Holding a zen lineage, the papacy, every Nobel prize, every olympic gold medal and a driver's license are non-fungible tokens.

To be saying that NFTs have no use is absolutely ridiculous. People just don't abstract from "ape image" to the underlying concept.

I will not stop beating this horse

@niplav Part of it is the disconnect between the concept of a non-fungible-token and the current NFT blockchain implementations.

People who don't understand the concept criticize NFTs for bad reasons like "it's just a token who cares". And NFT enthusiasts rightly point out that we care a lot about symbols of things not just the things themselves.

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@niplav But the blockchain tech platforms are a long way from replicating "real world" NFTs. The biggest problem is losing keys.

If I lose my drivers license I can apply for another. If I lose my NFT keys it's over. By design. There shouldn't be anyone else with my account access, by the "not your keys, not your coins" principle.

@niplav The real world can get away with being so insecure because it costs so much to operate in reality compared to cyberspace. Massive proof-of-work burden.

@aquarial Yeah. Might one attribute a bunch of hostility towards blockchains to the the fact that in the best case they make social reality deterministic? (but then the commonly leveraged scam accusation is confusing)

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