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> I think of them as digital digital picture frames. I don't understand this analogy. A digital picture frame lets me look at pictures. What on earth is a digi

• eru 5y ago
  Perhaps it's a digital frame for a digital picture? (As opposed to a physical frame for a digital picture?)
  • unmole 5y ago
    Again, how is an NFT a picture frame? Is a URL a picture frame?
    • eru 5y ago
      Maybe? Not sure how the original commenter meant their metaphor.
• vmception 5y ago
  A digital picture frame is a physical device that lets you look at preconfigured digital pictures. There is typically a mechanism for changing them, you purchased the device though. A digital digital picture frame is a set of classes that lets you look at preconfigured digital pictures. There is typically a mechanism for changing the image, you purchased the set of classes, typically following one of the NFT standards. Those are the ways at which they are similar.
  • unmole 5y ago
    But an NFT doesn't let me look at a picture. It doesn't have a display for one. The whole point of a digital picture frame is that it has a display. Is a browser a digital digital picture frame? I have as much need for a specialised digital digital picture frame as I have for a digital paperweight.
    • vmception 5y ago
      well, this was fun, past tense. analogies compare the ways dissimilar things are similar, not the ways they aren't. this is a thread about selling them and not asking why people are willing to pay for them. so what you or I need isn't relevant, if you don't want to buy one then don't buy one. if you want to make money, sell one. unless there was some point you were trying to make, in which case there are plenty of sister threads to make that point in.
      • unmole 5y ago
        You came up with an analogy that doesn't make sense.
        • vmception 5y ago
          the similarity is that they store images for viewing neuro-typical people got it
          • unmole 5y ago
            Except for the fact that they don't store images and can't display them, sure. I'm probably too thick to understand it. But please keep repeating your bullshit analogy.
            • vmception 5y ago
              can't have it both ways, they either don't [ever] store, or you're too thick NFTs can in-fact store complete binary data and complete vector data. There are some examples and some production projects doing both of those things. But more commonly they typically load a URL to an image, and people prefer that instead of a URL that its on an IPFS URI, but people accept an IPFS proxy URL. In all scenarios, a separate technology/viewer/website is used to access the standard method which returns the data to be interpreted. Which is where things are dissimilar. Analogies don't compare aspects that are dissimilar [0]. Any one similarity satisfies the criteria for an analogy. [0] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy