NFT
also referred to as: nfts
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about NFT, oldest first
Jul 13, 2021 bullish
Benedict Evans compares crypto and NFTs to early open source movements
“I kind of tend to compare crypto, blockchain, whatever you want to call it, a lot with open source, which had an all of that sort of millenarian fantasy, and also was very important, like half of which didn't happen, but it is very important. And, you know, th…”
Nov 15, 2021 neutral
Evans: NFTs are architectural software primitives, not fundamentally about art
“NFTs aren't about art either, just as crypto isn't about money.
the point, you know, what we're still doing is trying to work out what the building blocks are.
And so the NFT might be another building block within how a crypto social system or publishing syst…”
Oct 31, 2022 bearish
Evans: Metaverse discourse is an inorganic, utopian wishlist rather than reality
“It's this top-down, centralized, inorganic, deterministic, predetermined, sort of ideal, republic, utopian vision of this is how the internet will work. And it's got all these kind of other ideas attached to it, like I was describing this as like Katamari Dama…”
Jul 1, 2024 bearish
Nov 16, 2025 positive
Evans: Skeptics dismissing AI as useless or like NFTs are ignoring reality
“The real idiots are the people who are just saying, oh, none of this works, and it's all nonsense, and it's just a stochastic parrot, and it's useless, and I don't know what it's for and this is all, like, nonsense, and this is a rerun of NFTs. Because these p…”