# What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher - Host: [jackrusher.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/jackrusher.com/) - Saved: March 30, 2021 (2021-03-30T22:23:28Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1c1398e78d9b/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1c1398e78d9b.json ## What Jamie wrote Another take on NFT's and the innovation they are empowering. > When viewed in this light, the nature of NFTs becomes quite clear. An NFT is a mechanism by which an artist can publicly attach their cryptographic signature to a digital work of art. In other words, it is a technology that supports in the context of digital arts the same kinds of signed editions that have existed in fine art photography for most of a century. This is squarely focused on the provenance aspect of NFT's, specifically for Art. I think there are several other use cases that are valuable as well. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT180: Weekly Thing #180 / Tetris, Ever Given, Backstory](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/180/), Recommended Links ## Saved the same week - [The Director Series- Board Topics of Today - Insights from a Professional Board Member Part 2 - YouTube](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4e813c37283d/) (youtube.com, March 30, 2021) - [Koinly — Free Crypto Tax Software](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/06519b8af330/) (koinly.io, March 30, 2021) - [The Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal Is Glorious - The Atlantic](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ce1e53f7a33a/) (theatlantic.com, March 30, 2021) - [Annie's Mac and Cheese is based in the Bay Area, but Annie is not. Here's her story.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f1dd37a899a0/) (sfgate.com, March 30, 2021) - [Common Crawl](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a2299df0faa6/) (commoncrawl.org, March 30, 2021) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gif.html