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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blockchain and NFT are not synonymous. All Camrys are cars but not all cars are Camrys.

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh, the relationship isn’t quite the same as that one.

    It’s more like the relationship between a video game framework and a video game. Pygame, Unity, or Godot are not games you can play; they’re tools for programmers to build games with.

    Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams; NFTs are one specific scam.

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams

      By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime. It’s certainly used for that, a lot, but that isn’t what it is for. A blockchain is for keeping an immutable and verifiable record by way of cryptography. That there are a lot of scams doesn’t change what it is.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime.

        See, the difference is that dollars have legitimate uses.

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep. It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone who got grifted, who knew that buying the equivalent of a graffiti’d up CVS receipt would turn out to be worthless.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bullshit and horseshit are different, but they’re both shit.

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  • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all the same to the cryptobros

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