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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by OJFord on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:53PM (#27283808)
The dumbest thing about them in my haven't-been-bothered-to-so-much-as-search-for-them understanding (first and only really heard about them from Matt Levine's Money Stuff column) is that.. I can represent a painting or whatever as md5sum, sha256sum, anything else sum; take the photo again or compress it first?

Unless I really should read up on it because I'll be blown away, just seems like any uniqueness necessarily hinges entirely on hoe you choose to encode a thing, which is arbitrary, meaningless, and pointless?

But then, I haven't made any money from it, people have, what do I know.

Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by jallen_dot_dev on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:14PM (#27284005)
It's worse than that. I can take the same exact digital image and issue 2 different NFTs for it on the same blockchain. Only the NFT itself is "provably unique" not the thing it represents.