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Avali NFTs
4 years ago
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Since a few people had come to me asking about Avali NFTs seeing there is now a couple places seemingly offering then, I figured I'd answer a few questions on the matter.
Are Avali NFTs allowed?
Under the new terms of use, yes. So long as it is original content or used with the artist's explicit consent. While I personally do not care for NFTs (At least in the meme form of overpriced hyperlinks), it would be hypocritical to give the Avali a Creative Commons license but then add a stipulation against their use in one very specific way. Not to mention it'd be borderline impossible to enforce without expensive legal processes given NFT's decentralized nature.
Are there official Avali NFTs?
No, nor are there any plans to create them at this time. Anyone advertising otherwise is a scam... well... more of a scam than NFTs inherently are :p
What is your position on Avali NFTs?
I've heard some suggestions made for how NFT, as a technology, could be useful for a variety of tasks, particularly in cyber-security. But the kind of NFTs we're talking about here, the meme-image hyperlinks like the Apes are nothing more than hyperlinks stored on a blockchain. They have no intrinsic value and while the token (The T in NFT) is incredibly secure, the hyperlink it points to is no more safe or future proof than any other webpage. The image it currently points to could be edited, removed, hacked or duplicated which means despite them being advertised as 'the new medium for collectible art' they are in reality no more a collectible than a Neopet; their value only exists as long as the site hosting it does.
If you want to spend money on Avali pictures, go get a commission or buy an adoptable from an actual artist, while it won't have resale value, it'll look better and helps support the community. NFTs only have 'value' if you can find some other sucker to buy it off you; and let's be honest, you're unlikely to find a buyer for a computer generated Avali.
Are Avali NFTs allowed?
Under the new terms of use, yes. So long as it is original content or used with the artist's explicit consent. While I personally do not care for NFTs (At least in the meme form of overpriced hyperlinks), it would be hypocritical to give the Avali a Creative Commons license but then add a stipulation against their use in one very specific way. Not to mention it'd be borderline impossible to enforce without expensive legal processes given NFT's decentralized nature.
Are there official Avali NFTs?
No, nor are there any plans to create them at this time. Anyone advertising otherwise is a scam... well... more of a scam than NFTs inherently are :p
What is your position on Avali NFTs?
I've heard some suggestions made for how NFT, as a technology, could be useful for a variety of tasks, particularly in cyber-security. But the kind of NFTs we're talking about here, the meme-image hyperlinks like the Apes are nothing more than hyperlinks stored on a blockchain. They have no intrinsic value and while the token (The T in NFT) is incredibly secure, the hyperlink it points to is no more safe or future proof than any other webpage. The image it currently points to could be edited, removed, hacked or duplicated which means despite them being advertised as 'the new medium for collectible art' they are in reality no more a collectible than a Neopet; their value only exists as long as the site hosting it does.
If you want to spend money on Avali pictures, go get a commission or buy an adoptable from an actual artist, while it won't have resale value, it'll look better and helps support the community. NFTs only have 'value' if you can find some other sucker to buy it off you; and let's be honest, you're unlikely to find a buyer for a computer generated Avali.
Thank you, BTW, for all of the work done on the Avali. They're a really well-done race.
How is creating a massive carbon footprint, to generate said link, interesting?
How is people stealing other people's art and SELLING IT, FOR PROFIT, as NFT's... interesting?
The basic point of a blockchain is to have multiple computers check each other's data so that while there's no centralized database collating these sources and confirming the validity of the ledger, instead you could just have your ledgers talk to each other directly without needing a separate machine to pass the updates to the ledger to each individual. In theory it's a decent way to handle things like transaction records across a small business when you don't need or can't afford a dedicated ledger handler for those types of transactions, though that's under the assumption that each of the machines handling the ledger is under the same authority, which is where the bitcon bros come in.
If you wanted to run a decentralized ledger across multiple machines who aren't directly under your control, you need some method of verifying that the data they want added to the ledger is legit. If you're working with machines you trust, or are entirely under your authority, such measures aren't necessary, but the moment part of your ledger is being written to by an outside machine, it needs to be vetted some way to verify that the transaction is valid. Bitcoin as well as most other Crypto's currently in 'circulation' use proof of work, basically by looking for numbers that encrypt a given block to have 8 '0's at the end of the file, which is computationally expensive, but in theory means that it's very difficult to falsify a transaction.
Anyways, thank you for taking your time to speak sincerely about these things.