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Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.
What insurance company is dumb enough to insure NFTs?
Ones that think they can't be stolen
You can in fact insure things that it is possible to steal. Cars, bikes, household posessions, you name it. It's quite common.
If the insurance company thinks the nft can't be stolen, it's money for no risk. That's why they would easily accept insuring an nft.
I think you misunderstood my comment.
In a highly simplified way: total risk of insuring from theft is roughly other-risks * theft-risk, so if theft risk is 0, it means that other risks, such as insanelly high risks in asset valuation are irrelevant to the total risk which will always end up as 0.
So it makes sense that being paid to insure that which cannot be stollen against theft is risk-free money quite independently of all else. (Of curse, if something has a non-zero probability - even if tiny - of being stolen none of that holds)
I think that's the whole humourous point the previous poster was making: that which NFT promoters kept on telling us guarantees unique ownership which cannot be taken by others (and hence cannot be stollen) turns out that it can.
Ones that understand the Internet and/or technology. And believe the "secure" hype.
I'd say more likely to be able to declare a capital loss on taxes.
Can I carry that loss over for the next... 100 years or so?