I hope NFTs are coming back — in 2020 I invested in some NFT project I still have. I don’t remember why I did this exactly but it was more of a “Number Go Up” thing. I welcome being convinced that NFTs Are Inevitable and other apocalyptic narratives about future riches.

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I hope NFTs get way more boring and personal. Let me keep a receipt of every transaction, online and irl, privately as an NFT. Let me use them to give businesses feedback/reviews as a verified customer, accumulate them to receive loyalty discounts, or burn them as the ultimate “never going back” signal; privately share them with my data union to amplify my personal data income stream; attach a group selfie and a voice note to commemorate a moment in time with some friends in a way that feels more ‘polaroid’ than ‘insta story’. Fuck it, gimme an NFT photo both.

It’s inevitable in the same way fiat money was; there’s currently no feasible alternative to a social technology like this. Value is in the eye of the network, and we’re only limited by our imagination.

Ownership of most art will eventually be proven using NFTs, but NFTs-as-art will likely a passing fad. Doesn’t mean the number won’t go up tho 👀

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