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When known scammers hop on the bandwagon, you know you have found a legit scam.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/586089-melania-trump-announces-new-line-of-nfts
SomethingOtherThanMyRealName
NFTs - you get to add your name to a digital list of other people that also own the same thing.
PraiseAzathoth
Saving this to send to the next person to tell me I should start doing NFT's
PeeterGrant
Stolen from another post:
rogerjun0497
Friends/family will buy to money launder. Prolly use campaign funds.
yello0
NFTs.. Where you pay for the fact that “you paid for something.” (Which has no real™ value…)
SoggyFarts
I do Not Fucking Tcare
UnluckyLunkhead
Using real cash pretending to buy a file on the internet is stupider than pretending to buy a plot of land on the moon.
riggeroo
DenErus
It really took the trumps getting into it to tell its a scam? Say it ain't so /s
RCSpotz
If any Trump is involved in NFTs, then it is 100% certain that they are a scam.
GreenTeaParty
They are of her squinty, snobby eyes… so awful and dumb
iatezola
can't really tell she has any, tbh
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
Alternate title: "Tell me NTF's are a scam without telling me it's a scam"
theguywiththevoice
Hey, I just paid a shitloat of money for someone who doesn't own a thing to go online and say I own it!
coffeebrine
lmaooooo of course the Trumps know a scam they can get on board with when they see one
Speedmetal05
Who? Who's that washed up hooker?
PrincessPicklebricks
Grifters gonna grift
Pumuchei
I laughed ...then read the part where it said some profits were going to charity...and we know how that goes for the Trumps
Gheebun
TwoSeamer
Literally next post :)
Orzufancylad
puffyjacket69
She's realizing she'll have to be able to afford her lifestyle when it all comes crashing down. The desperate will try anything.
billyrayvirus
There's a sucker born every minute.
BootsDusty
PrinceOfWhales
Can't the entire family just go away already?
TwoSeamer
When the grifting is so easy? Pffft
BatmanBarstow
Kind of hard when most of the posts on here are people still obsessed with Trump. Maybe move on? Imgur is a TDS echo chamber
stlouiscardinalsfan7
Send them on a plane somewhere that never returns
yoursexyneighbour
To Metaland?
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
They are attention whores. No they can’t.
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
Preferably someplace with iron bars and soap-dropping friends.
Yourmomshouz
Not.if Imgur can help it..
M4Firefly
you mean like the Kardashians?
gorum666
be jailed forever…
DickInAToaster
Not as long as people keep throwing money in their face, no.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
So you're allowed to throw things in their faces, as long as they're valueable? Hm... *googles 'how to gold-coat an axe'*
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
grifts get griftier
Fargus57
More like another way to launder money from the RNC and PACs into Trump accounts.
bcp5296d
100% this
OuroborosX
Didn't some guy in Miami recently sell an invisible sculpture for like $20k? There's no shortage of stupid people with money out there.
spinbutton3
please please please hackers wreck her NFT scam
DrSchlepenstein
Grifters going to keep on grifting.
pennypoohbear
I tried so hard to understand with nfpr and I still don't. Can someone explain like I am the village idiot?
Riven11
Blockchain technology that allows for verified ownership of a unique digital asset.Jpegs.Music. Royalties, Credentials r current use cases.
Xalaqia
It's a scam. Don't bother.
pennypoohbear
I get that. I still don't know what they are
neytotheney
It's a digital token that can't be copied due to the nature of blockchain. Those tokens often contain Metadata such as pictures, music etc
neytotheney
The Metadata CAN be copied however. Which is where the "save as" thing comes from. The token itself however stays in your wallet
Idrinkforevil
If her art is anything like the way she decorated the white house it will fail miserably.
DingusMajoris
Could be porn though. I bet loads of Trump humpers would pay for her nudes.
Orzufancylad
Her nudes are already free on the internet though. And they are the young version.
PoptartSpankySpoogeMonkey
What is a NFT?
ThrilIhouse
...I wouldn't ask that on here unless you want a pretty heavily biased answer.
rlopez2431415
Buying the receipt of someones else’s purchase
Riven11
Its a blockchain based technology thats allows for a unique digital item to be owner verified. Currently has a art bubble.
chainmaille
It's like the old name a star companies, you pay for a Token that has a link to an image, but no one looking at the image has a link back
chainmaille
to your ownership of it, and the link is hosted elsewhere so it's entirely within the hosts power to just turn it off or change it.
JustaLawAbidingCitizen
nearest i can tell is it is basically "buying" the rights or ownership of a particular internet file. Which considering how easy it is to
JustaLawAbidingCitizen
copy really anything on the internet, is stupid and pointless
superbob201
You buy the ability to control what number a url is associated with, and pretend that gives you the right to a file the url points to.
DerivativeWhy
NFTs do not legally help in any way. It's 100% a scam focused on really stupid people.
blaghart
NFTs are a legally recognized receipt though, so in that respect they're quite effective at proving a transaction happened. And only that
TheSecondPiewackit
Currently yes. Supposedly once the metaverse kicks off, they will have actual utility. But this is like the Trumps wading into Dot Coms.
TheSecondPiewackit
Jeeeeeesus. All you have to do is say "This is what someone says it will be used for" and you get downvoted. Fuckin amazing.
ThrilIhouse
My friend sold one of his photographs as an NFT for $44,000 nzd, changed his life.
Zendaal
It changed his life in two ways: he made a chunk of money, but also sold someone on a fake investment opportunity.
spiceass9000
If dumbass people wanna give up their money that easily let them.
BarryTheCyborg
Not yet at least, but I'd like to figure out the while burning down a forest to process a transaction thing before trying to implement them
onlydrunkcomments
Mid 2022. Proof of stake mostly resolves this.
Lobo82
Just like the MAGA movement.
redditmcredditface
god I wish I got into it sooner.
Sm9yCg
Dude, before the Internet that was called "selling the Brooklyn Bridge".
mikeymikec
Where*ever* is she going to find an audience for her NFTs!
Shargan8
I am actually not sure, bc her audience is not of the NFT traders kind
andrewgrr1
But they're of the stupid variety that's easily separated from their money
bluelacedboots
The whole crypto/blockchain is a scam
NotTimon
Some are for sure, but concept is solid. Bitcoin will be around for a long time.
Norosul
Really? How?
Muffinburgler
Majority of it is stolen art and it's just a jpeg. That's it. You own a jpeg. At the cost of the environment. Congrats.
Norosul
FaceBook news guy over here
ThrilIhouse
"Because.... capitalism!" (You'll never get an actual answer on here)
Norosul
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Just like most stocks it's only value is as a speculative commodity. Basically massive legal pyramid scheme. No reason to exist.
Norosul
Sorry….you need to educate yourself on what crypto and blockchain tech is
Norosul
Sure, lots of crypto scams out there but not all are. Crypto/Blockchain is the future, just like internet in the 90’s, iPhones, Uber, etc
Norosul
People will hate on it until they have no choice but to adapt. Instead of resisting do future you a favor and learn about it now
MicrosoftWizard7
Yeah, but even less so because good stocks at least represent the potential of a real company and growth. Crypto is only itself.
yeezyseasoning
That’s not true at all lol maybe meme coins but there are real companies doing real things in crypto
Norosul
That’s not what stocks represent.
MicrosoftWizard7
Meaning with crypto, someone must loose out for others to win, a hallmark of pyramid schemes.
BilboT34Baggins
The TECHNOLOGY behind NFTs is very useful. Drivers license, mortgage, ID, all sorts of useful stuff.
freemab
A final authority is needed for that kind of thing, Aka the state.
BilboT34Baggins
The state can use new technologies, yeah? Didn't say it has to be anonymous and not state condoned
Shargan8
But are we having problems with any of that tho?
Norosul
Yeah, it’s called identity theft. If only a there were a new tech that let us verify the authenticity of original documents in seconds
KRicci
It took me two months to get a new birth certificate, so I'd love that process to be improved, yeah
BilboT34Baggins
Yeah, could replace the overhead of the dmv/public records/mortgage documentation/credit scores/etc
DarthBorks
I wish there was a way to use it for voting?
BilboT34Baggins
Most blockchains already have a system of voting.
DarthBorks
Couldn’t we use it as a way to identify each American? Then vote using our blockchain to prevent fraud?
Norosul
I’ve heard this idea talked about before. Would love to see the current 2 party system melt down because of it.
BilboT34Baggins
Don't see why not. Already talks about a digital dollar