[adyus]

I'd argue that this limitation is artificial as well. With some painting forgeries, you're getting down to the molecular or brushstroke level of differentiation. It's all about the value that we humans assign to what's considered "an original", and I think that's what's happening with NFTs today. Unlike tangible art, however, I think NFT art is much more volatile and prone to the Beanie Babies effect if its popularity wanes.

[platz]

> what's considered "an original", and I think that's what's happening with NFTs today

An original what? Remove everything off-chain from the conversation. All you have left is a small amount text (which itself is *information* !!) in a distributed database. Thats no more original than the particular instance of bootloader code in my desktop computer.

[adyus]

I agree with you. Removing anything off-chain from the conversation, we're left with the equivalent of selling a million pixels on a web page (but at least there was some utility to that, in the form of advertising).