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What problem is that? We had art auctions before and they already supported money laundering via value inflation.



What? I said NFTs SOLVED a problem. They introduced a liquid global permissionless marketplace for digital Art. That's a solution for digital artists who previously had to jump through tens of hoops to get anything out there with any value.

I think we're agreeing but I'm not sure.


> tens of hoops to get anything out there with any value

Does it actually have value then? Money transfers / crypto payments existed before. So did services listing digital art. What did the nft provide?


please refer to the part where I said "liquid global permissionless marketplace" ?

Really tiring to repeat this 100x here on HN. For digital artists NFTs are a revolution.


The whole internet is a liquid global permissionless marketplace. You could offer me digital art ownership in the next comment and I could buy it from you. There's also lots of online galleries if you're after assets discovery. What does NFT as a tech add to this?


it adds an open-source, decentralized, immutable ledger

if you're a programmer, you'd know the difference between a single dev emailing you the repo and github.

You're effectively saying artists should be happy emailing each other repos (trusting that no one has screwed around with the code), instead of using a decentralized immutable form of version control.


I don't see why you'd need to share repos, or any code, or involve any ledger. I've bought art online before, sent the payment, received the files, and neither party was interested in the things you mentioned.


You couldn't purchase digital art before NFTs in a permissionless global market. period.


Sorry but I can’t lead blind men to water.


> What problem is that?

They made less money and can now make more money.




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