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.nnIt’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.nnOwnership 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 