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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by superfad on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:52PM (#29856100)
> I'm curious about this point; if the only thing stored on the chain is a URL (including Drive/Imgur) then there's no possible way to actually preclude the content from changing right?

When you use something like IPFS the url is created from a hash of the file contents, so it is not possible to change the file without creating a new url.

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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by esrauch on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:50AM (#29864258)
Sure if it's IPFS. The article seemed to suggest that there were NFTs that were just Imgur urls and that a savvy purchaser of that NFT would somehow ensure the Imgur image couldn't be deleted or changed, which I don't believe is possible.
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