Thread by @librehash

1/ Saw a promo for "Kobe NFTs" in an ESPN article and felt compelled to expose these NFTs for the fraud they really are.

espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

This thread will prove that there is *nothing* unique about NFTs (at all).

2/ To start with, the claim that "100% of the proceeds" are going to charity is patently false.

Only the "royalties" from secondary sales (i.e., when the auction winner later sells the NFT), will be donated to charity (Mamba & Mambacita Foundation)

2a/ Also, in case you missed it in the previous tweet, "Alastra said Cryptograph has been in touch with Bryant's camp, but the effort is not an official partnership with Bryant's trust."

3/ Moving on to the point - let's go check out these "unique" NFTs they're talking about.

We'll start with this one here - cryptograph.co/Cryptograph/Ko…

This is the "unique" NFT that they're selling.

3a/ Quick note - this sold for the same price as the top bid >38 hours prior, which was 4.8 ETH (~$15.3k), which isn't exactly a "banger"

4/ Let's see if we can't obtain this NFT for free.

First step? Right click, save as .. right?

4a/ That works, actually. Appears that this NFT is not just a photo but rather a 30 second video (that someone made).

You won't be able to find it now (since they took down / modified the video), but I got the original.

You can find that here - flicks.librehash.org/videos/watch/6…

5/ Okay, so here's where things get interesting.

If you noticed, there's an "authenticate" button on the Kobe NFT we're looking at.

If you click that button it opens up a panel. From there, we're going to focus on the "media keccak256 hash"

6/ The keccak256 hash they gave us was 1a07a43dae11659605f8a6a914753148420457297703355069d3d209c4806d92 .

The video we downloaded from the site (they changed this since lol), can be found here (and downloaded) - flicks.librehash.org/videosa/watch/…

7/ Let's check the keccak256 hash of the video we downloaded.

Attached to this tweet is a GIF of me uploading the video (I saved from the website) to this site - emn178.github.io/online-tools/k…

It shows that the hashes match.

7a/ In case you can't see the GIF above, here's a picture showing the checksum hash of the NFT.

Looks like it matches the one they gave under the authenticity.

8/ Let me double back to something I said in post #4a. I originally grabbed the Kobe NFT video (30 seconds), 2-3 days ago.

Then I published all of this information in the official Telegram (t.me/librehash)

9/ However, if you revisit the page now and right click the media, you'll see the video is only *5 seconds* (which means they swapped out the media).

I found that curious.

10/ For curiosity's sake, I decided to save the video under the name 'truncated_kobevideo.mp4'.

Then I used the same tool from before to derive the keccak256 checksum hash of the video.

This one ended up being *different*.

11/ So it is *possible* that after I publicly posted about this a couple of days ago that these guys saw my post and then swapped the media out on their NFT page so that nobody could repeat the steps I showed.

12/ Who knows! Either way, if anyone wants the original NFT again, go ahead and visit that site where I hosted the video at & download it.

flicks.librehash.org/videos/watch/6…