A group of crypto enthusiasts has made an unusual purchase: a rare copy of Dune, by science fiction writer Frank Herbert, for a staggering €2.66 million ($
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The headline was ridiculous enough, but the article goes on to say they’re discussing burning (physically, with fire) the book in hope that that will increase the value of the NFTs they plan to make of JPEGs of each page.
I clicked through to the forum to see if using JPEGs specifically was just the journalist mocking NFTs, and, no, someone there really suggests using *progressive JPEG tech" so that “every minter gets a unique NFT which contains the uploaded image but with different degrees of quality.”
This whole story is in Poe’s Law territory.
This is bigger than us now lemmies. Alas, we have to just stand back and let them come to the organic conclusion to move their own existence to the JPEG realm.
That makes me sick. Duncan put it best: “You wear a collar! You are a servant, you’ve sold Fremen for their water. You have no immortality, none of your descendants carry your blood!”
The copyright understanders have logged on
there is an interesting thread about this on metafilter https://www.metafilter.com/194010/The-NFTs-must-flow-not
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