Historic Glass Plate Photos Sold as NFTs, Buyer Told to Smash Originals

That's idiotic beyond belief, and while I'm not an expert on NFTs, ownership of original, physical work, seems to one of the very few things they could actually be used for (the NFC being a certificate that you are indeed the rightful owner of the original).

Unmitigated fucking vandals.

Don't tell me this is yet another cause we have to take up.

One tries to be nice to everyone but by hell it's hard when there are scum about like that.

I already dislike NFTs, but:

> What makes Webb’s offering unique is the auction houses’ encouragement of the destruction of the original, an act that would have previously been considered heinous and unnecessary, especially against a historical object.

I find that disgusting. We don't have the tech to fully digitize an object so you'll be destroying historical information. This is cyber for the sake of being cyber.