Even if ownership of digital assets or false scarcity were good ideas, NFTs never did any of this. The spec was technically amateurish — basically just URLs in

Even if ownership of digital assets or false scarcity were good ideas, NFTs never did any of this. The spec was technically amateurish — basically just URLs in a bit of JSON in a slow database, with barely any connection to the asset. NFTs allowed regular non-IPFS URLs without any checksum, which allowed HTTP servers to change the asset at any time! And they had absolutely no uniqueness checks, allowing automating piracy! https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726556/signal-founder-moxie-marlinspike-nft-whim-change-platform-shit-emoji-fragility https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726556/signal-founder-... You could literally copy an image, and make a new token for it, and there was no way to decide which token was the true one for any given image, except maybe if you trusted some central authority, haha.