TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
I used to come onto HN and see crypto-coin news and I'd jump into the comments and ask something along the lines of "But isn't bitcoin and all the other things like it just a giant scam?" and someone who believed in Bitcoin to be a transformative technology would jump in and explain the real potential. I personally still think it's sort of a scam, but I'm happy for all of the people who used it to get rich....so, along those lines...<p>How is "NFT" not a gigantic scam? I'm looking at this image right now: <a href="https://rarible.com/token/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d:9187?tab=details" rel="nofollow">https://rarible.com/token/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18...</a><p>There is nothing at all to keep me from screenshotting or otherwise downloading that image. I won't have to pay the author $213 for it, I just take the image because I can. Now I won't necessarily "be the original owner" of it or whatever but....I mean....I have the same image as the owner and I have $213 where the new "owner" simply has the image.....<p>Can someone, if such a person exists, that believes in NFT's as having actual value please explain it? It just seems to me like a few thousand people have realized "Hey people will literally give me $200 just because I told them to" and are doing it at scale....<p>And according to that website, so far the author of those "NFT"s has made 13 million dollars......Is that true? If this person has made 13 million dollars because they drew a few monkeys....I'm pretty sure they will be President of the US one day.