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Yes, that’s true but for the sake of the argument lets say it solves that problem. What do web3 and NFTs solve?
by samsonradu 5y ago
Yes, that’s true but for the sake of the argument lets say it solves that problem. What do web3 and NFTs solve?
- falcolas 5y agoIMO, nothing. NFTs are already centralized and primarily used as scams. If your non-scam NFT is blocked by OpenSea, it might as well not exist for the purposes of selling and re-selling. Where NFTs are not used for scams, they're being implemented in a proprietary blockchain and used as a method of extracting more money from customers with no new benefits (it's not like customers can re-sell their NFTs; see: proprietary blockchain). The only thing I potentially see as valuable from web3 is cryptographic customer identification - but this is something we've had for years (client certs), but which never took off. I don't see how "web3" will change that.
- can16358p 5y agoI work for several NFT art projects. None of them are scams. I know many people who work on other NFT projects which aren't scam as well. They are all on public blockchains, perfectly functional with relatively healthy communities. I think you are cherry picking the scam projects by using the word "primarily". We hate scam projects just as much as you do, they damage the reputation and trust of whole ecosystem.
- can16358p 5y agoCreating new ways to interact with the world. People can collect and trade items of virtually any kind that virtually represent anything digitally. They can also be programmed to perform tasks to do anything on the chain. Basically it's creating a whole new platform that isn't controlled by anyone and everyone can contribute to it as a user or a contributor (NFT creator, contract designer etc) to suit different use cases. Just because some actors use it to scam obviously doesn't mean that the whole ecosystem is bad.