>Nothing would prevent the author from just issuing a lot of NFT's pointing to a lot of copies of the same art piece Nothing prevents an author from just issui

>Nothing would prevent the author from just issuing a lot of NFT's pointing to a lot of copies of the same art piece Nothing prevents an author from just issuing a lot of duplicate art and claiming they are the original copy. Except it's fraud and people would likely figure it out over time. That's the exact same scenario as the blockchain except it's even harder for the artist to cheat as everyone can see the blockchain so when the artist makes copies and tries to sell them then everyone can easily see that they are frauds. >you can't even prove that it at one time pointed to a specific image Most NFTs use IPFS which uses hashes to uniquely identify files and even if the file disappears from the internet it can be recovered by anyone who still has the original file and be back online.