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Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by reginold on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:58PM (#29177857)
I thought a lot about this comment. I deeply would want that Apple-1 in a way, massive piece of Apple history. But then I think about owning it - what a pain. It needs to be in an air conditioned room, bugs nibble at it, dust gathers, where do I put it in my house anyway? It's so cool in my mind but the glory of having it seems less so.

However, with an NFT, there's no maintenance cost, it's always the same, it's pristine. I can do whatever I want with it, shrink it for socks, grow it to put on a blimp, make cakes, whatever.

For the first time I can see why people spend millions of dollars on hashes of pictures of randomly generated monkeys.

Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by jdonaldson on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:10PM (#29178034)
You can still make socks, blimps, or cakes with any sort of monkey image you want... or even non-monkey images. The technology is out there.
Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by op00to on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:29PM (#29178359)
I’ll just pirate your monkey picture.
Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by reginold on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:55PM (#29182093)
Haha yes of course, please do! The more the merrier, more of my monkey for everyone! There's always a record on the blockchain that it's indeed mine - or not if I so choose!
Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by op00to on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:37PM (#29195410)
Dang foiled by NFTs again!
Re:An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k by LocalH on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:29PM (#29179358)
You right-clicker! /s