No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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As crazy as it sounds, some people do.
They did. For like a week last year. Then everyone realized it was a scam.
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They're priced like police drug busts.
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Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.
Accurate headline:
Millions of dollars lost as NFTs worth a total of $0 stolen
Let me get this straight, you can steal an nft but you can't own an nft?
You very much do own an NFT you purchase, what you don't own is the asset the NFT represents (the shitty RNG generated monkey for example).
I never had a jpeg stolen from me.
What a time to be alive.
No no, they stole the link to a jpeg, careful you will make them angry
Here, take my link to get a feeling
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/db03eae9-a3a9-42df-8cf2-f2aa8bfa2d95.webp
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Another interpretation is that it's all an insurance scam were something worthless is "stolen by hackers" and then claimed to be worth millions for the insurance claim.
But surely nobody in the "well known as impeccably honest" NFT world would ever do something like that!
I guess the millions are in the transaction fees
Think of it like this, when people make drug busts and they find huge amounts of cocaine or whatever and they say oh this is 300 something mod a million is worth of stuff. No it's not. It's maybe like not even half that not even a quarter of that, they just make it up just to make their bust even bigger
I remember it used to be calculated on the lowest value extrapolated out so a gram of smoke was 20/25 bucks so a kilo of smoke "had a street value of 20,000 - 25,000."
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"Potential losses". I get the feeling that NFT owners got bit by the same bug that bit RIAA executives.
ITT: a handful of people starting to sweat about their NFT retirement strategy
One of the great thing about the AI revolution is that since generating infinite number of unique random (and commonly, bad) pictures of literally anything you can think of takes only seconds, the entire concept of NFT has become completely worthless as it completely destroyed the value-from-scarcity argument. Not that it ever was a good argument to begin with.
I'm having difficulty with the word "worth". It appears to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting
Just because the suckers that bought them paid millions doesn't mean that the NFTs are worth millions.
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Did they steal all NFTs?
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