Twitter Launches NFT Profile Picture Verification

Sure, you mightiness “own” that cartoon monkey successful your illustration picture, successful the consciousness that the token is affixed to your Ethereum code connected an immutable, append-only ledger – but what’s stopping maine from conscionable right-clicking the representation and mounting it arsenic my illustration picture, too?

Now, aft months of anticipation, Twitter has released an authoritative verification mechanics for NFT illustration pictures.

Link your Ethereum wallet to your Twitter account, and you’ll beryllium presented with a database of NFTs you ain (verification is lone disposable for Ethereum-based NFTs, astatine the moment, though a typical for the institution clarified that this is lone the “first iteration” of a diagnostic that whitethorn spell connected to enactment different blockchains).

Choose an NFT, and your illustration representation – typically enclosed wrong a ellipse – volition get a nifty caller hexagonal border. If a pesky right-clicker tries to usage your NFT arsenic their illustration representation without archetypal buying the token, they’ll inactive beryllium capable to usage the image, but they’ll beryllium stuck with the classical ellipse frame.

Of course, a genuinely committed right-clicker mightiness simply re-upload that aforesaid representation to an NFT platform, mint a visually identical NFT, and usage that arsenic their illustration representation instead, implicit with a hexagonal framework signifying ownership connected the blockchain. No connection yet connected whether Twitter volition connection protections against this benignant of thievery, which has grown rampant arsenic the marketplace for NFTs has exploded implicit the past year.

Twitter’s NFT verification process is some a bid to support crypto enthusiasts connected the level and an explicit rejection of erstwhile CEO Jack Dorsey’s “Bitcoin-only” philosophy.

Though Dorsey is 1 of the astir salient critics of what’s known arsenic Web 3 – a caller iteration of the internet, moving connected blockchains arsenic opposed to unreality computing infrastructure and backstage servers – he’s a large instrumentality of Bitcoin, which he’s said could “bring astir satellite peace.”

NFTs and Bitcoin don’t thin to mix, astatine slightest not yet. Most of the enactment successful the NFT abstraction has happened successful and astir the Ethereum blockchain.

For now, NFT verification is lone disposable for users with Twitter Blue, the company’s $2.99-a-month subscription service, which offers a streamlined UX and an “undo” button, among different mostly cosmetic features.

For NFT fans, it whitethorn beryllium a terms worthy paying; that’s like, what – .001 ETH?