Re:NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @08:57AM
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Replying to myself, it's actually not even that, you didn't even have the guy on the corner write anything about authenticity on the napkin, you just had him write the title "Mona Lisa" and sign it.
But you can prove this is really the very same napkin you had a guy on the corner of Park and High write "Mona Lisa" on, at 9:45ET on November 9th 2020. It's the very same napkin! So surely you should pay me what the Mona Lisa is worth for it, right?
I can throw in a napkin with "Brooklyn Bridge" written on it if you like...
It's like a certificate of authenticity that was just written on a napkin by some guy you found on the corner.
How much authenticity does such a certificate convey?
But then you make sure that napkin is really hard to copy! there's only going to be one napkin you got the guy on the corner to write on yesterday attesting to authenticity of something else. (There might be other napkins other guys on other corners wrote on, but only one copy of this one!)
Does it convey more authenticity by virtue of being really hard to copy?
Why does an NFT convey any "authenticity"?
From the OP:
> Alongside platforms that make no effort to prove ownership of artworks for sale, artists are waking up to find that their digital artworks are being sold by fraudsters to unwitting victims.
What authenticity do these NFT's "prove"? Authenticity in what?