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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

they aren't, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They were supposedly anchors to claim ownership of things in the real world.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

They're fancy receipts, and if people thought of them as just that it might be a technology with some limited non-monetary uses. But, the crypto grift was too strong.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Marking all your comments CC BY-NC-SA is a good bit.

The point of NFTs (beyond the pyramid scheme) was to enforce artificial digital scarcity at the individual level

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They sold snake oil nothing else.