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Celerity

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45. the funny thing is, I have been dealing with virtual items since I was 6 years old, in Second Life
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 04:28 PM
Dec 2022

via a closed beta account that my father gave to me in November 2002 (and that my parents monitored me on until I was 9 or 10 or so)

virtual currency too (Linden dollars, which came in the end of 2003)

and it all was called the metaverse, a term that has been around for over 30 years (I am 26)

none of this is new to me (albeit no true blockchain tech in terms of Second Life), in fact it has basically been a part of most of my life

SL uses this similar tech:

LSL Key

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_Key

A key is a universal unique identifier in Second Life for anything mostly, be it a prim, avatar, texture, etc.

You may see key referred to as UUID, UID, "Asset UUID", or "asset-ID".

The key itself is formed of ?hexadecimal characters [0-9a-f] and each section of the key is broken up by dashes (for a total amount of 36 characters).


this is the brief history of blockchain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain#History

Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups." Further work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta. They wanted to implement a system wherein document timestamps could not be tampered with. In 1992, Haber, Stornetta, and Dave Bayer incorporated Merkle trees into the design, which improved its efficiency by allowing several document certificates to be collected into one block. Under their company Surety, their document certificate hashes have been published in The New York Times every week since 1995.

The first decentralized blockchain was conceptualized by a person (or group of people) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Nakamoto improved the design in an important way using a Hashcash-like method to timestamp blocks without requiring them to be signed by a trusted party and introducing a difficulty parameter to stabilize the rate at which blocks are added to the chain. The design was implemented the following year by Nakamoto as a core component of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions on the network.
Copy them? jcgoldie Dec 2022 #1
That's my question, why not just copy and paste Walleye Dec 2022 #2
They can't be copied, they are NFTs. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #4
Screen shot? Walleye Dec 2022 #6
The supposed value of an NFT is that they can be resold, Ocelot II Dec 2022 #16
They're dumb Dorian Gray Dec 2022 #39
You are not part of the target market. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #3
There's no such thing as impossible to copy. Jirel Dec 2022 #5
That's What I Wondered ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #9
It's not hard. Jirel Dec 2022 #34
Good Finishing Line ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #37
That's the theory, anyhow. I'm sure the digital marker can be overridden Ocelot II Dec 2022 #10
Non-fungible token Celerity Dec 2022 #24
Totally copyable. Jirel Dec 2022 #32
but it will not be on the blockchain nt Celerity Dec 2022 #33
Seriously, why TF would I care about that? Jirel Dec 2022 #35
I just sent you a short video on blockchain tech, and it is far from just cryptocurrency Celerity Dec 2022 #38
I mean... Dorian Gray Dec 2022 #41
I think Trump NFTs are a joke because it is Trump for one, and also because the NFT market is Celerity Dec 2022 #42
Oh yeah, absolutely Dorian Gray Dec 2022 #43
the funny thing is, I have been dealing with virtual items since I was 6 years old, in Second Life Celerity Dec 2022 #45
So according to the ... Whiskeytide Dec 2022 #44
I did not see where there would be only 45 different card styles. Celerity Dec 2022 #46
The post you are referring to says there will be Abolishinist Dec 2022 #47
Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo Celerity Dec 2022 #36
Well, If I didn't know better, I'd be calling it a prank. MineralMan Dec 2022 #8
Trump's new grift at a 100 dollars a pop. sarcasmo Dec 2022 #7
Honestly, I'm not sure there's anything to get. Bleacher Creature Dec 2022 #11
They're NFTs. blogslug Dec 2022 #12
here Celerity Dec 2022 #25
Thanks blogslug Dec 2022 #26
yw! Celerity Dec 2022 #27
The new decorative plate. GPV Dec 2022 #13
They are digital files TlalocW Dec 2022 #14
If Trump can sell them, more power to him. Chainfire Dec 2022 #15
I Get it Now! They're Not Trading Cards! They're TRAITOR CARDS! Beetwasher. Dec 2022 #17
Bwah! electric_blue68 Dec 2022 #50
Lindsey Graham might buy a set. dgauss Dec 2022 #18
I'm betting Russia will be buying a few hundred thousand Chakaconcarne Dec 2022 #19
Maybe it is a money laundering scheme? Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #20
Wouldn't surprise me. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #21
In another thread you explained it, sounds like the bitcoin scam. Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #22
From what I can understand of it, it sounds like bitcoin only with pictures. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #23
Yes art bitcoin. And more. Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #48
And a way to get around campaign finance laws against foreign money. Nevilledog Dec 2022 #29
I was sure that there would be several crimes/cons going on. Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #49
They are called NFT's, which stands for non-fungible tokens. LuckyCharms Dec 2022 #28
I can sum it up in two words: some bullshit. Initech Dec 2022 #30
MAGAts will spend their money on this. GoodRaisin Dec 2022 #31
All I know is he has us all talking about him again Tree Lady Dec 2022 #40
NFT Trump Trading Cards? Ohhh..."JOY!" 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Yeah, I know I'm Not the target market😄. electric_blue68 Dec 2022 #51
It's like taking a picture with a digital camera, and encoding it to be ONE OF A KIND, and then sell Brainfodder Dec 2022 #52
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