Edit and Full Disclosure: I own approx. nine dollars and twenty five cents of Gods Unchained cards in NFT format. I have never bought a profile picture or spent more than ten bucks on NFTs. I do not speculate on or day trade any form of NFT.
The way the world thinks of NFTs right now as just stupid profile pictures is like a boomer teacher using chalk on a smartboard.
Everyone is so blinded by the conmen that no one is allowed to talk about the useful functions.
Everyone just jumps on the 'NFT BAD' bandwagon.
Gods Unchained proved this. It's a trading card game where all the cards are blockchain NFTs meaning:
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The owners of Gods Unchained do not control the trade market, and don't take a cut. FINALLY a digital card game where people can actually trade cards with each other like IRL.
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If the game vanishes tomorrow, I still have my cards, and other game designers can create programs that use them.
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Impossible to counterfeit or cheat add cards
There are so many excellent cases for the capabilities NFTs:
A) Streamers protecting and controlling their content, taking that power out of the hands of the platforms so the platform cannot reuse the streamer's content without a transaction.
B) Creator contracts can be embedded in the NFT, making an unalterable, publicly viewable record and preventing platform caused creator abuse. Additionally compensation can be automated and made fully transparent to all.
C) Allows creators to package their premium content in a platform agnostic way meaning you don't have to rely on users syncing up their platform, patreon, and funding source, allowing the same premium content made available to the purchaser on whatever platform they choose to use. This is extra helpful now that so many streamers use twitch and youtube at the same time.
D) Time gated content that doesn't run the risk of early leaks, automated content release as well (say when kickstarter stretch goals are met)
E) Any digital function on any platform with an API can be triggered programattically by code embedded in the NFT.
Most people who have heard the word 'NFT' thinks they're all stupid links to a picture archive somewhere, but they can be SO MUCH MORE.
Unfortunately, everyone being funny has chased away all the gifted devs so this technology is going to just stagnate and fade away like the Tassimo and 3dtvs and other technologies the world just wasn't ready for.