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fubo@lemmy.world 7 months agoEh, 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.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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.
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
See, the difference is that dollars have legitimate uses.
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah, you’re hating for the sake of hating with no clue why. I’m just going to go ahead and block you, kthxbye.
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s not for the sake of hating, it’s because blockchain / cryptocurrency / NFTs / etc. are problems in search of a legitimate solution. So far all they’ve found is massive energy wasting and ransomware.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As does Blockchain, which is widely used for such purposes already.
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not really, unless you think ransomware is a legitimate use.