prestigious (u/prestigious)

prestigious commented on There won’t be a Goddamn creator economy if we don’t invest directly in creators pizzaparty.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/joanwestenberg

ackbar03 · 4 years ago

My take on nfts are that they are just the virtual version of the art market driven by the same dynamics, people with money to spare and actually looking to collect but mostly money laundering and tax evasion. I don't really feel like theirs a place for the average Joe retail crowd and they'll prob disappear as the hype dies down

prestigious · 4 years ago

Spoken like someone who doesn’t know the first thing about NFTs

prestigious commented on Why Monero benkaiser.dev/why-monero/... · Posted by u/benkaiser

prestigious · 4 years ago

Without fail every crypto article brings out the cranks of hacker news who sound like luddites/flat earthers

prestigious commented on Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women? japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/mikhael

goldwind1111 · 4 years ago

I wonder if teachers in Japan really discourage girls from learning about computer science and other things like that.

If so, that is crazy. I think there should be an issue with that. I guess it will be interesting to imagine Japan as a women-oriented society.

prestigious · 4 years ago

I think women in general are less interested in tech. Actually the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

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prestigious commented on Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 twitter.com/VisaNews/stat... · Posted by u/superphil0

azemetre · 4 years ago

Yeah, when I realized you don't actually "own" it through any licenses it made me sour on the whole idea.

Is there a reason why people couldn't be granted a license to do whatever they wanted with an NFT? Seems kind of arbitrary to do so, but I'm sure there's a reason why it's like that.

prestigious · 4 years ago

You own your BAYC for instance. Man it's like talking to my grandma in here.

prestigious commented on Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 twitter.com/VisaNews/stat... · Posted by u/superphil0

randall · 4 years ago

Concert tickets, where the artist gets a pct of fees on scalping.

prestigious · 4 years ago

No reason all concert tickets aren't NFTs in the future.

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prestigious commented on Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 twitter.com/VisaNews/stat... · Posted by u/superphil0

leppr · 4 years ago

It's a marketing move that cost them $150k and will get them talked about, featured in many publications, and seen as "hip".

prestigious · 4 years ago

You mean it’s an investment of 150k that will likely be worth 1M by the end of the year, AND makes them seem hip.

prestigious commented on Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 twitter.com/VisaNews/stat... · Posted by u/superphil0

gokhan · 4 years ago

Would you go to Louvre to see Mona Lisa if you have an atom-by-atom identical copy at home? How much would you pay for the original? What is "original" in this case? Which ship of Theseus is the original one?

I don't say, as art, some NFTs are not pretty. I just say they don't represent the same value (for me) as some people think. A CryptoPunk does not have a physical representation, so the one you and I see on our screens are both the same, the original one. I can already see the original whenever I want by just visiting Visa's tweet.

A CryptoPunk, especially the one Visa bought, clearly is history. But that does not apply to other NFTs, others are ordinary JPEGs.

prestigious · 4 years ago

Should check out the currency by Damien hirst. He made a “real” piece of art and a correspondent nft. One of which has to be destroyed at a certain time. I believe most will destroy the physical version. https://www.heni.com/

prestigious commented on Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet forbes.com/sites/billybam... · Posted by u/jstx1

prestigious · 4 years ago

Shocking to see how out of touch hacker news is with crypto. I guess not much has changed since coinbase was launched on HN and faced a bunch of naysayers then also.

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