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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”.

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> 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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