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At least you can hold an autographed baseball or baseball card, for example, it's a tangible thing that a baseball player took the time to autograph. The NFT c
by adventured 5y ago
At least you can hold an autographed baseball or baseball card, for example, it's a tangible thing that a baseball player took the time to autograph.
The NFT cards with fake / digital signatures are particularly pathetic.
Or the way a physical card is designed, the way it looks in real lighting, the way its material properties exist and interact in physical space. There are qualities to that, and the manufacturing process involved, that you can never replicate with NFT collectibles. The same is true with physical vs digital art. Art hanging on the wall can have a majestic quality when it dances with lighting; digital art is flat garbage by comparison in that respect (even when it's really good digital art; it's bound to a screen in most cases). Manufacturing a nice physical collectible card to a high quality specification is dramatically more difficult than spitting out NFT cards by the zillions; quality control is a huge challenge in collectible cards. There's a scarcity effect generated in physical collectibles like cards, in regards to quality of manufacturing (damage, corners, centering, errors, etc), that doesn't exist in NFTs (unless you intentionally fake that, which would be something beyond stupid).
There are many aspects of physical vs NFT collectibles, where the NFTs will never be able to compete, not under any circumstances. And there are almost no benefits that an NFT has over a physical collectible, with the supposed simplicity of digital storage & transacting being the primary (which also has an obvious, huge risk / downside associated with it simultaneously).
- 52-6F-62 5y agoOh I agree, but let’s not kid ourselves—the market around them is the same in abstract. For all the physical properties of a material thing we might admire, someone else might admire an NFT for the lack of those properties and inclusion of others. There might be no more further reconciling than that. People will like what they like, they’ll pursue what they pursue, and sometimes they will enjoy their share of delusions. At least it keeps life interesting.