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>> Never in history has anyone been able to buy shares of highly coveted art

What? Anyone can buy a part-share of any work of art. Want to own a 5% share of the Mona Lisa, just ask. If the owner want they can sell you a percentage of that object. Or you can buy a percentage without ownership rights. Or do anything else you want. Property law and the concept of partial ownerships has been around for thousands of years. Most every possible permutation is available should two parties agree.



With NFTs you don't have to ask.


So if you have an NFT I can buy 5% of it from you without your consent? How does that even work?


The owner of the NFT would have to fractionalize it, then anyone can buy fractionalized tokens that are backed by the NFT.


isn't that the asking part?


Yes.




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