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Re:TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's fro... by nefitty on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:18AM (#29267143)
The best analogy I've heard is, "Imagine you spent $1,000 for a painting. Now, instead, imagine you spent $1,000 to buy the receipt."
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Re:TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's fro... by ASalazarMX on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:21PM (#29267909)
And any other person can have an identical painting, but without the receipt.

NFTs are a scam to introduce artificial scarcity and make someone else pay for it. The "art" (speaking of the picture in the root comment) hardly has any value itself.

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Re:TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's fro... by metters on Saturday November 20, 2021 @02:18AM (#29286213)
I agree, but also have to add: Does any (normal, non digital) art (say picture or sculpture) have any value itself? Besides the value of the material of course.
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