, you know. He literally explains here that anybody who wants it can have it for free, and he explains why.
Not sticking up for him because there’s so much more to it, but yeah, definitely worth watching.
Is it any more stupid than attributing “real” monetary value to an artwork?
You could say the same about fruit and veg, there’s loads of it about. It just pushes the price down. Eventually only “good” art will sell for those prices.
I reckon the prices are only high at the moment because it’s novel, which is sort of an artistic statement in itself. I know, I sound like a wanker.
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Yes, since the original you can touch and see with the eye in person.
Everything online is viewed the same by everyone.
People pay a lot of money for concert tickets
That’s still a personal experience, on some level. Even if they’re in a field with 249,999 other people.
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That is true
Only one person can own an original, everything else is a copy. In a world where memes are part of daily life and where virtual representations of ourselves are as important to our self worth as our reality, this is obviously the next frontier. The concept is sound, I think.
The thing that makes some of this stuff a bit gimmicky and hard to take seriously is that although it is touted as ‘on the blockchain forever’ the actual artwork has to be hosted somewhere. That means the NFT on the blockchain is usually just linking to the artwork on a server somewhere. All the recent sales by NFT art auction houses and so on rely on their companies exisiting to maintain the link between the NFT and the artwork (which is on a server they rent/own/etc…).
That’s not very permanent. If they go bust your artwork goes with them!
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Right but the original version of something online is exactly the same as the copy of something online.
Not if you can prove it’s the original.
To view or listen to the ‘art’ it’s the same for the owner as it is for anyone else who can see or hear it is what I meant.
Basically, if you buy an NFT you’re an idiot, if you sell one you’re a genius 
How do you do that? And who actually cares?
Who owns the Harold memes.
So if I make a meme / GIF and it’s sick someone will buy it from me if it’s popular?
Yeah we all have the same senses.
It just comes down to ownership. It’s not about how the art looks or anything.
The Crypto Kitties games is one of the most popular NFT applications. If you breed a really sick one it’s 100% yours and you can prove it. You can also sell it. They can go for big bucks.
It’ll probably be from using a copyrighted image or footage, so you can’t really sell it.
Walter Benjamin and John Berger having a right good chuckle about all of this in Marxist heaven.
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If you create a meme that becomes popular yes you could sell it. You would have to tokenize it first - which can be done for you by one of the many companies that have popped up to do this.
It’s no different to Dogecoin really. That’s perhaps the first example of a tokenized meme. It was a joke currency that now has a market cap of $7,000,000,000+
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This is getting too complicated for my little brain.
