To expand on that, _if_ the crypto-verse becomes mature enough, you’d see a bunch of media types, software, games, etc tie into crypto-authenticity checks. You would be blocked from using bootleg copies (or just not have a “validated” checkmark or something). Essentially, democratized DRM available to any creator,…

No, you don’t. Especially with software, the local software can validate itself against the blockchain, much like how cryptocurrency wallets work.

Keep in mind, the Twitter/Kotaku-sphere isn’t representative of reality (see the “Apple walkout” that ended up being like 2 people).

Main big thing is interoperability and reliability. With any account system or database you’re relying on a central entity to:

“NFTs still makes no sense to me. I mean, yes, I understand the concept. You basically turn something digital, usually something seen as having artistic or collectable value, into a block inside a blockchain, so that it supposedly becomes somewhat unique and “worth collecting”

No, it’s passive aggressive against people like the author of this blogspam who are blindly attacking NFTs with various debunked talking points, and making daily posts about it to drive traffic to their website...

Still extremely efficient. Proof of stake chains for the most part can be run of hardware as light as a raspberry pi. If you’re worried about that, then maybe try to ban personal electric cars, or TVs or something, because those use 1000x to 1000000x more energy than NFTs...

No, they aren’t. Most NFTs are traded on chains that are carbon neutral or carbon negative. How about instead of getting worked up over this, you go protest disposable plastic bags, or try to get the fashion industry to produce less waste. Both of those would have more value than whining about something you clearly…

You can also do research into what NFTs actually are and understand why they are useful and not be an idiot cryptobro...

“useless shit that also massively fucks up the environment”  do some research here. Ethan Gach on kotaku is super off-base on this. Most NFTs are being traded on carbon neutral (or negative) chains, and even the proof of work chains have an extremely tiny carbon impact compared to things that are actually completely…

What a fucking idiot....the point is that you could buy a ticket (which is represented as an NFT) and directly resell it without exorbitant middle man fees. Jesus christ.

Or you could learn what NFTs actually are instead of just reading the blogspam posted here...

Yeah, that’s bullshit. Most NFTs are traded on carbon neutral/negative chains. Additionally, Bitcoin (which isn’t used for NFTs mind you) incentivizes renewable energy (bar a few stupid companies like the one trying to buy a coal plant), and is still an order of magnitude lower than useless industries producing land…

They aren’t useless, but yeah you hit the nail on the head. You have a bunch of people complaining about something that they barely understand and that they could just ignore if they wanted to...

Ever tried to fire up an old game...that needs a CD key...but the key activation servers were shut down so now you need to find a crack to get it to launch?  NFTs solve that problem.

Exactly this, imagine if Steam’s card (and item) economy could be exchanged back to real money or also taken out of the Steam ecosystem. Valve still gets a cut, you get a cut, the original artist gets a cut, etc. That’s what NFTs enable. All without requiring a single company to keep servers running to validate all of…

The biggest hazard I see is if the SEC decides “everything is a security so every transaction must be recorded and taxed!” and screws up the entire ecosystem.

The energy use attack is a strawman anyway. The vast majority of NFTs are being traded on carbon neutral (or even carbon negative) blockchains. Even Bitcoin’s energy use is a drop in the bucket compared to legacy banking...or gold mining...or literally any other industry. (And before you say “but the amount of energy…

Clicked off of a shitty slideshow, saw the title of this, had my “the author made another fucking slideshow didn’t he” spidey sense tingle...and what do you know...another fucking slideshow.

I was interested in this post until I got to “Start Slideshow”  fuck off with your shitty lists that could be in a single page. (Yes I know I can make the web browser narrow to make it a single page, but still fuck off)