Circular economies in purely digital situations, where the enforcement of some useful rights/access, within the ecosystem, is done is a useful thing already.

I do find value in being able to run the game forever, with or without the corporate host.

Who sold the NFTs though? Who claimed the authority to grant the rights, collect your contribution? Who is the issuer? I don't know much about Decentraland, but I presume it's a scammy fundraiser thing for the developers who really control the ecosystem. They get to take these risks with KYC and money transmitter requirements because they don't have any of their own money or debt at stake.

If it was more of an immaculate conception, and the land rights were issued to the node operators or the first players or the first winners, then maybe we'd have something. Legitimate companies will explore this when the legal situation is clear but like I said before, their profit interests make it hard to want it. They'd rather be a central issuer of all access and items, than allow players to recycle the content amongst themselves.

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Well, the history of decentraland is supposed to be a DAO. I’m not gonna defend their system because they essentially minted their ERC20 shitcoin and sold off the LAND and tokens, so to that point I agree with you.

But moving forward from that, as this all happened back in 2017, NOW, people own LAND and they own tokens and you can run a node that hosts the world and it’s assets and improvements to the ecosystem are ‘supposed’ to be voted on based on token holders in the DAO. I don’t think it’s necessarily a good model, but my point was just that if I bought LAND and was able to use it like actual land in the real world, but even better as I don’t have to pay for taxes, utilities etc and would be international, I think those types of NFT’s are ‘ok’, for what it is. Better models would be out there and if they could dump their shitcoins for SATs that would be better, but in saying that, the world is built using JS, so you can still accept payments in SATs and trigger things in the real world using API’s.