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> luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult Interestingly enough, most NFT would disagree with you as long as they are backed by content-add

> luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult Interestingly enough, most NFT would disagree with you as long as they are backed by content-addressable systems. What do you mean with that "NFTs are heavily centralized"? The metadata itself is stored on Ethereum or similar while the actual bytes of the media is stored in IPFS. How is that centralized?

Qworg 6y ago
Who is pinning it? https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19 https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19
- deleted 6y ago
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- gruez 6y ago
  Some digging shows that tweet is totally misinformed. He seems to think that because niftygateway's json response returns an internet-facing url, that the underlying NFT must also be referencing an internet-facing url (as opposed to an IPFS url/hash). This is incorrect. The URL he's seeing in the API response is simply a IPFS proxy service offered by the NFT website. If you extract the identifier of the NFT from the url he linked[1] and plug it to etherscan[2], then scroll down to "trumpVictoryIPFSHash", you can see that the NFT is actually referencing the IPFS hash directly, and not the internet facing url. You can confirm this by plugging that value into an IFPS gateway[3] [1] https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea865e98b465149/1 https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8f... [2] https://etherscan.io/address/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea865e98b465149#readContract https://etherscan.io/address/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea86... [3] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTu6rr8o8CwbWDf2AbP13gdLFQKbqk1xaHZhFmaptkEdg https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTu6rr8o8CwbWDf2AbP13gdLFQKbqk1xaHZhFm...
  - asciimo 6y ago
    TIL that NFT would have been different if Trump had won.
  - Qworg 6y ago
    The responses to that thread go into more detail, but I'll ask the more direct and pertinent question: IPFS requires someone to pin the data - who will be doing that going forward? The platform? The artist? The owner? Thus far, it isn't anyone's responsibility to make sure the IPFS hash returns.

Qworg 6y ago

Who is pinning it? https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19 https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19

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gruez 6y ago
Some digging shows that tweet is totally misinformed. He seems to think that because niftygateway's json response returns an internet-facing url, that the underlying NFT must also be referencing an internet-facing url (as opposed to an IPFS url/hash). This is incorrect. The URL he's seeing in the API response is simply a IPFS proxy service offered by the NFT website. If you extract the identifier of the NFT from the url he linked[1] and plug it to etherscan[2], then scroll down to "trumpVictoryIPFSHash", you can see that the NFT is actually referencing the IPFS hash directly, and not the internet facing url. You can confirm this by plugging that value into an IFPS gateway[3] [1] https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea865e98b465149/1 https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8f... [2] https://etherscan.io/address/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea865e98b465149#readContract https://etherscan.io/address/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea86... [3] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTu6rr8o8CwbWDf2AbP13gdLFQKbqk1xaHZhFmaptkEdg https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTu6rr8o8CwbWDf2AbP13gdLFQKbqk1xaHZhFm...
- asciimo 6y ago
  TIL that NFT would have been different if Trump had won.
- Qworg 6y ago
  The responses to that thread go into more detail, but I'll ask the more direct and pertinent question: IPFS requires someone to pin the data - who will be doing that going forward? The platform? The artist? The owner? Thus far, it isn't anyone's responsibility to make sure the IPFS hash returns.