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It’s definitely early, but not too early to see it once you dive in. NFTs are a very small off shoot of what web3 is about to offer. Jpegs and songs will be part of it, but not likely the biggest part.

I don’t think I’ll ever be a buyer of NFT jpegs but I can still appreciate what is possible

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>NFTs are a very small off shoot of what web3 is about to offer.

What else do you think web3 can offer besides NFTs? I'm genuinely curious because I hear a lot of rumbling about web3 but don't really see much being done other than NFTs.

Storing Media assets on the chain itself would be incredibly expensive. It’s why 99% of app NFTs is just a receipt pointing to a url.

Now could the blockchain replace or augment dns. Totally. But not sure I’d call that web3.0

IPFS is decentralized storage and is a big part of what web3 is. Many NFTs use IPFS urls and many dapps are hosted on it. Browsers can resolve them today via centralized gateways like ipfs.io and some browsers (like Brave) support IPFS natively.

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