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I still don't get it. Sure art work is artificially priced. But if I buy a Picasso original, I can hang it on the wall, show it to my friends, look at it closely, burn it, even. Yes, "bragging rights" might be part of it, but I own something physical and (probably) scarce or unique. What do I actually get when I buy an NFT?


you go to Picasso with a piece of blank ordinary paper. The paper says "Guernica" on it. You get his signature. There is a notary with you and it is notarized.

That's an NFT. You now have a signed piece of paper that refers to a piece of art that you don't actually own. You're free to go to the museum (in NFT this is IPFS, or the regular web) and see it. But so is everyone else.

Now imagine instead of Picasso signing your piece of paper, an autopen is signing it. Pumping out however many copies of that signature it wants to in a day. And instead of a notary it's the blockchain recording the transaction.

That's an NFT.




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