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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by micromacrofoot on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:41PM (#29848064)
ok so you own a certificate that describes the content of a link
Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by AlexandrB on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:59PM (#29848173)
I think it's worse than that since, as described in the article, NFTs don't include a hash of what the link points to. So you own a certificate that describes the content of a link in the very literal sense of describing the characters in the link URL and not really anything more.
Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by dragonwriter on Saturday January 08, 2022 @02:53AM (#29849621)
> ok so you own a certificate that describes the content of a link

More precisely you have a certificate that says you own something (often ambiguous, though this could be precise; ambiguity is a choice in the minting of an NFT rather than a fundamental issue with the technology) relating to the content described by means of a link (the NFT may or may not include additional description of the content via metadata.)