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Comment by tlrobinson | Hacker News Reader

Soooo the obvious question... when does the NFT of the “The Billion Dollar Torrent” drop?

It already has https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/14618723766819512... and now it's into inception territory. The person who did https://www.thenftbay.org (me) got NFT'ed by VVD (passed in at $17,645.42 USD) and now I've NFT'ed his auction result with the proceeds being diverted to Outreachy internships.

What does a NFT of a torrent even mean after we stop laughing at the absurdity?

This is the beauty of Art. I hope more people ponder on this.

NFT are just like tweets. An NFT of a torrent is the same thing as a tweet linking to a torrent, just that in this case the tweet is stored in a blockchain and people can buy it.

I understand what NFTs are, but torrents are ephemeral and recreatable and frequently replaced even for the same source data, more akin to indices. Proving you had a copy in the past or traded for said proof conveys nothing if no seeders exist anymore, and abandonment rates are huge outside of archival communities.

Other than the mystery and the joke what's the meaning of a NFT for the URL of a deleted tweet?

The same as every NFT: nothing beyond what everyone agrees to, which right now (and likely forever) is nothing.

Well, I suppose separating speculators from their money is another answer.

I don’t want to tell you what to do, but I hope in my heart that you’ll keep doing this recursively until the mask falls off.

I wouldn’t even be mad if you kept the money.

Oh my goodness, you're totally right. The bullshit train never ends...

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