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10 points by richardg 5 years ago | 7 comments

NicoJuicy 5 years ago |

NFT's are useless. They just link to a URL.

No property of anyone, but the person who hosts it... And can make it disappear ;)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nft...

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639074

Edit: I'm expecting downvotes. At least explain to me why NFT's aren't worthless with another reason than: "it's worth what people pay for it"

Fellshard 5 years ago | |

It's an attempt to create an ownership model for publicly-displayed objects in a way that only communicates value. It's trying to layer this physical-world model onto a virtual world in which those uniqueness constraints don't apply in the same way. At best, it's information broadcasting: "I can certify that these are my artistic tastes, and that I have the money to throw around to show it."

dumbfoundded 5 years ago | |

Comments like: "I'm expecting downvotes" contribute little to the conversation.

NFTs btw have plenty of uses, just most of the ones out there getting attention IMO don't. Most of the NFTs now are like trading cards, at least the successful ones. Why is there so much hate for digital trading cards?

As for actual productive uses of NFT, personalized tokens that sell time are one. Several prominent people in the space have self tokenized and sell hours as tokens. Linking NFTs to real assets also shows promise. It makes sense for proof of ownership a large, immutable record of ownership.

NFTs could additionally enable individuals to sell many goods and services with the built-in benefit of price discovery. Let's say I'm an instagram influencer, instead of selling posts through a broker who takes a large cut, I tokenize them and sell them online. If my price is too high, no one buys them. If my price is too low, the market gives me information about how much I should actually charge.

thow_away_soon 5 years ago | | |

> Most of the NFTs now are like trading cards, at least the successful ones. Why is there so much hate for digital trading cards?

From what I heard on artist communities, the huge electric energy demand that doesn't scale well. I like the possibilities NFT creates for fine art creators, but I'm more concerned about the ecological issues here.

NicoJuicy 5 years ago | | |

The potential of abuse by it-knowledged people is too big.

> Linking NFTs to real assets also shows promise.

No it doesn't. I wouldn't want my house tradeable on NFT's and it causes more problems for something that's already been solved.

Like crypto coins it lacks a central authority and legal consequences. It's a nice fantasy though.

Additionally, there are plenty of marketplaces to sell products and services. So they aren't solving any problem.

No Amazon that is doing a lot of real world marketing and spending money for that will give much "power to others" that won't help them succeed ...

Ever.

At most, if any would really get popular ( i doubt that), marketplaces will drop their rates and that's it. But this ain't a replacement for eg. The app store either. Since the delivery of a product or service is the easy part. There's a lot of functionality not included in NFT'S, eg. Update of Software or screenshots from a computer screen to proof they spend 10 hours on the service.

All there is now, is a link to an URL...

It's the whole blockchain vs crypto thing. If there idea becomes interesting, it will be developed per country, will not be decentralized or based on top of ethereum.

engauge 5 years ago | |

NFTs are only as valuable as the extent to which the artist has gone to socially validate your purchase of the NFT of their artwork. Which means that it's value is also directly tied to the total social value of the artist themselves. Thus, Beeple.

The NFT market will eventually reach a steady-state no different than the existing art world. But, smaller and more affordable NFT "trading games" (e.g., cryptokitties) might stick around for sometime.