NFT and the Future of Digital Content
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Click the top bar nft.
That front page ad is still hogging the screen tho
Two interesting articles, the first from one of the folks that is responsible for NFTs coming into being...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
The first one is particularly interesting, because it's specifically about how NFTs were intended to help artists but are clearly being diverted from that possibility.
The Atlantic should allow 3 free articles per month, so hopefully people should be able to read it unless they have exceeded that number this month.
Not sure if anyone else found etherscan disqus channel.
https://etherscan.io/comments
Looks like a lot of people are getting robbed.
Well, that is one side of the story, but I didn't see any comments to the contrary either.So I'll hold off making a decision on what's going on over there.
Could be lot's of people trying to play Day Trader on speculative tokens and getting burned instead of hitting the day trader lottery.Happens all day long on Wall Street markets.
I posted on another thread the other day about how my daughter suggested DAZ to a friend who is interested in digital art... when the friend went to DAZ, the front page (NFT nonsense) ad made her think DAZ was about NFTs, so the friend wasn't interested and left... later my daughter explained that as far she knew, DAZ was about digital art, not NFTs (which she didn't even know about)... I'm not sure what happened, if the friend is still interested, but apparently when she visited she figured DAZ sold some sort of flim-flammy decals or in game microtransaction crap (I'm assuming the Champion stuff was what she saw)...
Not a big loss to DAZ if she never comes back, but first impressions are important and the kid's family is loaded and indulge her hobbies, so I'm kinda wondering how many other newcomers who weren't 100% sure what DAZ is about came across that first page and were like "Nope!"... whereas previously they may have been like "Cooool..."
And realistically, I can't imagine how that wouldn't occur anyone tasked with understanding how important first impressions are.
Yeah, if they still want to continue with NFTs, they should put on the Tafi site, where it belongs.
This isn't a terrible idea.
Don't really care.
Dont have emails from Daz. ATI emails now only relate to wishlist.
My content is backed up, so too are my copies of various versions of Studio.
I'm pretty much a half-interested onlooker myself as far as NFT goes. But I do have some empathy for those who very feel strongly about it.
Yes it is.
But to Snow Sultan's point...I get that you don't want DAZ to suffer or go under. But that could always happen. And then the DAZ story could be something we all learn from in our future endeavors.
As humans, we MUST continue to learn from bad mistakes. Kind of like Sears, K-Mart, Mervyns, Border Books, and Circuit City. They all failed BEFORE covid and each have their own "beginning of the end" story. Circuit City's death knell began tolling when they tried to adopt DIVX by forcing it upon customers. Comp-USA became overly reliant on fake extended-warranty agreements, and Best Buy seems ready to dive headfirst into that same shallow pool.
Now their store spaces have other names on them, such as Michael's Crafts, Hobby Lobby, ULTA, and my personal favorite: Goodwill. At least you can buy REAL THINGS at Goodwill stores.
...and potatoes.
Let's go for a ride! I'll race ya 'cross country in my Maxima!
I do believe you can get a credit card number WITHOUT the plastic.
Or better yet, don't get a credit card. Debt is evil. All debt is evil. I say foresake it for true liberty in your life. You can do everything you need to do with a debit card.
Some 30xx cards can use as much as 550 watts at the wall, when running hard. And crypto miners run multiples in each machine 24X7. So I'm guessing that one computer/server might use 1500 watts just for the GPU cards. That's like having 15 100-watt light bulbs (incandescent, not LED) always on in your house or apartment, even during the brightest, sunniest day and even at nighttime too. Multiply this by 100s or 1,000s, since crypto miners also tend to rent or lease large open office spaces for conversion into impromptu data centers which need ping, power, and pipe. And don't forget to add air conditioning, security, and UPS systems.
ApplePay gives me an option of receiving an e-receipt for most purchases. And all of my credit card billing and payments are done online. I don't get a paper invoice nor do I pay with a paper check. And my bank statement comes online too.
Yeah, I'll go out on a limb and say that crypto mining is a lot more pollutive and a lot less efficient than plastic cards and paper receipts, the latter of which can be composted in a garden more than ever before. I don't see that "thermal receipt paper" very often anymore.
But it's not "similar resources". Crypto uses several orders of magnitude MORE resources than him with his personal renders for a few hours each day or you down in the basement painting tiny little trees for your model railroad.
The two things (Crypto versus your hobbies) are not equivalent in energy used. So relax, and more power to both of you!
One of those papier maché debit cards?
Sheesh, if you're THAT worried about credit card plastic waste, maybe you're spending a lot of time on the thing that doesn't make THAT much difference in the long run.
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/are-credit-cards-recyclable.php
You can also buy a punch and make guitar picks out of them. That said, I shred (see what I did there?). It's more secure to me anyhow, and I'm already throwing out a myriad of other junk anyway.
The credit card plates contribute very little to the overall mass that I send each year to the landfill, and I find it to be a waste of time to be all precious about this. Besides that, the old radiators, transmissions, brake pads, and tires that I recycled in the last 20 years of having the same old car probably generated a fair amount of waste, plus there were those 2 motherboards and 3 graphic cards that I recycled about a month ago. Some of that stuff will not be recycleable and will need to be disposed of anyway. Oh, and then there was that old waterbed mattress. That thing was probably a lot more waste than my old credit and debit cards will be in an entire lifetime. And the 20 year old car that I had an accident with last year, requiring it to be totaled.
Let's face it: We're all polluters. Some of us are more responsible about disposal, while others not so much. If you're responsible about how you dispose of things no longer useful, stop beating yourself over the head about it.
Credit card waste in the landfills, sheesh. I've had to dispose of grills and old construction materials, and this, that, and the other; all within the last 10 years. My own stuff in the landfill probably takes up the size of 3 or 4 shipping containers; maybe more if you count the cars that I've bought and sold over the years. I'll bet not a one of them is still being driven. My credit cards in the landfill probably don't take up a shoebox's worth of space. Can we find something else to worry about?
The last estimate I saw was that Ethereum generates about 2 credit cards worth of e-waste per transaction - just because with that many GPUs running at full speed, they're burning out at a rate of knots. And on top of that, you can add similar CO2 emissions to just setting fire to three gallons of petrol. (Bitcoin is about ten times worse).
While the rate of Ethereum transactions is obviously much lower than that of credit card transactions, proof-of-work crypto currency is so much worse per transaction that it's not even funny to compare them.
You should, in my opinion, take steps where you can. But it's not possible to reduce your waste to zero. I can't imagine someone getting by without a debit card, and the straws that you use when you get fast food probably have more of an impact. Those you can replace with metal ones. Plastic bags are a big problem too and can be replaced with fabric ones.
Personally, I always vote for initiatives that help the environment, even if it means higher taxes.
Social Media has proven that it can, willingly and happily, cancel you in a moment's notice, just for saying the wrong thing or using word that gets some offendable's hackles up. InstaFaceTwit is a HORRIBLE platform for protecting yourself in this way.
I lol'd. That was funny; thanks!
Not so. That was the only site that did that.
Okay, so I've been through most of this thread. I'm gonna say it again DAZ: What happened to Multi-Quote? You took that away and it quadrupled the time I needed to respond to several distinct conversational threads and chains of thought in this forum thread. You're wasting my time and that makes me surly.
PLEASE BRING BACK MULTI-QUOTE!
Okay, now that I've got that out of the way...this NFT thing...I don't really care about it one way or another. Except for this:
DAZ, it's a dumb idea. But it's even dumber that it's taking WAY too much of your energy, and it's taking your eyes off the ball.
This is super dangerous in business, and quite frankly, your business ain't gonna get a bailout should you drive it into the ground. So please reconsider your strategy here. Please go back to the basics and start doing the things you really should be doing anyway. Like better quality control and fixing all the store/website problems. Oh, and maybe assigning some developers to your neglected software properties. The state of Bryce and Hex are shameful.
And really, you're just angering the customer. Never, ever anger the customer. Even the dumbest Ferengi knows better than to make the customer get peed-off and leave in a huff. And I've only read one or two posts like mine; neither angry or upset, but more or less accepting that DAZ is just gotta be allowed to hurt itself in order to learn that the stove is hot. Hopefully it won't be 3rd degree burns that you need to learn your lesson, because that would be bad for all of us.
But so far, congratulations, you've pretty much got EVERYBODY ELSE here upset. You can turn around this nonsense, though. You just need to admit to yourself that you're not all that and a bag of chips, too. It's not too late to drop the genius ideas that all your customers hate, go back to the chalkboard, and figure out something else for 2021.
How about now?
Agreed, especially with the last point. How many Ancient Egypt products do they want, while at the same time completely neglecting entire other historical periods/genres/themes.
Today's headline in a major British newspaper (Daily Telegraph): Home radiators will have to be 10 degrees cooler for Britain to reach climate targets
This is a country where, for example, it's illegal to sell vacuum cleaners with motors greater than 900W because of energy wastage. Incandescent light bulbs were banned in 2009, before LEDs were available. Governments around the World are starting to take environmental issues seriously (most, anyway). If they're banning vacuum cleaners that suck, and phasing out home heating that keeps you warm, how long before their attention is drawn to the collossal waste of the crypto industry? It may not be possible (or even desirable) for governments to ban it outright, but they'll put the squeeze on it in some way I'm sure. Common sense says this crypto scam is not sustainable in the long run, and that's surely obvious to those who are investing in it. They're in it for big short-term gains, and holding their nerve for as long as they dare. When the first large investor blinks the whole thing will come crashing down.
That's my uneducated opinion anyway.
It is pretty clear where DAZ stands.
A quick, easy buck no matter the actual costs.
Over 1,000 comments and nothing official besides -We won't steal your art and sell it.-
Sad times.