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>But how can you prove that you've paid an artist for a specific piece of work?

Again, another author talking about NFTs who doesn't understand what an NFT signifies. An NFT does not confer ownership of the underlying work it just confers ownership of the NFT itself, unless you ALSO agree to a secondary contract in the process of buying the NFT. Which, at that point, you've just negated the supposed value of owning the NFT in the first place.

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That seemed reasonable because almost everyone selling NFTs conflates the two unless pressed. The way the community talks to journalists and potential customers seems very bait and switch — go through this thread alone and see how many people are talking about ownership without even a tiny footnote saying “… of the receipt, not the referenced URL”.

> go through this thread alone and see how many people are talking about ownership without even a tiny footnote

I think it's because of how it's talked about, like you said. There's no real understanding among most people what an NFT actually is.

> There's no real understanding among most people what an NFT actually is.

Which immediately raises the question about why so few people learned what that was before they bought some to resell.

Likely FOMO, and being hyped into it by shills.

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