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Re:It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how... by plainnoodles on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:28AM (#29876293)
There is also a real reason for it not to be done with NFTs: it would take about thirty seconds for someone to be scammed and open a support ticket with [whoever - it won't be the right person, but I guarantee someone is getting a support ticket] and they obviously won't be able to reverse the transaction, and also unclear if they could even ban the scammer (right now, bans are per-server, unless server owners have coordinated otherwise, which they generally don't). Regardless, the user is going to have a bad time, versus a system using a mutable system, where a human could investigate and reverse the issue.

Obviously support agents make mistakes sometimes too, but that's a heck of a lot rarer than scams in MMOs.

Re:It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how... by depaya on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:36AM (#29876428)
This exact point has been my hesitation with NFTs in general. I think the immutable nature of NFTs is actually very incompatible with human nature; we make mistakes and a completely unforgiving system is only going to make life harder.