first of all, NFTs are an attempt to do something no one should want in the first place (impose scarcity on digital goods to make the more closely resemble physical goods)
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everything about this except the NFT part is good, please do not ever do anything with NFTs, there is nothing good about NFTshttps://twitter.com/RuralCOUnited/status/1389547512973910016 …
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second of all, they do not and cannot actually accomplish that (bad) goal: if you buy an NFT "of" a JPEG or an MP3, you are theoretically the official "owner" of _that one copy,_ but there's no such thing as an "original", and all copies are perfect and indistinguishable.
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so they're an inherently doomed attempt to do a bad thing, but third and most importantly, because this is all done with blockchain tech, they're an ecological disaster.
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I'm sure @/Theophite is tired of being tagged into bitcoin discourse, but to paraphrase him, nfts are like idling a fleet of semis 24/7 to make solved sudokus you can speculatively invest into nominal ownership of one copy of a file whose marginal reproduction cost is zero.
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you have no real ownership rights because your NFT receipt only pertains to one copy of the jpeg, and nothing either technologically or legally prevents anyone else from making unlimited (completely perfect, indistinguishable) copies of it too.
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don't "mint", buy, or sell NFTs. explain to your friends why they shouldn't. don't support people who do. all of this goes for cryptocurrencies in general, too.
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