Doubts about the NFT are becoming more and more certain: it is a bubble inflated far beyond its real potential. Non-fungible tokens, which have already been discussed in detail in this addendum, are records that are made on the blockchain to determine that someone “owns” a digital asset, from a piece of art to a recorded basketball game. But, what seemed like a solution to simulate a shortage of easily copied digital goods has become a scheme to grab the savings of those who want to get rich quick. The specialized publication Chainalysis found evidence of one of the mechanisms that allow artificially inflating prices.
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The big news that placed NFTs in the social imaginary was the sell-off. $69 millionfrom the play “Weekdays-First 5000 days”, a combination of photographs taken daily for thirteen years by artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, at Christie’s auction. The work, a kind of digital collage, is available online and can be copied, printed or shared with friends. Moreover, even the person who bought the NFT cannot collect…
