ipfs

I’m not actually that supportive of “forever” or “permanent” NFTs. Using onchain data for NFT data is a waste of space imo. 

Why bother with IPFS then? Because like most things in nature, preservation happens when people care. If people don’t care about a particular NFT then it can be cleared off the network and reduced data waste. If people do care then anyone can grab the CID and pin it to ensure its persistence on IPFS. 

The difference between using centralized storage and IPFS is that it gives the people a choice as to what should be preserved, rather than someone just flipping the switch on their Cloudflare account.

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contract code will likely expire/not be persisted past a certain point, too

last proposal i saw for stateless clients required executed bytecode to be supplied as part of tx data/witness (+ proof that it's the correct bytecode, ofc)

Im certainly biased, but I lowkey feel more comfortable with IPFS persisting data than data written onchain

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Im certainly biased, but I lowkey feel more comfortable with IPFS persisting data than data written onchain 


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I get what you're saying - I've got plenty of NFTs I've minted that I wouldn't care about if the media were lost - but my PFP is art done by my sister, and I like that it'll always exist as long as the Ethereum blockchain exists.

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In charge of their data? Absolutely https://medium.com/pinata/who-is-responsible-for-nft-data-99fb4e8147e4

yeah but do you think that people should be in charge of doing that?

it feels like buying on ikea 😅

paying to make something permanent onchain is pretty useful imo

definitely not for everything but i think it makes sense for some art and other NFTs

Less external dependencies, the better