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I’m In Love With These Animal NFTs

Ponies, Shibus, and CryptoKitties—oh my!

Daemonwings are a unique CryptoKitty trait. Image by CryptoKitties

I’ll admit to being a bit turned off by NFTs when I first started reading about them earlier this year. First, the word “fungible” is gross. So is someone paying bazillions so they can say they owned a stupid tweet, IMHO.

After the initial vicarious sticker shock wore off, I reflected on how NFTs aren’t really about NFTs just like cryptocurrency is about so much more than money. The idea of registering provenance and ownership of anything in a decentralized blockchain is a revolutionary one.

Maybe NFTs are just a fun way (mainly, for rich people) to explore possibilities and work out the intellectually property kinks so we can start using the blockchain for important things like paying artists, equitable land transfers, and personal data rights, I thought.

Then I discovered the cuddlier side of the crypto world and suddenly stopped caring about anything except animal NFTs and how cute Shibu Inu dogs are.