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NFT expert imagines a hopeful future where poor people serve as ‘real-life NPCs’ in games
Efforts to integrate NFTs into videogames have been largely unsuccessful for a few reasons, but essentially it can be boiled down to two primary points: 1. They don’t add anything of value, and 2. There’s a nonzero chance that the digital stuff you own will be stolen from you, aka a ‘rugpull (opens in new tab).’ And that’s without even considering the environmental damage caused by NFTs. But as seen in a new Rest of World (opens in new tab) report, that’s not preventing NFT evangelists from coming up with even worse ideas for the future. The bulk of the story by the nonprofit journalism organization is about a Minecraft-based…