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Early in the trial pitting Hermès against MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild, the legal team representing the French luxury house called a blockchain expert to the witness stand to explain non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.
The explanation started off well enough but eventually became so tangled in technical details that the judge, Jed Rakoff, paused the proceedings.
“I’m just a dumb judge so maybe I’m not following everything,” he said,…
