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[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Digital files are infinitely replicable and are indistinguishable from each other, which is evident using md5 hashes and similar technologies. They are meant to be exactly replicated and easily distributed. It is one of the most important components of network computing and an underlying, required principle for every large website on the internet. The originating file has no more significance or importance than the copies that function identically in every way. We don't put the first copy of Microsoft office in an museum because it would be fucking moronic. You copy it and then you have the original.

Your collection of NFT "originals" has no value. Get out before the market completely collapses. I guarantee your NFTs will be worthless in less than a decade. .