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Are we ready for NFTs?

I doubt there are many artists on social media who don’t know about the curse of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) comments and messages. Even if we don’t fully understand exactly what they are, there are very few of us who have escaped the barrage of approaches we’ve been bombarded with on social media.

Before I get on to my thoughts on them, I just want to try and give those who are unsure of what an NFT is, a layman’s rundown of the scheme. Fungible simply means the ability to interchange something with something similar; so, a physical thing like a

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