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NFTs remind me a lot of the international star registry.
You're paying someone a lot for them to record some unofficial bragging rights in some unofficial database that literally no normal person cares about.
Wait...but the star is named after ME. It's mine, right?
It sure is champ
Omigod how do you know my name? Do you work for the star people?
Very much like that, including how there can be multiple registries, like International Star Registry, Universal Star Database, The International Registry of Stars, Universal International Star Registry Database, etc., all 'officially' naming the same stars.
I dunno. That’s kinda neat. Maybe in like 20,000 years humans will be exploring the Mongostein system.
You missed the part where literally nobody else will look to those registries to see what random people named them.
Doesn’t NASA do it? I dunno. I always thought it was kind of neat, but ultimately pointless.
Nope. The names are entirely unofficial. No one uses them.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
I've got a 50,000 dollar picture of your nephew