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user-inactivated  ·  1205 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes

What you posted about using a NFT as a subscription is exactly what I don't get about NFTs - for digital things like a photo that can be used without actually holding the NFT, what's the value in scarcity other than the hope that someone will buy it later for more? And for something like a website subscription, the value comes from the centralized blogger hosting the website and writing new articles, so what's the advantage of the subscription being decentralized?

I get the use of crypto for currency and stock type things, and I kiiiinda get NFTs for art speculation, but everything else seems about as easily done in a centralized way & with less hassle. Everyone here seems legitimately into them, so I'm sure I'm missing something fundamental about what the normie use cases are going to be, but I really don't see them