Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after...
by Tabular-Iceberg on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:27PM
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> Because it's timestamped earlier
That depends on who thought of making the NFT first. Which isn't necessarily the artist.
> or its proven to have been generated by a person who exclusively had a certain private key
That has the same problem, it's generated by arbitrary pseudo-random numbers, rather than a real, living human hand. Look, I'm not disputing the underlying cryptographic principles. I'm happy they exist, because they are immensely useful for many purposes, like securing communication and financial transactions. I just struggle to see the artistic merit in someone having pulled some numbers out of /dev/random and having done some math on them.
That depends on who thought of making the NFT first. Which isn't necessarily the artist.
> or its proven to have been generated by a person who exclusively had a certain private key
That has the same problem, it's generated by arbitrary pseudo-random numbers, rather than a real, living human hand. Look, I'm not disputing the underlying cryptographic principles. I'm happy they exist, because they are immensely useful for many purposes, like securing communication and financial transactions. I just struggle to see the artistic merit in someone having pulled some numbers out of /dev/random and having done some math on them.