Destructopoo

Destructopoo t1_j1y0w2w wrote

Reply to comment by Melodicmarc in art future by nickmakr

That's not the intent. It's the selling point. NFTs do not show digital ownership of art. The art is a representation of the code. You do not own the art nor do you have any rights to it with the NFT.

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Destructopoo t1_j1vjb2t wrote

Reply to comment by Melodicmarc in art future by nickmakr

NFTs are the digital signature themselves. They are tokens and the images are a place holder. There is a line of code which an algorithm uses to generate an image and inversely, an image has a unique line of code associated with it. Ever pixel has a numerical value. Imagine I made an nft line that was a 4 by 4 grid. The format is [Blockchainsecurity][0000000011110000][gibberish] and my platform draws you a blank grid with a horizontal line 1/4 of the way up. You own the code. My website makes it a picture. An nft differs from crypto in that there's an image gimmick.

Art isn't a rich people scam. It's art. Do you think houses are a rich people scam? The proportion of houses that are commodified and exploited by the rich is far more than the proportion of art which is commodofied and exploited.

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Destructopoo t1_j1v7fz7 wrote

Reply to comment by lofgren777 in art future by nickmakr

That last part is so important. This casual nihilism is just an excuse to stop thinking about it. Nobody actually thinks nothing matters.

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Destructopoo t1_j1v5uod wrote

Reply to comment by Melodicmarc in art future by nickmakr

This isn't metaphysical. A piece of art has context that an NFT can't because it's literally meant to be arbitrary filler to represent a transaction. NFTs are not even the image. They're the line of code that the image represents in a digital format.

Edit: this is like asking if penny stocks are going to replace people living in houses because both are investments.

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Destructopoo t1_j0m4k4o wrote

This is so fucking stupid. Guys, there's not a point in the future when automation overtakes human productivity and replaces us. That point was some time in the 1900s. We don't need most people working to maintain society and we haven't for probably a century.

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