I'm pretty sure it was just money laundering
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Unfortunately incorrect. It's worth the same it was in 2021, which is exactly zero.
I used to work for a logistics company and if adopted blockchain tech including NFTs would solve huge problems we have but instead it got swept up into grifter bullshit and now discarded as an idea lol
Bullshit
Today it's worth $0
astronaut meme
$155 is still overpriced
Yeah, I just downloaded it off that screenshot for free...
Suckers...
Back in high school my best friend was in print class. And on my birthday he printed me a massive poster of one of those ape NFT for shits and giggles. One of the ones that were worth like $20 million or something like that.
Lost him to suicide back in 2024, and I put the poster up on my wall, even though its the ugliest thing I've ever seen. He still put in effort to remake it for a poster. One day when the actual NFT is dirt cheap I'm gonna buy it, for shits and giggles. It's still $10K, but when it goes below $100 I'll find a way to get some of that crypto coins to buy it, even though it's a worthless piece of shit, it's the memories that make it worth it to me.
Fuck I am sorry for you and your friend. I've lost a few people in my life that way.
the NFT is mine now motherfuckers
That thing is fugly
It's a shame because I think nft could find a use for high end art and photography, in the same way they offer limited prints, but it's mostly just the most boring pop art and grifting. Like the 1000s of slightly different monkey pictures. So dumb.
No matter what, the NFT is still subject to copying via the analog hole. Like the time Mozart visited the Vatican and pirated their super secret music by listening to it and then writing it down after he left.
Flaunt it moneybags!
Still less than the money he stole from scamming his (majority children) viewers.
How is it “worth” any more than 0?
Really. The entire concept is so fundamentally stupid that you’d have to be even stupider to fall for it. Turns out, there are plenty of people who are.
Why? How is it stupid to store a hash of something on a distributed ledger?
The concept of a shared cache layer that uses cryptographic hashes to distribute copies to everyone that request them isn't stupid at all. In fact that is how CDNs work and they are extremely useful. The stupid part is paying large sums of money to "own" a specific sequence of bits on a specific ledger. The ledger can be copied and is copied, but you have zero ownership of those copies and you don't own the original work either. So what did you pay for?
The ability for a 3rd party consensus of truth against an immutable ledger. Without it, the 3rd party has to keep their own copy or federate with an original authority. The fact nft still needs consensus of truth is only somewhat problematic. Blockchain solves ownership through secrets, but a coin or nft is only worth something if someone else cares about that ownership and agrees that ledger is valid. 1 bitcoin is not 1 dogecoin for the same reason I wouldn't buy a monkey picture for a million dollars, but that same million dollar monkey picture gets you into a yacht party with someone else. Ultimately you paid for dispute resolution by a 3rd party for some kind of use of that nft. If there is no use, then you paid for nothing.
It's worth whatever someone else is willing to pay for it.
Yes, I understand capitalism. My question stands.
That's the answer to the question. It's unsatisfying I know, but that's the answer.
Your comment tells us the definition of "worth". It doesn't tell us why someone is willing to pay that much for it, which is what bag-o-chips is asking about.
It doesn't matter, that's the answer. You can be unsatisfied all you want, that's the answer.
they're successful attempst by the ultra rich to hide their money while getting more from everyone else.
I'm so out of it I had to look up NFT! Anyway woteva...
The NFT fad is gonna be a hallmark reference of future 2020s nostalgia period pieces
We really went from “deterministic decentralized zero-trust computing is the future” to “stochastic monolith computing that can’t tell the difference between data and instructions” and bet the entire economy on it
It wasn't stupid…for the seller.
Yeah, grifters spent a lot on NFTs to convince others that they were valuable and it worked. Logan made a shitload of money off NFT scams.
People keep posting images with the headline "such and such bought THIS NFT", but they didn't even buy the image, they bought a receipt for the image.
THE lauren chen? the one that took millions from russia to influence american politics?
not to say she's wrong in this instance