Proof that the NFT Bay's torrent is mostly zeroes

t.py

import libtorrent as lt

# usage:
# sudo apt install python3-libtorrent
# wget https://thenftbay.org/billion-dollar-nft-torrent.torrent
# python3 t.py

info = lt.torrent_info("billion-dollar-nft-torrent.torrent")
print("Number of pieces: ", info.num_pieces())
print("dumping piece hashes:")
for i in range(info.num_pieces()):
    print("piece ", i, "=", info.hash_for_piece(i).hex())

# Almost all the pieces are
# 57b587e1bf2d09335bdac6db18902d43dfe76449
# which is the sha1 of 32MB of zeroes
# so most of the 18TB torrent is zeroes

Great find. That's pretty embarrassing.

@vrde I think the most embarrassing part is that this implies that all the NFTs ever minted adds up to just 10GB of data. Meanwhile I spent $60 and received 200GB of CODBLOPS

btw the guy disabled the "issues" tab in the repo, so our issues are gone.

For a quick proof of the hash:

import hashlib

print(hashlib.sha1(bytes(32*1024*1024)).hexdigest())
# 57b587e1bf2d09335bdac6db18902d43dfe76449

cackling

1. shot: announce torrent of all NFTs
2. chaser: still claim in the README that the blockchain is good actually
3. second chaser: the torrent is 17TB of null

Wow

https://www.clubnft.com/blog/the-trillion-byte-let-down

Great work zhuowei!

what an absolute embarrassment