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by ceejayoz 1621 days ago
It's a little ironic to complain about a bad explanation without giving an explanation as to why it is one.

(To be fair, a better analogy would involve OP setting fire to a rainforest somewhere as part of the process.)

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Yes, I agree. Added a more truthful explanation to what an NFT actually is.
Your explanation is nonsensical.

> If we continue the analogy with paper, then a NFT is a piece of paper with a unique identifier that cannot be copied. If you have that piece of paper you know that A) No one can have the same piece of paper without having that actual paper and B) no one can fool someone else they have that same paper (based on the ID).

This is where the entire argument falls apart trivially. The problem is that NFTs are just random pieces of paper containing a pointer. They're not guaranteed to be the only pointer, the content on them can be copied, they're not actually scarce resources, and everyone can (and does) fool everyone else about whether or not they have the same paper and/or the same pointer.

Additionally with NFTs, the pointer is often to some random centralized resource holder/single server in the 'centralized fiat' world of trust, and quite frequently that turns out to be a $5 VPS running apache that someone stops paying the bill for.