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by zemptime 1634 days ago
This could be interesting. Value is assigned by people, so the fact the credentials for a given work reside somewhere else with 'less legitimacy' would mean yes - you could copy it. However this other chain would be entirely illiquid.

But...the interesting part. What happens when cross-chain asset movement is much simplified? I don't see there being any issue with legitimacy (original owners could still verify ownership, you couldn't). But if you flooded original chain with fakes, uh...

Talked myself out of it. nevermind

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Flooding the original chain with fakes doesn't make them look real: they are different tokens. It isn't like computers are squinting at the hashes and timestamps and public keys and getting confused as to their identity.