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Imagine a world where all or most of our interactions are in the digital realm. When you wake up in this place you are naked, cannot show anyone anything about
by jakupovic 5y ago
Imagine a world where all or most of our interactions are in the digital realm. When you wake up in this place you are naked, cannot show anyone anything about yourself, but you are very rich. Now how do you show others that you are rich? Simple, you buy Gucci nft clothes that other naked peasants can see. That's what's happening.
- dorkwood 5y agoIf that's what's happening, why are most of the Twitter-famous whale collectors completely anonymous? Granted, it's probably happening to some degree amongst the rubes. But I'm more convinced by the argument that the main driver behind NFT sales is a kind of pyramid scam: artists at the top get paid by anonymous "collectors" (read: crypto investors), which causes swarms of smaller artists enter and the price of eth to go up.
- podgaj 5y ago>If that's what's happening, why are most of the Twitter-famous whale collectors completely anonymous? Because it is an easy way to launder/hide money?
- LegitShady 5y agoTo pump the speculation scam.
- 5560675260 5y agoThey are not anonymous, they are pseudonymous, that's a very different thing. This allows them to participate in communities and engage in posturing with an added benefit of being able to dump their online persona if something goes really wrong.
- Nowado 5y ago> Twitter-famous (...) anonymous Now, I'm not agreeing with parent comment in sentiment that this is all, or most, of what's happening (although introducing scarcity for the sake of it has to be related to creating perceivable value through inaccessibility), but if someone is twitter-famous, they are not anonymous. They are twitter-famous. There's nothing stopping one from identifying strongly with their handles or wallets.
- islon 5y agoNah... it's much worse: you're buying a banner that hangs over your head saying "I own gucci clothes", but you're still naked.
- trissylegs 5y agoThe Emperors NFT Clothes
- josefx 5y agoThe other peasants would be running around in their own Gucci clothes since there is nothing to stop them from just copying them, and really, who even knows enough to check if your nft is for a Gucci as far as anyone cares it might as well be for a used roll of toilet paper.
- antupis 5y agoHow this differ from real life? Other hand you know that you have fake Gucci and getting caught especially if you some celebrity is at least embarrassment. NFT are like no brainer way to monetize games and some fortunate people are going to make billions when they nail platform which helps games to monetize NFT.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThere are three types of fake Gucci's ... knockoffs, good copies, bad copies. In NFT space, every fake is a perfect digital replica.
- capableweb 5y ago> every fake is a perfect digital replica Besides the fact that each NFT has a unique ID, and if Gucci would start selling NFTs, they would make it trivial to see a list of their own produced NFTs. Websites to check authenticity would pop up and you would just need to enter the ID to check if it's real or not. "Perfect replicate" except it's a clone with new ID, sure.
- Ensorceled 5y agoWe’re talking avatars. IRL I can tell at a glance if a Gucci is really a Nucci or a pleather fake. With avatars I’d need to care enough to check the IDs. Or are you imagining the IDs floating about like labels in this new Metaverse?
- capableweb 5y ago
- rasz 5y agoCTRL-C CTRL-V I wear same clothes as you. Now what?
- jakupovic 5y agoBut yours are not real Gucci, as we can check.