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Ok but all of those examples have real world uses. Getting diapers or dog food delivered, buying stocks for free, big mac delivery — these are all improvements on what existed before.

NFTs have…???

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Go back to 1999, and diaper delivery via fedex was as useless as a digital token.

The useless part was “....delivery via fedex” because of high cost, unreliability etc. The diaper in itself was and is used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world day in and day out. In fact once even the “delivery” part is very useful at a certain price point.

I’m struggling to connect NFT as a solution for addressing a need in a similar way. Is it something niche like a high end art that earns a few million ultra rich people the bragging rights?

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