In the spring of 2021, a pre-vaccine public desperate for yet another new hobby that could be done via the computer discovered web3 and blockchain. Instead of just trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the power of the blockchain was harnessed for something called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. The essence of NFTs, and I’m sure even the most generous and open way I could phrase this will anger the NFT guys, is something like: “What if instead of being able to copy a digital file, you could What if transferring that file to someone else was really annoying and unnecessarily complicated, making the file worth a certain number of dollars?

NFT technology can be applied to almost anything. A token is minted on the blockchain, and that means…