0.1 - NFTs 101 — What is an NFT?

To start, let us think back to a simpler time,  a time when you could only purchase art from a local artist, and when art collecting was reserved for a select group of connoisseurs usually employed by museums and rich people. What gave the art collected value? What made a sketch from Da Vinci worth more than your local painter’s entire collection? The answers to these questions are fundamental in understanding what an NFT is (non-fungible token) and why it is revolutionizing the world.