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by megaman821 1906 days ago
I can see some uses for fandom.

* If the tickets to concerts were NFTs, you could limit forum access to concert attendees as proven by their NFTs. * If purchase of a digital album was connected to NFTs, a band could offer a special perk to their original fans.

Personally, I don't get the art thing. Good art is inherently valuable because viewer of the art (my eyes) are built directly into my body. In 1,000 years it is entirely possible no one is going to be able to view a jpeg, or the host of the image has disappeared off the internet. Even URLs that don't disappear are problematic, you want a URL the connected to the hash of the file contents so you can be assured that the file is never changed.

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The concert ticket thing is perhaps one use I hadn't thought of. But that seems like a niche solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, and doesn't really solve it anyway? People often buy tickets often in order to resell them outside the venue. That just means the touter handing over the unique private key they used to buy the ticket along with the ticket itself, surely. They same goes for forum access, or anything else.