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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by astrange on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:14PM (#30229352)
You can clone an NFT by forking the blockchain it's on, or making another one with the same data. People who respect NFT ownership won't be able to tell without research which one is real.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by halestock on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:04AM (#30229637)
If I make a counterfeit Picasso and sell it to someone who doesn't know any better, that doesn't mean the original is now fungible, it just means I duped someone.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by astrange on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:11AM (#30229670)
Etherium _is_ a fork already; Etherium Classic is the original. So it's like collecting real life objects where the newer version is more valuable.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by halestock on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:43AM (#30229828)
Ha, well, I'd argue that the generalized version of what I said applies as well. Forking a currency changes nothing about the properties of the original currency because we're no longer talking about the original currency. That is not to say there aren't real world implications of that happening, but that's nothing to do with the intrinsic properties of a currency.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by nootropicat on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:05AM (#30230424)
Ethereum classic had 9 hard forks. How is that the original chain?
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by yyyk on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:22AM (#30231143)
A NFT isn't art or currency. At most, it's a record of ownership. When two ownership records exists, the value of the original drop steeply when the copy is accepted widely-enough.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by halestock on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:56AM (#30233650)
I don't disagree, but I think that's still orthogonal to the discussion and, considering NFTs are non-fungible by definition, it's moot anyway.

But let's pretend we're talking about cryptocurrency, which does claim to be fungible. Bitcoin forked and so now you have BTC and BCH. One is more accepted, and the other lost value. But regardless of the relationship between the two, each individual currency is still fungible because you can still exchange 1 BTC for 1 BTC. Fungibility is an intrinsic property of a single currency, it says nothing about it's relationship to other currencies or it's place in the economy.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by thr0waw4yz on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:00AM (#30230131)
Or just screenshot it.