Between $3m rocks and $12k for an invisible rock, everyone is saying that we've reached "peak NFT" today, and that we will only go down from here. I beg to differ.

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NFTs are going to be with us for a long time to come. We have not yet seen the traditionally collectible content (e.g. Major League Baseball, soccer, etc) in digital form. We have not seen any viral NFT-based games. Nor have we seen any good NFT applications. >>
Most importantly, NFT-related tools are abysmal and the NFT ownership experience is pretty rough right now. The current NFT experience is simply a copy of the old playing card experience, with a lot of extra steps.

And yet, there's insane interest in NFTs!

>>
I believe what we're seeing is merely the tip of the iceberg of interest in the new digital collectibles. There's so much room for improvement. >>
We see pet rocks trading for a lot of money because there's a lot of interest and not enough worthy choices. The rocks might individually go down in value, perhaps, like all these people predict, but the NFT space overall is poised to grow substantially from here.

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It seems essential that NFTs, being fashion and conspicuous consumption goods, lose, and in fact need to lose, their coolness factor over time. The same way we can't buy a wardrobe once and be cool forever, we'll need new hip avatars regularly.
Every item, from paintings to clothing to NFTs, experiences some decay in hipness over time.

Let lambda be the time it takes for some item to go from its maximum coolness to half its coolness. Think of it as the half life of cultural coolness.
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