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Sometimes a new technology comes along that you’ve barely heard of but could change everything. Like how we own things. Adam & Chris are putting the fun in Non-Fungible Tokens—the relatively new digital tech also known as “NFTs”

Own The NFT For This Device & Virtue Episode

Are we kidding? No! You can buy the NFT for this very episode!

Chris & Adam Argue about NFTs

They use the same underlying technology as Bitcoin, but NFTs aren’t money—they are being used more like a digital deed—an ownership certificate that allows people to buy digital goods.

Some of the questions Adam & Chris argue about this episode:

• There are already people paying millions of $ for some digital cat images online. It seems crazy. Are NFT’s a fad?

• Digital things can be copied with just a right-click! Why does anyone care about owning an “original?” What is an original anyway?

• If NFTs stick around, what are the effects on the world?

• What is a Christian ethic of ownership?

Links & Resources

• OpenSea —Chris called this the current “Amazon of NFTs”

• American rock band the Kings of Leon sold an album as an NFT

• Artist Beeple sold digital art collection for a record $70 million

• “No, NFTs Aren’t Copyrights” by Harrison Jordan via TechCrunch

• “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”—1935 essay by Walter Benjamin that Adam brings up talking about how technology has affected our view of “originals”

• Manifold—NFT digital agency doing complex “digital contracts” with NFTs
  

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