# What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question)

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Submitted by misha on 2024-08-21 UTC, 8 upvotes, 1 comment

What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question)

Minting seems to be a mix of bookmarking, sending money, and publicly liking something. Yet it's a strange bundle that does a mediocre job at each of these 🤔

Please help me make sense of web3 🙏🏼

## Comments

**pfedprog.eth**: better than always asking for lawyers