I have my deed on the Solana blockchain, another rogue party also mints my deed on the Ethereum blockchain. Who has the final say in which blockchain we are using to determine the ownership of the house? If it is the government why wouldnt they create a privately stored encrypted database to handle these transactions securely to ensure that nobody is forging information or writing to it when they shouldn't. If the government says it is on the Solana blockchain whats stopping the next party elected saying now all deeds are validated on Ethereum and oops looks like I don't own my house anymore. Surely you must see this is way more complicated then just using paper deeds and trusting that they are legitimate and disputing in court for the infinitesimally small times they are inauthentic.
Because you’d have to contact them each time there’s a change of ownership, for starters. It’s also objectively less secure. There’s nothing “complicated” about this - you’re the one making it complicated for yourself, for some undisclosed reason. You can’t duplicate a non-fungible token - it’s not fungible. You can make a new pool, sure, but everybody and their dog will immediately know it’s illegitimate. There’s also the advantage of being able to trace the chain of custody - that’s a big thing as far as certificates of ownership are concerned.
Im not trying to change your mind, I'm talking here purely for the benefit for the quiet 90% of people who are online, who are lurkers, to make sure there is a crtitical voice in this debate, and that they dont fall for ponzi economics because some mod on a forum started making up arguments on why blockchains are super duper cool with no basis in reality. Blockchain technology has been a thing for 14 years and there still isn't a concrete use case for them except for buying illicit substance & ransomware. The internet didn't take that long to find utility, people immediately saw what it actually could do right then and there and said "wow this changes everything." No one had to make up "well hypothetically this will be good if we ignore the law economics and game design" arguments about it. Its a solution looking for a problem.
The quiet 90%? Oh please, people actively shit on NFT’s online 24/7 without knowing anything about the technology, how it works and what it’s intended for. To the average person the term “NFT” is indistinguishable from a JPEG of a monkey - that’s what people think when they hear it, hence the “hurr durr screenshot” jokes. If anything, I’m speaking on behalf of the silent 10% who do see the benefit of a standardised, digital ledger of ownership of just about anything that would require/could benefit from holding such records. There’s a stigma associated with this technology, for the reasons you’ve listed and then some, and that overshadows legitimate use and actual, real-life benefits in online discussions. Full disclosure - I don’t own *any* NFT’s, however I am fully aware that digital ownership certificates are absolutely something we’ll see in the future, not just as an oddity but as the de facto proof of ownership. Out of all the technologies out there the blockchain has proven to be the most effective way of achieving that goal - there’s not one “fake Bitcoin”, and there never will be. Sadly, we’re still in the “Wild West” stage of Web3, but that won’t last forever. I remember when the Internet as a whole was the (mostly unregulated) wild west - now you can’t fully operate in society without it. The Internet *was* widely used for illicit substance distribution, and far worse things - remember Silk Road? It’s like eBay, but for organs! Times changer. It’s coming, and silly pictures of monkeys are a mere test drive (one that I’m not particularly interested in, mind - so many better uses than that).
Again, as a pokemon player, I personally don't give a shit about it being unique from the pack. Just don't care.
Referring to my example, someone still made a shit ton of money off of someone else's work. I knew it was fake, but only because the artist himself found out. On accident. Clearly the person who bought the false NFT didn't know it was fake either.
So I'll ask again, because I did actually want an answer to this: how is authenticity guaranteed? I'm assuming you're significantly educated on this topic, and I'll trust your answer before I trust Google.
First of all, you don’t have to care and that’s fine. Nobody’s forcing you to participate. Second, I already answered this question. If there’s only one official pool then nobody besides Nintendo could add anything to it, as is the case with any other NFT. What you’re talking about is copyright infringement - someone taking an asset that they don’t own and minting it. That’s both a known quantity and it’s completely irrelevant to the discussion since the theoretical official Pokémon could only exist in the official pool. I can “mint” some Pokémon right now, that doesn’t make them official in any way, it’s just some NFT’s I made. They’re easily distinguishable from an actual, official release.