if you think that saying sex workers use NFTs will make me support NFTs you have it backwards. i will abandon everything i have ever believed in before i support NFTs. thinking NFTs are dumb bullshit is my first principle.
Crypto, NFT, etc. suddenly shifting its marketing focus to the Black, LGBT+, & SW communities really screams subprime mortgages to me hello 👋😬 plz don't fall for it. There's literally no value in that stuff, hell there's negative value
scammers are in every facet of life and the internet ~ from fake luxury goods on the streets , to scam callers , to fake phishing emails that look *almost* legit
☯️ but what’s real is out there too
there is a lot of very evolved tech & powerful, deep creative work being developed in the modern era
okay so how is digital art cryptographically authenticated as straight from a creator’s workshop , delivered w an internet-connected key tracing its provenance that can be owned solely by one , that can then connect & interact in bespoke ways w systems built out across an open global network a scam
Oh, I forgot to add in "using NFTs". The only time I have ever seen a SW use NFT's is when they're obviously grifting people, but it happens very rarely.
The whole idea was to import the economics of scarcity into the economics of abundance. I don’t see how even in theory that that is a good thing. If some folks made coin with it, great, but cmon, people. Some decent people probably did ok with Madoff, too.
To paraphrase Dan Olson: it's like a segment of the population looked at powerful entities destroying the economy to benefit their own obscene luxury consumption, and instead of deciding that such a system is wrong, decided that what's wrong is that it wasn't THEM at the top.
Okay here’s the thing, that’s not the point of the technology that’s just how it got used by scammers. Ultimately the technology itself has genuine potential uses, especially with more environmentally friendly versions of it, it’s just that the maximum economic value of any given one is like $100
Like the issue is that people used it as get rich quick, but genuinely just in and of itself, if you could input your credit card or ssn into a website without that website ever learning or storing what that number is, that’s like genuinely useful. But like, again, $70 useful not $7,000,000
PayPal has your credit card information and direct access to your bank account number and routing number. There’s no way around letting them store that specific information. With NFTs, you could affirmatively confirm your transactions without letting an intermediary or vendor know your info
Like, the NFT, instead of being a picture of an Ape picture, would be a public record of your credit card. You would carry that physically, like a regular credit card. But when you use it, it would not need to give your card number, bank number, etc to anyone.
You can make an argument that a distributed write once ledger could have interesting technological applications, but badly aping basic contract law surely isn’t one of them
It’s not just about being a ledger, it’s about the fact that you can verify sensitive information without sharing what that sensitive information is at any point of transaction. Yes that’s not extremely high utility, but it is certainly broadly useful, which I think summarizes most NFT value
Furries were the litmus test, and NFT’s failed it HARD.
Trading unique custom tailored artwork online has been our jam FOR DECADES.
If there was any benefit from that technology my community would have been all over it like White on Pence.
We saw through it in 0.08 seconds.
It’s pure shit.
I think it's their clients who are total fools. If some sex worker gets a crypto bro to buy the exclusive commercial rights to a particular hole pic, I think it's probably a net win for the money to be flowing in that direction, at least now that Etherium isn't boiling the oceans anymore.
Imagine using NFT's for sexwork knowing that:
1) NFT's create traceability between you and customers, and
2) The same people who shill for NFT's are the ones running in the same circles that are working to criminalize sexwork even more than it already is
