Is there anything (other than lawsuits) preventing issuers from "printing NFTs" and diluting the value of those already sold?
It seems like a blockchain-based technology that only works when backed by the threat of lawsuits combines the worst aspects of the art market and the cryptocurrency market.
Digital art can be recreated easily, which is probably one reason why few people have been paying money for it.
Physical art, which people have historically paid for, is much more difficult to credibly reproduce than NFTs.
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Moreover if the argument in favor of NFTs is that they're not worse than what preceded them, then what's the point of introducing them? If the same problems in the traditional art market (especially for digital works) are recapitulated with NFTs, I don't see the point.
You can create copies of digital art easily, of course. But you can’t create a copy of a particular NFT (assuming the blockchain software works as intended).
For most of these famous digital art NFTs, the digital work itself is widely distributed online. But of course there’s only one of each NFT.
It seems like a blockchain-based technology that only works when backed by the threat of lawsuits combines the worst aspects of the art market and the cryptocurrency market.