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How are NFTs different from Bitcoin at all? The value of each is based only on speculation, they're premised on a manufactured scarcity to give the impression of being valuable because they are somewhat rare, people are only interested in them as a get rich quick vehicle... the comparison is perfect. I see no difference between NFTs and Bitcoin, so for someone to criticize NFTs as an investment vehicle and not crypto is the peak of cognitive dissonance to me.
Well, to give you a short answer, Bitcoin is a payment method, and NFTs are far from it.
You can buy BTC for $48k apiece, and since Bitcoin is accepted by 15,000 businesses worldwide, including major companies like PayPal, Microsoft, AT&T, Starbucks etc., the same day you can pay for their goods and services at more or less the same rate. Theoretically, we could be doing the same thing with NFTs using barter system, but good luck with buying an NFT for $48k and expecting provision of goods and services for this amount.
Kinda missed my point. I'm not talking about the literal differences between bitcoin and NFTs, I'm talking about what makes each "valuable." You probably should have been able to pick that up from the context of the rest of the post. Your post didn't address the substance of my post, which is how are you drawing an arbitrary line between NFTs and Bitcoin and trying to pretend they're different when it's the exact same thing that makes each valuable- large groups of people who arbitrarily agree they are.
And you're grossly overstating Bitcoin's utility as a payment method. 15k businesses
worldwide is nothing, and extreme volatility makes it a piss poor currency. Bitcoin is a speculative asset, same as NFTs. Anyone pretending otherwise is perpetrating a fiction.
You can argue for that, and I would respect it. Plus using ONLY the market as the main standpoint for your argument, I would say you’re right. But Bitcoin is more than the market. It’s also the protocol, the incentive structure, EVERYTHING about it that makes the system stick together IS the true value. NFTs are issued somewhere in a shitcoin blockchain that might not exist in 10 years.
The “art” in NFT are also not good. Most of them are worthless or will be, and stupid. It’s Tulip Mania 2.0.
Fair enough, but everything you're saying about NFTs are the exact same thing that's been said about Bitcoin (and continues to be said about Bitcoin by the naysayers) that you take such exception to. You're just drawing a line that around NFTs and saying "Come on, how is that going to be worth
anything in the future?" the same way the mainstream financial media has been doing about bitcoin since it started gaining widespread notoriety. It does remain highly amusing to me that anyone who thinks bitcoin is the future uses the same arguments against NFTs that they have rejected against Bitcoin for the last 10 years without a hint of irony.
Highly amusing.