# What is an NFT?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801 "2022-02-02T15:33:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/82 "2022-02-12T11:46:40Z")
I’m starting to think that NFTs really exist to give YouTube creators something to talk about.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/83 "2022-02-13T05:29:27Z")
Seperating the chaff from the chaff?
> **[Marketplace suspends most NFT sales, citing 'rampant' fakes and plagiarism](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/nft-marketplace-shuts-citing-rampant-fakes-plagiarism-problem-2022-02-11/)**
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> The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/84 "2022-02-17T00:07:52Z")
Nufft is the past tense of Nuffle. After the Super Bowl, the NFL is NFT.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/85 "2022-02-17T00:09:45Z")
K-Nuffle-bunny!
> **[Knuffle Bunny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuffle_Bunny)**
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> Pages for logged out editors learn more
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> Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale ( pronounced k-nuffle) is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Mo Willems. Released by Hyperion Books in 2004, Knuffle Bunny won the 2005 Caldecott Honor. The story spawned an animated short film and a musical play, as well as two sequels. The Knuffle Bunny Series has sold more than 750,000 copies. The series' protagonist, Trixie, is named after Willems's real-life child.
> Trixie Willems steps live...
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/86 "2022-02-17T00:18:20Z")
Back when I followed the NFL, I called them “the Nuffles.”
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/87 "2022-02-17T00:26:09Z")
It’s simple:
NFTs utilize much of the same technology but are nothing like cryptocurrencies
NFTs are non-fungible conveyors of digital ownership
NFTs are here to stay
NFTs will change investing forever
That should get you started in the lucrative and exciting world of NFT investing!
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/88 "2022-02-17T01:37:23Z")
> [@msmith537](#):
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> NFTs are here to stay
Well, maybe the concept of selling nothing to idiots will stick around, but I expect that any given NFT will have a lifespan of a few years at most, because that’s how long the embedded URLs will continue to work.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/89 "2022-02-17T02:08:42Z")
I’m sold. Where do I mail all my money to?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/90 "2022-02-17T06:30:17Z")
Don’t mail your money, that’s so last century. Put all your money in a pile, take a picture of it, post the picture online, and send an NFT pointing to that picture.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/91 "2022-02-17T06:36:04Z")
Brilliant!
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/92 "2022-02-17T12:54:40Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> Don’t mail your money, that’s so last century. Put all your money in a pile, take a picture of it, post the picture online, and send an NFT pointing to that picture.
I’m stealing this
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### Author:  [@wjChia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wjChia)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/93 "2022-02-17T15:00:29Z")
a follow up to the previous video:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylqCqt64H9A)
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/94 "2022-02-18T22:05:51Z")
Soupy Sales of course. 🤪 😛
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/95 "2022-02-18T22:07:48Z")
As funny as that is, when I was consulting for a bank that used online check deposit, they passed around a picture of someone trying to online deposit cash that way. It was hilarious. Mind you, I guess it was very rare.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/96 "2022-02-19T01:30:03Z")
I dunno how true it was but I have heard about a guy who was sent notice of a fine about something or other. He faxed an image of cash. The court faxed back an image of handcuffs.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/97 "2022-02-19T17:56:00Z")
Lol! 😀 😄
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/98 "2022-02-21T06:02:40Z")
IIRC it was a ticket from a traffic photo cam (the kind that can catch you over the speed limit). The ticket came with the image that was on the camera when the speed gun tripped.
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### Author:  [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/99 "2022-02-21T17:28:37Z")
So apparently 200m “worth” of NFTs have been stolen by a phishing attack: [https://twitter.com/pluggedinn/status/1495246939838840840](https://twitter.com/pluggedinn/status/1495246939838840840)
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/100 "2022-02-21T22:48:32Z")
This thread gives me a sigh of relief, in that my investments through Nigerian royalty are pretty damn secure.
Tripler
I mean, it’s damn near impossible to fake being a Prince, with all the international recognition an’ all.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-an-nft/958801/101 "2022-02-27T17:42:22Z")
The latest NFT scheme: use the funds from selling 10,000 character NFTs to creat a movie franchise. The little drawings on the NFTs will become characters in the movies.
> **['Prospect' filmmakers to launch NFT collection to fund sci-fi movie franchise](https://mashable.com/article/prospect-filmmakers-nft-collection-the-fringe)**
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> "The dream is to keep The Fringe with the fans and out of the hands of Disney and the like."
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