- Geoffrey Huntley right-clicked and downloaded each irreplaceable token.
- On Thursday, he put nearly 20 TB of all NFT indexes into the Pirate Bay seed database.
- He said that NFT “is just a guide on how to access or download images.”
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Geoffrey Huntley has the ultimate right-click mentality.
In a project called “The Billion Dollar Torrent”, the Australian software and DevOps engineer right-clicked and downloaded every irreplaceable token on the solana and Ethereum blockchains. On Thursday, nearly 20 TB of index appeared on the famous Torrent database The Pirate Bay.
“Oh my God, who right-clicked all NFTs?” He wrote on Twitter, Link to torrent.
Huntley said that this is an “educational art project” that aims to teach people what they actually buy when buying an NFT, which he believes is “just a guide on how to access or download images.”
According to popular definitions, digital assets are artworks associated with blockchain. This year, in the third quarter alone, the NFT market surged to more than US$10 billion (Rand 157 billion). However, NFT skeptics are known for their right-clicker mentality, which means they don’t believe in the value of assets, because anyone can right-click and download images for free, Deputy description.
“The images are not stored on the blockchain. Most of the images I see are hosted on web2.0 storage. This is likely to end with a 404, which means that the value of NFT is lower,” Huntley said in a The FAQ page states that GitHub.
According to his website, Huntley worked remotely in a van. He equipped it as an office and traveled around Australia, documenting the “intersection of remote work, camping and #vanlife”.
Huntley said that the seed contains every NFT, starting from Boring Ape Yacht Club, arrive Cryptopunk, with Axis infinity“So that future generations can study the tulip mania of this generation and collectively go to’WTF? We destroyed our planet for this?!'”
His lament is a response to the impact of blockchain technology on the environment, which stems from the large amount of electricity it needs.Bitcoin mining Use seven times Google’s annual electricity consumption.
Although some people, like Huntley, have always been skeptical of NFTs, others have touted Their use case In the up-and-coming Web3, the more widely known is Metajie, a term that became mainstream after the company’s predecessor Facebook was renamed Metaplatform.
