Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out

This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts - so I entered the world of NFTs myself

For years, I've kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; a pixelated rendering of a Tokyo streetscape; Jon Bon Jovi doing yoga. They're sentimental reminders of things I've seen online, but I am under no illusion that I somehow own these images. They come from the internet and can be copied, shared and experienced by many people all at once. My collection really is worthless to anyone but me.

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