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First iTerm2 Commit for Sale as NFT

by gnachman on 3/29/21, 4:53 PM with 11 comments

  • by capableweb on 3/29/21, 8:37 PM

    (I'm neither for or against NFTs, interesting concept around ownership but way over-hyped currently)

    Someone on HN might ask: "Uuh, but how do we know that this is really \"The first iTerm2 Commit\"?"

    The steps to verify would be like this:

    - Open the page with the NFT, see the author name/address

    - In this case "GeorgeNachman" so we search for that on Google

    - Now two main results from two different sides show up, Twitter and GitHub

    - Visiting the GitHub user we can verify that it actually is the iTerm2 author

    - Visiting the Twitter timeline we can confirm the same username has published a tweet about the NFT itself (https://twitter.com/gnachman/status/1376267539894870020)

    Now, why is this the interesting? Not sure. I find it weird that it's just a screenshot of git output, instead of the actual git data structure, would have been more interesting. But still, would I ever buy it? No, and not sure who the target audience is either.

    Edit: Right, or you could just look at the HN submitter which also seems to be the author. Verify the other profiles via keybase which is linked. Hi!

  • by shusson on 3/29/21, 9:08 PM

    I get the human nature part of wanting to collect rare items. But normally humans show off their collection somewhere. Where are people showing off their NFT tokens?