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by 248ff 1856 days ago
> The only thing I mind are the people pretending a real problem has been solved with NFTs.

It's not a pretend problem at all.

The author could have used any existing auction platform too sell the rights to that video without involving NFT or crypto-currency. But they would never have gotten that much money for it. NFT solves that.

NFT is to auctions what adding "Blockchain" to your publicly-listed company-name was a few years ago, it increases valuation to ridiculous levels. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/what-s-in...

It's stupid, but it works.