Posobiec says "what if the Trump NFTs have the declassified Russiagate docs embedded in their source code"
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Matic/polygon*
Side note: I’m in the industry. There is no “NFT source code”. You can embed arbitrary data via metadata (usually persisted in ipfs)
OK, but if the NFT is an image cannot the image file contain extra information? AKA steganography?
Yes that is a possibility but the image still lives in the metadata on ipfs (or wherever it’s hosted) and NOT in the NFT “source code”.
The only data that is actually part of the on chain NFT object is a unique ID scoped to the contract that minted it.
Yes but what if I no longer mint or mine anything because I stare at the raw matrix source code!?
Once you mint it, it exists forever (unless burned but it still technically exists). The originating contract specifies you as the owner. Other blockchains physically store the NFT in the users wallet (flow for example). You can transfer the NFT to another wallet and you will always be able to query the metadata (if any) that is attached to the NFT. The way you query this metadata is standardized mostly via the OpenZeppelin standard (eth and side chains). Most every NFT on ethereum mainnet or an ethereum side chain such as polygon/matic is implement as either ERC721, ERC1155 or ERC20
Side note: ipfs is mutable and the metadata can be changed at any time
Software Engineer specifically in the crypto space.
Thank you. I understand very little about NFT and crypto etc. I just can't find enough interest in it to learn it.