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[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, people could donate directly, but some people decided to buy NFTs instead, and they wouldn’t have spent the money otherwise.

These arguments always make me smirk. Yes, of course I could use the slow, expensive, and exploitative financial rails that currently exist. But it's fucking fun to buy NFTs. And easy. It's as simple as that. I enjoy collecting these art pieces. I don't give a flying fuck of a shit if it's not actually "owning" it by some armchair lawyer's abstract definition of "owning". I support cool creators, the image appears in my wallet, I get perks associated with the token sometimes, and I have some prints of the art on my wall. I don't care, like, not even a little bit, if I actually "own" it or not from a legal contract point of view, which is just a social layer anyways. I verifiably possess it, and that's enough me.