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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by yesman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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 11 months ago

No one is gonna buy any NFTs for millions lmao

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 31 points 11 months ago

As crazy as it sounds, some people do.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

It's a great way to launder money.

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[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

They're priced like police drug busts.

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[-] StupendousMan@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 11 months ago

What insurance company is dumb enough to insure NFTs?

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Ones that think they can't be stolen

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago

Accurate headline:

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

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 31 points 11 months ago

You wouldn't download an NFT...

[-] capital@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

No! I forbid it!

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[-] regdog@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

I never had a jpeg stolen from me.

What a time to be alive.

[-] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 19 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago
[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

How do you steal a hyperlink to a jpeg

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 16 points 11 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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

I guess the millions are in the transaction fees

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months 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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