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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by bawolff on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:37PM (#27214157)
The contents seem much more stupid than the metadata issue. If you're going to claim "ownership" over an arbitrary "thing" pointing to it with metadata is a reasonable method. Its the claiming "ownership" over arbitrary crap that's stupid.
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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by anotherqqq on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:22PM (#27215691)
Arbitrary crap like property? I'm down for some anarchy in the traditional sense.
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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by bawolff on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:19PM (#27216329)
Which nfts give you property rights to the underlying asset?
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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by soco on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:00AM (#27219296)
It gives you whatever the seller decided to package: physical items, meet and greet, handwritten notes. Of course it's all in that volatile metadata, though.
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