Non-fungible token: Difference between revisions

Let’s just work that logic through by analogy. Below, we have two images. One is ''La Gioconda''. The other is a picture I just drew of it. I accidentally put my coffee mug down on it but I think that makes it look a bit more authentic. Now, ''both'' of these are unique representations: one is hanging in the Louvre, as we all know, the other is on the 20 April page from my desk diary from last year. Wikipedia estimates the 2019 value<ref>Extrapolated from a 1962 valuation of USD100m: ''a suspiciously round number'' if you ask me, but still.</ref> of the ''Mona Lisa'' as USD 850 million. If we take that valuation as fair, I don’t think is is stretching things to say that the combined value of the Leonardo original and my unique token of it — to be clear, that is the ''real'' thing in my last year’s desk diary, not the feeble photographic facsimile below — is more or less ''exactly USD 850 million''.

With me so far? Now for the krazy alchemical step. Let’s say we ''burn'' the Mona Lisa. We may need Robert Langdon to help with that I grant you but let’s just say. What is the value of my token now? EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION BUCKAROONIES AM I RIGHT???