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submitted 1 year ago by fer0n@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

TL;DR: The NFT market has drastically declined since its peak in 2021, with most NFT collections having no value. There's an oversupply of NFTs, leading to a buyer's market, and environmental concerns due to energy consumption. Top NFTs also struggle to maintain value, and the future of NFTs depends on utility and genuine value rather than speculation.

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[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago

I hate the crypto market so much, but ESPECIALLY nfts.

Nfts were blatantly a scam. It 2as a very in your face scam, it was giving money to someone else for literally nothing. It was obvious time from day 1 that it was just an avenue for rich people to launder money and have it look legit.

But the media fell for the new trend hook, line, and sinker. Instead of telling people it was a scam from day 1, which it *obviously was," the major news networks (at least here in the US) talked about nfts as if it was a legit new type of cool investment. They stopped short of telling people to buy them so that they couldn't get sued, but they hyped the fuck out of NFTs. CONSTANTLY. Any time I listened to any cable news for more than 30 minutes around mid 2021, I heard NFTs get mentioned at least once, and very rarely was that mention skeptical or a warning.

And now all the people who bought into the hype are left holding the bag, as always, a d the rich people who scammed them get to keep all the money, as always, and the media is facing no repercussions for their contribution to the scam, as always. It's so frustrating to watch

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago

I can assure you if you were watching a programme that was hyping nfts, you weren't watching "news"

WTF is up with your media over there?!?

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

You mean the guy who owns of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the US (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through the Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World?

We shouldn’t of let him in, but we didn’t create him.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

We shouldn't have, never of

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

NFT technology will not go away. It will be in a different form, not trading cards with shitty jpegs attached

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

NFT technology will not go away.

NFT's are nothing more than digital receipts. They do not stop copying what ever the receipt points to and they are nothing special at all.

If the web address your NFT points to disappears due to the site shutting down. Your NFT is beyond worthless.

From the Economist.

Quote:

To "own" one means having your ownership recorded on a digital ledger—nothing more.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Digital receipts are easy to do without mining crypto. Just send an email. Use a postgres database. There's literally nothing offered by nfts that can't be done less stupidly another way.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 1 year ago

Some crypto has legit use, but a lot of it is scams for sure.

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