• @Iheartcheese
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    38 days ago

    Honestly I don’t know. I’m just pointing out the only thing that kind of sort of sounded like a good idea for it I’ve ever heard. For pictures it’s stupid that’s for sure

    • @[email protected]
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      128 days ago

      It’s not a picture though. It’s a link to a picture on a server somewhere. If the host goes down, you own nothing.

      • @Iheartcheese
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        18 days ago

        The technology behind it can be used for things other than pictures. That’s kind of the point people are making

        • @[email protected]
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          27 days ago

          Right, and my original question was what does the technology solve? And so far the answer appears to be nothing

      • Zagorath
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        18 days ago

        Isn’t it just a small amount of data? If the picture is small enough you could put it directly on the blockchain.

        Dunno why you would though. It’s very limiting for no particular gain.

        • @ConnecticutKen
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          58 days ago

          But in NFTs the picture is not on the Blockchain. Only a link to the picture is on the Blockchain and the picture itself is still just on the web.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 days ago

            No, they are right. What they are saying is that even though pretty much all NFTs contain a link to a picture on the blockchain, theoretically you could write a really, really small image in the space where you would normally write the URL. From a quick google, that’s 100 bytes. For a black and white image, that’s 100 pixels. For color, that’s around 30 pixels