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One big difference with KickStarter is the idea that you can sell your shares/NFTs to become rich. People on KickStarter are gambling that either they get thei
by ALittleLight 5y ago
One big difference with KickStarter is the idea that you can sell your shares/NFTs to become rich. People on KickStarter are gambling that either they get their game or lose their money. With NFTs people are gambling, primarily I think, on getting rich rather than on anything getting produced.
Another difference is some kind of accountability or vetting. Kickstarter, to my knowledge, requires identity verification. It's more plausible that naked con-artists could be held accountable on Kickstarter compared to NFTs. That's a bad combination of "Get rich quick" and "Easy access for scammers."
The thing that NFTs "solve" is moving digital goods outside of their originating contexts without a centralized party. That is, I could have unique avatars or DLC in any game already. NFTs don't help with that. I could also move my digital content between any games that supported it so long as there was some kind of central server to establish ownership. NFTs remove the central server part, but I think a lot of their hype overblows what they can actually deliver.