Well, the example I gave was concert tickets, so I'll stick with that as it is a simple and easy to understand innovation.  Right now when a venue sells tickets, they have to deal with scalpers trying to resell their tickets for a profit.  This is a problem because for sold out events it forces would be attendees to purchase their tickets from these scalpers.  This results in endless heartaches for those who purchase fake tickets, or a financial drain for those who pay way too much from a reliable secondhand seller.  With NFTs, scalpers would be considered friends to venues instead of enemies.  Their secondhand sales could be contractually obligated to pay a % to the venue for resales.  Additionally, those buying from resellers could verify the tickets are genuine before making the purchase.  They can also see what other people are paying for tickets up to that very minute.  Just this one example decriminalizes scalpers, gives the venue a new revenue source, and gives customers the ability to make sure they are buying genuine products at a fair price.

That is just one example, but a game changer for crypto nonetheless.



Believe it or not, I'm well aware of colored coins as I was not only around before then, but was also managing an offering on the GLBSE (before your time but go ahead and look it up) so I'm certain I'm far more versed in not only the technology, but it's history than you are.  Answering your question, the blocksize limit killed any chance colored coins had to be useful going forward.  Since you namedropped colored coins, take a look at Namecoin NFTs and your mind will really be blown.

Ya, this is the sort of thing that could only trade hands once someone knowledgeable has had the chance to not only grade it (that's not always useful) but to verify it's authenticity.  Everyone is familiar with the show Pawn Stars and we've all seen how many signed memorabilia items have turned out to be fake.  Many times to the heartache of the owner.  Without pictures of you getting Kobe to sign the card, nothing short of a professional authenticating the item would allow it to be sold to even the shadiest of pawn shops.  Good luck with your sale!

You are always free to doubt friend.  I was in Bitcoin back in 2011, I'm familiar very much with people not understanding and then dismissing new world changing technologies before giving them a chance.  Luckily, your doubt cannot stop innovation and moving forward.  NFTs are here to stay and people who think it is only about art and no different then people who thought Bitcoin was nothing more than useless fake money in 2011.  Time will prove right those who can visualize the future.  It makes no difference what you or I think or even what we do.  I just hope Bitcoin can catch up as it's use cases have been dwindling for years while other chains are continuing to evolve the world into crypto.

Lance Stephenson just got a 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks. Great to see his crazy ass getting another shot in the NBA. He is getting older but still extremely talented. It’s a shame his strange on court behavior limited his ceiling in the sport. His blowing in LeBron James’ ear clip will surely be a moment remembered for a long time.

Bitcoin as a global unit of account is an idea so bad that I don’t think it’s reasonable to even imagine such a thing. Think about coupons or sales. How would you even advertise price of anything knowing it could change so drastically from the time someone leaves their house until they get to the store. Nobody would be spending anything. There’s a reason fiat Ponzi schemes work so well. Trash money makes for good spending and high velocity.

Pretty predictable.  The Kings just didn't have enough to match up against the Warriors.  Interestingly enough these are both teams rumored to be in the Ben Simmons sweepstakes.  It's a shame that the Kings don't seem to capitalize on their good fortune in the draft.  They just seem to ride that player until they can't squeeze another dollar from them.  Fox's situation reminds me a lot of Demarcus Cousins' several years ago.  Management just refuses to spend the money to surround their star with talent.  I think it's all been to move them to Las Vegas.  Seems like they've been trying to make that happen for 20 years now.

I know I had mentioned this before, but is there any chance of getting a .onion version of the site running on the TOR network that is friendly with the TOR browser?  Ever since the last site update a few weeks ago I haven't been able to use the TOR browser as every time you go to log in the window crashes after a few seconds.  I've been having to resort to traditional means of online gambling.  Namely draftkings.  A .onion site would be pretty sweet, I must admit.  Maybe with a .bit or .eth or both address extensions would really be taking it to the next level. 

Let me take a wild guess, you got involved in crypto for the currency aspect? Not everybody is in this space only for the money. Some people want to build cool things. Whether you like NFTs or not, someday you won’t have the option to not buy one if you ever want to attend a concert or sporting event. What currency you use to pay for it will likely be up to you.

No, bitcointalk didn't join the ICO scams, it just advertised them for money.  It didn't create it's own fork, it just censored the ones others worked on.  It didn't join the DeFi-hype, it left millions of dollars in unclaimed HEX on the table.  Not entering the NFT space would be no less destructive than the other decisions listed here.  Especially if L2 is supposed to be the way forward.  NFTs are the most functional and useful thing that has entered the crypto space in a long time and NFTs in gaming might be Bitcoin's first real use case that anyone outside of finance would give a shit about...  You either get it or you don't.  You clearly don't and that's ok.  Innovation isn't for everyone.  Right click and save, am I right?  

TradeFortress made a post in 2018 in the Donators section of this forum where he reached out looking for victims to repay for his misdoings.  I took advantage of this offer and received 6.51961 BTC from TradeFortress as a result.  From my perspective, at least he made/is making an effort to repay victims.  I lost far more BTC in the GLBSE debacle where no attempt was made to return Bitcoin to victims by it's owners...  So it seems like when it comes to paying people back for things you were involved in, TradeFortress showed more honor than others who had ownership stakes in operations that made no effort to repay those they took BTC from even though they are sitting on piles of other people's BTC to this day.

It might not even be that he thinks he can't win no matter what.  Maybe he realizes that if he were to beat Mike Tyson that wouldn't make him any friends.  I actually think getting KO'd by Mike Tyson would be the best thing that could happen to Logan's career.  Everybody loves Mike and everybody hates Logan.  If he did manage to somehow knock out an old man / boxing legend / favorite of the people, I could see it leading to him being trolled and labeled as the bad guy forever.  I don't think that's what he wants.  Maybe that's why if this fight is going to be real, he's sandbagging himself by partying instead of training.

When I saw the box score that was the first thing that came to my mind.  He must be on cloud nine right now.  I know it was just a regular season game and the Lakers are down some important pieces, but still.  All those years of torment in the playoffs from LeBron James when DeRozan was on the Raptors...  Getting this win and outplaying him must feel damn good.  Somewhere DeRozan is on the phone with his old Toronto buddy Lowry laughing about what took place tonight.

Why was your account closed?  It seems like after putting in so much effort to reach a level of being able to claim VIP rewards, you wouldn't want to just close the account.  It makes me think there was some sort of wrongdoing on your part or maybe you just decided you don't want to gamble anymore and asked that the account be closed.  In either scenario, I'm not sure why you'd now think it should be reopened with the same level of rewards.  Please explain this a little better, as I think the WHY you account was closed is probably an important detail here.

That was one hell of a knockout highlight.  Looks like Woodley was gassed pretty bad at that point.  This is why you don't take a fight at the last minute...

Now it's all about who is next...  Masvidal got called out but seems to only want to MMA, which I was surprised to see a great fighter basically cower from a challenge in the ring.  That says something about what Paul is doing and that he's getting respect from real fighters now.

Le'Veon Bell wanting to be the next to fight Paul seems intriguing to me.  Supposedly Bell is a great fighter and a hell of an athlete.  I'd like to see that fight.  I'd rather see him fight a real boxer at this point though, or at least a non-retired fighter of some kind.

There was a time when the entire NBA community looked forward to the matchup of the Bulls vs Lakers.  I guess even as great as those two teams are, it is clear they are no dynasties.  You wouldn't have even known today's matchup was going on if you didn't look at the schedule...  Nevertheless, tonight's game is on NBATV and I'm not even sure who's playing these days with all the covid false positives and whatever other nonsense is keeping guys out of games this year.  I think it probably doesn't matter who is out anyway.  The Bulls are playing great basketball and the Lakers are trying to get by... 

Be ready for anything is just good advice. In finance you call it diversification of assets.

I don’t see the beginning of world war 3 at all though. If anything governments have shown that they’re trying to work together on this pandemic situation. Maybe if a couple countries banned together refusing vaccines for their citizens then you’d have some tension…

It is very strange that the man who claims to have written the whitepaper would want it removed from the internet.  Almost like maybe he didn't write it?  I couldn't imagine that the person who wrote that document would ever be against it being displayed everywhere.  You would assume the exact opposite would be true.  This has been quite the eye opener for those of us who have gone out of our way to avoid legal trouble, as seeing someone lie and manipulate the court system for their own sick reasons using money and lawyers is a good behind the scenes look at how the world works.

It is shocking that despite all the interest from the public on this case, the media is still brushing it under the rug.  It's almost as if there's extremely wealthy and powerful people that own the media companies and don't want them covering this.  With all the garbage the media is throwing at us, what possible sense in the world does it make that we aren't seeing this case plastered on every channel like the OJ trial?  None.  I hope there are a hundred documentaries that come out slamming every person involved who tried to cover this up.  Nowadays you can get cancelled for saying something as commonsense as all lives matter, but get a few hundred 13 year olds to sleep with rich people and you get those responsible for cancel culture suddenly turning a blind eye.  Crazy.

That game was ugly.  Felt like the Lakers were being bullied out there.  Twitter is trending with the topic of trading Anthony Davis.  It won't happen of course but it shows that the fans are fed up with him being injured and not dominating games.  I think he should sit out for a while and let Dwight Howard take his minutes.  That's the only way they're winning a championship in my opinion. 

Did you see Patrick Beverly's antics in the second quarter?  Man he's annoying, but it's crazy seeing hall of famers getting taunted like that.

Same. I refuse to use my house’s heater and my GPUs alone aren’t doing the job of keeping me nice and toasty. Could use a little more hashing so I can get back to basketball shorts and a class-a instead of a hood tuxedo.

Don’t be prudish with those assembly/shipping pics. We need some miner pr0n.