X removes support for NFT profile pictures
X has silently removed the feature for paid subscribers to set an NFT as a profile picture, which was introduced in 2022.
This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I've ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.
To be fair, Tamagotchi provided more value than NFTs ever could.
And Tamagotchis weren't ugly as sin either!
IIRC the monkey jpegs themselves were stored on ipfs, while open sea the marketplace was hosted on centralised services
Same. I'm getting to the age where I say "I don't get it" when it comes to a lot of popular things these days. I said it loudly about NFTs, glad to see I didn't misunderstand it.
Someone mentioned in a video about crypto that the boom in nfts coincided with new tax rules for art that made it harder for millionaires to store/hide their money in it and avoid tax.
That's when it all clicked for me.
What's not to get? You convince the more gullible to put money into it, when enough people have fallen for it, you grab and run. Really nothing new.
And yet crypto is back up again for some dumb reason. Are we sure NFTs are truly dead or are we going to see that grift in a new form soon? One can only hope it's the former.
NFT as ape pics are dead, yes. But crypto as a form of value exchange for transactions where you don't want too many eyes looking at it has not stopped since its invention in 2008. It's just going to become a normal staple of the internet, like Bittorrent and VPNs, just existing and being used without anybody really caring too much about the technology itself. I still use it to pay for some online services where I basically just want to hand them the internet equivalent of a wad of cash without giving anyone any account details of any kind. I've been doing that since 2013, the NFT thing just kinda came and went and I didn't care too much about it.
NFTs came about due to collectable communities trying to capitalize off cryptocurrency (think baseball cards, shoes, Funko Pops, etc). NFTs were doomed from their inception because they attempt to give limitless data artificial scarcity.
Crypto is up because the SEC greenlit crypto ETFs being traded on the stock market.
That dumb reason is Tether printing new phoney-bucks.
That was one feature that was actually useful. Immediately you knew if you should just block someone and move on.
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
in a way, blue checkmark is a useful feature too.
Continuing removal of all features not related to showing ads alongside Nazis.
Even a broken clock, eh?
The value of your NFT just went from .02 to .0002
I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.
Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.
Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin' Thanks.
Assuming Twitter survives long enough, it'll get added back but tied to a Musk-backed currency.
Company scrip
Just hurry up and die please, X formerly known as Twitter
Now Elon has lost the crucial support of NFT bros. All five of them!
While the value of some of the high-priced tokens such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has plummeted from its peak, the NFT market has shown a sign of recovery in the last few months with trade volumes exceeding $1.6 billion according to NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.
Who is still falling for this scam? Even Xitter is Xitting on NFTs at this point, and morons are still buying them.
Err, isn't it just mostly criminals doing various criminal schemes using NFTs as a tool?
It was never a scam, it was always a successful money laundering operation for the rich while covid had all the real galleries closed. It did exactly what it said on the tin. It’s just unfortunate that some people thought it was a real economy to begin with. Either way, good riddance.
Best thing Elon has ever done right here
Finally a good thing to remove
LOL
