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		TylerE on Jan 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s not still the early days of blockchain Except NFT storage is actually highly centralized? What happens if OpenSea shuts down?

che_shirecat on Jan 15, 2022 [–]

another market pops up. opensea is just reading on-chain data, just like everyone else.

TylerE on Jan 15, 2022 | [–]

Except it isn’t. The actual Jorge are hosted on open sea. No one actually stores the “product” on chain because it would be prohibitively expensive for anything pastba few bytes.

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