This seems to be implying non-knockoff NFTs have actual value
They do. There are many, many millionaires created by NFTs and collectors who are buying millions of dollars of NFTs.
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phponpcp commented on Non-Fungible Olive Gardens nonfungibleolivegardens.c... · Posted by u/arduinomancer
Another social experiment I've wanted to try is to start an alternative blockchain and sell popular NFTs on it. Not only are NFTs abundant, but the blockchains they can reside on are abundant.
Imagine someone buys the Mona Lisa NFT for millions, and then you go and also buy the Mona Lisa NFT on another blockchain for $3.99.
Or better yet, make a blockchain that simply mirrors NFTs sold on OpenSea. Couldn't get what you wanted on OpenSea, come to SecondSea and buy the same NFT on our blockchain.
That's a great way to get sued. Already happened when SolBlocks took art from Artblocks and profited on it.
phponpcp commented on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro store.google.com/category... · Posted by u/mikeevans
It really has gotten incredibly heavy handed. Their entire marketing campaign for this phone seems to primarily focus on social engineering.
Does it bother anyone else that Google is basically saying "How can we use race/gender as a driver for selling phones."
phponpcp commented on Lets talk about how NFTs are a giant scam twitter.com/smdiehl/statu... · Posted by u/amin
As an artist I would love to sell something for $69M. But I have not yet put a single item up for sale as an NFT as it seems so silly, you are selling a node in a merkle/patricia/etc tree, not a piece of art. The NFT art that is actually generated when you pay for it (and lives entirely in the blockchain), such as the bored apes, etc, is mostly predrawn parts assembled randomly; i.e. digital Potato Head toys. Some are based on interesting algorithms, but that has nothing to do with blockchains or crypto (other than using the hash as the random seed). I would rather create art (I do generational art as part of my work) on my own time and with my own tools. I would also prefer to sell art that people can put on their walls.
Some of what I see people selling for 10ETH are so unimaginative. But then again people in the past bought rocks as pets, so there is always someone with too much money and no sense...
Art itself is often overpriced, but it has a long history of increasing in value over time (since generally it is only made once and the artist eventually dies), and is a legit investment (and often handy for money laundering but then so is real estate and even startups). But NFTs are mostly uninteresting art, can be made in huge quantities with no work by an artist, and have no useful value other than bragging rights I guess. Museums who want to display NFTs are seriously hilarious.
Some NFTs are made by real artists who actually work hard on the works, but very few make any money at all (Beeple for example is a hard working real artist who got lucky) since NFT people seem to only gravitate to the auto-generated things like the apes.
What's silly is not embracing new ways of making your art a revenue stream so that you can live off of it.
phponpcp commented on Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web blog.cloudflare.com/what-... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
> In this kind of web, it would also be quite possible for a single developer to run a site as big as Youtube without needing tons of up-front cost. Bandwidth is free from the perspective of the site developer,
How would that work? Blockchains are far too inefficient to host video files and nobody is hosting that much data for free so you still need to set up a paid hosting environment or learn why P2P video hosting has failed every time it's been tried in the past. You can charge people to host their video, at which point you'll learn that it's really hard to compete with ad-supported hosting because the number of people who say they want to pay up front for their stuff and actually do so is a rounding error of the number of users a major video site will have.
Check out IPFS, this is already happening in the NFT world. Have you noticed how all NFTs are high quality and not compressed to shit? That's because of the IPFS.
phponpcp commented on Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack slack.com/intl/en-es/blog... · Posted by u/kalendos
I saw Salesforce buy/eat Demandware. It's called Salesforce Commerce Cloud now. I bet something similar will happen to Slack.
I saw it too, and IMO the ecosystem is better than ever now. It took a few years of stagnation for SF to really dig their hooks in, but everything is nice and integrated now.
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phponpcp commented on Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends pragmaticpineapple.com/do... · Posted by u/nikolalsvk
Yeah; I think your timeline is off. I don't remember React being the very clear choice until probably 2017. It was still up in the air in 2016, and certainly moreso in 2015.
> by 2015 React "won" the framework battle.
Things have calmed down now. Its better, and has been for a couple years (not 5+ years). But, this isn't a battle. Its not a war. Just because things are calm now, doesn't mean they won't go crazy again.
The core of the issue has nothing to do with technology, or the frameworks, or programming languages. It has everything to do with how you, I, and Dave, who's reading this right now, respond when these new technologies come out. Just. Say. No. Play with them. Build toy projects. Give feedback. But for the love of God, at the end of the day, you Say No. No, we will not be integrating this. Looks cool though, we'll circle back in a year and see what progress you've made.
"I don't remember React being the very clear choice until probably 2017."
Maybe you werent paying attention then.