X removes support for NFT profile pictures | TechCrunch
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X has silently removed the feature for paid subscribers to set an NFT as a profile picture, which was introduced in 2022.
  • stackPeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    8 months ago

    To this day, the stupidest thing about NFTs in my opinion, is that it claims to be “decentralized” yet OpenSea uses cloud services like AWS*, hahaha

    *not sure if it AWS or other

    • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      IIRC the monkey jpegs themselves were stored on ipfs, while open sea the marketplace was hosted on centralised services