> My wife recently suggested one: NFTs minted by your university as proof of your diploma. Or perhaps your academic transcript. No way to forge a fake diploma again.
This is once again better served by a database. Diplomas are inherently centralized and issued by a trusted authority.
Guess we gotta keep brainstorming for use cases -- that's how technology development works, right?
Except it isn’t. The actual Jorge are hosted on open sea. No one actually stores the “product” on chain because it would be prohibitively expensive for anything pastba few bytes.
What makes you think you can’t sign as a trusted authority a decentralized object? Maybe before you condescend you should learn the utter basics of what you are talking about.
I'll grant you that sometimes there's just such a cool tech that you gotta hammer your head against the wall until you find something worth using it for. And sometimes maybe that creates something awesome (though I can't conjure anything at the moment.) I think that's usually a money-loser, and someone else building something like 140 character messaging ends up making the money.
In general though, I believe solving real-world problems with whatever tech is available creates the most value. (And I mean real value, not some numbers on a ledger that don't mean anything at all.) That doesn't mean tech for tech's sake isn't interesting.
This is once again better served by a database. Diplomas are inherently centralized and issued by a trusted authority.
Guess we gotta keep brainstorming for use cases -- that's how technology development works, right?