• @[email protected]
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    1220 hours 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.

    • Zagorath
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      219 hours 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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        516 hours 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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          211 hours 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

    • @Iheartcheese
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      119 hours 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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        29 hours ago

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