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by kerng 1920 days ago
It's not linking to real world items, but to digital assets.

But it doesn't really.

I learned the other day that NFT standards don't even store a hash of the digital asset.

So, ransomware will wipe out a lot of NFTs one day, because the blockchain smart contracts dont know (have any cryptographic proof) what digital asset they hold.

Herr an article that was posted the other day: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2021/broken-nft-standar...