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The way I read the article, the "worth millions" is the sum of the ransom demand.

The funny part is that the exploit is in the "smart" contract, ya know the thing that the blockchain keeps secure by forbidding any updates or patches.

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[–] Sheeple 136 points 10 months ago (14 children)

No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As crazy as it sounds, some people do.

[–] AbidanYre 76 points 10 months ago (49 children)

They did. For like a week last year. Then everyone realized it was a scam.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (26 children)

It's a great way to launder money.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

They're priced like police drug busts.

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[–] StupendousMan 100 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What insurance company is dumb enough to insure NFTs?

[–] ForgotAboutDre 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ones that think they can't be stolen

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[–] eclipse 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd say more likely to be able to declare a capital loss on taxes.

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[–] Viking_Hippie 65 points 10 months ago

Accurate headline:

Millions of dollars lost as NFTs worth a total of $0 stolen

[–] RIP_Cheems 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Let me get this straight, you can steal an nft but you can't own an nft?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (10 children)

You wouldn't download an NFT...

[–] capital 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641 10 points 10 months ago

No! I forbid it!

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[–] Lanusensei87 14 points 10 months ago

You very much do own an NFT you purchase, what you don't own is the asset the NFT represents (the shitty RNG generated monkey for example).

[–] regdog 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I never had a jpeg stolen from me.

What a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No no, they stole the link to a jpeg, careful you will make them angry

Here, take my link to get a feeling

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/db03eae9-a3a9-42df-8cf2-f2aa8bfa2d95.webp

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[–] Aceticon 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Another interpretation is that it's all an insurance scam were something worthless is "stolen by hackers" and then claimed to be worth millions for the insurance claim.

But surely nobody in the "well known as impeccably honest" NFT world would ever do something like that!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I guess the millions are in the transaction fees

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[–] crashoverride 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Think of it like this, when people make drug busts and they find huge amounts of cocaine or whatever and they say oh this is 300 something mod a million is worth of stuff. No it's not. It's maybe like not even half that not even a quarter of that, they just make it up just to make their bust even bigger

[–] Squizzy 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember it used to be calculated on the lowest value extrapolated out so a gram of smoke was 20/25 bucks so a kilo of smoke "had a street value of 20,000 - 25,000."

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[–] yuki2501 19 points 10 months ago

"Potential losses". I get the feeling that NFT owners got bit by the same bug that bit RIAA executives.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

ITT: a handful of people starting to sweat about their NFT retirement strategy

[–] MargotRobbie 16 points 10 months ago

One of the great thing about the AI revolution is that since generating infinite number of unique random (and commonly, bad) pictures of literally anything you can think of takes only seconds, the entire concept of NFT has become completely worthless as it completely destroyed the value-from-scarcity argument. Not that it ever was a good argument to begin with.

[–] Linkerbaan 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you steal a hyperlink to a jpeg

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I'm having difficulty with the word "worth". It appears to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting

[–] Etterra 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just because the suckers that bought them paid millions doesn't mean that the NFTs are worth millions.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

…Been a minute since I’ve seen this fark headline meme.

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