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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7994721, member: 84744&quot;]I suspect much of this thread is based on a misunderstanding of blockchain.&nbsp; I&#039;m no expert (extremely far from it!) but the value of blockchain seems to be that it makes something impossible to duplicate.&nbsp; That&#039;s like having money that&#039;s impossible to counterfeit... which lends it a little value on its own.&nbsp; Then there&#039;s also a guarantee of limited numbers.&nbsp; In the case of bitcoin, the limitation is imposed by the mining algorithm.&nbsp; In the case of NFTs the numbers are limited much more drastically, sometimes to 1 only; in the case of the OP, to ten only.&nbsp; Finally, due to the distributed nature of blockchain, there&#039;s a guarantee of persistence over time.&nbsp; These things can&#039;t just disappear because of some glitch somewhere.&nbsp; (So [USER=59677]@Burton Strauss III[/USER]&#039;s concerns are completely misplaced.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Once someone actually places a legitimate (i.e. not deceptive in some way, like buying from yourself) value on one of these absolutely unforgeable, indestructible items of limited supply (say, someone buys one for a hundred bucks) it will tend to retain some of this value based on the special characteristics of blockchain.&nbsp; The trick is getting people to buy some in the first place.&nbsp; No doubt many NFTs will stay at value zero forever, just like many cryptocurrencies will never take off.&nbsp; But real value is generated when enough people agree to value the thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the OP coin isn&#039;t really a collector&#039;s item.&nbsp; It&#039;s a unit of cryptocurrency.&nbsp; At least that&#039;s my beginner&#039;s conclusion... would be very happy to be corrected/enlightened by someone who actually knows about this stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I prefer itty bitty coins to bitcoin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386887[/ATTACH]</p><p>Athens tetartemorion, c. 393-294 BCE, 0.17g and 5mm - one of the last holdouts of the move from silver to AE token coinage.&nbsp; Token coinage which enough people decided to value...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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