Australia: developer creates NFT’s download website for educational purposes

The NFT fever has sparked controversy after Geoffrey Huntley, a programmer living in Australia, created an entire website that has the appearance of being a pirate in order to obtain a large number of digital images that can be purchased as originals.

Huntley I think “The NFT Bay”, a website that has characteristics similar to “The Pirate Bay”; where people turn to download the world’s best-known movies, music, series, books, and shows. This with the intention of “hacking” NFTs.

In an interview with the newspaper El Clarin, the young man assures that the torrent that went up, called “billion dollar NFT”, is considered as an educational project so that people are not scammed.

Commonly, when someone wants to own an image of a page, they just have to right-click on it to take it away. And that’s what this programmer did on a massive scale: He downloaded all the images and videos hosted on the NFT blockchains of Ethereum and Solana and made them available in a torrent.

Translated to Spanish, NFT it means “token no fungible”. A token is a digital asset. Being “non-expendable” means that it is not interchangeable or replaceable.

“Tokens, like works of art, are non-expendable because there is no way to replace them: the first tweet in history is only one, in the same way that there is only one original Pieta by Michelangelo”, he assures.

“I hope that through ‘thenftbay.org‘people learn to understand that what they are buying when they buy NFT art right now is nothing more than a series of instructions on how to access or download an image. There is a knowledge gap between the buyer and the seller right now that is being used to exploit people. “explains the programmer.

When asked about how he generated the download of more than 18 tb, he assured that “the NFTs are stored in the blockchain and it is possible to ‘sweep’ the entire blockchain from Ethereum in less than 10 hours. A NFT (usually) it has a property that specifies where the image is hosted ”.

When asked if anyone could obtain all the NFTs that are stored on his website, he pointed out that “no one has completed the download of the torrent yet. In fact, the seedbox it fell early on Saturday, so I don’t have statistics. ” But he does know that the web where he is torrent It was visited by more than a million users, probably curious rather than interested in the download.

“With the size of the torrent, not many people are able to download it or have disk space to decompress it. I intend to upload everything to the internet archive in the next few days so that future generations can study this moment “, bill.

Huntley ensures that the NFT is not the image itself, so it clarifies that it would be impossible to “steal” the file that has a single owner and is registered in the blockchain from Ethereum, a highly secure system and extremely difficult to hack.

“Any digital image can be purchased as NFT,” he said.