“Where did competition, the fundamental principle of capitalism, go?
Don’t monopolies make things worse?”

For any other franchise, the day an opposing kicker hit a record-long, walk-off 66 yard FG to win would be the most infamous day of their fandom.

There’s only one way the league can properly honor him

Nintendo experiments with open-world Mario, and it’s awesome

You and me both, sometimes the simple and stupid jokes work the best ;)

I laughed too hard at this.

Right Guard more like WRONG Guard amiright?

I’m surprised Kinja didn’t list the products as a slideshow.

The Mona Lisa, and any other piece of art produced physically, exists in 3 dimensions.

Certificates of Authenticity are based around the prospect that the item that has it’s certificate will be collectable in the future. To use your baseball card analogy if you can’t prove it’s authentic then it’s value is the same as a reproduction. If someone has a print copy of the Mona Lisa they are typically smart…

I think it’s telling that this NFT craze is beginning and centered on art. Now, I grant the excitement and promise some artists have felt with this technology, as digital art is something that is terribly undervalued.
To your point about the Mona Lisa, art’s value is highly abstract and out of track with reality, it’s…

Deviled advocate, my favorite!

And the art world has NEVER been mocked for its overinflated prices and sense of self-importance

Well, I mean people do make forgeries that sell at a high value. I should note though, your assumption about making a “perfect” copy of the Mona Lisa is flawed. You’d need 100% period correct materials, aged some 400 years, and “technology” can’t fudge time.

That being said, the companies that certify art tend to keep…

Can’t that also be said of anything of value? Technology allows me to generate a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa. Does that make the Mona Lisa worthless?

I think a big part of it is that NFTs arent the art itself. Its a token on a block chain that you own, not the art itself.

The biggest difference here is that this is digital content, which is constantly copied within your own computer. The version you see on screen was copied from a website to a cache folder on your main storage then to your RAM then passed to the GPU to be rendered to your display. Thus nothing is original.

with NFT’s you do not own “mona lisa” or its CoFa - you own a receipt that you paid X amount for “mona lisa”. that’s it.
Actual “mona lisa” is either owned by someone else, or is entirely free to anyone to download.

There has long been a debate about “authenticity” in the art world. If it turns out that the version of the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre is a copy, and the “real” Mona Lisa is in a vault somewhere, does that make the experience of looking at it in the Louvre manifestly different? What if you can look at a perfect,…

“Technology allows me to generate a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa. Does that make the Mona Lisa worthless?”