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I don’t understand; did the author of the torrent toss in a bunch of nothing to pad out the number, or is there that many references to nothing in the NFT chain
by setr 5y ago
I don’t understand; did the author of the torrent toss in a bunch of nothing to pad out the number, or is there that many references to nothing in the NFT chain?
The former seems pointless, but for the latter, I’m under the assumption that the NFT chain stores the image hashes directly, and those hashes are enforced to be unique — so there should be only one instance of a zero hash? Or I suppose a ton of images with like three bytes set and bunch of nothing for padding
- wrfitch 5y agoMost NFTs do not hash media themselves; instead, they hash a link to the media that only exists as long as it is hosted. I'd imagine the zero hashes are links that are already dead.
- miracle2k 5y agoGiven the authors deleting of tickets on the matter it stands to reason that he didn't want to actually go through the trouble of pulling all images and is kind of being a fraud. Of course, given enough unreasonably scepticism someone might instead intuit that 18.99 TB of 19TB of data has disappeared.
- originalcvk 5y agoNo, it was quite deliberate. The "RAR" files in there are not even RAR files, they are ext4 filesystems filled with zeros. There is literallt nothing in there - the 10GB of "data" is ext4 FS metadata. https://twitter.com/originalcvk/status/1462099991858753547?s=20 https://twitter.com/originalcvk/status/1462099991858753547?s...