"Non-fungible tokens" were not in any way invented by Anil Dash, despite his recent ambit claim - "colored coins" were floated in Bitcoin in 2012, use cases specifically including "Decentralized digital representation of physical assets". bitcoinspotter.nl/sites/defa…
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Replying to @GiulioWolfe @davidgerard
Normally I'd be inclined to agree with you, but his tweet is pretty clear: "When we created the first NFTs back in 2014..."
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2 Apr 2021
When we created the first NFTs back in 2014, @mccoyspace & I were trying to support artists and center their needs as blockchain technologies took off. In my first time writing for @TheAtlantic, I explain how things didn’t go exactly as planned since then. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

Apr 4, 2021 · 8:13 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @GiulioWolfe @davidgerard
You can feel free to read it as “when we created one early implementation of an idea lots of folks were thinking about, which had many antecedents and subsequent innovations”. It’s just a tweet, I didn’t think about it that much.
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fair enough :-) I mean, you did in fact do the thing, and colored coins didn't really go anywhere (though the idea later became Mastercoin aka Omni Layer, the ERC20-like idea for Bitcoin that Tether initially ran on)
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