No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao

Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.

I never had a jpeg stolen from me.

What a time to be alive.

Another interpretation is that it's all an insurance scam were something worthless is "stolen by hackers" and then claimed to be worth millions for the insurance claim.

But surely nobody in the "well known as impeccably honest" NFT world would ever do something like that!

I guess the millions are in the transaction fees

"Potential losses". I get the feeling that NFT owners got bit by the same bug that bit RIAA executives.

One of the great thing about the AI revolution is that since generating infinite number of unique random (and commonly, bad) pictures of literally anything you can think of takes only seconds, the entire concept of NFT has become completely worthless as it completely destroyed the value-from-scarcity argument. Not that it ever was a good argument to begin with.

How do you steal a hyperlink to a jpeg

I'm having difficulty with the word "worth". It appears to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting

Just because the suckers that bought them paid millions doesn't mean that the NFTs are worth millions.

Think of it like this, when people make drug busts and they find huge amounts of cocaine or whatever and they say oh this is 300 something mod a million is worth of stuff. No it's not. It's maybe like not even half that not even a quarter of that, they just make it up just to make their bust even bigger

Did they steal all NFTs?

ITT: a handful of people starting to sweat about their NFT retirement strategy

There were sufficiently stupid people to pay money for NFTs. They will sufficiently stupid people around to pay the ransom.

…Been a minute since I’ve seen this fark headline meme.

Insurance scam? Not too be cynical, but after the price dropped a year(?) ago there were a number of thefts for which there was speculation about them being insurance fraud.