i was just making a stupid throwaway joke. I don’t want any monkeys whether they are fungible or not. But again good luck with your investments. I hope they pay off, I really do!
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Apple Blocks Coinbase Wallet App From Sending NFTs Because of In-App Purchase Dispute
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Does anyone really know what an NFT is? I see a lot of comparison of NFTs to easy to copy jpegs and similar. To me, that was the easiest rapid introduction to NFTs, and an easy way for programmers to generate lots of silly looking pictures or trading cards. It's the first evolution or rendition of NFTs. While you can certainly copy these silly images associated with an NFT, I think the underlying technology and what it enables is far more powerful than presenting apes and other silliness. For example, I could transfer an NFT to you, which is grants you access to an event or building or safe or car. Once transferred to you, I can no longer use it to gain access to those things. And that's just one other tiny aspect, it's a unique key and cannot be copied or possessed by more than one person/device/system.
Now to Apple, I like Apple. I think they do a lot of great things for consumers, and I think they have a right to commission for using their platform to sell apps through their platform, but once that transaction is done, they are done. What happens in the app, API calls, interactions with other gamers or parties or banks or blockchains does not belong to Apple, and they've facilitated no marketing of it, the cost from it, and have no rights to it. I can't see how NFT transactions are any different than me using my bank app or brokerage app to make a transfer. Apple has no claim or right to get a cut of that. This overreach sours my view of Apple, and stinks of greed.
Now to Apple, I like Apple. I think they do a lot of great things for consumers, and I think they have a right to commission for using their platform to sell apps through their platform, but once that transaction is done, they are done. What happens in the app, API calls, interactions with other gamers or parties or banks or blockchains does not belong to Apple, and they've facilitated no marketing of it, the cost from it, and have no rights to it. I can't see how NFT transactions are any different than me using my bank app or brokerage app to make a transfer. Apple has no claim or right to get a cut of that. This overreach sours my view of Apple, and stinks of greed.
Oh they already have, several times over
I tend to only go for utility and real world application. That approach works well for me. But thank you.Sadly that is what people associate it with, but luckily it is just an abbreviation for a real world name. In reality most people don't really need to know the technology used for a real use case. But yes you are quite right, I've been involved in tokenisation of land rights, arts, and many other real world good. Quite heavily involved with a number of supply chain provenance projects.
That’s the ‘only few bad apples/eggs’ argument that constantly fails in crypto when 99% of the whole sector stinks.
Don’t take that opinion from me. I read their fans saying it on Reddit and Twitter daily since inception. They only stop slating their own during brief moments of euphoria and hopium, and then they get screwed and eaten by their own again.
Anything to back up those stats or are you just making it up as you go along with your own projection? Have you actually worked on any crypto project? Implemented it? Integrated it? Do you realise the services provided to you are highly likely already using it without you even knowing it.
PS. Those are rhetorical questions as with those swooping generalisations its quite clear the answer is no to all of the above...
I would be pleased to answer this, but I know that if I went and wasted the next half hour collecting them and posting them here you would just swipe it all aside and come up with more excuses. The way you accused me of projection was quite insulting. Are you accusing me of running crimes and scams on people?
And not answering your question you would just say I’m lying.
One cannot debate against someone who plays that game. It’s better to leave them on the street corner preaching to passers by. It’s no different from a cult that refuses to acknowledge their whole system of beliefs and practises are bad and it’s not just that they have ’a few bad apples’ that make them look bad.
I've not provided any excuse, you see that is you projecting your opinion without even allowing the possibility of discussion or that perhaps it aint so. There are crypto related projects underway in nearly every single industry and organisation. I'm sorry but your 'fact' of 99% of the whole sector stinks is just plain and simply wrong. Besides you'd need a lot more than half an hour if you wanted to collect evidence on 100% of the projects. It is just a very odd and false thing to say other than a personal opinion and thus projection.
?? You jump to some odd conclusions.
Well you are the one coming out with some sweeping generalisations without any kind of substantiation provided. Yet when challenged on that you come out with even more unsubstantiated generalisations.
Perhaps someone who uses the Coinbase app, or understand how it works can explain this. It doesn't make any sense to me that Apple would be demanding a cut of the "gas" or transfer fees, but it does make sense if Apple wants to enforce the use of ApplePay in the app, which unless it is a physical good, requires the fee. if Coinbase has bypassed ApplePay in the app, that is exactly what Epic did with Fortnight, and that breaks the agreement made to Apple to use the App Store. Confused:? Thanks!
Crypto is 99% a scam and NFTs are 100% a scam.
That’s why the only NFTs I’d buy are Nice Effing T-shirts.
Actually useful, can wear them, don’t get hacked, not a scam.