And none of them should be called minting and all of it should be abstracted away from the user

waifu frame was a great example. I showed it to my (non-crypto) gf and she loved it, right up until the minting part.

"you mint because now it's yours forever and it's in your wallet and oh yeah you have to pay $20" -> who cares dude

"pay $20 and get 3 extra funny captions for your waifu" -> makes sense!

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i minted for neither of those reasons, but rather because i was spiritually compelled to