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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 161 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (71 children)

The sad thing is the concept wasn’t.

Selling NFTs with no physical existence is what is pointlessly stupid.

Before they came along i considered the idea of a blockchain linked video camera where metadata of footage gets written into the chain to combat fake news and misinformation.

The goal would be to create a proof and record of original footage, to which media publishers and people who share can link towards to verify authenticity/author.

If the media later gets manipulated or reframed you would be able to verify this by comparing to the original record.

It was never a finished idea but when i first read nft i thought this is the right direction.

And then capitalism started selling apes and what the actual disgusting money possessed fuck was that.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, people vehemently hate when you point this out because to the general public NFT = stupid overpriced digital art, and they don't care to be convinced otherwise. My personal conspiracy theory is that the two were purposefully conflated to keep the technology from ever being taken seriously.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I was actually going to note that i feel similar about this conspiracy but i left it out in the end.

Glad not to be the only person to conceive this. Kill it before people discover a good use.

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