Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

That’s not what that report says:

> Put simply, ~10% of NFTs are on-chain, ~40% of NFTs are on private servers and are doomed, and ~50% remaining are on IPFS.

40% is the doomed figure. Which is way too high but there’s a lot of idiots minting shitty NFTs. Since the study wasn’t limited to NFTs on marketplaces (like we’re discussing here) that doesn’t surprise me.




Yes, I misread that.

Still, due to how IPFS operates, the majority of those assets will be gone, too.

Example from infura: https://community.infura.io/t/does-data-that-hasnt-been-used...

--- start quote ---

if the data you’ve pinned to IPFS is not accessed within the 6 month period, our garbage collecting system will delete the data. In order to keep data around indefinitely, you will need to access it somehow at least every 6 months.

--- end quote ---

And more on Hedera: https://hedera.com/blog/nft-storage-why-it-matters

I can't find the article now. IIRC someone crawled through OpenSea NFTs and the majority of the assets were gone.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: