Using NFTs for generating concert tickets or supply chain logistics & tracking seems like it could be economically viable. I'd bet the biggest use case for NFTs at present is money laundering. It's hard to imagine someone having the talent to acquire $800,000 yet still being gullible enough to spend it all on a hyperlink of a hand drawn monkey with the expectation that they bought an appreciable asset.
Yes, but that's not the point
We're trying to find a use case for NFTs, a problem they solve. But there doesn't seem to be one, at least not one I could find in this thread
NFTs are a very easy target these days but, cryptobros aside, I do think that there are potentially some interesting uses for the technology. Of course, I don't think that those will ever be fully realised -again, because of the cryptobros- but I think that the world in which it is would be interesting to explore.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a crypto fan, but I felt that NFTs were at least a promising use case for blockchain (* in addition to money, to avoid derailing this discussion).
They solve a real world problem of ownership of digital assets in an interesting way. We need a solution here and NFTs proposed an "open" one. I wish we keep exploring this space.
Could you elaborate? There are a lot of proposed NFT usecases that sound superficially useful (e.g. magically preventing secondary sales of event tickets), but don't actually solve any real problems when you think about it properly.
My problem with the concept of NFTs is that I still don't see what use they really are. All the use cases I've heard so far can be better done (or, worst case, done as well) using existing mechanisms.
This article doesn't even try to make a solid case for their use. It simply declares them useful as part of their sales pitch.
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