The historic artifact conman is also trying to declare by fiat that the thing in his posession is the cool one. What if different NFTs declare different swords cool? Or in the case that multiple NFT systems designate the same sword as cool, whose proof of it is the most “legitimate”. In the case of real swords I would expect the word of national museum or something like that to have the heftiest word on what is and is not cool. But that is broken because they have academic interest and otherwise are likely overdetermine it (ie even when nobody is contesting anything they have multiple professionals doing such assignments). Random certification mechanisms just for certifications sake might not have natural grounding.
As an analog one might think of guinness book of records vs olympic comittee. Where olympic comittee says anything it is unlikely anybody would take guinnesses word instead. On the other hand if you had a upstart competitor “general recordkeeper” then that would probably get overshadowed by guinness. But if the differences in establishmentness is small then it is not clear if the authorities list different champions whether that would be worth influencing. Just because a system is a A recordkeeping is not a very good guarantee or clue that it will be THE recordkeeping in the future.
The historic artifact conman is also trying to declare by fiat that the thing in his posession is the cool one. What if different NFTs declare different swords cool? Or in the case that multiple NFT systems designate the same sword as cool, whose proof of it is the most “legitimate”. In the case of real swords I would expect the word of national museum or something like that to have the heftiest word on what is and is not cool. But that is broken because they have academic interest and otherwise are likely overdetermine it (ie even when nobody is contesting anything they have multiple professionals doing such assignments). Random certification mechanisms just for certifications sake might not have natural grounding.
As an analog one might think of guinness book of records vs olympic comittee. Where olympic comittee says anything it is unlikely anybody would take guinnesses word instead. On the other hand if you had a upstart competitor “general recordkeeper” then that would probably get overshadowed by guinness. But if the differences in establishmentness is small then it is not clear if the authorities list different champions whether that would be worth influencing. Just because a system is a A recordkeeping is not a very good guarantee or clue that it will be THE recordkeeping in the future.