Art has always been the money laundering system....<p>There is talk about a secret currency that happens at the ultra-wealthy;central-bank-controlling level...<p>And what 'blockchain' did was find the chink in that armor, and the next level of currency was brought down to meet that vulnerability...<p>Now we are once again, tying 'art' (NFTs) to monetary stores of value - and in the digital realm, that could only be accomplished through a blockchain-type of model. (and modal (stats meaning)<p>So this is a hedge into digital rights via NFTs as a hold on currency-/-value of digital assets since you cant own the physical original, which would by premise, would be universally unique...<p>So we needed a way to track 'ownership' of an NFT created in digital terms (which are always fungible) --> this is why blockchain based value storing systems are important for storing wealth in the going forward...<p>In 50 years we are going to be trading IDEAS via whatever iteration of the information age we are living in at the time - and thus we needed a system of capturing, securing, validating ownership of 'bits' of information - regardless in the format for which they express to the perception of the humans' awareness...<p>I think this is what the ground zero version of NFTs on the blockchain are...<p>Blockchain-based-NFTs are the currency of the Transhumanists.