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Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

BoldFace posted:

If it's just couple million dollars worth of apes, I can see OpenSea simply refunding people.

Refunding them what? The wash trade value the people were counting on or the actual value ($0).

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SeductiveReasoning
Nov 2, 2005

382 BC - 301 BC
Code is law :colbert:

TasogareNoKagi
Jul 11, 2013


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6OvsJqimfg

Wifi Toilet
Oct 1, 2004

Toilet Rascal

Salt Fish posted:

Refunding them what? The wash trade value the people were counting on or the actual value ($0).

Just email their jpeg apes back to them.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

MasterSitsu posted:

Today I discovered a friend of mine is selling* bikini pics of herself as NFTs and I'm prepping for it coming up and how gently I will scold.

*nobody's buying but yeah

Just tell her only fans exists and isn’t a scam. There, done

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

a = b = c = e = f = all of this is the same = a lot of words to say dumbass that really really should be put in some sort of fin. conservatorship.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

MasterSitsu posted:

Today I discovered a friend of mine is selling* bikini pics of herself as NFTs and I'm prepping for it coming up and how gently I will scold.

*nobody's buying but yeah

Yo tell her that’s what onlyfans is for.

istewart
Apr 13, 2005

Still contemplating why I didn't register here under a clever pseudonym

absurd research paper posted:

In a nutshell, a client lets two clouds compute the same task, and uses smart contracts to stimulate tension, betrayal and distrust between the clouds,

Heyyy, if we can use these here "smart contracts" to stimulate the kinda tension that leads to betrayal and mistrust... what other kinda tension can we stimulate? :heysexy:

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

istewart posted:

Heyyy, if we can use these here "smart contracts" to stimulate the kinda tension that leads to betrayal and mistrust... what other kinda tension can we stimulate? :heysexy:

When your wallet's empty but the smart contract's still tuggin

Durzel
Nov 15, 2005


BoldFace posted:

If it's just couple million dollars worth of apes, I can see OpenSea simply refunding people.
Doesn’t that negate the whole “decentralisation is life” thing if OpenSea decides who really owns something?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Durzel posted:

Doesn’t that negate the whole “decentralisation is life” thing if OpenSea decides who really owns something?

No, you see when the big bad banks hold and own the money, that's bad.
But when randos hold and own it, who would rat gently caress each other for 0.00000001 of a cent quicker than the planck time limit of the universe, that's good!

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

happyhippy posted:

No, you see when the big bad banks hold and own the money, that's bad.
But when randos hold and own it, who would rat gently caress each other for 0.00000001 of a cent quicker than the planck time limit of the universe, that's good!

A lot makes sense when you realise these people don't understand how... most things work, including society and especially 'the market' they worship as a god, and consider certain laws and the concept of property rights to be magically enforced laws of reality rather than social constructs enforced at the whim of the authorities and the state.

nullEntityRNG
Jun 23, 2010

Mostly pseudo-random.

I think the hilarious part of this concept, if I too understand it completely, fails to recognize that a systems like this has been done multiple times before with hilarious results in AI research. When you game-ify logic for computers to choose optimal paths, they will eventually change the rules of the game to optimize the rest of it.

Any barriers like collision or bribe contracts delay this scenario, and adds more points of failure for such.

Even more so, you're saying you do TWICE the work in order to ensure one solution is correct. Its missing the forest from the trees. Its like swapping out your car with a jet because "oh the car wastes too much gas in idle points. A jet is immediate point to point"

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Finally the sequel to 'all my apes gone' dropped. All apes gone

WorldIndustries
Dec 21, 2004

https://twitter.com/night1218/status/1495351505444306945

Dont ever click any web3 poo poo in your email!

Ad by Khad
Jul 25, 2007

Human Garbage
Watch me try to laugh this title off like the dickbag I am.

I also hang out with racists.
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Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

PepeSilviaCo(i)n.

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.
same

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


all the apes was hacked and i'm glad of it

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing
Smart contracts are reality defining, dontyaknow. The apes aren't stolen. Kindly remove your twitter avatar.

drk
Jan 16, 2005

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

According to this article the hacker sold many of the stolen NFTs within hours, then laundered the proceeds through tornado. OpenSea did block their wallet eventually but it was too late to prevent a lot of sales. And remember, OpenSea is just a front end to the NFT market - after the hacker was blocked there, they just started selling on other platforms.

Virginia Slams
Nov 17, 2012

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

I believe sometimes they just ransom the monkey pictures back to the idiots they stole it from for less than their actual "value", that way it's pure profit and you don't have to worry about trying to sell a tainted monkey picture.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

I imagine it's kind of like getting scammed by Amway and then going to the DeVos family trying to get your money back, and Blackwater operatives head shot you. BECAUSE IT'S ALL A SCAM!

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

I hope Paris Hilton's ape is ok, ape theft can be very traumatic

Karia
Mar 27, 2013

Self-portrait, Snake on a Plane
Oil painting, c. 1482-1484
Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1591)

How the hell does OpenSea work on the technical end? It's more than just a front-end: it sounds like each NFT you want to list on OpenSea has to have a specific smart contract in its code, which gives OpenSea the right to sell/transfer your NFTs when somebody buys it. But since it's working through a smart contract attached to each NFT, how does OpenSea actually know/track when these purchases happen? How does OpenSea take their commission? Are buyers sending their money to OpenSea, who then forwards the payment minus their commission to the seller, or does the smart contract automatically split the money? What if you have an NFT that doesn't have that smart contract attached that you want to list? Do you have to pay the gas fees to attach the smart contract before you can list it on OpenSea? What sort of vulnerabilities are there? Can OpenSea just decide to arbitrarily transfer your stuff whenever it wants?

I tried to read the documentation, but it's utterly absurd. There's a 4 part tutorial on making an NFT. Then an 11 part tutorial on attaching the smart contract that allows you to build a market place. Then a 5 part tutorial on issuing items to customers. This is the most convoluted, over-complicated way of selling things imaginable: it takes all the disadvantages of centralize platforms like Ebay, but then adds another layer of additional hoops you need to jump through before you can even start to interact with the platform.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Karia posted:

How the hell does OpenSea work on the technical end? It's more than just a front-end: it sounds like each NFT you want to list on OpenSea has to have a specific smart contract in its code, which gives OpenSea the right to sell/transfer your NFTs when somebody buys it. But since it's working through a smart contract attached to each NFT, how does OpenSea actually know/track when these purchases happen? How does OpenSea take their commission? Are buyers sending their money to OpenSea, who then forwards the payment minus their commission to the seller, or does the smart contract automatically split the money? What if you have an NFT that doesn't have that smart contract attached that you want to list? Do you have to pay the gas fees to attach the smart contract before you can list it on OpenSea? What sort of vulnerabilities are there? Can OpenSea just decide to arbitrarily transfer your stuff whenever it wants?

I tried to read the documentation, but it's utterly absurd. There's a 4 part tutorial on making an NFT. Then an 11 part tutorial on attaching the smart contract that allows you to build a market place. Then a 5 part tutorial on issuing items to customers. This is the most convoluted, over-complicated way of selling things imaginable: it takes all the disadvantages of centralize platforms like Ebay, but then adds another layer of additional hoops you need to jump through before you can even start to interact with the platform.

Imagine falling out of a grift tree where every branch is a middle man, and hitting every one of those middleman branches on the way down.

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
I wonder if anyone has automated NFT trading yet. NFT art theft often looks formulaic enough that some of it may be automated.

Just a bunch of bots high frequency trading ape jpgs, using a country's worth of electricity in the process, a self-incentivizing ant mill that uses ever more resources.

Ok maybe not high frequency because the blockchains can't do fast. Or you just take this part off the block chain and trust an exchange, which then gets hacked or runs off with the apes.

e:

Karia posted:

Do you have to pay the gas fees to attach the smart contract before you can list it on OpenSea?
All I know is you don't have to pay anything because otherwise the people/bots crawling DeviantArt and "minting" thousands of stolen pieces just in case one sells couldn't afford to do it. I think it's called "lazy minting" and I think at that point it's just an entry in a regular-rear end database, just crypto-themed.

Elukka fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 20, 2022

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

potential buyers don't care that the NFT was stolen, and they're not gonna let things like ethics get in the way of scooping up a premium ape at a discount

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Hammurabi's Chode

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
NFT Ethics is a course you can take at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Crow
May 22, 2008

Snap City mayor for life

Spaced God posted:

So kinda sorta genuine question: isn't stealing NFTs an even dumber idea than stealing regular buttcoins? Like, I imagine you can't flip them easy because the original owner would just be screaming about how THATS MY APE every time you try to make a listing

Scamming and bankrupting crypto bros is its own reward op

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
Stealing apes seems like a great crime because you can sell it back to the original owner who will be grateful to get his disgusting jpeg back and then you can just do it again because they are dumb as gently caress marks.

https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1495423738694684673

It's like you're announcing "steal from me! it's easy! I'm a moron!"

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Elukka posted:

e:

All I know is you don't have to pay anything because otherwise the people/bots crawling DeviantArt and "minting" thousands of stolen pieces just in case one sells couldn't afford to do it. I think it's called "lazy minting" and I think at that point it's just an entry in a regular-rear end database, just crypto-themed.
The hot new thing is to list your ape unminted, and the buyer is charged the gas fee on point of purchase.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Elukka posted:

I wonder if anyone has automated NFT trading yet. NFT art theft often looks formulaic enough that some of it may be automated.

Just a bunch of bots high frequency trading ape jpgs, using a country's worth of electricity in the process, a self-incentivizing ant mill that uses ever more resources.

Ok maybe not high frequency because the blockchains can't do fast. Or you just take this part off the block chain and trust an exchange, which then gets hacked or runs off with the apes.

e:

All I know is you don't have to pay anything because otherwise the people/bots crawling DeviantArt and "minting" thousands of stolen pieces just in case one sells couldn't afford to do it. I think it's called "lazy minting" and I think at that point it's just an entry in a regular-rear end database, just crypto-themed.

Doesn't this end up with you (in theory) on the hook for mega $$$ in tax since every single transaction is taxable and running thousands of transactions a day would ruin you instantly if the IRS ever caught up?

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Main Paineframe posted:

potential buyers don't care that the NFT was stolen, and they're not gonna let things like ethics get in the way of scooping up a premium ape at a discount

In the case of the "premium" NFTs like bored apes I wouldn't be surprised if people have bots automatically snapping them up if they're listed well below market rate, which is convenient for ape thieves

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Z the IVth posted:

Doesn't this end up with you (in theory) on the hook for mega $$$ in tax since every single transaction is taxable and running thousands of transactions a day would ruin you instantly if the IRS ever caught up?

You only get taxed on profits. High frequency trading (on the normal stock market) makes a fraction of a cent by buying a stock for $100 and selling it for $100.000001 and they owe tax on the .000001 part.


OTOH I dunno what the speculators who sell their apes to themselves for vastly inflated amounts of money are gonna do if OpenSea does any reporting to the IRS. You can either pay tax on that, or tell the IRS you were committing a crime by self-dealing.

Trollologist
Mar 3, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Links. Remember we're not buying and selling monkey jpegs. We're buying and selling LINKS to the monkey jpegs.

Everyone is even dumber than you thought.

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1495497708517347330

Pretty sure that's a joke but damned if I can tell anymore.

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