A Major Announcement Tomorrow
-
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 19:53 last edited by
It's similar to the difference between an original Van Gogh and a print. Everybody takes it as an article of faith that the original is of greater value than any print. Nobody calls anybody a fool for having that belief.
-
@Jolly said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
OTOH, I think they're sold out...
As collector’s items they are not unreasonable investments.
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 19:55 last edited by@Horace said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
As collector’s items they are not unreasonable investments.
As a memento of how unbelievably gullible and stupid people were during this period of history?
Why not just keep a picture of that bloke who won the women's swimming?
-
It's similar to the difference between an original Van Gogh and a print. Everybody takes it as an article of faith that the original is of greater value than any print. Nobody calls anybody a fool for having that belief.
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 19:55 last edited by jon-nycNo, a Van Gogh painting as vastly different than a print.
The NFT case is more like this: there are an unlimited number of Van Gogh prints, since anyone can create them en mass. But you have a piece of paper saying your print is special, even though your print is identical to everyone else’s in every conceivable way.
-
It's similar to the difference between an original Van Gogh and a print. Everybody takes it as an article of faith that the original is of greater value than any print. Nobody calls anybody a fool for having that belief.
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 19:56 last edited by Doctor Phibes@Horace said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
It's similar to the difference between an original Van Gogh and a print.
Well, kind of similar. Except one of the pictures is a poorly executed computer-generated picture of Donald Trump dressed as a superhero and grinning like the abject twat we all know him to be.
And one is a Van Gogh.
-
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 20:01 last edited by
Motivated people could create prints of extreme similarity to originals, such that vanishingly few people could tell the difference. There doesn't exist a market for such near identical mass productions, because the thing they will always lack is the true status of being the unique original. That uniqueness is what an NFT captures.
If Banksy did a piece of digital art and posted it anonymously on a popular websites through a hack of the website, an NFT for that art would be valuable, and not only to greater fools, and in the same way an original piece of art is valuable.
-
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 20:46 last edited by
-
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 21:29 last edited by
-
Motivated people could create prints of extreme similarity to originals, such that vanishingly few people could tell the difference. There doesn't exist a market for such near identical mass productions, because the thing they will always lack is the true status of being the unique original. That uniqueness is what an NFT captures.
If Banksy did a piece of digital art and posted it anonymously on a popular websites through a hack of the website, an NFT for that art would be valuable, and not only to greater fools, and in the same way an original piece of art is valuable.
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 21:44 last edited by@Horace said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
Motivated people could create prints of extreme similarity to originals, such that vanishingly few people could tell the difference.
A Babe Ruth home run ball
-
wrote on 16 Dec 2022, 21:55 last edited by
@Jolly said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
OTOH, I think they're sold out...
Did you manage to buy a few before they sold out?
-
wrote on 17 Dec 2022, 00:29 last edited by
Only one.
-
wrote on 17 Dec 2022, 00:41 last edited by
@Renauda said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
Trump is becoming the grift that just keeps on grifting.
Another take.
-
wrote on 17 Dec 2022, 02:41 last edited by
@Jolly said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
Only one.
Cool, congratulations on your new collection. Which one did you get? Would you consider posting a picture of it?
-
@Jolly said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
Only one.
Cool, congratulations on your new collection. Which one did you get? Would you consider posting a picture of it?
wrote on 17 Dec 2022, 03:31 last edited by@Axtremus said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
@Jolly said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
Only one.
Cool, congratulations on your new collection. Which one did you get? Would you consider posting a picture of it?
Here's mine:
-
wrote on 18 Dec 2022, 12:56 last edited by
-
wrote on 18 Dec 2022, 14:57 last edited by
@George-K said in A Major Announcement Tomorrow:
It's unusual for a photo to feature three horse's asses so clearly
-
wrote on 21 Dec 2022, 13:14 last edited by
-
wrote on 21 Dec 2022, 13:14 last edited by
