Pros and Cons of Non-Fungible tokens

Non-fungible tokens are getting famous day by day, and the competition among the creators is also increasing because there are high selling artworks sold for millions of dollars. You will be surprised by seeing the art and say, “ Is this the art that gets sold for millions of dollars? No, it is fake news, and no one will spend millions of dollars on this art. But you know everyone has a different perspective of seeing things, sometimes you like a thing a lot, and you will get ready to buy it for any cost, but simultaneously when you ask your friend, he will say that he doesn’t like it this art. So you will spend money if you want it, and others will not because it touched your heart, and it is the same in the case of the NFTs. But there are some good things and bad things about the NFTs you must know before investing or selling NFTs at this App

Non-Fungible Tokens in brief

Non-Fungible Tokens are a digital asset that contains unique value means you cannot replace these digital assets for the other digital assets. For instance, suppose you have 100 dollars in your bank account, and you ask your friend to send me 100 dollars, and I will also send you 100 dollars; it means it is a fungible digital currency that can be replaceable. So you can replace the dollars with the dollars in the same value, and there would be no difference. But non-fungible is nonreplaceable means no other item like that digital asset exists on the internet, i.e., it is unique in value and content perspective.

Should you buy NFTs?

As we see that Non Fungible Tokens are getting higher popularity these days, and many users are investing millions of dollars in buying these digital assets. Still, it has risk involved because it does not include the third parties and work on the people’s beliefs. When people start neglecting it, it will become zero, and no one will show interest. Thus it is up to you if you want to take the risk, and we recommend you to take process research before spending a bit on NFTs.

Pros of Non-Fungible Tokens:-

There are the following advantages that are attracting the more people to invest in these digital assets given below:-

  1. Growth:- The development of the Non-Fungible Tokens is rising because many crypto users and other people are showing interest by buying and selling this unique digital artwork on the decentralized system. It is attracting the current crypto holders who are helping make it more and more popular by investing in their crypto. So the growth of these Non-Fungible digital assets is rising rapidly.
  2. Ownership: It is challenging to claim that you created the artwork in this digital work because sometimes people want proof and will not believe without evidence. But listing on the NFTs marketplace will give you the ownership of the artwork you created and show it publicly. You can show the proof by sending the link of your artwork and will also show the current owner who recently has that artwork.
  3. Public record:- Since Non-Fungible digital artwork has no thrid party institutions involved in management, it will get recorded publicly as the bitcoin and ethereum transactions get recorded. So no one can claim after selling this artwork that it is mine because the public proof will tell the absolute ownership.
  4. Royalty to creators:- The first person who has created the artwork and listed it on the market will get ten per cent royalty whenever the painting gets sold to another person. It means that NFTs are also an excellent source of generating passive income.
  5. Crypto priority:- Since you can only purchase the NFTs by paying in the Ethereum or crypto coin, it creates the demand for the cryptocurrency that helps to increase the demand. 

Cons of the  Non-Fungible Tokens

There are the following things that will prevent you from stopping buying NFTs given below:-

  1. Digital art:- All the NFTs are available in digital form that cannot beat the physical artwork. The feeling of holding a physical painting is different from the digital artwork. You will get excited the first time at the time of purchasing the NFT, but after a few days, you will get bored by seeing the same things again and again. So the value of digital art only exists in our perspective or beliefs, but there is no value in reality.
  2. Copies of your owned art:- Many people spend millions of dollars to get the ownership of NFTs to show off to the people or followers. Still, many people are also taking the copies from the internet and showing that they have the same artwork collection without spending a bit. So the artwork you are proud of is just a belief or value in mind.
  3. No environment friendly:- Every buyer and seller has to trade Ethereum for listing and buying the NFTs. Still, when they sell in Ethereum, mines have to validate the transactions that will cost the environment.
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Rishikesh

Rishikesh Y Dube, 22 years old I am a fourth-year BLS LLB student apart from law school and my love for human behavior and phycology/criminology, I love to cook watch anime, and practice Mixed martial arts. I am a person who is keen to know and gain knowledge about everything on which I can put my hands on. I am also an IAS aspirant and thus interested in politics and all the sociopolitical and economical issues.

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