SOME RETARD PAID WHAT???

Just a few years ago NFTs were going to be the new Bitcoin and were being heralded as an amazing investment opportunity.

But they are not doing so well any more. In fact people seem to be saying the bloody things are now worthless and all the gullible numpties who bought them got stiffed

According to a new report by dappGambl that reviewed data from NFT Scan and CoinMarketCap, 69,795 out of 73,257 NFT collections have a market cap of 0 Ether, leaving 95% of those holding NFT collections – or 23 million people – with worthless investment.

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a form of crypto asset that is used to certify ownership and authenticity of a digital file including an image, video or text.

The report comes nearly two years after the craze for NFTs swept up celebrities and artists alike, with many rushing to purchase NFT collections of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Matrix avatars.

In March 2021, the crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi made headlines when he paid $2.9m for an NFT of the first tweet from the former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey. Meanwhile, in December 2021, the former first lady launched an NFT collection named Melania’s Vision which included a limited edition digital artwork of her eyes.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-worthless-price

Not that NFT's were ever going to have any real purpose or long term value:

https://cult.honeypot.io/reads/10-reasons-why-nfts-are-dumb/

These are the ten most expensive NFT's of all time:

10. Stay Free – $5.27 Million

Stay Free is the tenth most expensive NFT ever sold.

The Stay Free NFT came into existence when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, entered the NFT bandwagon in April 2021. The Stay Free NFT covers the entirety of the 2015 Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in ACLU v. Clapper, which ruled that the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities violated the laws.

“Emerging applications of cryptography can play an important role in supporting our rights,” Snowden had mentioned during the announcement of his own NFT. He further went on to add that the funds from the auction will allow the Foundation to develop privacy-protecting encryption, ensuring press freedom.

It was bought by PleasrDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization.

Stay Free portrays Snowden against the text of the hearing with his signature on the bottom right, which is a one-of-its-kind artwork. Snowden went on to sell the artwork for $5.27 million and donated the proceeds to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is a non-profit that advocates for free speech and press freedom around the world. It is produced using open-source software.

9. Save Thousands of Lives – $5.23 Million

Save Thousands of Lives is an NFT artwork launched by a non-profit called Noora Health that was sold on May 8.2021.

This artwork was sold to programmer Paul Graham at a charity auction. This artwork aims to help fund Noora Health’s efforts with new mothers in South Asia by teaching them how to take care of their babies once they get home from hospitals.

Noora Health has been working with more than 165 hospitals in the region and works with the families of the new mothers, by educating them on how to keep the mother and the baby healthy and safe.

This artwork was sold for $5.1 million or 1,337 ETH, saving lives at a cost of $1,235 for every life saved.

8. World Wide Web Source Code – $5.4 Million

Sir Tim Berners Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web decided to explore the NFT ecosystem when he decided to sell an NFT that consisted of the original source code for the web. It’s an artistic representation of the web source code, bundled together as an NFT.

The artwork which was titled “This Changes Everything” went on sale at Sotheby’s with critics complaining about the same. Many said that this went against the web’s decentralized nature.

However, the sale went on ahead and garnered $5.4 million. Interestingly, days after the artwork was sold, someone pointed out a coding error in the artwork sold.

7. CryptoPunk #5217 – $5.59 Million

The CryptoPunk #5217 is one of the 24 ape punks wearing a knitted hat and a gold chain. Features on the #5217, our second CryptoPunk on the list, are considered to be quite rare and unique by the Punk enthusiasts as well.

The CryptoPunk #5217 is currently owned by the address 0xe30161 and isn’t up for sale.

6. Ocean Front – $6 Million

The Ocean Front is an artwork by graphic designer NFT artist Mike Winkelmann, popularly known as Beeple.

Ocean Front tries to create awareness around climate change and showcases a tree sitting atop cargo containers in the middle of the ocean. What makes Ocean Front one of the most popular NFTs is the way it highlights a real-world social problem.

Justin Sun, Founder and CEO of the Tron Foundation won the winning bid for the artwork at around $6 million. The proceeds from the Ocean Front sale are going to benefit the Open Earth Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to avoid the existential risk of climate change.

The Open Earth Foundation is working on “raising assets to foster an imaginative open advanced framework for further developed administration of planet Earth helping track straightforwardly the worldwide advancement on the Paris Agreement to keep away from the existential danger of environmental change.”

The artwork was sold on Nifty Gateway.

5. Crossroad – $6.66 Million

Another one from the drawing board of Beeple is Crossroads. Back when it was sold in February 2021, it remained the most expensive piece of digital art ever sold for a brief amount of time.

Crossroad is an artwork focused on the US elections, and supposedly showcases a defeated Donald trump lying in the background after the 2020 results. However, it was supposed to showcase him wearing a crown, had he won.

The NFT was sold for $6.66 million by Nifty Gateway, which brokered the deal between the original owner of the artwork and an anonymous buyer. It was sold at 10x of its original price within four months of its initial purchase.

 4. CryptoPunk #3100 – $7.51 Million

Yet another CryptoPunk on the list is CryptoPunk #3100, which was sold for $7.51 million. The #3100 is one of the rarest CryptoPunks, known as the alien punks, and sports a headband. It was sold for 4,200 ETH or $7.51 million in March 2021.

Out of the 10,000 Cryptopunks out there, there are 9 alien aliens, that make them enviable amongst the NFT enthusiasts.

3. CryptoPunk #7804 – $7.56 Million

At $7.56 million, CryptoPunk #7804 is one of the 9 aliens, similar to the one mentioned above. The person behind the sale of this NFT was Dylan Field, the CEO of design software Figma.

Sold in March 2021, the #7804 sports three accessories- a forward cap, shades, and a pipe. The pipe adds to the rarity of this NFT.

2. CryptoPunk #7523 – $11.8 Million

This appalling picture of a CryptoPunk in a face nappy sold for $11.8 million proving that NFT market is utterly retarded...

"It sports a face mask that provides it a sense of relevance during COVID-19. Moreover, it comes from the group of 9 Alien CryptoPunks. The face mask adds to the uniqueness, making it the only Alien Punk with a mask"

Great that makes it extra cool!

1. Everydays: The First 5000 Days – $69.3 Million

The winner of the most expensive NFTs ever sold is Everydays: The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann which was sold at Christie’s.

Everydays is an artwork that represents a collage of 5,000 of Beeple’s earlier artworks he made every day in the last 5,000 days. Mike Winkelmann stated that he was inspired by British artist Tom Judd and began with the Everydays project on 1t May 2007.  The artwork consists of images ordered chronologically with some of the images actually being hand-drawn. It was purchased by Vignesh “MetaKovan Sundaresan.

The second-highest bidder for Everydays was Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, who was snipped at $60.2 million by Sundaresan.

This post is mostly copied from

https://insidebitcoins.com/buy-cryptocurrency/buy-nft/most-expensive-nfts

This post also appears on www.frot.co.nz

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FERRY CRASH

This does not look to me like a genuine accident but more like another part of the deliberate plan to damage the transport infrastructure.

 

The Aratere ferry ran aground about 3km from Picton about 9.45pm on Friday 21 June. 

 

The ferry had been on a freight-only sailing when it suffered a steering failure and crashed about 9.45pm on Friday. No one was injured and there was no environmental damage, KiwiRail said.

 

 

 

THIS VIDEO DOES NOT PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

 An ongoing pattern of the flat earther movement is that they always seem to apply the claim "This proves the earth is flat" to whatever they are presenting. A typical example is this video, which queries a number of unusual airline flight paths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGlseN6uP0 

It gets off to a bad start, making a false claim right from the outset, and blowing what little credibility it had in the first 15 seconds.

It starts with off with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - but even the official story doesn't claim that any planes flew from Japan to attack Hawaii - they were said to have come across on six aircraft carriers. The alternative story is that America did the attack on themselves as a false flag to bring America into the war - so another example of their usual tactics, but either way the first example in the video is rubbish.

 

Meanwhile they are playing a horrible remake of a SIMPLE MINDS song. Why? - I'd say to distract attention from the fact that there is no narration to explain the supposed significance of the flight paths. They are assumed to be significant but are they? And secondly maybe it's to mock the viewers by implying they have simple minds (again the deep state love to do that sort of inside joke but it usually goes unnoticed)

 

Every single one of the flight paths they have chosen is an obscure low passenger volume flight, and the unspoken assumption is that flights always take the most direct route. There are thousands of popular flight paths that do, but what these low volume ones are doing is connecting to transport hubs. 

 

By rattling through 25 of them at hyper pace they leave no time for anyone to actually think about the flight paths, and by slapping together a four minute montage with no narration it is implied that those flights prove the earth is flat. But they prove nothing other than flight paths don't always take the most direct route, and from that I would conclude that there is more involved in planning flight paths than just total distance. Like passenger numbers.

 

 Auckland to Mexico city huh? - Yeah, that route is pumping!

After viewing the video I had to go and watch the original Simple Minds song to get that awful remake out of my mind :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A

And then a quick look on line revealed that Antarctica is considered a prime adventure tourism destination with around 100,000 visitors a year. It was only difficult to go there during the covid lockdowns. Most tourists go by boat rather than plane and they mainly depart from South America rather than NZ or Tasmania because it's closer.

 

 https://www.quarkexpeditions.com/blog/can-i-travel-to-antarctica

There was heaps of exploration of the entire continent up until Shackleton's expedition finished mapping the coast in 1922, and there have been heaps of plane flights over it with thousands of photos taken since.

 

The idea that people are banned from going to Antarctica or flying over it doesn't check out at all - but there does seem to be a cover up in that the extent of the antarctic ice is increasing while the deep state is claiming that it's melting, with massive quantities of propaganda online, so they are trying to keep that quiet as part of the "global warming" psyop. Yes, the planet is actually cooling, but again, that does not prove the earth is flat.

 

BITE SIZED CHUNKS

In this time of information overload, we are being bombarded with rapid fire misinformation as part of a deep state plan to leave us more confused than we were to begin with. Key tools that are being used against us include disorder and complexity.

 

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject” - Thomas Mann

As a tactic to thwart this psychological attack, I plan to present information in bite sized chunks, ideally a couple of pictures with a couple of short paragraphs. So somewhere mid way between a blog post and a meme.

WHY I USE THE WATERFOX BROWSER

Going back about 10 years I was often asked basic computer questions by family and friends. Not because I was some sort of geek guru, but because I’d been using computers since the 90’s and knew some of the basics. But all that changed when Microsoft 10 came out in 2015. I’d already refused to use Windows 8 in 2013, but with Windows 10 I could see that Windows 7 was definitely going to be my last ever Microsoft operating system.

While most people “upgraded” to Windows 10, I just said NO and stuck with Windows 7. I still use Windows 7 to this day, along with Linux Zorin, Linux Mint and Android. And I still refuse to use Windows 10 or 11 which I regard as pure spyware. So my days of being someone you might ask for help with your computer are pretty much over really, which is fine with me because I always struggled with the tech side of things anyway.

But one area of computing I still seem to be asked about quite regularly is Internet Browsers. What do I recommend? OK, here goes, this post is could easily be pretty boring, so I might have to throw in some hot arse pics, or fast cars, or ugly transvestites or something to rev it up a bit. And I’ll try to keep the tech stuff as simple as possible.

Here is what I use. On Windows 7 I use Waterfox as default with Vivaldi as my #2. I think Vivaldi is a really good browser but they pulled support for Windows 7 early in 2023 and because there are no updates, occasionally there are minor problems on some sites. Waterfox on the other hand, still runs happily with Windows 7 as well as on Linux.

On Android where Vivaldi is all up to date, I run Vivaldi as default and Firefox as #2 (Waterfox doesn't have an Android version). Neither Waterfox or Vivaldi are particularly widely known or popular browsers, so why do I rate them so highly? 

Waterfox reminds me of old school Firefox before they screwed it up. It basically looks like Firefox, with a better menu system than all the chrome based browsers. My Mozilla account works with it so it has the best syncing between devices. But it runs faster than Firefox, it isn't constantly trying to push bogus updates, the privacy is better, and it doesn't have any of the glitches that have started creeping into Firefox lately. And it works really well with Facebook too, while Firefox doesn't. So it's essentially just a better version of Firefox.

Vivaldi, when on Android or Windows 10, I have found works better in many ways than any other browser I’ve tried (and I’ve tried most of them) and because it is so good for customising I can set it up exactly how I like. It’s just another Chromium based browser, but they did a really good job with it. But I don't find it as good on Win 7 or Linux, so I only use it as my default on Android.

Any browser will need a few add ons – some essentials I recommend are U-block Origin, Adblock Plus, Ad Blocker for YouTube, AdBllocker Ultimate, and AdGuard Adblocker, (yes I run five ad blockers) as well as Raindrop for bookmarks, FBP (Facebook Purity) if you use Facebook, and Custom Scrollbars if you like big bold scrollbars (but this really only works well on Win 7).

These are the browsers I think are worth trying out:

BRAVE – A pretty good browser but lacks some features that are only on Vivaldi. It eventually fixed it’s annoying “need to upgrade to Win 10 notification” and has good speed & privacy, but the sync has never worked well. It only works on 64 bit computers and keeps pushing the Win 10+ narrative. And the rewards system is bogus, for numpties who want to make a few cents looking at ads (you can turn it off in settings). But it is stylish and fast, I’d give it number one in both those categories.

DISSENTER – It was a pretty cool browser, but as of 2021 the project was abandoned and these days a lot of sites won’t work with it. At it’s peak it worked really well and had the best display of any browser on some sites (like Facebook). I’m just including it here as an honorable mention, it is totally out of date now and mostly not working anymore, so probably not worth trying out.

FIREFOX – From v.109 Firefox mostly got it’s shit together again, it still has the best menu system & it’s the only major browser that runs on all operating systems including 32 bit Win 7. For old computers Firefox based browsers are best. It's not open source and has connections to Google, so is probably spying, but it looks like the original Firefox browser with the well designed top menu system dating back to 2000 so I feel more at home on it.

LIBREFOX – A Firefox based privacy browser that runs on Linux or Win 10/11 but not on Win 7 or Android – a better option for a privacy browser than the horrible Tor. I tried this on Linux instead of Waterfox, but this is a full on privacy browser that acts more like Tor than Waterfox, it's not an everyday browser as it wipes everything each restart, so I only use it when I want to be anon.

VIVALDI – Until recently this was my default browser on all platforms. Everything can be customized, & sync works really well. It’s still my favourite browser on Android. But the default inbuilt strong ad blocker can trigger issues on some sites – if that happens switch to a browser set up without such strong ad blockers. Vivaldi sometimes also has Windows 7 (unsupported) problems on some sites (that's why I moved to Waterfox as my default on Win 7)

WATERFOX – An open source version of Firefox without the Google spywear – my first choice of the Firefox forks on Win 7 & Linux – It works with Firefox add ons & runs faster than Firefox. It offers two versions of its software: Classic and Current. The Classic only works for “legacy” systems (Win 7). But, its Current version is for latest Windows 10 or 11 & gets updated regularly. It won’t install on Android but they are planning an Android version soon.

 

Some browsers that suck

And these are some of the remaining browsers that I think suck and are best avoided like the plague (or “covid jabs”):

CHROME – The default browser on Android phones & the most popular browser in the world, but this is full on Google spywear data harvesting. I think it is utter shit all branded with a nice 666 logo, and I prefer to never install it on any computer.

CHROMIUM – The open source original version of Chrome and the basis for all the other Chromium based browsers, but even this was started by Google and I don’t like it either. And it still has the evil 666 logo & woketard themes.

DOLPHIN – A touchscreen browser for Apple & Android with gesture controls – it has had privacy issues & is just considered to be an upgrade for Safari (which wouldn’t be hard)

DUCKDUCKGO – Yes this is also a browser as well as a search engine. Originally just a dodgy android browser, this is now a developing privacy browser with a built in YouTube tracking blocker, but it doesn’t work with other extensions at this point.

MICROSOFT EDGE – The default browser on Windows 10 & 11, and as expected, a steaming pile of spywear crap – a lame joke that clueless windows users still use, making it third most popular browser

MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER – The worst browser of all time, discontinued in 2022 because even Microsoft hate it

OPERA – On Win 10/11 or Linux, it works OK. It actually used to be a pretty good independent browser but these days is just another Chrome based browser with added sidebars (which I don’t like) & “new features” as it’s main claims to fame. Opera’s key problems include an ever increasing range of bugs on Windows 7, and the Opera management are total woketards. Also the search engine keeps defaulting back to google, (a known problem with Opera, & they have signed a deal with Google), extensions don’t show on toolbar by default and have to be pinned, and if you hide or autohide the sidebar or it turns off the menu (this is another known bug) . And the annoying side bar menu system can’t be hidden or the whole menu disappears

PALE MOON – A fork of Firefox, an attempt to recreate the old Firefox, but new extensions don’t work with it, so it’s a total lemon – totally inferior to Waterfox

SAFARI – Apple’s bogus spywear browser – as of 2021 it can no longer run on Windows but it always sucked anyway. Strictly for appletards.

TOR – The Onion Browser – Full privacy but runs very slow – this browser is for privacy rather than convenience and trying to use it is a pain in the arse. It is based on Firefox & uses Firefox themes and add ons, but oddly the menu system is chrome based, so in that regard it’s the only browser that is Firefox based with the ugly Chrome hamburger menu. It is blocked by some sites so not everything works. When using Tor your ID is blocked and many sites don’t allow that. Each time Tor is restarted everything is wiped, cookies, history, log ins, pinned tabs, the lot. So as a daily browser it’s unusable.

TORCH – A complete dog of a browser – avoid like an alien anal probe.

Congratualtions, you made it to here, here are some pictures to get you firing on all cylinders again:

As promised, a hot arse:

A fast car:

An ugly tranny (or three):

 

RULES OF BLOGGING

HOW BLOGGING SHOULD BE DONE

 Like most blogging old timers I had a bunch of rules in my head about how blogging "should" be done - what makes a real blog. Rules can be help us maintain our standards, but they can also just become a collection of unquestioned assumptions that are no longer working for us, and which we need to move on from. 

Our enemies ("the powers that shouldn't be") don't play to any set of rules that we would recognize, and times are now changing probably faster than at any point in history. So this year I've been trying to let go of some of my long held rules/assumptions, certainly including those applying to blogging.

Here are six of my old school blogging rules that I've mostly ditched on this new blog:

A REAL BLOG SHOULD BE SELF HOSTED ON WORDPRESS.ORG

 WordPress is getting endlessly more complex, and I wonder now if the whole WordPress platform is yet another deep state psyop, because let's face it, with over 455 million sites, or over 30% of all websites currently online using WordPress, it's highly unlikely that it isn't.

So I've gone back to using Blogger, and Blogger is owned by Google. But ultimately, Google seem to have censored the entire internet, and Blogger is easy to use and convenient. If my posts are going to get barely any traffic, I might as well use a convenient deep state platform (Blogger) rather than an inconvenient deep state platform (WordPress)

 https://sift666.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-end-of-era.html

 

A BLOG SHOULD HAVE A CONSISTENT NUMBER OF POSTS

Some bloggers do a post every day, while some only do one each month, but all blogs should stick within those extremes. More than one post a day is not OK, and less than one post a month is also not OK. Says who?. 

So far this year I've been doing about 40 posts a month, mostly very short ones or updates of my old posts. But that could easily change, to more or less, if I feel so inclined. If for example I do a short post about Flouride each day in July for Fluoride Free month, that would be 31 extra posts next month.

LINKS TO EACH BLOG POST SHOULD BE SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA

A real blogger promotes their content by sharing it on a range of popular social media platforms, in order to generate an audience. This year I have given up using all social media platforms apart from Facebook, so I'm not doing that. All social media platforms, and indeed the entire internet, are controlled to some extent by the deep state using their AI. 

I'm not doing blog posts as a paid job, really it's all for my own entertainment. Blogging is my muse (an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to write, paint, or make music). If other people read what I post that is great, but I'm not going to spend hours promoting my posts on platforms I mostly don't even use. (I do share some of my posts on my Facebook account)

 THE URL OF EACH POST SHOULD MATCH IT'S TITLE

I have edited the title or changed the publishing date of so many of the posts on this blog, that less than half of them would match up. Too bad, what sort of anal geek even looks at that stuff anyway? (Yes, I must admit I did used to do that...)

Never mind, if anyone types in www.sift.co.nz they will see something, but if they use the Google search engine to find my content, they probably won't see much.

 

THE MEASURE OF A BLOG IS IT'S POPULARITY

It was my plan at the start of the year to ditch the HIT COUNTER and give up looking at how many hits my blog got. I must admit I struggled with that, and ended up putting it back on. But as with all traffic on the internet, it is mostly just the artificial flows of the deep states AI, and has very little to do with content quality or real viewers.

This blog is still only getting about 100 hits a day, which is fairly insignificant, while my old blog used to get 2000 hits a day back in 2018 before it was black listed, which certainly sounds a lot better, but ultimately, who cares? Only me, nobody else gives a toss, and it all works better when I don't really care either.

 

 

A BLOG POST MUST CONTAIN BOTH TEXT AND IMAGES

 

  There is certainly some truth to that, it's the fundamental difference between a blog post and a tweet, but on a Blogger blog where everything is displayed as one long stream of posts, the old idea that any given blog post must be a complete entity in itself becomes sort of redundant. A picture tells a thousand words, and sometimes a meme tells a lot more than that. 

 

Sometimes I just want to post one image, and no, that isn't a real blog post, but it's my blog, for my entertainment, so some of my posts might just be one image (or a bunch of images) with no text at all. So be it. 

SWINGING BOTH WAYS

 We have both sorts of weather in Wellington NZ - Before and After!