NFT sponsorship

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

fyi guys theres a place round the corner from me that sells paintings on a canvas for eye watering amounts of money, people buy these things as investments! Unbelievable. I heard their made using OILS! (that's fossil fuels that come out of the ground). Some people have made lots of money out of it, but most of them become worthless. I don't know what problem they solve - we already have photographs.

Jeez, turn it in eh mate? You've already had this thread closed down once.

it was satire to @seth plum going apoplectic whenever crypto is mentioned in any thread. So... i guess... whoosh?

Is 'apoplectic' your new word for anybody who disagrees with you?

Here, have another bitcoin and calm down

and i'm the one supposedly de-railing this thread. *sigh*

@seth plum I've repeatedly tried to engage with you in good faith on this subject before, but your replies always consist of this condescending, deliberately ignorant sea lioning or "2+2=4 here i made a bitcoin" joke. You're using a computer, this uses mathematics to function. You're using the internet, which uses mathematics to function. Everything digital is based on mathematics and 0's and 1's. Can we please stop this, so that questions can be answered, things can be learned and threads don't get thrown off and derailed because of petty squabbling. Thanks.

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

fyi guys theres a place round the corner from me that sells paintings on a canvas for eye watering amounts of money, people buy these things as investments! Unbelievable. I heard their made using OILS! (that's fossil fuels that come out of the ground). Some people have made lots of money out of it, but most of them become worthless. I don't know what problem they solve - we already have photographs.

Jeez, turn it in eh mate? You've already had this thread closed down once.

it was satire to @seth plum going apoplectic whenever crypto is mentioned in any thread. So... i guess... whoosh?

Is 'apoplectic' your new word for anybody who disagrees with you?

Here, have another bitcoin and calm down

and i'm the one supposedly de-railing this thread. *sigh*

@seth plum I've repeatedly tried to engage with you in good faith on this subject before, but your replies always consist of this condescending, deliberately ignorant sea lioning or "2+2=4 here i made a bitcoin" joke. You're using a computer, this uses mathematics to function. You're using the internet, which uses mathematics to function. Everything digital is based on mathematics and 0's and 1's. Can we please stop this, so that questions can be answered, things can be learned and threads don't get thrown off and derailed because of petty squabbling. Thanks.

If traditional currencies are backed up by things like oil, or coffee, or car manufacturing, or tourism or whatever, what backs up cryptocurrency?
You say mathematics.
It makes no sense to me compared with actual tangible things.
Right now I can’t buy bananas with equations.

But you do, you use a debit card, which uses computer systems. Which room in which bank vault is your money stored? What's backing it up? Can i touch it?

To be clear, i don;t think we'll buy groceries with bitcoin ever, much like you don't pay for groceries with a small bag of gold pieces. But the underlying technology will be used to migrate how our money works now to how it will in the future.

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

seth plum said:

kentaddick said:

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

fyi guys theres a place round the corner from me that sells paintings on a canvas for eye watering amounts of money, people buy these things as investments! Unbelievable. I heard their made using OILS! (that's fossil fuels that come out of the ground). Some people have made lots of money out of it, but most of them become worthless. I don't know what problem they solve - we already have photographs.

Jeez, turn it in eh mate? You've already had this thread closed down once.

it was satire to @seth plum going apoplectic whenever crypto is mentioned in any thread. So... i guess... whoosh?

Is 'apoplectic' your new word for anybody who disagrees with you?

Here, have another bitcoin and calm down

and i'm the one supposedly de-railing this thread. *sigh*

@seth plum I've repeatedly tried to engage with you in good faith on this subject before, but your replies always consist of this condescending, deliberately ignorant sea lioning or "2+2=4 here i made a bitcoin" joke. You're using a computer, this uses mathematics to function. You're using the internet, which uses mathematics to function. Everything digital is based on mathematics and 0's and 1's. Can we please stop this, so that questions can be answered, things can be learned and threads don't get thrown off and derailed because of petty squabbling. Thanks.

If traditional currencies are backed up by things like oil, or coffee, or car manufacturing, or tourism or whatever, what backs up cryptocurrency?
You say mathematics.
It makes no sense to me compared with actual tangible things.
Right now I can’t buy bananas with equations.

But you do, you use a debit card, which uses computer systems. Which room in which bank vault is your money stored? What's backing it up? Can i touch it?

To be clear, i don;t think we'll buy groceries with bitcoin ever, much like you don't pay for groceries with a small bag of gold pieces. But the underlying technology will be used to migrate how our money works now to how it will in the future.

I agree that technology has moved us a long way from barter.
However those computers and associated systems are actual tangible things that were paid for by oil money, or coffee money, or tourism money and so on.
Of course mathematics exists, but not in a vacuum.

But what is "money", where is your money that's on your bank balance? Which vault is it stored in? Most money doesn't actual exist in any form, it exists digitally.

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-bitcoin

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-ethereum

A couple of excellent articles explaining the basics.

Been doing a little digging around GR... very strange stuff. I follow a lot, and i mean a lot, of crypto influencers on twitter, none of them follow GR (i have no mutual followers) yet they have around 35k followers. Their GR nfts have a very low volume and last sale price. Their token GEAR has a very small market cap of around $1.6 million. One of their holders owns around 20% of the total supply. The link to their whitepaper doesn't work, I'll ask around a few more questions perhaps when i have time.

Leroy Ambrose said:

Off_it said:

PopIcon said:

shine166 said:

5 days ago I posted in another thread that life was shit, my mum had a stroke 2 days after finishing her 5th chemo in 3 years and during scans for that theyve now found something on her brain. 

Dig your own Info for fuck sake, I really don't give a shit about GR, just tried to share Info on blockchain tech and for nothing but 'but why' responses like I'm conversing with my 3 year old child 

Mate, sorry to hear about your situation. I feel your pain on this thread, so many jobsworths with nothing better to do. 

"Jobsworths"?

That's an odd analogy.

Yeah, I thought that too - almost like it's somehow wrong of people to be concerned about the club we support being taken for a ride by shysters and potentially scamming youngsters by tying us in with something that, on the surface of it, looks collectable by kids but is actually worthless. 'Jobsworth' doesn't even really work in that context either 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not how this thread started out though, was it? Mostly contained provable bs about the environment and the entire concept being exclusively used by con artists.

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

Off_it said:

PopIcon said:

shine166 said:

5 days ago I posted in another thread that life was shit, my mum had a stroke 2 days after finishing her 5th chemo in 3 years and during scans for that theyve now found something on her brain. 

Dig your own Info for fuck sake, I really don't give a shit about GR, just tried to share Info on blockchain tech and for nothing but 'but why' responses like I'm conversing with my 3 year old child 

Mate, sorry to hear about your situation. I feel your pain on this thread, so many jobsworths with nothing better to do. 

"Jobsworths"?

That's an odd analogy.

Yeah, I thought that too - almost like it's somehow wrong of people to be concerned about the club we support being taken for a ride by shysters and potentially scamming youngsters by tying us in with something that, on the surface of it, looks collectable by kids but is actually worthless. 'Jobsworth' doesn't even really work in that context either 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not how this thread started out though, was it? Mostly contained provable bs about the environment and the entire concept being exclusively used by con artists.

To be honest, I think that's just how you read it.

Majority of comments were more along the lines of "what the fuck does this even mean?"

You realise we can actually go back and read it, right? 

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

Off_it said:

kentaddick said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

Off_it said:

PopIcon said:

shine166 said:

5 days ago I posted in another thread that life was shit, my mum had a stroke 2 days after finishing her 5th chemo in 3 years and during scans for that theyve now found something on her brain. 

Dig your own Info for fuck sake, I really don't give a shit about GR, just tried to share Info on blockchain tech and for nothing but 'but why' responses like I'm conversing with my 3 year old child 

Mate, sorry to hear about your situation. I feel your pain on this thread, so many jobsworths with nothing better to do. 

"Jobsworths"?

That's an odd analogy.

Yeah, I thought that too - almost like it's somehow wrong of people to be concerned about the club we support being taken for a ride by shysters and potentially scamming youngsters by tying us in with something that, on the surface of it, looks collectable by kids but is actually worthless. 'Jobsworth' doesn't even really work in that context either 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not how this thread started out though, was it? Mostly contained provable bs about the environment and the entire concept being exclusively used by con artists.

To be honest, I think that's just how you read it.

Majority of comments were more along the lines of "what the fuck does this even mean?"

You realise we can actually go back and read it, right? 

Is it in the blockchain?

In trying to take the piss you're actually bringing up a great future utility of NFT's - the news. Having the news on web3 and on the blockchain will mean you'll be able to see yourself quite easily whether the clip/article/interview you're watching is legit. 

Only seems to be 1 post in the first page that asks what an NFT is.