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NFTs for a Future World

4 min readJul 30, 2025

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I just acquired a new NFT (Non-Fungible Token) [here]:

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Why? Because I believe that NFTs could transform our world, and where we could define the ownership of things through cryptographic tokens, and which can be traced through their lives with a blockchain record.

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We live in an old digital world, filled with old protocols and methods that derive from our paper-based approaches. Our advancement in the 21st Century has been to copy and paste our wet signatures into documents and create PDFs on them. Overall, this is just silly and has zero trustworthiness. The future must be toward using cryptography certainty with our transactions, especially to represent physical assets with tokens. These tokens are now often defined as NFTs — non-fungible tokens, and where each NFT is unique and can be owned by someone and transferred to someone else. So let’s build one.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Written by Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.