My mother went to a Fabergé exhibit in the 1980’s, and her impression of it was “When you looked at those things, you could tell why they had to have a revolution.”
And Fabergé Eggs are also made of precious metals and jewels, built with incredible craftmanship, were owned by one of the most powerful people in the world during a time in history about which hundreds of books have been written, and have endured over a century as a craft of artistic, cultural and historical importance.
So now NFT's are being added to the bitcoin blockchain through the use of something called ordinals. NFTs are still dumb but at least they don't have to rely on a third party hosting solution.
That's just art in general. But I don't think Fabergé eggs had a decentralized ownership or anything like that. They also required extraordinary craftmanship and expensive material, quite unlike NFTs.
I think the ownership of Fabergé eggs is decentralized. They don't have any dependencies like electricity. They just exist and one can judge their value, quite unlike NFTs.
Fabergé eggs are scarce because of the difficulty and cost of making them. NFTs are scarce because they are a one time issued code, attached "somewhere" to something that's extremely easy to make, and were in fact produced in large quantities in short time.
Each one was unique, and many of them represented important moments in recent Russian history - there's one that commemorates the completion of the trans Siberian railway for example.
Given what happened next, you could say they accidentally document the fall of the Russian empire... through the medium of decorative eggs!
I've always found Fabergé eggs interesting. It's awesome how it was just supposed to be a one off thing, but the tsarina loved them so much they became a tradition. I've been trying to make painting wooden eggs a tradition in my family, and I take a lot of inspiration from Fabergé eggs.
The big problem with basing your system of government on literal autocracy is that sometimes you don't get good autocrats. That said, the crisis of 1905-1917 would probably have overwhelmed a better monarch than Nicholas II.
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