Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute

Re:Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last... by Y_Y on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:05PM (#28764091)

You can't buy a fucking gif! This fiction spread way too easily. All you're buying a token that mentions the gif. This gif itself lives on as if nothing had happened, just like if you bought a star.

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Re:Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last... by kazinator on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:07PM (#28764896)

But in that particular token-buying ecosystem, nobody else can buy that gif. Unless they change a pixel value, or some bit of metadata.

Suppose you actually approached the author of the gif, and bought the exclusive copyright to it, conventionally. The gif itself is still not affected any more by that transaction than of the non-fungible token purchase. Exact copies of it exist all over the place, shared by people who don't care about your copyright.

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Re:Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last... by WalterSear on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:16PM (#28765723)

Also in that particular token-buying ecosystem, you can sell yourself the token representation of that gif multiple times, in order to fool people into thinking that there is a genuine market for the token corresponding to that gif.

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Re:Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last... by karmakaze on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:04PM (#28766861)

Unless you buy that exact gif on a different blockchain.

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