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JC25427N

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  1. I thought it was revealed before as Jack Napier.
  2. predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV? How did I get delivered here? Somebody tell me please No...just me?
  3. I understand someone directly mentioned you before so it's only right you responded in that case, but aside from that could you not make this thread about you. Because it isn't.
  4. An extremely over-simplified and bare bones explanation of how this works is that there are things that can be hosted on a digital storage structure called the blockchain, and you're buying a storage space that contains "something". The process of how you "mint" something onto the blockchain is a whole other can of worms, but the end of it is that people are taking images, minting them onto the blockchain and then selling the space on the blockchain where they put that image. When you buy an NFT, "most of the time" you are just buying that space from the blockchain, you don't actually get any ownership rights over what is inside that storage space. To make matters worse, "most of the time" (there are exceptions, I personally don't know what VeVe is doing, but in the cases I've seen this is true for a lot of them) people aren't really even putting an image inside that storage space you just bought, they're putting a URL to an image. Meaning it's possible when you buy an NFT, and you check the blockchain for your "image", all you'll find is an image URL which could take you to your image probably. The problem is you don't even own or have any control over that URL, whoever created that URL can at any point they wish just change what that URL points to, that URL could expire or become invalid for any reason, etc. Also the blockchain is immutable, meaning once something is minted onto it, it cannot be changed (This is different from minting a URL to the blockchain, then changing what the URL points to. The URL is staying the same in this case, so the blockchain was not changed). So this storage space you just bought which probably contains a URL that you don't own, you can't change what's in this storage space if that URL ever goes bad for whatever reason
  5. Close, but I think it's actually worse. I think the OP might have mixed up his words in the last few lines " The original art silent auction started at ~$1500. Not sure how much it sold for but the buyer has already relisted it for sale at ~2.5 Mil" The NFT's silent auction started 1500, and the buyer of that NFT has relisted the NFT for 2.5 million
  6. I believe we should all pick out a date, and on that date we should all change our profile pictures to the Muscle Man on CAF and post a nice comment on at least 10 pieces we enjoy Marcus Dai (Day)
  7. Edit: Nevermind, I'll let it go, I think I made my point clear.
  8. Someone: "CBCS has lost 300+ books and broke chain of custody by sending them to an employee's residence" You: "What about all those other times CGC lost a few books?" There are a ton of topics where your quarterbacking of the other guys is an easy touch down, this is not one of them. Also please acknowledge my other post where you mispresent facts (granted u didn't state them as facts, but either way its a bad misrepresentation) how often books are lost by the other guys. This wasn't an isolated incident nor not even close to being the first time they lost a book. When it comes to books slipping through the cracks, there is no reason to believe any grading company does it more than another. But my main point and really the only one I care about, is that the major incident that happened recently CANNOT be compared to any incident of a few books lost through the cracks. It is an entirely different beast and comparing it to a regular case of a lost book is disgusting and makes me question the motives of anyone making such a comparison.
  9. Also a quick google search has shown a number of other threads from the other boards of people complaining about lost books. I think you just might not be looking for those incidents, and tunnel-vision on CGC issues. I would think all major grading companies have issues with some books slipping through the cracks especially with the boom in submissions across the board in recent years. But comparing something like this to the recent incident with the other guys is an egregiously gross comparison
  10. I've never seen one here that had the same magnitude as the incident with the other guys It's also telling that most people found out about the other guys' incident without even being a member of their boards
  11. I have some pages where the artist's name is on the top under Penciller and/or Inker, some pages where the artist signed with their signatures in the margins, some pages with both, and a few pages with neither. It varies, but I'd say it isn't too uncommon to get a page that doesn't have the artists name on it, it's more common if the artist did both the pencils and inks and thus was the only artist to ever handle that board, they usually just write the book title and issue # on it in those cases. Disclaimer: Most of the pages I own are from late 1990s onwards, anything before that might have different customs I'm not familiar with.