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You can't turn a real Van Gogh into a NFT. If anything the actual painting is the real life NFT to the image that is public domain on the internet. By destroying an original you own you are just burning money.

And by doing that, you will also piss off pretty much everyone on the planet, and no one will want that (digital) NFT. In fact, I wouldn't want to take that shameful NFT even if you paid me for it.

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I would rather not leave it to chance. If there aren't regulations yet, they should pass some ASAP. It didn't matter how many millions of people cared about Cecil the lion; it still took just one rich asshole for him to lose his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Cecil_the_lion

Someone burned a Banksy print and converted it into an NFT. It's certainly possible. In the US, there are moral rights of an artist that would probably make the destruction of work illegal, but that might only apply to living artists.

I feel what your talking about is a non issue. Now, I think NFT is all a scam but I do believe that people think they can make money out of it.

NFTs are for digital artworks, it is an artificial way to create scarcity. A physical painting is already scarce. Burning an actual Van Gogh would be like burning down a house and saying it's okay because the deeds to the house are fine.

NFTs aren't for digital artwork, but digital artwork is one application of the NFT token standards.

Oh, I bet Martin Shkreli or a protege would buy it in a heartbeat.

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