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Yeah, then when someone loses or has stolen the keys to that wallet, the domain is forever gone.

jedberg 5y ago
Like how when someone steals your car it's just gone forever? There still exists a legal system in which the NFT could potentially recovered. Yes it's harder with easy cross border theft, but that just means we need better global treaties.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  Apples and oranges. If your car is stolen, there's a potential for it to be physically found and returned. If someone somehow finds the private key to steal an NFT, they could steal the NFT and then delete the private key for the new address that owns it. At that point, treaties don't matter. The ownership exchange is permanent until someone can derive the private key from the public key, which if someone did, then ALL NFTs could be stolen.
  - jedberg 5y ago
    Sure but if they delete the private key then they don't own it anymore either. It would be like destroying the car. And yeah, if someone steals your car and destroys it, you can't have it back. There's also an easy fix for this. Make the NFT include a smart contract that requires periodic "checkins" that require the private key, and if the checkin fails, ownership reverts the previous owner or another address specified in the smart contract. Or attach a smart contract that requires registration with a third centralized party. NFT technology can interplay with existing legal frameworks and protections with the right programming.
    - rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
      It can't, and never will. The more you build the central controls, like trademark enforcement, to the system, you might as well replace it with a central database and licensed registrars and thats what we have now. The global DNS namespace is heavily controlled. I very much doubt that these funny namespaces will be anything other than a fad used in niche applications. Metamask supports .eth, fine, but you wont be pointing at your https server with it if you expect grandma to resolve it. We have seen it before, many times. NewNet isnt a thing this decade. You cant invent arbitrary TLDs and expect the internet to use em.

Like how when someone steals your car it's just gone forever? There still exists a legal system in which the NFT could potentially recovered. Yes it's harder with easy cross border theft, but that just means we need better global treaties.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
Apples and oranges. If your car is stolen, there's a potential for it to be physically found and returned. If someone somehow finds the private key to steal an NFT, they could steal the NFT and then delete the private key for the new address that owns it. At that point, treaties don't matter. The ownership exchange is permanent until someone can derive the private key from the public key, which if someone did, then ALL NFTs could be stolen.
- jedberg 5y ago
  Sure but if they delete the private key then they don't own it anymore either. It would be like destroying the car. And yeah, if someone steals your car and destroys it, you can't have it back. There's also an easy fix for this. Make the NFT include a smart contract that requires periodic "checkins" that require the private key, and if the checkin fails, ownership reverts the previous owner or another address specified in the smart contract. Or attach a smart contract that requires registration with a third centralized party. NFT technology can interplay with existing legal frameworks and protections with the right programming.
  - rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
    It can't, and never will. The more you build the central controls, like trademark enforcement, to the system, you might as well replace it with a central database and licensed registrars and thats what we have now. The global DNS namespace is heavily controlled. I very much doubt that these funny namespaces will be anything other than a fad used in niche applications. Metamask supports .eth, fine, but you wont be pointing at your https server with it if you expect grandma to resolve it. We have seen it before, many times. NewNet isnt a thing this decade. You cant invent arbitrary TLDs and expect the internet to use em.