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From this tweet, it sounds like NFT's are not much more reliable than html <a> tags? If the host is down, the NFT is nothing more than just a pointer to a 404?
by azeirah 5y ago
From this tweet, it sounds like NFT's are not much more reliable than html <a> tags? If the host is down, the NFT is nothing more than just a pointer to a 404?
- anonporridge 5y agoPretty much. And worse, the host of the image could theoretically change it on you and you'd have no way to prove (at least in a trustless way) what the original image was.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoYup. Here's a tool for checking most ETH based NFTs: https://checkmynft.com/?address=0x5c61afa47570ab2b562606fa578221305b12c307&id=1 https://checkmynft.com/?address=0x5c61afa47570ab2b562606fa57...
- knownjorbist 5y agoSome NFTs point at images hosted in a traditional, centralized fashion. Others point to IPFS hashes which are basically permanent.
- kooshball 5y agoit depends on how it's implemented. its much harder to implement onchain so a lot of projects will do things like <a> tag which is not trustworthy long term like moxie said. there are well respected projects that are fully onchain such as cryptopunks and autoglyphs