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Is 'The NFT Bay' Just a Giant Hoax?**
Recently an Austrian developer announced they'd created a 20-terabyte archive of all NFTs on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.
But one NFT startup company now says they tried downloading the archive β and discovered most of it was zeroes.
Many of the articles are careful to point out "we have not verified the contents of the torrent," because of course they couldn't. A 20TB torrent would take ... β Read more
@slashdot This just further highlights how dumb this whole NFT thing is π€¦
If you read the article I think the author misspelled the country this guy is from I believe heβs actually from Australia going around the country in a van working remotely π³
good on him π
If you read the article I think the author misspelled the country this guy is from I believe heβs actually from Australia going around the country in a van working remotely π³
good on him π
Quote from a comment on another related article
> Remember, folks? When we thought that paying for a banana duct taped to a wall and considering it "art" was bonkers?
> At least you could eat that banana... and someone did.
π
And yes @prologic you are right! The NFT Bay guy is Australian.
@eldersnake The whole NFT thing is just bat shit crazy π€¦ββοΈ Weβve really lost our minds in society of late π³
@eldersnake The whole NFT thing is just bat shit crazy π€¦ββοΈ Weβve really lost our minds in society of late π³
@eldersnake My thoughts exactly. The NFT archiver said he's trying to preserve them for the future generations, to see our generations equivalent of the Tulipmania.
He's the man the art community needs, but not the one we deserve.