> I'm guessing your referring to the "one of a kind" part of NFTs, which made me wonder, how would they validate that the created Waifu hasn't been created before?
Oh, not even that, since while some data ends up on the blockchain, i find the whole ownership concept a bit nebulous at best, much like how people mock the whole "oh, just right click the image to save it" thing.
What i was actually referring to was more along the lines of the collector economy idea itself - people willing to exchange their monetary resources for something that they enjoy. Having it be out of a sense of endearment and aesthetic enjoyment (waifus and husbandos) rather than the desire to flip those things (possibly a number of other NFTs or collectibles) seems to be less morally questionable to me!
While i'm not really familiar with the whole NFT space, to me it seems that projects like CryptoKitties are more agreeable and thus viable in this space, as would AI generated images of cute characters! Actually, that seems like a really good fit to me, regardless of how the actual "uniqueness" or "ownership" aspect would play out.
Not to get too deep into NFTs as I to aren't an expert, but from what I understand the images that are used in NFTs are hosted on from a server and the owner of the NFT doesn't own the server, thus do they really own the image?
I too like to collect things, my latest obsession was lingerie. But I always have the image of extreme hoarders in the back of my mind, which quite often scares me out of collecting to much.
I'm not scared of having too much stuff, I'm scared of not being able to notice it myself.
NFTs could ease that problem. But sadly I'm one of those people that prefer analog radio over digital. Wired over wireless.
The smart contract can do a content addressable way of identifying the image, with e.g. IPFS, and then, while in practice there may be a server which is hosting it for people, if anyone has the image saved, they can (if they choose to) continue act as a host for the image of the original server stops being around.
Not, uh, that NFTs for images like this aren’t silly and largely pointless,
but at least for some of them, the “there’s a server hosting the image” isn’t that much of an issue (at least provided that the person who “owns it” keeps the file locally and backed up)
Oh, not even that, since while some data ends up on the blockchain, i find the whole ownership concept a bit nebulous at best, much like how people mock the whole "oh, just right click the image to save it" thing.
What i was actually referring to was more along the lines of the collector economy idea itself - people willing to exchange their monetary resources for something that they enjoy. Having it be out of a sense of endearment and aesthetic enjoyment (waifus and husbandos) rather than the desire to flip those things (possibly a number of other NFTs or collectibles) seems to be less morally questionable to me!
While i'm not really familiar with the whole NFT space, to me it seems that projects like CryptoKitties are more agreeable and thus viable in this space, as would AI generated images of cute characters! Actually, that seems like a really good fit to me, regardless of how the actual "uniqueness" or "ownership" aspect would play out.