NFT

DC Fandome said – sign up and get a special NFT just for you! Tweet it, and get another one! Well, I’m just about to buy my Lambo, because I have an NFT and I’m gonna be RICH. Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, are entries into a blockchain ledger that associate your name with a bit of information in that ledger, usually a pointer to some object on the web, plus some meta-information. My NFT was for a spinning GIF of a Batman comic cover, rendered as if it were a label for a 3 1/2" floppy disk. ...

I hate to be hyperbolic about this. But… I just can’t. Imagine… a marketplace, backed by the “blockchain” and “non-fungible tokens”, where you could buy gacha packs that contain random gifs of old Atari 2600 cartridge boxes. Some just stand there, doing nothing. Some are colored gold. Some spin. If you are very, very lucky, and spend a lot of money on gacha packs, you might find yourself in the possession of a gif of a box that opens up to show the game being played for a couple of seconds. ...