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by wnevets 556 days ago
> They're just almost always using a centralized network (see: the Steam community market).

That doesn't sound like a NFT to me.

"A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

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Non-fungible tokens are not even necessarily digital. They are merely tokens[0] that are not fungible[1], as the name suggests. Digital non-fungible tokens are stored in a digital database, of which blockchain is one kind.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/token

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility

As the authority on the subject you should definitely correct the Wikipedia page