More Than 80%
The original tweet said 80% of NFTs minted with our lazy minting tool violate our terms of service. That isn’t right. 80% of NFTs *we remove* for violations are lazy minted.
— OpenSea (@opensea) February 16, 2022
One of the appeals of listing NFTs on OpenSea was the ability to circumvent its “gas fee,” which is basically how much it costs for a miner to write data to the blockchain. OpenSea used to offer artists the ability to mint their work without paying the gas fee using a tool on their website. However, OpenSea stated on Twitter in January that 80% of the art created with the lazy minting tool were spam or plagiarized works. In February, they later clarified that 80% of the NFTs the website removes are spam or plagiarized, indicating that the actual rate of plagiarized work could be higher.
