[hn8788]

> The only thing NFTs seem to offer is an extra middleman who can make money off of these transactions.

Even that isn't new. Valve has been taking a 30% cut of everything sold on their community market for as long as I can remember.

[egypturnash]

yeah, a lot of "web3" really seems to boil down to "I'm the person all the money runs through now instead of the existing players, also everything has a few more extra layers of complexity and abstraction for no good reason".