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Baseball cards are a better example. It's rare because a limited quantity were printed, not because the capacity to make more was lacking. Maybe what NFTs lac
by basch 6y ago
Baseball cards are a better example. It's rare because a limited quantity were printed, not because the capacity to make more was lacking.
Maybe what NFTs lack is the ability for people to arbitrarily destroy them. Maybe some kind of dice roll that deletes some every blue moon. Or a "light mine on fire button." Some kind of rot that degrades it over time.
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- jakelazaroff 6y agoBaseball cards are rare because they're scarce. Digital assets are plentiful; you can reproduce them infinitely, and there's no such thing as being "out of print". Given that NFTs assert ownership over normal files, I don't see how it would be possible to arbitrarily destroy them.
- basch 6y agoDid you look at https://sorare.com/ https://sorare.com/ They are creating scarcity. Only one card for a player created that season. It's less a digital picture and more "this is limited because we can verify the date it was created and how many we made." It even has an element of fantasy sports or pokemon, in that the cards are useful in a game and you can play with them. An element of scarcity is not only necessary to give the digital assets value, but also to make the competition function.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoYes, but I don’t understand it. It sounds like these cards are only available in an app? In which case, sure, they can create scarcity because they control consumption, but they don’t need NFTs to do that. On the other hand — if these cards are just like, JPG files, (which seems to be what most other commenters on here are talking about) then they can’t verify how many exist. It’s infinite and unknowable. Any time someone downloads the file, saves it to a flash drive, whatever, they’re making a copy. What am I missing here?