The Original 'Doge' Meme Sold as an NFT for $4 Million (cnbc.com) 61
The legendary "Doge" meme from 2010, which portrays a shiba inu dog named Kabosu and inspired the creation of cryptocurrency dogecoin, sold for $4 million as an NFT, or non-fungible token, in June. From a report: To some, that may seem like a lot of money to pay to own a jpeg, but the "Doge" meme has generated a massive online community, and dogecoin is now a top cryptocurrency by market value, with fans including Elon Musk and Mark Cuban. Though most investors couldn't afford a multimillion-dollar price tag for the "Doge" meme NFT, anyone will now have an opportunity to own a piece of it for as little as less than $1. That's because PleasrDAO, the collective that bought the "Doge" meme NFT, is selling fractional ownership of it, starting on Wednesday. Here's how it works. Through a platform called Fractional.art, PleasrDAO has "fractionalized" the NFT -- as a result, the NFT is represented by billions of ERC-20 tokens, which are standard for creating and issuing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. In this case, PleasrDAO has called the tokens DOG. Investors can then buy as many or as few DOG tokens as they can afford on Fractional.art and on decentralized exchange Miso. How many tokens an investor buys will determine their ownership stake in the "Doge" meme NFT, though PleasrDAO will retain majority ownership.
Peak stupidity (Score:2, Funny)
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Trust me, they're gonna repeat this bullshit, until you believe it.
And I've got proof: People here seem to believe in "intellectual property" since about the early 2010s.
You can go back to e.g. 2001, and look how people reacted back then.
No, I'll go even further! Look up how YOU saw those things in 2001. Versus now. Slashdot should have it archived.
Yes, imagine the horror... you're gonna defend NFTs in 10 years.... (Or, hopefully not, if this comment had any impact on you at all.)
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Well, you can *breed* them to be stupid.
Which is what the entire market of industries did for some decades now, under the justification of "simplicity". ... And I can explain why too: Because humans are efficient. There's social and evolutionary pressure to be the most efficient. So when they *can* save the work and neurons, they will. The problem is when they save something, that actually makes things worse. If they themse
(If you design something to handle every idiot, nature's gonna invent a better idiot.
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For a time there was a theater genre called 'Theater of the Absurd', utter nonsense sentences and dialog that doesn't match. Eventually the novelty faded away and almost no one performs 'The Bald Soprano' any more, wonder if NFTs will fade the same way or if someone will find an actual use for the concept.
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Well, they *are* fungible, for starters.
If you mount a 51% attack, you can manipulate the blockchain however you want. Which isn't that hard, if the community is small, and you got e.g. some state-sponsored computing power.
Stop please (Score:5, Insightful)
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If only they knew that they ain't getting fuck-all of advertisement money from us clicking, and will only pay sever costs and traffic costs.
(If a story is worth something, one can disable the ad blocker and press F5. But when was the last time that happened')
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Re:Stop please (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'm wondering if they could be used as a sort of temporary contract. If they're actually secure and unalterable (as long as they exist) then I could see a use for short-term contracts. Big "if" though. Artwork? Nah.
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A fool and his money.... (Score:5, Insightful)
... are soon parted.
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But they call them "investors" so it's definitely legitimate. /sarcasm
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Parted [gnu.org] is a good utility! ;)
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I'm no fool. I spent my extra money on actual Doge coins! Just don't ask me about that one Etherium Classic.... please.
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True that. I really don't understand the whole concept. And I damned sure won't be spending my hard-earned money on it.
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I think the people buying these things don't have "hard earned" money. They have money to burn.
Such token (Score:1)
Yep (Score:2)
From TFS "that may seem like a lot of money to pay to own a jpeg, but the "Doge" meme has generated a massive online community, and dogecoin is now a top cryptocurrency by market value, with fans including Elon Musk and Mark Cuban." And even with all that going for it - it still seems like a lot of money to pay for a jpeg.
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its even more money to not actually own the jpeg
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But that's true of all kinds of things that get sold for outrageous amounts of money, there are people in the world with more money than sense who think that the bragging rights for "owning" something is itself valuable.
Or even once a friend raving about some restaurant that ran like $1000ish per person for a meal and my response was I don't care if that food makes me leap from my chair and sing the Hallelujah Chorus, it isn't worth $1000.
Re: Yep (Score:2)
I'm an NFT skeptic, but I've bought a meal in a very exclusive restaurant.
Certainly the food was not worth the $750 I paid for the meal (I was too terrified of the price to order wine...)
However, the entire experience was a real thing, and depending on one's tastes (no pun), the experience might or might not have been worth the price. As a one-time treat for my lovely bride, the price, along with the wonderful weekend for just us in a distant city, was well worth it.
If one just wants the experience of fulln
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go buy it (Score:2)
I bet the owner of Kabosu is so happy (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu (the Shiba Inu of the famous meme), is getting paid as the original copyright owner of the photographs used in thousands of memes.
Oh wait, she's not? That's not how any of this work? You mean it's a SCAM?
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Expecting to be paid for the uses in of "thousands of memes" is the part which is not how any of this works.
When a song ends up in multiple movies do you think the copyright holder is paid once by the film industry or for each instance it is used?
I think you're mistaken on how contracts and copyrights normally work outside of the meme-a-verse, or somehow mistaken satire for a sober reporting of facts.
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According to the music industry, you have to pay every single time you listen to a tune or a song.
However, if Hollywood includes a tune or a song, they're only paying a fee once even if it's going to be seen by millions of people, sometimes more than once.
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Serious question: do you think there's any chance she could sue the person who sold it for stealing copyrighted material?
To some, that may seem like a lot of money to pay (Score:2)
...to own a jpeg.
No, to anyone with sense ( so not the writer of TFA ) it is a lot of money to pay for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ATALL.
The buyer does NOT own that JPEG.
The writer should resign in shame, or be sacked.
Stop Posting NFT Articles (Score:2)
NFTs are all scams. PleasrDAO doesn't own anything. They are reselling you nothing. Whichever /. employee decided to post this deserves a kick to the nuts and/or cooch for promoting this bullshit.
People with too much money (Score:2)
Tulips... (Score:4, Insightful)
When I think of the inanity of all this, there nothing else that comes to my mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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At least with a tulip you had a chance of a pretty flower next spring.
Re: Tulips... (Score:2)
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Wow like that’s never been mentioned here before.
Is this real? (Score:2)
People wasting millions in order to pretend owning an image, the image itself having no meaning; and then sharing their non-ownership with thousands of likely-minded individuals.
In the 80s we thought that humanity would destroy itself in a nuclear war. In the 2020s I'm convinced that humanity will destroy itself for the lulz.
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Hey, as long as we go down laughing! It'd certainly be better than the shit show reality has been providing for us over the past decade or so.
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Grouped round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data in their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left:
This species has amused itself to death.
-Roger Waters, "Amused to Death"
Oh for the love of God... (Score:1)
What about my real estate? (Score:2)
Will I be able to sell NFTs for my worthless lot in Second Life?
Poo (Score:1)
Re: Poo (Score:1)
Front Page News (Score:4)
A symptom of wealth inequality? (Score:2)
Fools and their money, being parted (Score:2)
And here I am, actually working for a living, when I could just be swindling people out of millions and having them thank me afterwards.
A relevant exchange I saw about this phenomenon (Score:2)
Stephan Tual [twitter.com]:
Kieran Healy [twitter.com]:
Manna didn't predict this (Score:2)
Marshall Brain got the zillionaires suing each other over petty crap part correct (Bezos vs. Musk) but didn't foresee them wasting money on the most nonsensical frivolities imaginable.
Noon-FuNgIBle tOkEnZ (Score:1)
"*The* ... meme" ... (Score:1)
There is no "the".
There have been a couple dozen copies by the time the first creator uploaded it to any site. In every router's RAM and cache and buffers, let alone the countless ones on his own box and on the server and between your and your box, and on your box, and so on.
It's information! Not a chair!
1. Doesn't anyone else see this as.... (Score:1)