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This is mostly true, but I'd argue legitimacy is harder to achieve than it seems, because of network effects. That said, the current NFT craze is idiotic. As you point out, there's lots of people trying to try external value to a blockchain using what is more or less nothing more than a "super pinky promise". And that's supremely stupid. Today's valuable blockchains have value by themselves. Linking blockchains to ex…
So here’s a legitimate question because I haven’t seen it asked before. Whats the value of a paper “certificate of authenticity” at the moment. My understanding is that with art if you can tie it to the original issuer, then it has value. And indeed I know there is some fraud law around forging such things. So NFTs seem fairly well suited to provide hard to forge art provenance with minimal effort. They also seem wel…
It's a given that at some point this will be tested in a court, with favorable results.