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by mortehu 1913 days ago
Excuse my ignorance, because I haven't looked into NFTs too carefully, but how do you decide which blockchain (or even block) is authoritative for a given item? Seems like something like a painting could be sold on an unlimited number of chains? If it's time priority (oldest wins), what's preventing miners from copying artwork from slower chains before they're included in a block?
2 comments

The buying decision originates from the content creator, who will tell you which ones are from him.

NFTs sold on other chains are akin to copies of the Mona Lisa: worthless

Good question.

There seem to be ... quite a lot of them.

https://coinmarketcap.com/nfts/