Topic: Introducing NFTs for forum members - page 3. (Read 7913 times)

One week?
This will only bring more profit, for the corrupt who rob our beloved NTFs of the forum. 

You don't smell it, you already saw it! This was an indeed an exit scam of Theymos! Could have been a billionaire now with that NFTs 😅 I do hope the beings on the Foxholes are still alright after the big lost they had and after that being on Top 1 on Sales and Holds. LoL.
Maybe next time it would be better if we can hold the events for a week even though it says only a 'day'

I think that this was all a big plot, to weaken the expense of forum users! 

yup. one class action lawsuit, coming up

25 years from now we will be rich again! well, maybe our lawyers anyway

Wait, so my 1000 BTCs worth fNFTs are gone? 

i smell an exit scam!!!

edit: lost my Cyrus-IV too. 1 of only 3 known to exist. 

Nullius,

There is perhaps something a bit unhinged about talking some LOL April first thing and turning it into some argument about how wonderful NFTs are.

Maybe you should consider that this massive insecurity you seem to be showing is a sign that you know or fear deep down that it's not all it's hyped up to be.   Most criticism in the world is right and repeating that sometimes similar sounding criticism was wrong -- doesn't change this.

In any case, if you want to work yourself into a foam about some grand idea that I think is a bunch of hokum-- knock yourself out!  People get off on all kinds of weird stuff, ... whips, chains, dressing up as sexualized foxes---- who am I to judge?  I suppose blockchain fetishism is no different.

Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong-- it's not really anyone's concern but mine one way or the other.

Some here, however, may find it eye opening that I was able to simply paint the list of highest priced fNFT to list whatever I wanted it to list.  (I contemplated trading merit for the service of making other people's NFT's very "valuable", but I didn't want to irritate theymos. )

Had Theymos had a tracker for total value transacted up or transaction volume, I could have painted those just as easily.  The same applies to other systems, not just joke ones. You can't credibly do this with liquid fungible assets: I couldn't make everyone think the price of BTC was $10m/BTC today or whatever.  Non-fungibility is not very compatible with transparent market pricing.  Does that mean that the idea is useless? No (at least not for that reason ) -- but it's something people should keep in mind.  A lot of the liberating power of markets depends on the general fungiblity of commodity goods.

The same issues exist in other systems but the actors have a lot of incentive to not be particularly frank about them, in that sense this joke system was extremely liberating.

Thanks for the fun event theymos. Thanks for the idea Cyrus.

Just a quick dashboard to view the content of the published file in an easier manner:
April Fools Day fNFT Dashboard

Nothing fancy, and I haven’t got much time to improve it right now (i.e. use only one single filter for all sections). Simply clear and adjust the filters on the right hand side. Each filter corresponds to one of the data tables on the left (BTC balance, Member fNFTs owned by, Member fNFT owned).

It was very funny. Too bad I didn't realize that there is no point in collecting the good fNFT - selling would have been better to get an even better ranking. Well, next time I will know.

Thanks for the action theymos. And as we know you only did it to collect a lot of merits again

As you can see I spent the whole day playing.. and had a lot of fun..

I always enjoy these april fools, this one was even better because we were able to interact..

Thanks for that @theymos!

This was an amusing April Fools’ joke; theymos has a knack for those.  But I have been laughing with it, not at it.

The people who laugh and sneer at NFTs are like people who laughed and sneered at Bitcoin in 2010.

Myself, I look forward to the day when I will send you a bitcoin in exchange for an NFT of a house.  I don’t mean a “virtual world” house.  I mean a real house, the legal title to a house:  An NFT minted by your local government to represent title to a certain parcel of land with all improvements thereupon.

The swap will be done atomically—either on Bitcoin with RGB/Spectrum, or with cross-chain atomic swaps.  If implemented properly, it will be incomparably more secure than a system of notaries public, lawyers, recording clerks, and title agencies; and it will replace all of these functions with something better.  “Closing of title” will consist of your cryptographic digital signature (“Not your keys, not your house!”), a tx broadcast, and some blockchain confirmations.

Laugh it up while you can.  —While some of the high-profile uses for NFTs are laughable.  —While it is still early.  NFTs will take over the world.  And you had better make it a fancy house—because the stupid legacy systems have institutional inertia; by the time we do the bitcoin-for-house swap, a whole bitcoin will be worth at least a few million dollars.

No, I am not buying into some hot new fad.  To the contrary.  In the 90s, when many readers of this thread were not yet born, cypherpunks were discussing the potential application of cryptography to some of the uses cases just now starting to be solved in practice.  I have been awaiting this for a quarter-century, and it is beginning to happen!


Strong cryptography makes life better.

Through PGP, I apply cryptography to my e-mail.

Through Bitcoin, I apply cryptography to my money.  PGP doesn’t get jealous, because Bitcoin is not encrypted e-mail.  Obviously.

Through NFTs, I will apply cryptography to numerous use cases which would take a very long post to list, let alone to describe.  —To things that are not money, just as Bitcoin is not e-mail.


If NFTs run on Bitcoin via RGB/Spectrum or similar technology, then obviously, there is no competition at all.  If NFTs run on another chain, then that other chain may be a competitor to Bitcoin—or it may be complementary, insofar as Bitcoin keeps its focus on being the most secure, most decentralized money ever invented; I have always been suspicious of proposals which may compromise that focus.  I think that it is too early to predict how all this will play out—other than to note that Ethereum is a dumpster fire, and the future of NFTs will probably be a competitor to Ethereum.

All that being said, just remember:


There is no such thing as “investing in NFTs”.  Perhaps an NFT platform may make a good investment—perhaps not; that is a question of whether a particular business which applies a technology will be a successful business.  Whereas the general, non-specific notion of “investing in NFTs” does not even make sense!  Which NFTs?  This is the meaning of “non-fungible”!

Well, I surely enjoyed the event even though it ended now but the fun and humor of it is good and it made me laugh, feel being rich, think of donating some of the fbtc like it was real. Before April fool's day event is going to happen I am thinking what would theymos have in mind but in the end I enjoyed a lot.

I don't know who enjoyed it how much but personally I really enjoyed.
When I have started, I have purchased 2 NFTs which were listed for sale @50 BTC each and sold them for 500 BTC which. I wanted to collect big amount at the end of the day and that's why I have put rest of my NFTs at sale with lower price 
This is a great fun anyway.

Now, please theymos enable the withdraw button for us to spend this.

Damn, it ended just like that, I didn't  even make sales... seems like I'm still worthless 😭
The event was not that good for me(jk)  Just I do hope we were able to withdraw that BTC 🤣

Wait a second, do you mean I sold fNFTs I had worth 5455 BTC? I just set some stuff for sale and then forgot about it and now I can not even spend it , this is just like all of those holders which forgot they had coins only to remember too late and lose any chance to recover them.

Damn, that was enough for 109 rolls to try to get the shiny pokémon satoshi fNFT.

Here are the "Top Bitcointalk fNFT Brands"... the top 25 members by total sales of NFTs made of that member:

Member	Total NFT Sales
sabotag3x	16165
theymos	10654
Pieter Wuille	8600
nanotube	7800
mprep	7667
Matt Corallo	7000
teeGUMES	6247
LoyceV	6192
lcharles123	6179
EFS	5995
LFC_Bitcoin	5639
Silberman	5455
DroomieChikito	5363
DdmrDdmr	4636
janggernaut	4577
BayAreaCoins	4576
JayJuanGee	4294
hahay	3980
Jawhead999	3728
gmaxwell	3650
NeuroticFish	3647
Mauser	3461
coblee	3389
geophphreigh	3375
fillippone	3281

Wonder if that includes my coblee-III or not.

Thanks for the honorable mention theymos.

This was fun, I liked that it felt more interactive this year. I regret spending all my fBTC too early before a lot of the listings came out.. then I got stuck trying to get rid of the one's I bought. IIWII. Fun nonetheless!

This is not entirely true, 4 out of the 10 most expensive lots were sold by me, but a few minutes before the end of the trading I got involved in charity, having spent 6,000 BTC on this good deed and arranged a lottery (by distributing three unique lots). To summarize, it would be clever to say that I am rightfully ranked III in the list of the most skillful speculators ^{[9704 BTC]}, not to mention that I own the rights to the most expensive and exclusive lot from the 🦊Fox***🔞 series.