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Re:Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized ... by miracle2k on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:27AM (#29723000)
This is not what fungibility means. A coffee mug used by Guido van Rossum may be non-fungible with other brushes of the same make, merely because I value its provenance. Everyone unaware that I am willing to pay a premium will treat it as fungible. It is irrelevant how many other copies of the cup exist.

Similarly, you can create a thousand NFTs linking to the same content, but no one cares except misguided NFT skeptics, who somehow think this is an important fact.

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Re:Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized ... by kordlessagain on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:23PM (#29787120)
If you want to exchange things of value, they must be immutable in and of themselves.

It is an important fact to realize the actual asset (immutable or not) is not directly tied to the tokens, especially if one is skeptical of this worthless technology.

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