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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@lemmy.world 124 points 2 years ago (12 children)

No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As crazy as it sounds, some people do.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (45 children)

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

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (22 children)

It's a great way to launder money.

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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

They're priced like police drug busts.

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[–] StupendousMan@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 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.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What insurance company is dumb enough to insure NFTs?

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ones that think they can't be stolen

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

Accurate headline:

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

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You wouldn't download an NFT...

[–] capital@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

No! I forbid it!

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[–] regdog@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I never had a jpeg stolen from me.

What a time to be alive.

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 years 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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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

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

[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you steal a hyperlink to a jpeg

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years 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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

I guess the millions are in the transaction fees

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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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[–] BadWolf@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Must be a real old-head if you know what fark is. ^me^ ^too^

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah the contract is how a few exchanges got stolen from in recent years

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There were sufficiently stupid people to pay money for NFTs. They will sufficiently stupid people around to pay the ransom.

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