Digital Scarcity

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Lessin: Digital collectibles are nonsensical because digital scarcity is completely artificial
“I think you have to go back to the fundamentals of the idea of a digital collectible is, like, in my mind, fairly nonsensible. Like, the whole point of digital technology is you can infinitely replicate things for free, right? So, any scarcity is fundamentally…”
Sam Lessin Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 32:37 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
a16z Insight
Carlson-Wee: Bitcoin enables internet digital scarcity and sovereign-free finance
“It means that for the first time you can have digital scarcity on the internet, And of course you could move to a global unified financial and monetary system that's outside the scope of any sort of sovereign state political control and is really opt in by all…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee May 8, 2019 ▶ 1:03 Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
a16z Opinion
Dixon: NFTs provide promising new business models across creative industries
“And so one of the really exciting things to me about NFTs is the idea that you can reintroduce digital scarcity and have Whatever, exclusive album art, exclusive, whatever. Maybe this is, to me, it seems like a very promising new business model, not just for g…”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 43:49 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'

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