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They weren’t putting the image’s base64 encode on the blockchain or something like that? Just a URL?
yes. It's too expensive to put the actual image on the blockchain so they just put the urls
immutable ledger my ass
theres no way its too expensive when youre paying over $1m for it.
well the url is still in the chain isn't it? put up one of the classic shock images or a ytmnd of nelson laughing.
Yep people were clowning on it from day 1 for this exact reason
Well, among other reasons you could also put exactly the same image onto the chain as often as you wanted because there's no actual relationship between the NFT functionality and whatever it was linking to or defining.
You could also copy and paste it for free
Yeah we all know right click save, but I feel it's a deeper critique that the asset itself can be infinitely reduplicated on the same chain because there's no guardrails or security or relationship between token and asset.
Moxie Marlinespike had a good bit where he sold nfts that would change to the poop emoji
It depends. Some of the pixel art ones are. Some of them are hosted through IPFS which means any computer can host the same data at the same url. Others obviously use regular urls that can change.
IPFS is torrent magnet stuff?
no
The concept is pretty similar, but it is its own thing. The important bits are that it has a new protocol (IPFS instead of http). But there are http forwarding websites people use to play nice with browsers. Another key concept is that a file's contents is effectively the url id. A url may stop having "seeding" users, but if someone has a copy, it can be seeded again.