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As a creator you absolutely CAN validate ownership of your creation uniquely from anything else ever minted. That's the whole point. Someone else can't just m
by quartz 5y ago
As a creator you absolutely CAN validate ownership of your creation uniquely from anything else ever minted. That's the whole point. Someone else can't just mint the same thing and pass the same digital validation.
Example: If I were a famous artist, sold NFTs with my art, said you could only enter my gallery opening if you are an owner, you absolutely can't fake that by "minting your own". The signatures wouldn't match.
- verdverm 5y agoAlso there is an NFT for the Mona Lisa
- quartz 5y agoSure, and there are also billions (?) of photos of the Mona Lisa, countless fakes, drawings, scribbles, desktop wallpapers, and posters sold. The owners of those things aren't holding priceless art they can resell but they do definitively OWN those things despite their value generally being at or close to $0. It's the same for NFTs and your example proves my point. It's never been about the image, it's about the provenance. At least in recent history, visual content has always been copyable, and digital content PERFECTLY copyable, but NFTs are unique in that they attach an easily verifiable ownership record to digital content, much like physically holding something provides ownership in the real world to complement the physical characteristics. I don't see anyone in this post's comments calling for the end of paper because someone used it to print a photograph of the Mona Lisa and someone could potentially try to sell it (although I imagine some people argued this when photographs came about). New mediums have always started their lives looking like copies of old mediums.
- verdverm 5y ago> but NFTs are unique in that they attach an easily verifiable ownership record to digital content Attach to as included with the download, or point at as a separate piece of data?