NFTs

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  • hardhat-1

    I’ve been trying to get my head around this, but are NFTs (sometimes) similar to trading cards? I know some drops are hidden/unknown so it’s like you’re buying a closed pack of <Pokémon / Topps baseball / whatever> and you might get a super rare one.

    Or am I incorrect?

    • NFTs are non fungible they are all equally rare.palimpsest
    • yesdopepope
    • ^ not entirely. You can do sets of one. like 200 of the same image. Yes, they are individual, but visually they're the same.dopepope
    • ^and the "1 of 200" is more valuable than "199 of 200"?
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    • The image or the NFT?palimpsest
    • also what if u change 1 pixel in each version and still sell a 100 set of one = all different, even if they look 99,999999% the same? :)
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    • It's similar to trading cards I think, but my mate described it as a slightly more fun way to trade crypto.
      I also see it as money laundering with jpg's
      PhanLo
    • OR if you mint 101, sell 100 set but keep 1 as "the first" or "original" would that be more valuable still? Even if all look the same?
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    • @grafician
      NFTs don't have pixels, you can't change a pixel in an NFT.
      palimpsest
    • Talking about the JPGs ofc :)
      As 99% of the people buying NFTs think they're buying the actual image
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    • so again, "1 of 100" is more valuable than "99 of 100" even if the JPG sold is the same image?
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    • In that case, yes.
      But 69 and 420 are more valuable in a set of 500.
      palimpsest
    • All this is like the comic books "first editions" scheme of Batman, Spiderman etc. but printing 1 million of them so everybody who got one can feel special lol
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    • @pali so if 69 and 420 are more valuable how can the NFTs be equally rare?
      It's the same JPG after all no?
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    • All this is fake digital scarcity lol
      For actual trading cards, you can sell for big $$$ only mint condition cards. That's pretty much the only condition...
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    • @grafician
      Q: "how can the NFTs be equally rare?"
      A: "In that case". In the case that we treat the images as the NFTs. Otherwise my original point stands.
      palimpsest
    • In the case that NFTs are NFTs all NFTs are equally rare.
      In the case that NFTs are something outside of NFTs then anything goes.
      palimpsest
    • But I see what you are getting at. JPG number 1 isn't rarer than JPG 99.palimpsest
    • To me, it makes more sense giving more value to JPG 69 or 420.palimpsest
    • All JPGs are equally rare. I cede the floor.palimpsest
    • Haha yeah, well maybe this is why normal people don't get NFTs...it's all monkeys logic
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    • What I like about them is that they are a satire of speculation. And in good satire half of the people aren't in on the joke.palimpsest
    • Most certainly way more than half in this case
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    • Maybe I meant “100 images produced, but only 5 or 6 are the big name players, with 10-15 well known ones, and the rest are shit/less desirable”hardhat
    • Does that make more sense?hardhat
    • If you don't know what you are buying then it is like a closed pack of cards. Still doesn't make any card more rare.palimpsest
    • You can fabricate rarity:
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      palimpsest
    • My opinion is that anything outside the NFT is just a selling point for the NFT.
      An NFT has no pixels.
      Anything goes.
      palimpsest
    • Not “rare”, more “desirable”hardhat
    • I don't think you're even trying.palimpsest

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