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Comment by heckerhut | Hacker News Reader

He should auction an NFT and Zuck/FB/MVRS should buy it for a decent amount

What reason is there to even use NFTs?

How about he does exactly the same thing, with exactly the same outcome in the real world, just without making any NFTs, burning any coal, or shilling any get rich quick pyramid schemes?

What tangible difference would there be?

None whatsoever.

...Except for no bullshit, no proof of wasted energy, no precious GPUs buried in landfills, no contribution to climate change, no carcinogenic smoke, no lung disease, no cancer, etc...

Did you know: rocks used to be perfectly good companions and construction materials aeons before and decades after the Pet Rock craze came and went.

The cardboard box and the $4 price tag were just a gimmick. So are NFTs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock

By making it an NFT I think he creates something bigger than himself, something that could last generations. If he just gets a donation from FB, that would be some random amount of money…who cares.

While it's true that all that wasted energy and squandered precious rare earth elements and belching coal smoke and CO2 greenhouse gasses and climate change and cancer and lung disease you create by making NFTs are something bigger than yourself, they're not necessarily what you want to be remembered by.

And any person receiving some random amount of money donation from Facebook in exchange for NOT making an NFT probably cares.

Or is your whole point "who cares about the environment"?

Let’s see who will be proven right. I am fully committed to saving the climate etc but in my mind NFTs have absolutely nothing to do with that. NFTs are real and however we prevent climate change will not prevent the continued existence and rise of NFTs. I’m saying that with 0 skin in the NFT game in terms of investment. So take that as you will. Just don’t be such a dick on the internet. It’s not conducive to you or anyone learning anything and that’s what we’re all here for. Thanks.

or MVRS could just make the NFT and own it for free

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