• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked

    I thought he was confused or stupid or something.

    “Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they’re all publicly hosted?”

    Him: “Yep”

    “And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?”

    Him: Shrug, “yeah, people use them for discord and stuff”

    “But… Couldn’t you just download the image and use it anyways?”

    Him: “Yeah, it’s all publicly hosted”

    And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something