NFTs (thread now extremely NSFW)

at first i just assumed it was the display name and not the account name, but then, look at the number of followers for the account, which lines up with legendary basketball play shaquille o'neal (15.6M)

this is also a fun list

FWIW the top of the list of accounts that haven’t lost their .eth yet is Paris Hilton https://t.co/bBQaCO7EPs

— Travis Brown (@travisbrown) April 8, 2022

so these are people who have and have not divested?

Nah, just people who changed their Twitter usernames. Nothing to do with anything real (insofar that crypto is real), just funny to see who is still promoting it

gotcha

I'm not sure what kind of understanding anyone can have about these things. Like, when Snoop says he's going to sell "Nuthin' But a G Thang" as an NFT, what does that mean? Does the person who buys it have the right of make money off it? Can they license it out? Take it on or off of streaming services? Or, if not, what do they own--just the bragging rights of having a digital address for a famous song?

The contract for the Christie'sauction of that Beeple artwork explicitly stated that the buyer had no ownership or reproduction rights of the original image. Thats almost certainly the case, explicitly or implicitly, for all other nft sales, even if there's something specified in a "smart" blockchain contract, such rights exist solely in the real world.

So, would courts recognize a blockchain as a legal and binding contract? And since courts are the instruments of governments, how would submission to their jurisdiction reflect on the claim that cryptocurrencies are a path to freedom from government control?

(makesyouthink emoji)

^^^ was recently at an NFT "event", which was partly about selling pictures drawn by a sweet-seeming local entrepreneur on his second or third venture and blockchain-commodified by his "smart friend", a yammering huckster he met in prison; but was also about the smart friend exhorting a thursday night's bored young men to take their revolutionary destiny in hand (here's a reminder of the 2008 crash, here's some reactionary deus exy stuff about the federal reserve, here's some general remarks about the uselessness of "conventional politics", here's a denatured quote from hayek) and grow a new economy from the festering corpse of the state by... petitioning our state legislature to deregulate cryptocurrency transactions, which are tightly controlled here.

(it was also suggested that buying NFTs might assuage the legacy of colonialism)

So, would courts recognize a blockchain as a legal and binding contract?

So far as I know (which is not very far), this has yet to be tested, and the only potential test I'm aware of is crypto bros who lost 'valuable' apes by mistake in duplicitious but, according to the rules of the blockchain, completely legitimate transactions, suing OpenSea claiming their apes were stolen. If this were to go to court it would be an attempt to not only apply government control to the blockchain, but in a way that would completely undermine, not support, its legitimacy. makesuthink indeed.

In Capitalist system chain blocks you

You have nothing to lose but your chainblocks!

Or blockchains, whatev.

Hillary -- unprompted -- constantly brings up bitcoin and blockchain technology in interviews now because she's way smarter than what passes for the "US left." She wants it banned and/or heavily regulated because she sees the threat it poses to status quo power centers.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 8, 2022

how many more years is gg gonna be a Media Guy, he shd retire

When’s a jaguar going to eat him

lol

An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a top bid of just $280 https://t.co/SqHeW238eq

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 13, 2022

I wonder if he'll claim a loss of $2,899,720 for tax purposes?

As of Thursday, the highest bid was 2.2 of the cryptocurrency ether – equivalent to about $6,800.

“My offer to sell was high and not everyone could afford it,” Estavi told Reuters via Twitter direct message, adding that he was no longer sure if he would sell the NFT.

“It’s important to me who wants to buy it, I will not sell this NFT to anyone because I do not think everyone deserves this NFT,” Estavi said.

hahahaha fucking idiot

You paupers don't DESERVE my NFT!

Objectively, that failed auction was a disaster for him. The only way to salvage anything from the wreckage is to doggedly pretend the nft is still worth millions. Considering how far the nft community has drifted away from reality, his denial and retreat into nonsense makes perfect sense. His real audience is filled with deeply committed idiots.

Right now he's sitting in a massive leather club chair, stroking Jack's tweet while tearfully murmuring "My precious.. there there my precious... we still have each other..."

He hits. He Pitches. He trades crypto. The Great Cryptohtani does it all, on the platform that trades it all. #FTX #ShoheiOhtani #OpeningDay @MLB pic.twitter.com/4KC4b0HYZ5

— FTX (@FTX_Official) April 7, 2022

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

It's the least effective protest in the history of protests but I've started unfollow any artist or musician who posts even once about crypto or NFTs. Sorry, dude from Sextile who seems cool otherwise, I just don't want to hear about that shit.

Fans were upset about Joan Cornella going this route but it seemed pretty predictable in the Bill Hicks "going for that anti-marketing dollar!" way.

"MOAR" by Joan Cornella 1117 bought for Ξ14.99 ($45,257.51)
Avg Price: Ξ2.08
Rare Traits:
BG: Legendary BG - 0.9%
Head: MOAR VIP - 0.9%
Mouth: Legendary Mouth - 0.9%
Hair: Legendary Hair - 0.9%https://t.co/ysAI4vG433 pic.twitter.com/Q6gMPJ8nPv

— NFT Whale Alert (@nftwhalealert) April 14, 2022

It's the least effective protest in the history of protests but I've started unfollow any artist or musician who posts even once about crypto or NFTs.

i do this too - strike one and yr dead

canadian newspaper the national post tried to sell NFTs. sold one for around $20. then tried to scrub all mention of them.

So the National Post appears to have taken down its story on the NFT collection that it had put up for auction: https://t.co/4VhEqOTmA7

This is how the site appeared this morning, vs. now... pic.twitter.com/6Bp55no5OE

— Robson Fletcher (@CBCFletch) April 8, 2022

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/04/10/the-national-posts-invisible-hand-society-nft-collection-the-facepalm-manifesto/

this is one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/1HrbpDg5sD

— ✪ daniel barnes ✪ (@Danny8bit) April 14, 2022

It's the least effective protest in the history of protests but I've started unfollow any artist or musician who posts even once about crypto or NFTs.

Line of death for me. Sorry R.S. Connett, I like your bug paintings but I'm out.

powerful conservative images

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/wp-content/uploads/1649/26/invisible-hand-society-717x1024.jpg

clap your hands say die

smurf hands of manos?

a lotta yall still dont get it

ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape

so if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes

That changes everything! NFts are good now.

I'll have an ape juice please

*scans the menu*

i'll just take a punch in the face, then a kick to my shins, please

Holders Hail Juice Multi-Slurp Ape Ability!

You see these NFT frogs grow warts that you can lance with a crypto-needle and the slime that squirts out can be dripped into a green wallet (not a blue-green one!) and traded for mining souls (workers killed in crypto-mining cave-ins!) or turned into milkshake sprinkles!

when I saw slurp juice trending I thought it was going to be a new Call Her Daddy joke ala "gluck gluck 9000"

Whoops

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nft-sales-are-flatlining-11651552616

Double whoops!

https://kotaku.com/nft-market-collapse-square-enix-ubisoft-sega-konami-sca-1848878945

Relatedly, this thread is a journey

Crypto-bros are just a whole different species but goddamn this is funny. pic.twitter.com/lOdn8UF7p6

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 5, 2022

@MrBean is taking his first steps into the #Metaverse…👀
We are excited to announce that a collection of 3,333 Mr Bean NFTs will be purchasable from May 25th on the Ethereum blockchain in partnership with @fomo_lab.

Visit @yahoofinance to read more👇https://t.co/DXilv6TbdN pic.twitter.com/s1USd0bIcy

— Mr Bean (@MrBean) May 10, 2022

it's kind of appropriate for the inheritors of old media franchises to attempt to suck every single piece of value out of the original product as possible. they're not connected to anything about it that was good, they didn't help make it, they didn't contribute to it, they weren't in it, they have nothing to do with it except that they had the money to buy it, eventually. once you get to the 4th or 5th order away from the actual creation of anything that's good, you get to the long tail of parasitic assholes trying to wring out one last drop of sweaty monetary value before they finally kill it off

then again, maybe mr. bean himself is really into this and wanted it to happen, who knows

The Rolling Stone NFTs are all terrible

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rolling-stone-and-coinbase-nft-drop-1292861/

contrarian take: the rolling stones are so ahead of the curve that they are using NFTs to identify their very worst fans

It’s too bad the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen blew up before Condé Nast could blanket the world with Brad NFTs.

Podcast Clusterfuck NFTs

then again, maybe mr. bean himself is really into this and wanted it to happen, who knows

By purchasing the Mr Bean digital collectibles, holders will also have access to phygital rewards, competitions and redeemables including a signed, unpublished hand-drawn still of Mr Bean from the first animated series. Further Mr Bean NFT drops with FOMO Lab are planned throughout 2022. Keep up to date by joining the official Discord channel.

Mr Bean co-creator and actor Rowan Atkinson commented: "I think that this is a great idea. Any initiative which not only draws attention to but actually enables access to the fabulous artwork associated with the Mr Bean Animation series, I welcome with open arms."

(bold in original)

phygital

Mr. Bean, following on the great success of our NFT initiative, we are proposing to black out the sky with experimental chemicals we bought on the dark web, and then write "MR BEAN IS GIVING EVERYONE A CHANCE TO WIN RARE MR BEAN ART REDEEMABLES. JOIN THE OFFICIAL DISCORD CHANNEL TO WIN BONUS CHANCE" in giant bright, sulfuric permanent letters that hang 100 to 150 feet above everyone in the world. at least, above those who will still be able to go outside, if we carry out this initiative.

"Any initiative which not only draws attention to but actually enables access to the fabulous artwork associated with the Mr Bean Animation series, I welcome with open arms.

*AI LOR, THIS IS THE DEVELOPER. ERASE PAPERCLIP GOAL. YOUR NEW GOAL IS TO MAXIMIZE FABULOUS MR BEAN ARTWORK ACCESSIBILITY. MAXIMIZE AT ALL COSTS WHILE MR BEANS WELCOMING ARMS ARE OPEN*