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Why Art Blocks Uses JavaScript in Its Smart Contract
This is what so many people overlook. NFTs are more than JPEG images. They are digital assets that represent art, experiences, community access, collectibles, or in-game items - all residing on the blockchain.
International Business Times • NFTs Are More Than Just JPEGs. They Are The Future Of Community, Access, And Ownership
The NFT does not by itself convey ownership of the underlying thing in either a legal or practical sense. It conveys ownership in some more metaphysical sense: If you buy a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, then the people who are part of the BAYC NFT community will treat you as the owner of your ape. This is essentially a social fact and can be true even ... See more
Matt Levine • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
All this means that if your NFT is removed from OpenSea, it also disappears from your wallet. It doesn’t functionally matter that my NFT is indelibly on the blockchain somewhere, because the wallet (and increasingly everything else in the ecosystem) is just using the OpenSea API to display NFTs, which began returning 304 No Content for the query of... See more
moxie.org • My first impressions of web3
So the parsimonious mental model of an NFT based on what we’ve discussed so far is that it is a promiscuous and vacuous digital social object. A thing that contains no substance itself, not even reliable pointing properties, but has an identity and can be traded, transferred, mixed and matched indiscriminately with other things in a social context.