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>It always links to a wallet I am Leonardo da Vinci. My wallet is ABC. Would you like to buy the Mona Lisa? I am NYC. My wallet is CBA. Would you like to buy

>It always links to a wallet I am Leonardo da Vinci. My wallet is ABC. Would you like to buy the Mona Lisa? I am NYC. My wallet is CBA. Would you like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? The notion that a wallet is authoritative is not grounded in reality. There is no central authority. There is no registry. There is no legal correlation. And your Octopus NFT isn't an Octopus NFT, it's an NFT with a pointer to a reference that points to an octopus. Great, now I just minted an Octopus NFT with a pointer to a reference that points to the same octopus. Now what? But you're claiming that we need to backtrace each NFT to some wallet which somehow (even though there is no authority, by design) I guess we'll find a MySpace posting by Mark Cuban saying it was his NFT. It borders on parody. Could Valve "mint" guns through a blockchain? Sure, they could. There is another game (an F1 game) where they do something similar for tradeables. But that is neither here nor there with the reality that NFTs as currently implemented are effectively equivalent to selling certificates offering people a plot of land on Jupiter.

RhodoGSA 5y ago
You're right, the crux of the argument is whether you believe wallets have authority. I regularly interact with crypto, have participated in ICO's and have bought and sold NFT's. People who are into NFT's do believe in the authority of wallets. Granted, they are about authoritative as a hacker news display name. I can ping the wallet and see if this wallets monikor has a large amount of crypto, see their past transactions, decentralized social media's, etc. A wallet only gains authority slowly as someone uses it. Say a particular NFT was sold by _X_, which is a big name who has sold alot of cool digital art in the past. If I duplicate the Art, or use a pointer to the same reference it was never generated, nor sold by _X_. The art is only half the story and within NFT's the other half is the transaction history and how you got it. It's cool to look at different transactions, how much it was sold for, etc. Also, dismissing NFT's because art is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are alot more uses for them, it just seems like people like to talk trash on things other people just generally think are cool and quirky.

RhodoGSA 5y ago

You're right, the crux of the argument is whether you believe wallets have authority. I regularly interact with crypto, have participated in ICO's and have bought and sold NFT's. People who are into NFT's do believe in the authority of wallets. Granted, they are about authoritative as a hacker news display name. I can ping the wallet and see if this wallets monikor has a large amount of crypto, see their past transactions, decentralized social media's, etc. A wallet only gains authority slowly as someone uses it. Say a particular NFT was sold by _X_, which is a big name who has sold alot of cool digital art in the past. If I duplicate the Art, or use a pointer to the same reference it was never generated, nor sold by _X_. The art is only half the story and within NFT's the other half is the transaction history and how you got it. It's cool to look at different transactions, how much it was sold for, etc. Also, dismissing NFT's because art is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are alot more uses for them, it just seems like people like to talk trash on things other people just generally think are cool and quirky.