lockdown, minting videos, photos and artworks capturing their ordeal as non-fungible tokens to ensure they can be shared and avoid deletion.
While some people have defiantly continued reposting such content, others are turning to NFT marketplaces like the world’s largest, OpenSea, where users can mint content and buy or sell it using cryptocurrencies, attracted in part by the fact that data recorded on the blockchain is unerasable. On April 23, a Chinese Twitter user with the handle imFong said in a widely retweeted post, “I have minted the ‘Voice of April’ video into an NFT and have frozen its metadata. This video will exist forever on the IPFS,” referring to the interplanetary file system, a type of distributed network.
He has himself minted an NFT based on a screenshot of Shanghai’s COVID-19 lockdown map, showing how most of the city has been sealed off from the outside world. Simon Fong, a 49-year-old freelance designer from Malaysia who has been living in Shanghai for nine years, began creating satirical illustrations on life under lockdown in the style of Mao-era propaganda posters.
“I chose the Mao-era propaganda style for these pieces because some people are saying that the lockdown situation is taking Shanghai backward,” Fong said.
Maybe you guys should do some actual journalism because then you'd realize that videos and photos 'stored' on the chain are about as permanent as if they were stored on any other server.