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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the age of the internet, nothing is truly yours.

Just look at NFT'S

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

they aren't, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They were supposedly anchors to claim ownership of things in the real world.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They're fancy receipts, and if people thought of them as just that it might be a technology with some limited non-monetary uses. But, the crypto grift was too strong.

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They sold snake oil nothing else.