![]() Squatting domain names comes to mind, but also registering your nickname first on whatever the next hot tech service is. After all, your business exists in NYC!Īlso every possible analog of vanity phone numbers that I can think of has been wildly successful. That was true because it created the appearance of doing business in NYC, which meant you must be important. It used to be that having a 212 area code number was very prestigious. ![]() This has been true since the invention of the telephone. Vanity phone numbers aren't a terrible comparison to the current NFT art craze.īut also, vanity phone numbers have been popular for as long as I can remember, in every location around the world. > phone numbers are useful, but vanity phone numbers definitely aren't solving any problems other than proving you have one These technologies enable new businesses to exist, like Uniswap. I'm also excited about webrtc and webauthn. ![]() NFTs are a technical detail, but they're exciting. ![]() I suppose there might be some genuinely useful or interesting non-fungible blockchain tokens, but entries on a ledger that say you own a jpeg or whatever are not any more interesting than entries in ISR's Genevan vault. The equivalent of email here is the blockchain ledger technology, the equivalent of Nigerian email scams are NFTs. These blockchain NFTs just make it easier for people who don't have the infrastructure of a company like the ISR to share one big ledger and dump whatever they want on there and call it an NFT. Really, both products are just selling a story- a physical ledger in a vault in Geneva in the first instance, now updated to be an entry on a distributed ledger. Whether that's any better than the ISR's legacy offering (a certificate and an entry in their own ledger) is up to you. No, NFTs seem like a scam on the order of "buying a star".īut good news! You can also get your star registered on the blockchain now.
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