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CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology

by rasmi on 1/10/22, 8:02 PM with 156 comments

  • by dang on 1/10/22, 9:20 PM

    All: please keep threads like this from degenerating into the same-old-flamewar we've already had hundreds of times at this point. It has become super tedious. Also, tedious threads inevitably turn nasty (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

    If you have something genuinely new or curious to say, great. Otherwise please move on.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • by asciimike on 1/10/22, 9:40 PM

    I see that CSVCHAIN is "held in cold storage on this USB drive" a 1 GB thumb drive. This seems to imply an upper bound on the number of NFTs on CSVCHAIN. How, I wonder, does the creator of this project expect to scale CSVCHAIN beyond this limit?

    Additionally, can we secure guarantees that the project owner is safely ejecting the USB drive in question?

  • by shiado on 1/10/22, 10:24 PM

    Has anybody ever thought of something like a real world NFT? Imagine if you took a bunch of dried plant pigments and mixed them with oil and smeared them onto a canvas. Because it is physical it couldn't be duplicated or double-spent and it has a simple materials-based minting cost. I don't think anybody has done this before and there is probably a large market for buying and selling something like this. These are early days.
  • by mattwad on 1/10/22, 8:50 PM

    Haha, love it. I wonder if the typo in this line was intentional: > All transactions are manually entered by Roy to minimized mistakes.
  • by tiarafawn on 1/10/22, 9:15 PM

    > By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT.

    Complete and accurate.

  • by mwattsun on 1/10/22, 10:25 PM

    Where's the smart contract capability? Smart contracts are important in certain applications, which is why I store purchases in XML and do transformative contracts in XSLT. Version 2.0 of XSLT is Turing-Complete, with the added advantage that XSLT syntax is a specialized form of XML, so I only have to use one syntax for coins and contracts. I call mine Dotcom Bubble Chain.
  • by gcampos on 1/10/22, 9:36 PM

  • by davesque on 1/10/22, 10:07 PM

    > How do I pay with cryptocurrency?

    > Easy, you just need to convert it to USD first.

    > Is this for real?

    > Sure

    > Is this performance art?

    > Maybe?

    Love it. I think Roy's making a killing off this.

  • by jedimastert on 1/10/22, 9:00 PM

    This is amazing. It might actually make it easier for me to explain what NFTs actually are if they're completely separated from a blockchain and the rest of the malarkey.
  • by miracle2k on 1/10/22, 9:44 PM

    I'm a huge NFT enthusiast and collector. This project gets NFTs exactly right. It's frankly refreshing to see someone seemingly get it - most of the critiques are just so bad. It's just that: I don't see the problem at all. I'd encourage you all to buy NFTs on CSVChain, ideally from real artists committed to their craft.
  • by bradtheappguy on 1/10/22, 9:15 PM

    I'm disappointed that I read the headline wrong. I thought these NFTs were powered by CVS technology.
  • by roycoding on 1/11/22, 12:09 AM

    This is roycoding, the creator of CSVchain. Thanks everyone for checking it out.

    Just so you know, I currently have a bit of a backlog of requests to manually process.

    This was all very unexpected. I made this recently and then today started getting messages that Matt Levine wrote about something similar in his newsletter today. I tweeted at him and he then tweeted about it to his large following. So here we are on HN!

    If you've contacted me, I promise to message you back, but it might take a day or so.

  • by actusual on 1/10/22, 9:07 PM

    > By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT.

    Tell me more....

  • by hulitu on 1/10/22, 9:02 PM

    I'm waiting for TXTCHAIN - NFTs backed by TXT technology.
  • by stjohnswarts on 1/10/22, 11:06 PM

    "Nothing will ever be prepended to this file" "we guarantee it"
  • by pcthrowaway on 1/11/22, 1:07 AM

    Even better: Shiitcoin, a zero-free blockchain whose ledger is Google Sheets:

      - https://github.com/nalinbhardwaj/shiit-coin
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZpRryIuQ0
  • by rchaud on 1/10/22, 10:40 PM

    Critical security flaw: right-clicking is enabled!
  • by bowmessage on 1/10/22, 10:50 PM

    Wow, transaction confirmation times are really slow. I've been waiting for my purchase to go through for an hour now.
  • by emptybottle on 1/11/22, 3:34 PM

    I know this is a gag, but it misses the point.

    NFTs are interesting because they support smart contracts, use a cryptocurrency wallet system to manage value and ownership, can be minted in quantities > 1, support unlockable content, etc.

  • by scyclow on 1/10/22, 11:26 PM

    Amazing website! I think it also (inadvertently) paints a very clear value proposition as to why NFTs make more sense on a blockchain than on a central service.
  • by testemailfordg2 on 1/11/22, 6:49 AM

    Found this funny on the site, can you catch the pun. "All transactions are manually entered by Roy to minimized mistakes."
  • by aaroninsf on 1/10/22, 11:37 PM

    For one helium-filled glorious moment I misread the title and thought the store for this was some exploitation of CVS receipts.
  • by markstos on 1/10/22, 9:32 PM

    Not to be confused with the CVS CHAIN.
  • by brandrada on 1/11/22, 3:35 PM

    So, how do I mint these NFts that are backed using this technology?
  • by neiled on 1/10/22, 9:01 PM

    This sounds a lot like Matt Levine's newsletter today (Money Stuff). So funny!
  • by thescribbblr on 1/10/22, 8:10 PM

    Is this a joke?
  • by DevKoala on 1/10/22, 11:09 PM

    Is it censorship proof?
  • by m3kw9 on 1/10/22, 9:07 PM

    Now this is a case where I’d use a blockchain like Ethereum instead
  • by rfd4sgmk8u on 1/10/22, 8:49 PM

    Most NFTs are pretty much a scam, but:

    This is the kind of joke for people that think they are clever but don't really understand the situation. Its kind an ignorant position, reminds me of a 'brb downloading RAM' joke. Or sending someone a plastic Bitcoin. or Faxing dollar bills.

    Someone made a web site, ok. Guess we don't need fancy Blogging platforms now.