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I believe I can take a BAYC, mint my own NFT of it, upload it and still get the check mark haha.

tshaddox 5y ago
Indeed, unless Twitter were to check each profile picture against some database of known images. That would be silly, of course, but precisely as silly as YouTube checking 100s of hours of video footage every minute against known copyrighted footage.
listenallyall 5y ago
The more attention the BAYC receives, the more it increases its value. Having people so desperate to own one that they would counterfeit it, that's enormous social proof. Will your personal version ever have monetary value? The blockchain ensures that it won't, as detecting a counterfeit is simple.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  Who's desperate? Anyone can have the image whenever they want. The receipts, who cares? I don't want some crappy monkey profile pic haha. I was just speculating about the check mark.
dmarcos 5y ago
Sure, but It won’t be minted with the same BAYC contract and hence won’t have same provenance. Twitter could easily add visual or text (e.g: logo name of author / collection) provenance info that yours won’t have.
almostkorean 5y ago
I think it's safe to assume that you would only get the check mark if your NFT is minted from the original contract. This is an issue for brand new collections (and you see this happen on OpenSea where people fork new a new popular collection). But it's really easy to just whitelist the original BAYC contract address
Sargos 5y ago
Twitter is using verified OpenSea sets. Your copy paste NFT can't be used on your Twitter profile.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  Sounds pretty not decentralized.
  - Sargos 5y ago
    Twitter has never been decentralized. If an app wanted to do this in a decentralized way then they'd likely have Kleros curate a list of known NFT sets or use a standard like TokenLists where a user can subscribe to whatever curated list of known NFTs they wanted.

Indeed, unless Twitter were to check each profile picture against some database of known images. That would be silly, of course, but precisely as silly as YouTube checking 100s of hours of video footage every minute against known copyrighted footage.

listenallyall 5y ago

The more attention the BAYC receives, the more it increases its value. Having people so desperate to own one that they would counterfeit it, that's enormous social proof. Will your personal version ever have monetary value? The blockchain ensures that it won't, as detecting a counterfeit is simple.

arcticbull 5y ago
Who's desperate? Anyone can have the image whenever they want. The receipts, who cares? I don't want some crappy monkey profile pic haha. I was just speculating about the check mark.

dmarcos 5y ago

Sure, but It won’t be minted with the same BAYC contract and hence won’t have same provenance. Twitter could easily add visual or text (e.g: logo name of author / collection) provenance info that yours won’t have.

almostkorean 5y ago

I think it's safe to assume that you would only get the check mark if your NFT is minted from the original contract. This is an issue for brand new collections (and you see this happen on OpenSea where people fork new a new popular collection). But it's really easy to just whitelist the original BAYC contract address

Sargos 5y ago

Twitter is using verified OpenSea sets. Your copy paste NFT can't be used on your Twitter profile.

arcticbull 5y ago
Sounds pretty not decentralized.
- Sargos 5y ago
  Twitter has never been decentralized. If an app wanted to do this in a decentralized way then they'd likely have Kleros curate a list of known NFT sets or use a standard like TokenLists where a user can subscribe to whatever curated list of known NFTs they wanted.