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heads up: as a hacker, I promise to do this to all your bockchan art. all your NTFS? now they& #39;re minion memes. https://twitter.com/timescanner/status/1380368413810323459">https://twitter.com/timescann...

https://twitter.com/timescanner/status/1380368413810323459

you& #39;re gonna tell people you spent 20,000 Elonzoids to buy a certified certificate proving you own a once of a kind selfie of Lil Nas X and when you scan your retina to show it to someone, it pulls up this

your EnEffTee is just an overly fancy pointer to another URL hosted somewhere else.

back in my day we called those AOL keywords

BTW I just wasted like 30 minutes reading about how these thing actually work and yes, it& #39;s as stupid as you think.
The most common standard only includes 3 elements:
a name, a description, and a URI.
Not a URN, a URI. Names and descriptions are human-readable strings.

so one of these fuckers is only a way to prove that someone "owns" a specific URI and REALLY I DON& #39;T SEE THE POINT

because there& #39;s basically two possibilities:
1. The creator of the token owns the site the URI points to.
This is the example used in some of the examples that use it for controlling resources in games

in which case WHY DON& #39;T YOU USE YOUR OWN NON-BOCKCHAMP DATABASE?
MYSQL WORKS BETTER, FASTER, AND DOESN& #39;T RAZE RAINFORESTS

hell, even Microsoft Access on windows XP works better and over there I have clippy asking if I want to write a letter

and option 2: the creator does not own the URI the token points to.

This means it can change. it can easily change and you have zero ability to prevent it changed, know it changed (unless you check yourself), or prove it changed.

so let& #39;s say you pay a dozen dunning krugerrands to have 100% proven ownership of a picture of a cat. maybe it& #39;s a really cute cat. but hey, it& #39;s yours now.

everyone can look up the *ther**m brockhaim and see that YOU own it. great.

except what you own is specifically a bit of JSON, looking like this:
{
"name":"cat",
"description":"a cute cat",
"uri":" https://cats.banana/123456789...

and that& #39;s all that& #39;s controlled and enforced by the contract

so what happens? well, a year down the line, cats.banana goes out of business. the domain goes up for sale, I pick it up for 10$, I set up my server to host this image for every single URL

Your contract is still being enforced. you still "own" that gnome fungus tolkein. all the NTFSes haven& #39;t changed.

but all it is is a pointer saying "USER FOO OWNS http://BAR"

and if 31 years of the web has taught us anything, it should have been that URLS ARE NOT UNCHANGING AND DEPENDING ON THEM TO NEVER CHANGE CONTENT IS A BAD IDEA

anyway the "best" option is to make them IPFS links, which are actually a form of URN, not a URI.

This just means that your content will be secure until someone breaks SHA1, and it will exist until people stop hosting it and it vanishes from IPFS

better keep a copy yourself, to ensure it stays in the network

at which case why don& #39;t you just set up a webserver at heresmy.stuff/ and put a picture there?

no one can disprove that you own it, since you control your website

basically no matter how you do this, there& #39;s a better way to do it that doesn& #39;t work with the bockchao.

so unless selling it that way is your entire point and this is a money-making scam, it seems pointless.

if you want to "own" the thing, save it to your hard drive. it& #39;s not hard.
if you want to support the creator, send them actual money on paypal?
if you want to prove that you own it... get the creator to sign it for you? print out a letter saying you own it, and mail it to you?

anyway I don& #39;t really want to argue about this, as evidenced by the fact that I& #39;ve been intentionally misspelling key words to stop angry keyword searchers.
if you want my seriouser alternative to NTFS, check out this thread: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1378365992900853768">https://twitter.com/Foone/sta...

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1378365992900853768

also I should set up ClippyCoin. I have a Microsoft Access database running on my 486 with Windows 95, and it keeps track of who owns what. barely uses as much power as an incandescent bulb.

and just to cover myself legally, I& #39;d like to point out that the thread-starting post is just a joke.
I& #39;m not actually going to hack all your Nifties and turn them into Minions Memes.

I& #39;m going to hack them to be rickrolls

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