NFTs

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  • drgs5

    I still dont know what fungible means

    • fungus (plural: fungi)babydick
    • Fungus is Among Us!utopian
    • mutually interchangeableutopian
    • It means if u buy 1 k/w of electricity from ur electric company for 1 euro, they could swap out that 1 k/w of electricity with any other, it wouldn't make anycherub
    • difference to you, because the kilowatt wasn't unique or special.cherub
    • It was fungible.cherub
    • Why would they swap it?drgs
    • They don't swap it, or better, there's no difference anyway so you'd never know which kilowatt of electricity you are getting bcuz they are all the same.cherub
    • Sort of like a £1 coin has the same value, at least in theory, as another that comes off the mint at the same time.cherub
    • When you're bench pressing 100kg you don't care what specific weights you're putting on.palimpsest
    • Your gym neighbor may be using the red weights while you're using the black ones. You're still lifting 100kg, that's fungible.
      Hope that helps.
      palimpsest
    • Got it✍drgs
    • So, Bitcoin is fungible?drgs
    • No, Bitcoin is not fungible, they leave a trace. I think people would like them to be fungible.palimpsest
    • In the end nothing is fungible, it's about how we decide to treat objects (physical or not).palimpsest
    • And that's why NFTs seem really smart for some and really stupid for others.palimpsest
    • Those red weights could become non fungible because you decide they make you stand out more and that's the value you assign to them.palimpsest
    • I understand now. If the biggest meatheads in the gym use red plates, I want to use them too, thus black and red plates, both 20 kg, are not fungibledrgs

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