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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8550143" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I mean depending on where you are you will get flak for it. My father, for example, would call you a dope for wasting your money on gaming garbage and collectibles when you could be investing it into something actually profitable <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (Or maybe he'd be more polite to you and reserves such language for his own children).</p><p></p><p>First of all, what did you buy? That's the heart of the scam. You did not in fact buy the image - you bought the right to display the image inside your virtual workspace. The only thing you own is a token on the blockchain that says that says you completed a transaction with that company and they will then use that token to grant you access to that image to display. The company could shut down at any point taking their servers offline and leaving you with nothing but the token of ownership. So that's the first thing - the muddling up of language to confuse people about what they're actually buying.</p><p></p><p>Secondly in order to do that there is no reason that that token of ownership needs to be stored in a database that uses the same amount of energy to process a single transaction that a US household uses in an entire week. Your access to the virtual statue is already logged in the company's databases to provide you access to the statue - it has to be because blockchain has no bearing on that aspect of the transaction. The company could even set up a marketplace for trading their collectible statues that would use a fraction of the energy that a blockchain solution costs. The reason it's on the blockchain instead is to be able to use the hype to scam people into buying something that they otherwise would look at and pass by because of some belief that they'll be able to resell it later at an increased value.</p><p></p><p>It's a scam - and as I said elsewhere I'd be perfectly happy to let these people all scam each other out of their money if they would use a technology that doesn't annually consume the entire annual energy budget of a European country just processing trades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8550143, member: 19857"] I mean depending on where you are you will get flak for it. My father, for example, would call you a dope for wasting your money on gaming garbage and collectibles when you could be investing it into something actually profitable :) (Or maybe he'd be more polite to you and reserves such language for his own children). First of all, what did you buy? That's the heart of the scam. You did not in fact buy the image - you bought the right to display the image inside your virtual workspace. The only thing you own is a token on the blockchain that says that says you completed a transaction with that company and they will then use that token to grant you access to that image to display. The company could shut down at any point taking their servers offline and leaving you with nothing but the token of ownership. So that's the first thing - the muddling up of language to confuse people about what they're actually buying. Secondly in order to do that there is no reason that that token of ownership needs to be stored in a database that uses the same amount of energy to process a single transaction that a US household uses in an entire week. Your access to the virtual statue is already logged in the company's databases to provide you access to the statue - it has to be because blockchain has no bearing on that aspect of the transaction. The company could even set up a marketplace for trading their collectible statues that would use a fraction of the energy that a blockchain solution costs. The reason it's on the blockchain instead is to be able to use the hype to scam people into buying something that they otherwise would look at and pass by because of some belief that they'll be able to resell it later at an increased value. It's a scam - and as I said elsewhere I'd be perfectly happy to let these people all scam each other out of their money if they would use a technology that doesn't annually consume the entire annual energy budget of a European country just processing trades. [/QUOTE]
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