legal paperwork/receipts,
garage access tokens,
home access tokens,
school library reserved room token,
improved certificates of authenticity for collectibles,
augmented reality trading card games,
had to start thinking, so I'll stop there.
Have you deeply considered any of these (the technology part of the technology),
or just today's grifters?
Don't be the one to get everyone to throw away email because of fake princes scamming people through it.
> school library reserved room token
Like, reserving a room at a library... is this really a problem for which the best solution is writing immutable code to a blockchain and exchanging tokens on a centralized platform that incurs tons of money in gas fees? Is that truly better than... a volunteer employee at the front desk trading you a conference room key for your driver's license? I feel like if this is the end all be all example of the power of NFTs, it's a clear admission that the tech is kinda worthless?
What am I missing?
to the point where large institutions are betting millions and billions on being a layer-2 player on it.
& if Ethereum isn't the "winner" at the "end", it'll be an Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible implementation.
like the "networking system that interoperates between all devices in the world", Ethereum is the next "agreed upon" frontier that can enable all of these things,
already is,
and that you may be lacking imagination as to what it could offer us to have that consensus.
A global, public, decentralized enough (not controlled by one nation-state or group, for better or for worse) settlement layer.
Why are MasterCard and Visa looking to settle on it if it's just me looking to solve the library room thing, like an egg looking for its chicken?