Ownership doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need laws and rights, which requires courts to adjudicate and police/military to enforce; and that in turn requires tru

Ownership doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need laws and rights, which requires courts to adjudicate and police/military to enforce; and that in turn requires trust in a governing state actor. For NFTs specifically, you still have to trust whatever chain and transaction says you actually own it. And there's nothing that stops someone else from also claiming they own the original except for the centralized statement of the originating party; nevermind the fact that digital bytes have no "original" anyway.