OffHeap 70. Buy, Sell, Or Skip! Looking at NFTs (forever code, and ransom in Open Source!)

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There are times when there's something in tech that starts brewing, and creating huge waves. We are just going through those times with Bitcoins and now the newly created Non-Fungible-Tokens (or NFT for short). If you have been surrounded by "bored apes", or "lucky goats" and wanted to understand what NFTs are (or aren't), then take a listen!

In addition we revisit the big npm-libs-colors debacle on which an open source contributor single-handedly sent the javascript world scrambling as he poisoned-pill his own work (what does it mean to rely on open source dependencies from individual contributors?). It's a tough topic because we are really built most of our technology on open source.

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*Discussion*

NFTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

NFT Music Video (by @fguime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnSK3txVGo

The Web3 Fraud (Opinion Nicholas Weaver) https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud