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> the idea of skins portable between games being controlled by an NFT is absolutely technically possible, it's actually the business side that isn't probable I

> the idea of skins portable between games being controlled by an NFT is absolutely technically possible, it's actually the business side that isn't probable If the business side was probable, why would you need NFTs to implement that?

kybernetikos 5y ago
You certainly wouldn't need them, but there are benefits to secondary liquidity, compared to running some custom trading server - way more people will have ethereum wallets than an account on your server, the ethereum network will allow them to trade even if the amazon availability zone your server is on goes down, your NFTs can be included in baskets and traded transactionally with all kinds of other assets or listed on distributed exchanges without you having to build any of that stuff.
- egeozcan 5y ago
  What if I'm using a different coin? Who corrects if there is a wrong transaction?
  - kybernetikos 5y ago
    These are all the same questions you'd have to answer if you'd built the marketplace yourself, except the answers are even harder, and there's nobody there to care when you solve them. And if you're on ethereum, you probably can use a 'different' coin easily, because it'll be wrapped or more likely implemented as a token, and you didn't have to do anything to get the benefit of that aspect of the ethereum ecosystem. Correcting/fixing wrong transactions is a fun one, but it's not impossible depending on how you set up your smart contract.
    - egeozcan 5y ago
      So, after all, it's just an implementation detail with its own set of challenges.
      - kybernetikos 5y ago
        Of course! I wish more people would realise this.
Gigachad 5y ago
The whole idea of selling skins sucks. I wish we could go back to what minecraft did where you just uploaded whatever texture map you wanted for free. NFT promoters push all of this stuff about what you could do in the future with NFTs and it always looks like some dystopian hell where we take something that was free and charge money for it.

kybernetikos 5y ago

You certainly wouldn't need them, but there are benefits to secondary liquidity, compared to running some custom trading server - way more people will have ethereum wallets than an account on your server, the ethereum network will allow them to trade even if the amazon availability zone your server is on goes down, your NFTs can be included in baskets and traded transactionally with all kinds of other assets or listed on distributed exchanges without you having to build any of that stuff.

egeozcan 5y ago
What if I'm using a different coin? Who corrects if there is a wrong transaction?
- kybernetikos 5y ago
  These are all the same questions you'd have to answer if you'd built the marketplace yourself, except the answers are even harder, and there's nobody there to care when you solve them. And if you're on ethereum, you probably can use a 'different' coin easily, because it'll be wrapped or more likely implemented as a token, and you didn't have to do anything to get the benefit of that aspect of the ethereum ecosystem. Correcting/fixing wrong transactions is a fun one, but it's not impossible depending on how you set up your smart contract.
  - egeozcan 5y ago
    So, after all, it's just an implementation detail with its own set of challenges.
    - kybernetikos 5y ago
      Of course! I wish more people would realise this.

Gigachad 5y ago

The whole idea of selling skins sucks. I wish we could go back to what minecraft did where you just uploaded whatever texture map you wanted for free. NFT promoters push all of this stuff about what you could do in the future with NFTs and it always looks like some dystopian hell where we take something that was free and charge money for it.