Bitcoin is fungible: any Bitcoin equals any other. NFTs are non-fungible, meaning each one is unique and not interchangeable. Bitcoin is currency. NFTs prove ownership of specific digital items like CryptoPunks or Bored Ape Yacht Club.
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Yeah, so FT is essentially, so the, the key word here is fungibility. So in a cryptocurrency, one Bitcoin is the exact same as any other Bitcoin and it doesn't matter what the ID of that Bitcoin is. You can, you and I can exchange a Bitcoin, one Bitcoin for another, and it doesn't matter which one we pick. With NFTs, it's different. So the fungibility, non-fungible token, this is basically a digital representation of something that cannot necessarily be is not one-to-one with anything else the way that a Bitcoin might be. So what that means is that it's a way of representing digital ownership. So the first like application that people probably become familiar with is owning a digital collectible, like a CryptoPunk or a Bored Ape or an NBA Top Shot.