> If OpenSea deletes your account, another app will happily connect to your wallet and let you continue where you left off.
Or not, because they all use the OpenSea API instead of bothering with the blockchain.
Or not, because they all use the OpenSea API instead of bothering with the blockchain.
It's like when I give my credit card info to PayPal. There's a picture of a lock on the bottom of the page, so probably safe, right? I'm on OpenSea and it says the NFTs are "decentralized" and that I have absolute ownership if I buy one. So how come people can still right-click-save-as when I post the image on Twitter?
The tech is solid. There really are NFTs and they cannot be stolen etc etc (barring bugs and phishing of course!). It's just that there's no way for a layperson to confirm any of that. People are just as likely to use some random Django+Postgres app than they are a real blockchain system because they're indistinguishable as long as everything's going smoothly.
A better example might be a DEX like Uniswap. Uniswap goes-down/bans-you/whatever? Use PancakeSwap or 1Inch or Futureswap or some other equally-ridiculously-named service. They all connect to the wallet that you own and cant be taken away from you.
The trick is that the Uniswap API/service itself, the smart contract, cannot go down unless the entire Ethereum network itself is down.