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NFTs only make sense to me if there was "A World", a massive ubiquitous online game that was even more popular than FB. If such "A World" existed, then yes, NFTs would make sense because in the world you would need a way to present "luxury."

Another note is - I'm not sure if NFTs are used for money laundering (they probably are) - but I'd love to watch something like Breaking Bad in the modern time. Money laundering I imagine would be so easy now. Literally just use your drug money, buy a bunch of computers, mine crypto, buy useless NFTs, trade that around a few times, sell your NFT. Boom. Clean money. There's absolutely no need to do convoluted things like bribe a politician to open a casino or open a laundry mat anymore.

Not just "A World" but A decentralized world without a central authority that could just sell scarce goods. Think in game skins or second life property.

Can you imagine the positive spin on the patch notes when pre-2030 tokens get deprecated? It's certainly going to be due to technical debt on horse armour or something like that.

Imagine Facebook or Instagram adding an NFT display section to your profile, where you can show off the NFTs that you own.

Why would they do this, and not have their own collectables database which they could more easily make money off?

Yeah this is always the idea the pro-NFT crowd throws around. As if Disney is going to let Mickey Mouse be in some random video game. Imagine Mickey mowing down people in Call of Duty. Or Mario smoking crack and taking an axe to prostitutes in Postal.

In the hypothetical case that Pokemon start showing up in Facebook, then that's only because Nintendo has a licensing agreement with Facebook with established guidelines and limits for usage of intellectual property.

And beyond that interoperability isn’t a given, easy, or in the interests of game companies. Bringing a sword from Medieval Babes into Demon Masters as sensibly scaled assets when both run on different engines and were released ten years apart isn’t going to happen. Let alone transferring any sort of consistent behaviour.

You mean like the Steam Trading Cards?

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