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Don’t those still rely on the gateway for wherever you mint it on IPFS staying up? The NFT link only points to a gateway which can go down then you’re at the me
by rtkwe 5y ago
Don’t those still rely on the gateway for wherever you mint it on IPFS staying up? The NFT link only points to a gateway which can go down then you’re at the mercy of it being replicated across nodes right?
- hanklazard 5y agoCorrect, it still only exists as long as someone on the IPFS network wants to keep it up. Similar to bittorrent in that way. Still, in the long-term, it seems that having the actual image/video/audio/other data replicated on a decentralized network rather than hosted on a single domain makes more sense to me (but then again, I'm very bullish on the future of IPFS/Filecoin).
- rtkwe 5y agoIt'll be interesting to see because if someone is the only one to pin/replicate the IPFS object an NFT points to it seems like they have some leverage over NFT owners. Is there any way to validate the file without the ipfs object? That's one weakness I've seen pointed out in the NFT idea (beyond the obvious objections about the energy use for what looks a lot like tulips and speculation).