poprock wrote:The idea (trackable ownership contracts) is getting mixed up with some sketchy things (paying inflated prices for badly drawn avatar pics). We’re at the point where it would be difficult to use the idea for anything worthwhile instead, because the word/acronym NFT is starting to mean ‘overpriced avatar pics’ to most people who hear it.
Diluted Dante wrote:Is there an example of how this could be used for something worthwhile?
LivDiv wrote:Its a form of digital certification of ownership. So its as good as the body that owns/controls the database.
poprock wrote:LivDiv wrote:Its a form of digital certification of ownership. So its as good as the body that owns/controls the database.
The whole point is that nobody owns the database though. That’s the big idea behind blockchain, isn’t it? The decentralisation.
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