In the spirit of The Pirate Bay, a popular piracy site from the past, Geoffrey Huntley has created The NFT Bay: a repository containing 15 terabytes of JPEGs (NFT images). The site asks, “Did you know that a NFT is just a hyperlink to an image that’s usually hosted on Google Drive or another web 2.0 host?” It goes on to say, “As web2.0 webhosts are known to go offline (404 errors) this handy torrent contains all of the NFT’s so that future generations can study this generation’s tulip mania and collectively go… ‘WTF? We destroyed our planet for THIS?!'”
Yes, you can now download every NFT that has been minted with one click. You won’t own them, of course, but you’ll have them. To Mr. Huntley’s point, his service is for your convenience; you can (and could) always right-click and download the content referenced by (or “attached” to) any NFT, which is where Mr. Huntley’s “tulip mania” comment comes from.
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