Software Hidden inside NFT images

GrimOfDoom · March 24, 2021

So, this is a mix of stuff here. I created an image/NFT, hid an entire home made a simple and safe software inside the image, and slapped the image up. It was not only for experimenting (which is successful, the software can be pulled out following instructions automatically given upon NFT acquisition), but also to be the first to publicly do so and to hopefully make a couple bucks in these trying times.

The pros: People can produce and sell software as NFTs in a completely secure way where no one can track you and no credit/debit can be so easily stolen. Maybe this concept can be spread out into way to fight against force app stores with security and privacy (Minus having to hide the software inside the image itself).

The cons: People can produce malicious software inside the content of NFTs and all heck can break from there. Whether it is auto-launching software where it starts when you open the image, or it is black market software sold in broad daylight; it is a day of age where digital protection is vastly more important.

The End Goal: I would rather like to see what people can safely do and come up with using this concept. Remember back in the day when a few select records actually hid Basic software on them for DOS? Now imagine that but when you bought a Mono Lisa for example, it held a unique one of a kind mini-game that you are the only one in the world has access to (provided you unlock the content, whether told or not).

Note: Programs injected into an image can be password locked in a prior step or in the software itself, with the key given to buyer(Along with method to remove software/program/game from image)- so that even distributing the original image will produce no results without a lot of cracking. And sadly, OpenSea does grab only image data, but the original raw can be put into Unlockable Content, like many already do, because anyone can download the original image/video anyways.

Human1235234 · March 25, 2021

How did you do it?

GrimOfDoom · March 28, 2021

On 3/25/2021 at 11:49 AM, Human1235234 said:

How did you do it?

Now why would I devalue such a thing so easily like that? The less who know and can understand, the more value it retains. (And there are many ways to do so, the core concept is older than electric computers)