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> when you remove the human greed part

So they are theoretically a good idea with no practical application in the real world.

Kinda like the idea of using NFTs as tickets (for concerts or stuff like that). We recently had an issue with false tickets during a football match in France, I'm sure you can use NFTs here, with a good UI (so unlike 99% of crypto) (not necessarily on a public Blockchain tbh).

But why do that? What do you gain with a process that is more involved, slower and open to many forms of attack?

The problem with good applications of NFTs is that we still do not know what an NFT is.

In particular there are a lot of variables around reselling restrictions, profit sharing, meaningful ownership, copyright, etc.

If you figured out all those variables, they would have to be legally enforced by a legal authority -- meaning there wouldn't be a purpose to use an NFT as a "blockchain authority" anymore. They're fundamentally useless.

That doesn’t change the fact that it has no application in the real world beyond being meaningless garbage pushed for a grift.

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