Namecoin was released in 2011 — way before the NFT craze. This is indeed the most attractive reason for a globally distributed database of "valuable things", b

Namecoin was released in 2011 — way before the NFT craze. This is indeed the most attractive reason for a globally distributed database of "valuable things", but proof-of-whatever powered "trustless" systems (cryptocurrencies) are still terrible. There was a really good experimental system with articulated trust: https://github.com/andres-erbsen/dename https://github.com/andres-erbsen/dename