this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
2162 points (99.3% liked)

memes

15444 readers
3708 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Pretty much all crypto bro stuff, honestly

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Every time someone mentions NFT's, I think of this gem and its sequel

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 6 days ago

For me it's usually the Bitcoin guy from the "If Google was a guy" sketches

[–] fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

i smoked a joint with an one of those ape drawings on the jar last night, that was a Nice Fuckin Toke

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 161 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (26 children)

The sad thing is the concept wasn’t.

Selling NFTs with no physical existence is what is pointlessly stupid.

Before they came along i considered the idea of a blockchain linked video camera where metadata of footage gets written into the chain to combat fake news and misinformation.

The goal would be to create a proof and record of original footage, to which media publishers and people who share can link towards to verify authenticity/author.

If the media later gets manipulated or reframed you would be able to verify this by comparing to the original record.

It was never a finished idea but when i first read nft i thought this is the right direction.

And then capitalism started selling apes and what the actual disgusting money possessed fuck was that.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The certificate/signature part seems okay for verification.

It's the transferable virtual deeds being sold that are the scam. I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn't really mean anything.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 6 days ago

I mean we use fiat currency

the issue isnt that it is virtual

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Wait just a second! You have a bridge for sale? Tell me more.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Wouldn't a code signing be a simpler way to achieve that? The video camera can produce a hash code with each video and you can always run the same hash function against the video file to confirm that it wasn't tampered with.

load more comments (14 replies)
[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago (10 children)

This still fundamentally suffers from the oracle problem like all blockchains solutions. You can always attack these blockchain solutions at the point where they need to interact with the real world. In this case the camera is the "oracle" and nothing prevents someone from attacking the proposed camera and leveraging it to certify some modified footage. The blockchain doesn't add anything a public database and digitally signed footage wouldn't also achieve.

load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)
[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When my these first arrived my brother was all about them. Dude was stoked and thought he was the next billionaire. I then asked him what's to stop someone from copying the image? He shrugged and idk man man but im going all in. It was on that day that I knew my brother was tarded

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Tbh I get it from a certain point of view. We all made fun of bitcoin at first but now it's pretty common for people to wish they could tell their younger self to get as much as they can afford.

I get the idea of not wanting to miss out on the next thing that did that.

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

Bitcoin is still fucking shit. That just amounts to "I wish I was there first in this this pyramid scheme". It doesn't change what it is.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's so funny looking back at it (though it was funny while it was happening too), these new-flavor cryptobros tried so hard to convince themselves that they were in the right, they made "cartoons," games, I think they even planned like an island resort or something around their monkey pictures.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Near the peak of the NFT craze I was gifted (as part of an initial mint) an NFT, which I turned around and immediately sold for $3k. Last I looked it was worth about $200. That's the extent of my experience with NFTs.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 43 points 1 week ago

NFT's used to be stupid.

They still are, but they used to be, too.

load more comments
view more: next ›