The difference with baseball cards is that nobody ever had the option to just "buy the Barry Bonds card" out of the gate.
The value came from the rarity of people all over buying random packs of cards, collecting them, trading them and the established rarity that came from that massive distribution coupled with holding the cards for a decade or more to see how one of these players career played out. On the off chance that you held onto a rare card of a legendary player, then congratulation...you have something of value. More so if you took good care of it.
There's none of that with NFTs. It's akin to handing out flyers on the street and asking somebody to pay for them on the basis that..."Sir, that flyer belongs only to you now. Congratulations!"
NFT's are just digital proof of an old adage.
"A fool and his money are easily parted." - Thomas Tusser
# I bought the rights to the quote from an NFT
The value came from the rarity of people all over buying random packs of cards, collecting them, trading them and the established rarity that came from that massive distribution coupled with holding the cards for a decade or more to see how one of these players career played out. On the off chance that you held onto a rare card of a legendary player, then congratulation...you have something of value. More so if you took good care of it.
There's none of that with NFTs. It's akin to handing out flyers on the street and asking somebody to pay for them on the basis that..."Sir, that flyer belongs only to you now. Congratulations!"
NFT's are just digital proof of an old adage.
"A fool and his money are easily parted." - Thomas Tusser # I bought the rights to the quote from an NFT