Podcasts about Zuki

Introducing the first in a series of “Lester in the Lounge”, where Lester Kiewit takes his shows into the home of a CapeTalk listener. Today's inaugural host is Zuki of Big Bay.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zuki is a Core Contributor at Ignition. In this episode, we cover FBTC, a new omnichain token unlocking Bitcoin's full potential. Zuki explains what they believe to be a better design for tokenized BTC and how it could unlock over $1T in Bitcoin liquidity to be used across DeFi on Ethereum, L2s, and new L1s. ------

Weeeeepaaa!!! Bienvenidos a Cuentos Latinos. En este episodio leo una carta a mi amiga canina fiel, Zuki.

Sit down for some incredible yarns and stories about Stueys Career in the camel racing industry! From owning the most famous australian camel HOOKEMUP to old Stevie Wonder the camel, Zuki and the legendary Crystal. Stuey started his career at a young age of 9 racing camels to retiring at 14 once he became a ceritifed giant. Some fantastic yarns about the camel racing industry from a man who has owned and trained some of Australias best racing camels! #propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zuki AKA Zukiman AKA 6ukim9. Extremely controversial, widely reviled Twitter personality, known for sharing all sorts of uncomfortable details…and occasionally deeply insightful truths. The dissident OG joins me at WILL global HQ to discuss motorcycle radicalism, his thoughts about rebellion, and of course the famous crack story. NOTE: here's the principle of The Carousel: I don't deplatform—I don't believe in it. I'll give anyone a chance to say their piece, insofar as they aren't doxxing anyone on the air. I'll have anyone from groypers to antifa to hostile journalists to known federal agents on here if they don't doxx. This is the radical nature of this show, I think very much needed in the era of Cancel Culture. Get full access to The Carousel at thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode we'll discover a few things we can learn about mindfulness by acting like a cat.

Howdy doody Bookshelvers! We're back! And we're back with a blast! This weeks guest is none other than the amazing Grisha Stewart. We've been wanting to waffle about dogs, behaviour, humanity and music for a long time and, cor blimey, guv'nor, we are glad we finally got to hang out. This one is for anyone that is just as interested in the human end of the long line as the canine ;). Grisha will be opening this years DOGx Conference with her only conference appearance of 2023 so grab a ticket and be sure not to miss it.In other news Steve talks through his in-depth observations of forced human behaviour, in a local wild flower meadow, and Nat treats us all to her (if we do say ourselves) impeccable singing voice... You're welcome.Professional Association of Canine Trainers (pact-dogs.com)https://school.grishastewart.com/https://grishastewart-com.myshopify.com/products/my-life-is-a-metaphor-for-my-lifeDogx 2023 — Professional Association of Canine Trainers (pact-dogs.com)Grisha FactsGrisha Stewart, M.A., CPDT-KA, KPACTP, HB-WIP*  is a Dog Trainer, Author and International Public Speaker best known among dog trainers for developing Behaviour Adjustment Training (BAT), a humane technique for addressing dog aggression, frustration, and fear. Through her international dog seminars, DVDs, books, and in-person and online training school, she's helped hundreds of thousands of dogs and their people thrive.Grisha uses positive reinforcement mindfully in ways that directly benefit the animal, like teaching cooperative care and consent which forms the foundation of her online school the Grisha Stewart Academy. The Academy is more than just education. It's an international, diverse community where some of the world's top animal professionals come together to help learners grow and to encourage empowered, trustworthy, wholehearted living with dogs.Grisha also writes and plays music , climbs rocks, reads voraciously, and loves the outdoors. She currently lives in Oregon, USA with her husband Tom, Garbanzo the Adventure Kitty, Joey the Labrador and Zuki the small (but mighty!) rescue dog.

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Join us as we talk about creative writing and inspiring our children with Josh Davidson. Fall 2022 Season Sponsors   We are so grateful to our Fall 2022 Season Sponsors. Use the links below for their special offerings:   Blossom & Root and use code HSUnrefined15 for 15% off your purchase   Outschool and use code Unrefined for $20 off your first class    Night Zookeeper for a 7-day, risk-free trial, as well as 50% off an annual subscription  LTWs    Maren: Warby Parker   Angela: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung   Connect with us!  Visit our website  Sign up for our newsletter and get our Top 100 Inclusive Book List We are listener supported! 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[00:00:27] At Homeschool Unrefined, we prioritize things like giving yourselves credit, building strong connections, respectful parenting, interest led playing and learning, learning differences, mental health, self-care, listening to and elevating LGBTQ plus and PAC Voices.  [00:00:47] Maren: We are here to encourage and support you. [00:00:51] Whether you're a new homeschooler, a veteran, you love curriculum, you're an unschooler. Whether all of your kids are at home or all of your kids are in [00:01:00] school or somewhere in between. Wherever you are on your journey, we're the voice in your head telling you, you're doing great, and so are your.  [00:01:08] Angela: This is episode 1 95, Sparking Inspiration with Josh Davidson. [00:01:14] We are gonna talk about creative writing and inspiring our children, and then we'll end like we always do with our lt. Ws are loving this  [00:01:22] Maren: week. Yes. And we wanted to give you a quick reminder that a. Few. We have a few new exciting updates to our podcast this year. Number one, we are including transcripts with all of our episodes. [00:01:35] So if you look at the show notes, you're gonna see transcripts. So you can check through everything we've said and if you wanna go back and get some of the details of what we talked about. Find it  [00:01:44] Angela: there. Yes. And those are in your right, in your podcast app. We also have them on our website.  [00:01:49] Maren: Yes. Which episode? [00:01:50] Yep. Yep. So that's at homeschool fine.com/episodes. So it'll be right in there. And then also we are also publishing our podcast [00:02:00] episodes. In video this season. And so you can go to YouTube and find our channel homeschool owner, Finded, and we even have a playlist specifically for the fall 2022 season. [00:02:11] And we have our videos. You're gonna see us on screen recording our episodes.  [00:02:16] Angela: Yeah. So that's very exciting. If you prefer that method. Yeah, you can get that there. Okay. So we are starting something new this season where we are bringing you three new sponsors for the entire fall season. We were very intentional about who we chose for sponsors. [00:02:29] We appreciate you taking the time to learn about them because we think they're really good companies. Also, they're giving discount codes, so you wanna listen for those. We are so happy to work hard on this podcast, and we appreciate the financial support in making  [00:02:42] Maren: it. Here at Homeschool under fine. You know we're all about making your life easier. [00:02:47] That's why we are excited to introduce you to Night Zookeeper. Is your child a reluctant writer? Do they struggle with reading? If your answer to either of these questions is yes, then night [00:03:00] zookeeper may be just what you're looking for. Night Zookeeper is an online learning program for children, ages six to 12 years old that uses a gamified and creative approach to help keep kids engaged and focus on developing awesome reading and writing skills all while having fun at the same time. [00:03:19] Some of the features we love included include the educational games, the personalized feedback on writing from real tutor. And the super safe community pages where children can work with each other and learn together. If Night Zookeeper sounds like the perfect learning program for your child, you can try it for free by clicking on the link in the show notes. [00:03:42] And when you, when you register, you'll get a seven day risk free trial as well as a huge 50% off annual subscription. That's a great deal  [00:03:51] Angela: if you ask. I always had the toughest time finding a curriculum that was aligned with our values. Enter Blossom and [00:04:00] Root. 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[00:06:01] Sign up today at out schooler.me/homeschool unrefined, and get up to 20% off your first class when you enroll with the code unrefined.  [00:06:13] Angela: We are excited for our main topic today, which is sparking inspiration and Creativity with Josh Davidson. Josh Davidson is the creator and managing director of Night Zookeeper, a magical inspirational brand where children discover and create imaginative animals. These animals join an interactive world and can feature in his story books on on Anani animated series on Spy Kids. In a collectible card game and an online learning program that helps children with reading and writing and unlocks their creativity, Josh is a passionate public speaker on games, education, and creativity. He has spoken at many international conferences. Additionally, he has been interviewed across BBC stations in the United Kingdom. [00:06:54] Please enjoy our conversation with Josh. [00:06:58] Maren: I want [00:07:00] to invite our guest, Josh from the Night Zookeeper here today. Thank you so much for being with us, Josh.  [00:07:08] Josh: Oh, thank you so much for having me.  [00:07:10] Maren: I'm wondering if you could just tell us, just start out by telling us a little bit about yourself and just your background.  [00:07:17] Josh: Absolutely. So, yes. So I'm Josh. [00:07:19] I'm the author of the Night Zookeeper Storybook series and the creator of night zookeeper.com, which is a website based on the the theme, if you like, of the night zookeeper stories but is an interactive website. Children are inspired to fall in love with writing and get lots of reading practice. [00:07:42] And we also help with grammar and spelling, et cetera, to sort of really convert the most reluctant. You know, there's a few of them out there, the most reluctant of young readers and writers into the authors of tomorrow. I just made up that line, but it sounds good. The authors of, of tomorrow. [00:07:57] Maren: I really love that. I really love that, and [00:08:00] I love that you have that vision. We'll talk more about that in just a little bit, but at first I wanna ask you like, how did you come up with this idea of the night zookeeper? It just, it sounds like the ideal thing for a reluctant reader or writer, and I'm wondering what, what brought you here? [00:08:16] What, what made you create.  [00:08:18] Josh: Sure. So I mean, obviously with all things in life there's a, there's an element of serendipity I heard. So during my studies I traveled to Australia. So as you say, I'm based in the uk but I did an exchange in Australia, in Melbourne, and I heard whilst I was there that their zoo was open at night. [00:08:39] And obviously I, now, I think zoos, you know, across the world, some of zoos often open, like there's a night zoo in Singapore and London Zoo late, so there's a, this is a thing. Oh wow. But at the time I didn't know anything about it. Right. And being a strange young man hearing about a night zoo I so immediately was. [00:08:56] My head was filled with time traveling elephants and [00:09:00] buying giraffes that could turn invisible. And Oh, cool. I had a little notebook and I started to write my story about this strange zoo and the sort of things that you would encounter there. Right, right. But I finished my, I was doing my, my fine art degree at the time. [00:09:14] I then did a Master's in Digital Art, and one of the modules that I was studying was called Collaborative Practices. And it was about using the internet to collaborate with others. So, you know, kind of like we're, we're doing now, right? Talking over the, the, the magical power of the internet. And it was different things that you could use the internet for to collaborate. [00:09:34] Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. anyway. In trying to work out what I was going to do as part of my studies into that module, I was flicking through my notepad of ideas and I came across my short story that I'd written about the night suit, and I realized that although my story was okay, what was really lovely about the story was that it was a. [00:09:59] [00:10:00] Fundamentally of what magical animals could exist in a zoo at nighttime. Right. And not only was I as an author, you know, or a writer or whatever, I was inspired to write something, but I was pretty sure that other people would be just to tell them, you know, that that power of the night, Right. It's kind of, it always been. [00:10:18] My childhood. I think it's a very human thing that things can exist in nighttime. All the way back to the teddy bear picnic, the thing teddy bear picnic. Oh yes. No. Yeah. But the thing is gonna happen. And so yeah, I I turned this short story into a collaborative project, which was based around a website where anybody could log on and create new magical animals that would live in my fictional night suit. [00:10:41] And my best friend Paul, Hudson, who is my co-founder in Night Sweet Keeper, was a primary school teacher and he said, Josh, I want to do this with my kids in class. Yes. I said, That sounds awesome. Mm-hmm. . So he convinced his head teacher to invite me [00:11:00] in. So I came in as an artist and we ran this project where we, I, you know, I, I lied to children, which I've now made a professional career. [00:11:08] And I told them that I was a night zookeeper in a magical night zoo. And I looked after these spying giraffes and time traveling elephants. But the, The night zoo needed more animals. And we were wondering whether these, you know, these kids wanted to come up with some animals to live in the zoo, and boy did they, they absolutely went for it. [00:11:29] And it simultaneously showed me just how. Uncreative. I am because I created a draft that could turn invisible, whereas they had created a dragon fish crossed with a ham sandwich. You know, like they, they, they took things to this, this level that, That's amazing. Creativity. That was like, okay, I, I, yeah. [00:11:48] I bow down before the and, and yeah, that's where we are now. Like with that's cool. Website. That's basically that idea. That initial sort of engaging assembly, if you like, where you [00:12:00] tell kids, this is what we're gonna do through, through digital media, and then let them go for it and, you know, Yeah. [00:12:06] It's doing a pretty much a massive disservice to the website to say that that's what it does, because it's huge and, you know, we're throwing everything but the kitchen sink it, Getting kids to fall in love with reading and writing, but at the, at the very heart of. It's that it's this story that, and the power of storytelling and how that can sort of spark an individual child's imagination and how you can then channel that imagination into creative output like writing. [00:12:32] Maren: I love that because I do think when we, when we approach learning as , we, we have to do this, You have to get to this level. Then our kids often. Get to that level and maybe that's it. Maybe that's all they do. Or maybe they even struggle to get to this certain level. But when you come in as a night zookeeper, , and you're like, I want you to think of, imagine these animals, you know, the limit. [00:12:56] There's no limit. They go, they go everywhere with [00:13:00] that. Absolutely.  [00:13:00] Josh: You can see the brains, like you can see the sparks flying. Right. And what's wonderful is it's such. A UNFI for all the kids, cuz you've got kids of all different ability levels. Some totally. Some, some engaged in the activities, some not. [00:13:12] Some with, you know, have been spending the morning reading about the how a human eye works and others that have been reading about animals on a farm. Yeah. But you put them together and they've all going to, they're all gonna express themselves. They're all gonna create something. Is using their, their brain in a really interesting way, as I mentioned, that they were destroying me. [00:13:31] But then they can all relate to each other. Of course, they were, they were, yeah. Kids, 12 year old kids talking to six year old kids about their animals. Mm-hmm. Like that's wonder. So, so we see this with siblings in homeschool. So you get the older kid and the younger kids, some of the playing together for, and learning, playing together. [00:13:46] And it's, it's a wonderful way to To, to sort of, to sort of, in a way sort of forget about some of those levels that we try and think about. Yes. And because there's something so hu it's just [00:14:00] human. That's what it is. It's just human. Ultimately it's about being human and using our, you know, the gifts that we've been given and seeing how, where we can take them. [00:14:08] Maren: Exactly. And so that's, you kind of answered this question, which is why do you think creative writing is a good way. To start at such a young age. You're talking about very young kids here. So, I mean, I think you kind of answered that, but if there's anything else you wanna add, why do you think it's good to start creative writing at such a young age? [00:14:27] Josh: Oh, I like, yeah. I mean, I think that like with any anything that's innately human as a skill storytelling is. You know, the to human skill, it's right at the core of what we do and how to survive in this world, and. Yeah. Writing is, is an extension of that. But what the tools that we've built on my zookeeper, you know, of course you, the most common scenario you get with kids is that their, their brains run a million miles ahead of their, their technical ability. [00:14:59] [00:15:00] That is so true. Yes. Tell and imagining and their thinking and, and getting those thoughts and down and sort of structuring them is, is a huge challenge. But it is like zookeeper as a platform. It's built to scaffold that process so, You're not giving kids a blank piece of paper and saying, Tell me everything about this creature you've invented. [00:15:21] The way that it unfolds is, you know, you asked to draw the creature that you're imagining, then you're asked what its name is. Then you are asked, maybe it's where does it live or what does it eat? Or does it have any special abilities? And each question is, you know, almost delivered like a, a chat between yourself and the animals and the animals kind of learning about themselves. [00:15:41] And this. Means that it never feels to the kid like a daunting thing. Absolutely. It never feels like something that they can't do. And, and so from the youngest ages, they're, they're constantly having this interaction with the program, but they're also having it with themselves and anyone that's doing it [00:16:00] with, I mean, that's the other thing about, Yes, this particular experience, like it's a lovely way for a parent to engage with their child or as I mentioned, like an older sibling, to engage with the younger sibling because suddenly, You know, you are drawing each ideas out of each other and you are realizing like, Oh, where, where did you think of that? [00:16:17] Like, where did that idea come from? But like, Oh, maybe you must have heard, you know, grandpa say something about this the other day. So you're bringing that into it and it's like, Oh, this is really interesting. Where, where your mind works. Because that's where, you know, creativity is at the core of how our  [00:16:30] Maren: brains work. [00:16:31] I think that is so, you are so right about that, and I love that you're scaffolding it like that, or, and also just making maybe the most challenging parts very small. Like, do this one little thing that's challenging and actually it's so motivating because it's not like, do this one little thing that's challenging and you don't get any reward from it. [00:16:49] No, you do this one little challenging thing and then it, it, it adds to your, you know, You know, this world that you're creating and feels in  [00:16:59] Josh: your mind's so good. [00:17:00] Gives you, Yeah. So in terms of that as well, like we do this scaffolding process, not just for the younger kids, but for the older kids as well. [00:17:06] Cause you do absolutely find that you get a lot of older kids who have been turned off writing. They don't like it. Yes. They don't wanna do it. Yeah. And feels hard. It's one of the few subjects actually that we've really struggled. Globally to sort of gamify and make feel like it's fun, but not what Zuki does. [00:17:20] By doing this sort of building up of questions and answers is at the end of that process, if you are an older kid, we show you what you've done. Okay. Show you. Ooh, I like that now. I just wrote all of that without realizing it. Like here's a big, I'm doing it visually. Of course no one can see , but I've got a,  [00:17:36] Maren: I see it. [00:17:37] It's really big.  [00:17:38] Josh: An elephant sized head of writing. Yes. On the page and the kids. Even though it's just right at the back of their subconscious, they're like, Yeah, yeah, I can do that now. So whenever they're, you know, they, they see other pieces, people's writing, if they've struggled with writing stamina because they, they typically write a couple of sentences and then it's, they just don't want to write anymore. [00:17:58] Right. They're bored, [00:18:00] they're struggling. It's hard, like part of it is like with everything in life as you feel that you can do it once you've. And we are saying, Hey, you know what? You've done this. Here it is. And then the next time they come, they might not need, the older kids might not need that scaffolding approach. [00:18:15] They might wanna jump straight into that work classic kind of word processor setting because they feel like they can do it now. Yeah, you're gonna have that writing stamina. But yeah, we always provide that as a yeah, as a realization for the kids ultimately that they are.  [00:18:29] Maren: That is so great because it just builds that self confidence and their identity. [00:18:35] As you know, a lot of times our kids don't even, can't even identify as a writer, even though they certainly have all the ideas, but we just need, you know, maybe just need a few tools and then it can go, you know, wherever. You know, they have freedom to do so many things with just a few things. So Good. It's so hard though. [00:18:56] It, so many of us, especially homeschool parents [00:19:00] are feeling frustrated about reading and writing, to be honest. Right. I mean, it just, it feels like sometimes it feels like we're slogging through things. It feels like we're requiring things more than enjoying things. And so what are your tips for a, for us , for us parents at home who are like feeling frustrated right now? [00:19:20] Josh: Yeah, I mean, it's, it's it's a difficult position to be in because kids can be stubborn and Yeah. You know, once they've made up their mind about a subject or an area that they're like, Okay, no, I, I don't do that. That's not, you know, I don't like that. Or that, you know, even to the point, you know, you have kids crying when they're put in front of a piece of paper, they want to write like it breaking and they've got to that point in their brain where they're like, This is something I can't do. [00:19:44] Yes. And I guess that's the first thing to realize is that ultimately this, this is a, a feeling that's inside them that needs to be, be worked through, needs to be worked out. And of course I would say this, but no, zookeeper's a really good way of doing that because it's yeah, it's a game [00:20:00] and I, you know, whether it's night zookeeper or something else, right. [00:20:02] You need to find a game, which has a different element to it than pure writing. And you need to show the child, the, the writing part, the reading part of the writing part of that game is something that they can do because they're not focused on it. They're not thinking, This is what I'm doing. Right, Right. [00:20:20] I'm writing, they're thinking. Right, right, right. I need. I need to beat my parents at this board game, which involves a bit of writing or reading, or I need to beat my kid, you know, Or I want to create something really beautiful. There's a painting for my, my, my mom's fridge. But I'm, but then mom's asked me to give a title for it and maybe like, just write down a few things so I, she can read, read about what, what's into this castle. [00:20:43] It's just, yeah, they need, they're gonna need a breakthrough moment, I guess. That's what I would say. I don't think. You're gonna have success, you know, looking at the traditional ways of doing this. Right, right. [00:21:00] Classic sort of systems that exist. Yeah. Recognizing, made up mind and adapting the approach.  [00:21:07] Maren: I love that. [00:21:08] Yep. That's so true. It seems like a lot of times we, we definitely. Homeschool parents, us, we focus on the semantics and the, the actual like details of the, I don't know, might be punctuation or handwriting or capital, things like that, that we are, I mean, we can really focus on those things and then it gets, it becomes more about that. [00:21:33] Rather than, and what, what I hear you saying is our, the kids, our kids' strengths are often in their ideas, right? In their imagination. And the possibilities in the unreal , you know, this is this whole, they, you know, there can be a whole world. That's where their strengths lie. I feel like. And I feel like with your program, there's so much like we, you build on the strengths [00:22:00] and the other stuff kind of comes along with it. [00:22:04] I think so. But it's not the focus always. It's not like the thing they have to do.  [00:22:08] Josh: Exactly right. I think, I think a lot of it is if we're talking about you know, upskilling mm-hmm. or if you have a child that you know, will write but writes terribly Yes. And hates being paroled into doing the kind of the classic practice mm-hmm. [00:22:21] And, and editing and redrafting. Or elements within Zuki that help with that as well. So yes. First of all, we're trying to get 'em to write lots. Then anything that they're writing is part of this game is coming through to a tutor. So this isn't you, this isn't the parent and the child relationship. [00:22:39] If there's stress building up here, then take that stress away, you know, by giving this piece of work to. You know, a face on the screen could be my face, but probably not one of our, our tutoring team. But their tutoring team's face is going to be coming back on that piece of writing that your, your [00:23:00] child has put together. [00:23:01] Okay? And they're gonna know, they're gonna see the strengths in it, but they're also gonna see the weaknesses and they're gonna craft a comment that will nudge. As, as enthusiastically as possible, your child toward better practices with the writing. Wow. So that is the, that is the key because worst all it matters in some, to some children it matters that this is somebody who cares. [00:23:24] That's not. Their parents. This is someone else in the world. Exactly like that can make a massive, just a, a switch of, you know, if you have kids in a traditional school system, even like sometimes it's the teacher and the parent kind of doesn't count anymore, but there's someone else out there who's saying, this is good. [00:23:42] This is good. And you are? Yeah. Yeah. I feel quite good about that. Then I feel quite good that I think it's good. Oh, but they've said I can improve it if I just check that spell for that bit or, or I learn, remember to start using a few more paragraphs. I can do that. Cause I know what a paragraph is. Cause I just watched a video of it on that previous thing that Zuki sent me. [00:23:59] Yeah. And then I'm [00:24:00] gonna, and, and those kind of skill based. You know, real sort of core curriculum points that every young writer has to learn. I mean, it's, it, it comes back to like reading ultimately, like you just need your kids to read, right? Mm-hmm. , I mean, fundamentally. Yep. Kids will learn to read if they're reading, the more they read, the better at reading they're gonna get. [00:24:20] Right. Exactly. Your kid picks up a soccer magazine like, and they're reading great.  [00:24:25] Maren: Right. The more they enjoy reading, the more they're going to read, the more they're gonna choose to read.  [00:24:30] Josh: Exactly, and it's exactly the same with writing. Exactly. The more they're gonna enjoy writing, the more they're gonna get over any inner turmoil they have about writing, and then they're gonna, all those other things you're worried about, all those other things curriculums, tell you to worry about. [00:24:45] They will. They will come. Yes, they will come. Because you're in the same way that when you read and you read and you read, you pick up the the words and the skills that you need to Yeah. To, to go to new places.  [00:24:56] Maren: I love that you mentioned that there's this personal [00:25:00] tutor or a feed, a personal feedback that our, that every child gets when they, when they use night zookeeper, because I do, you're right. [00:25:07] Like it's so good to have somebody else besides your parent or your teacher work with you sometimes, especially in writing, I think because it is so personal and it almost feels a little vulnerable, even if. Even if it is about an animal that doesn't really exist, it's something that's been in your mind. [00:25:24] And you know, and to have your parent maybe give a little criticism of that can really be tough for a child. And so even just a little encouragement from someone else, you know, that's a little bit removed, but also very encouraging. Mm-hmm. is very encouraging. Yes. It seems, it seems like the best. [00:25:43] Situation, .  [00:25:45] Josh: One other, There's one other even better scenario that happens on my zookeeper. Ooh. And we encourage the kids to comment on other kids writer. Oh, that's awesome. So they, and we've trained them up, you know, through the system to leave positive book constructive [00:26:00] comments on other kids writing. [00:26:00] And it all goes through the tutors. So everything gets, you know, moderated and checked. And then, then if it's a nice constructive comment, it will appear on your kid writing from another student. Wow. And that, I'm, I'm yet to meet a kid who hasn't loved that actually. Like, there, there, there. You know, there's, and kids the best at being sensitive, like adults. [00:26:21] Like we, we try and be sensitive to our, to kids, right? But kids just kind and get other kids. They kind of know that they're all kind of in it together and Yeah. Yeah. They say it, they phrase it so nicely, like, Oh I laughed this piece. It was amazing. I, I'm gonna dream about this story you wrote tonight. [00:26:37] Of course. Just so you know I think you've missed a full stop at the end of that sentence. Yes, yes. Keep writing. I can't wait to read your next story. I'm your biggest fan and say, Wow, okay. I, I could write that. Like, the kid that receives, that's gonna be like, I'm adding that full stop and I'm writing something to mine and  [00:26:53] Maren: I'm gonna keep my mind, Yeah. [00:26:54] I'm gonna keep writing because that is so powerful. That is so [00:27:00] powerful. And you don't get that normally. You just don't get that experience. At such a young age. I mean, a lot of people don't get that unless you're in a creative writing program. Like you probably went through and had, you know, some kind of a group, a writing group or whatever. [00:27:14] But this is amazing and kids deserve to hear and feel that about their own ideas and writing.  [00:27:21] Josh: Absolutely. And you know, that's where you get those transformations. That's where you get a kid. You know, where we hear from parents who would scream and cry and hate, hate the idea of writing and they start using nights of Cuba cuz they've been told it's a game And Right. [00:27:35] Do see around it and before you know it, they're not They're not even worried about the, the game aspects. So n Uber has a sort of a gamified curriculum and some of them, we call them challenges and they're the closest to kind of like your, your kind of classic interactive challenge where you're like dragging and dropping work. [00:27:54] Or you are learning new pieces of vocabulary. All, all that stuff is, is there and, and it [00:28:00] follows you know, the classic, like in the, in the UK that's the called the National Curriculum And America, you know, you have your Common Core and there's the International Baccalaureate, you know, the, the interactive challenges and games on nights. [00:28:11] So you keep the, the sort of, as I say, you kind of expect from digital products. Now they're all. And kids when they first join, they kinda wanna play those. They want to be in the bit, which kind looks more gamey. Sure. But the kids. All kind of reach this point where they realize the real fun of Nisu Keep is taking all the stuff that they've been learning in those games and producing the writing, and then getting those comments and feeling like they've got a no idea, a new idea for a story that they really want to tell. [00:28:43] And they want people to be able to read that story. So they're gonna write it on my to keep, Yes. They're gonna write that idea that they've had for a story, and that's where you get the That's where when I said that thing about like the authors of tomorrow, like that is. What's happening that literally tells what's happening. [00:28:58] Maren: And it sounds like they're authors of [00:29:00] today too, because they're getting Well, absolutely. Basically, essentially published if they want to. Right? Well,  [00:29:05] Josh: they're, they're, they're published. Well, and it's another little segue actually. Nice one that so I still write the night, so keeper books and I write them with the community. [00:29:13] So I come up with. Sort of general themes of the stories and I have a plot and I kind of know where I want the stories to go. Yeah. But then I come up with a whole bunch of questions and I put them onto the website. So kids come up with characters, they come up with jokes. Mm-hmm. , plot points, locations, and they write these. [00:29:28] Again, it's a reason to write, They write this stuff onto the website. Yes. And, and the best ideas, you know, we credit the credit the kids in the books. I've even done book signings where I've been set next to kids who have contributed towards the, the story. So Awesome. Yeah, they can, Not only can they get themselves published, but they can be published. [00:29:45] Published if they can . Yeah.  [00:29:46] Maren: Yes. Exactly. Exactly. That's so awesome. I was just gonna ask too, so you mentioned you, so you have these books and this, that was really the inspiration for the, this whole program. Is it important for. The [00:30:00] families to get the books as well and make sure they read those before they start the program. [00:30:04] I mean,  [00:30:04] Josh: I, I'm, I'm obviously very biased to the, to the books, but No, no, you absolutely don't. The, the story is baked into the website. You know, you're gonna meet the characters, you're gonna go on an adventure. Yeah, Yeah. But it's all very self-contained. But if you've got a kid that struggles with reading and writing mm-hmm. [00:30:21] and of course I'm a, I'm, I'm a big book person as my overcrowded shelves at home will attest. You know, I think there's something very magical about a kid holding a book. Absolutely. And I that it's, it is a great way to compliment the learning. So yeah. Members of people who sign up tonight, Cuba get a pretty decent discount as well on, on getting. [00:30:40] Maren: And that's awesome. It is. You're right. There is something cool about having a physical book these days. You know, especially on a, with a digital, there's, everything's digital including this program. So it's kind of cool to make it tangible for them. There are some kids, especially younger kids, who really, that makes it feel  [00:30:54] Josh: real. [00:30:55] I, I agree. And I, I think that it's, it's yours, you know, when there's a [00:31:00] physical book Yeah. Take that extra care. There's something, you know, and this is something that I think that the world will, will find its balance between mm-hmm. , what digital enables and what the physical is so natural to us as physical beings. [00:31:15] And I feel like Zuki is a great example of where I think we're adding value. To traditional offline play where, you know, the kid can sit and paint a picture of an animal and then take onto the website if they want. They can write on Absolutely. If we produce monthly resources where, you know, you can print out, print them out, and write offline and practice your handwriting. [00:31:35] And all of these aspects are very important in developing writing. And again, that's all, all part of the experience because I think that digital is incredible. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . But sometimes it puts us in slightly. Alien positions, right. Human beings. I mean, I still think it's, it's hilarious that the, the kids playroom for the last 20 years has been their dad's study or [00:32:00] Wednesday , you know, that kind of like, go and sit in a dark room in front of a screen like that. [00:32:04] They should be out. Right. And we'll get, we'll get there again, like, I'm pretty confident that these kind of hybridized tools that, and, you know, augmented reality and all this kind of stuff is going to mm-hmm. , reenable us to play away from. You know, screen pure, screen based situations and Yeah. But in the meantime, I think it's about balance and it's about having mm-hmm. [00:32:25] if you can sit and read a physical book, brilliant. If you can print out these resources and use phy, you know, physical resources to practice handwriting and do drawings and things on and, and aspects of the program offline, then great. But then, It. Yeah. We're in a situation where it's silly not to use all the benefits of technology as well. [00:32:42] Maren: Absolutely. And I think the best, the best programs, the best online programs, I think inspire you to do things offline too. And I think that's what your program definitely does. Like, you could, you, you would easily be inspired to go paint a picture or go just do some creative playing. Right. Role playing. [00:32:58] I mean, you know, all that [00:33:00] kinda stuff can, can be inspired from your program, so that is really  [00:33:03] Josh: awesome. Actually. I think that was one of the reasons why I ended up. Starting the business and taking it as far as I did. We were saying but I think before we started recording, but like how started with a, my co-founder was a primary school teacher working in schools, and he invited me into his school to run the first night Zuki project. [00:33:21] And at lunchtime, having me, you know, lied to the children and saying, I'm a night zookeeper and I look after magic animals. We went out into the playground at lunchtime and all the kids were running around pretending to be night zookeepers and all match animals and playing. And it was, it was such a moving and compelling experience for me that I was sort of convinced at that point that more kids in the world needed to, to have this. [00:33:46] Maren: Absolutely. I, yeah, I'm so excited for everyone who gets this program and can you just let us know how we can find you and how we can sign.  [00:33:55] Josh: So it's night zookeeper.com as in nighttime and [00:34:00] zookeeper. And you know, from there there's a, there's a parent page. That's your effect effectively, that's the homeschool page where you, you go through and Yeah, yeah. [00:34:08] Sign up to the service. There's a free seven day trial to give it a go and see what your kids think. Yeah.  [00:34:12] Maren: So we have a very special link that you need to use and it'll be in our show notes that you can you can use and it'll give you a huge 50% off an annual subscription, which is awesome. And you still get the seven day trial too. [00:34:25] So Wonderful. It seems like a win, win, win, win for, for everyone. So, Absolutely. Thank you so much, Josh. We really appreciate that you joined us.  [00:34:34] Josh: Well, thank you so much for having me. It was really nice to speak to you and yeah, hopefully speak again soon. Definitely. [00:34:40] Maren: Let's move on to our loving this week. L t Ws. Yes. All right. Angela, do you wanna get  [00:34:49] Angela: started? I would love to. All right, Go for it. I have a book to share. Yeah. Yeah. It's a memoir, which Nice. My favorite genre. Yes. This is called All You Can [00:35:00] Ever Know by Rebecca Chung. Ooh. Rebecca is an adoptee and she is Korean, and she was adopted by a white family. [00:35:09] Mm. And so she tells the story of her childhood in that context, and she grew up in a small town and so she kind of always wonder. About herself and her identity, and she was very curious about her birth family. And so she tells about her curiosity. About that and just how that affected her growing up. [00:35:32] And then as she became ad an adult, she decided to try and find her birth family. And so she tells that story. It is so well written. She's a writer. So it's super well written, super inspiring. I think if you If adoption has affected your family. Mm-hmm. , especially transracial adoption. I think you would probably love to read this book. [00:35:52] But I think even for anybody like Yeah, it does, it has not affected my family, but I really, really learned a lot [00:36:00] and, well, I enjoyed reading this book. It was captivating. I listened on audio. Wow. And I listened in two days. I mean, I blew through it. What? I was just, I wanted to find out what would happen. [00:36:10] Yeah. Like, is she gonna find her birth family? What's gonna happen? Cuz I kind of figured that was coming and so it like, kept me interested the whole way through. So I think I think you should definitely read it if this is like, if this peaks your interest at all, I  [00:36:23] Maren: think you would love it. The fact that you read it in two days or listen to in two days makes me think it was definitely well written, obviously. [00:36:31] Oh yeah. Yeah. And then also the story was just deriving and then the fact, fact that it's just real. This has really happened and it really happened. Yep. Yeah. That's like a magical trio there, so for sure. That's awesome. Yes. Thank you.  [00:36:43] Angela: What are, yeah, what are you loving, Marin?  [00:36:46] Maren: Okay. I'm loving some, I'm loving something that is not brand new to probably anybody, but it's an i glass store online store. [00:36:54] It's a, and it's called Warby Parker. I'm sure you have, have heard of it. And [00:37:00] maybe you all have glasses from Warby Parker already. I don't know, but I kind of I never thought I really wanted to try war Beer Parker. Number one. We've done online glasses before and I'm like, well, if we're gonna do online glasses, we're gonna go, They're really cheap route, which, you know, there's like zny or whatever. [00:37:16] So we've done that before. And or we're just gonna get glasses in our real life eyeglass store so we can actually try things on and get the actual fit that we really need. And, you know, I'm sure they're much higher quality. That's what I always thought. Enter whereby Parker , you know, like it's, it has been a journey finding glasses for my whole family over the years. [00:37:39] Mm-hmm. and we've tried so many things, but whereby Parker just kind of happened upon us. Because they actually have a physical store in our nearby mall Now They do. Yeah. Which was awesome. So we just walked past it one day and we're like, Well, let's try these on. And they're all the frames. I [00:38:00] mean, not kidding you, in the whole store I fell in love with, I couldn't decide which ones I wanted, number one, number. [00:38:07] They're so cheap. I mean, I don't wanna say cheap, like Inex. I didn't, What I'm saying is cheap, Inexpensive. Yeah. They're actually very high quality and they're awesome. And I just couldn't believe it. They're even for us out of network for our insurance. Uh, But because we can get reimbursed some of the way we, you know, I just, we paid and then sent in receipts and got paid back right away from our insurance, which was, which was awesome. [00:38:31] It ended up being cheaper than getting full coverage at another eyeglass store. Any other, like we, I think I looked at three or four other eyeglass stores in the, in the area. And even with like full insurance coverage whereby Parker was so much cheaper. So much cheaper. Wow, that's amazing. And their customer service is unbeatable. [00:38:54] They're so amazing at customer service. Everybody in the store was like, [00:39:00] became our friends right away. . They just loved us and we loved them and I don't know, we just all connected. We all have this vibe. They just have this vibe and it's just great. And they gave us great feedback on what. What we should look for in glasses for our, you know, for our face shape and things like that. [00:39:16] And so it was just fun. It was actually just like a fun experience, which I have not had before with my  [00:39:21] Angela: family and fighting eyeglasses. That's awesome. That is so awesome. Yes. Yeah. So would you, would you only recommend it going into the store or now that you've done it? That's a good question. Do it online. [00:39:34] Maren: Well, and I know that when you do it online, they do send you like, Pairs of glasses that you can actually try on. Yeah. And then, so, which is great. I think that's also a viable option for sure. Yeah, for sure. You can totally do that. And I would say the other thing is that they make the glasses and send them to you so quickly too. [00:39:53] So if you need glasses quickly, they're, they never, I, I think they don't like maybe Guarantee that they'll come really fast, [00:40:00] but ours came really fast. And then also they have like lots of different lenses that often are super expensive when you upgrade lenses. Especially with like the blue blocking material that protects your eyes from the screens and stuff like that. [00:40:13] Like that can be hundreds of dollars other places and it's. Just so affordable, so affordable at where we park. I just can't believe it. Like,  [00:40:21] Angela: I, I can't believe that either. I, Yeah, I feel like I hit the jackpot. I'm just so, so excited. Well, I'm really glad to have a real world what's the word? [00:40:29] Maren: Endorsement. I don't Endorsement.  [00:40:31] Angela: Yes. A real world endorsement because I have of course heard of them on, on pockets, but those are like ads. So you just, you  [00:40:38] Maren: know. This is an A by the way, this is not an ad.  [00:40:41] Angela: I'm just telling you. It's true. I always, I always I've stayed away from Warby Parker because I thought it would be more expensive, so I'm glad to hear it. [00:40:48] It's actually not, it's  [00:40:49] Maren: actually really not. Really not. And Okay. Yeah. Yep. So I'm super excited to even get more now, . That's great.  [00:40:56] Angela: Yeah. That's great. Thanks for sharing. Yeah. All [00:41:00] right, so thank you everybody for listening, and we wanna say a special thank you to our three sponsors, Blossom and Root Out School and Knight Zoo Zookeeper. [00:41:08] Be sure to check out all their links and coupon codes and stuff in our show. Show notes.  [00:41:13] Maren: This podcast is created and hosted by Angela Sizer and Maren Goerss. We are listener supported. 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"Zuki y Emilia Méndez" son la pareja futbolera del momento, aunque no se llevan tan bien como Duki y Emilia Mernes. Al menos eso se percibió al aire. Conocimos su historia, sus inicios, las intimidades de su relación, algunas anécdotas imperdibles y mucho más. Disfrutamos EN VIVO de "Como si no Comprara", un tema inspirado en el Consejo de Fútbol de Boca. Atención a la letra que es sensacional. Ojalá puedan disfrutar de este tema casi tanto como nosotros. Fue un cierre absolutamente espectacular.

 How are proceeds from NFT sales used? Most project creators take a large percentage for themselves NounsDAO pools funds together from sales for community directives   Affordable project: Across the Face by Osinachi NFT NewsRantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines: OpenSea launches Seaport ​​marketplace protocol allowing NFT bartering A Hacker Took Over NFT Artist Beeple's Twitter And Followers May Have Lost Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars  Andreessen Horowitz Announces New $4.5 Billion Crypto Fund - Decrypt Adam Neumann's blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by a16z | TechCrunch   Rough Transcript: [00:00:00] George: Today on all affordable [00:00:41] NFTs. How [00:00:43] are the proceeds from NFT sales actually used money goes in. [00:00:49] Where does money go? We'll dive into Andrew, seeing some NFL? [00:00:55] Andrew: Yeah, I do have a kind of thing. News from See, I guess a couple of big things. one thing, they just changed the look of the site around quite a bit. So if you haven't been on there recently should go check that out. A few new things. Definitely looks a little bit different, looks a little lot more social on the um, on the, uh, profile page. But other big news was they released their sea port protocol. Um, couple of things. Parts of this one. it's going to allow people to trade NFTs rather for ease. You'll be able to say that maybe you want to trade a uh, Uh, I don't know, gold ape or something, and say that you'll, that you'll take specific, uh, Zuki pieces and that's one to bring up. [00:01:42] Now, try to go some high end. [00:01:43] ones, you know, is what I was trying to say there. without going into the projects where we actually talk about them. But anyway, you'll be able to trade them for specific traits. The other part is that this protocol will allow other people to use kind of the back has already built to run their own third-party marketplaces. Um, so this is, I think it's actually pretty big news here, uh, will allow a lot of people to, um, uh, sort of, you know, give it a shot of making their own allowing that. But I think in the end, that competition will make, you know, as we've talked about having more marketplaces pushes these forward and I think, uh, improves the product in the end. [00:02:21] So I'm excited to see what actually. It happens with the trading of NFPS. I know there have been out there. There's also been involving those are involved, but there's a lot of people that use those sites and, uh, in not great wage, which has made them a little hard for me to want to get into. [00:02:39] But I would be interested in trying out trades on the open seat platform. or on a trusted marketplace was using their Yeah, the open-source part gets me excited because it's additional functionality that. [00:02:54] George: could be brought to bear, I think, and even specific projects. and I've seen this probably [00:02:59] most popularly in me, bits where me bits actually had the ability to [00:03:04] post and trade and [00:03:05] interact, um, the uh, the actual uh, from a back and forth. [00:03:10] But this is across project, but also [00:03:12] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah. We'll see what happens here. I think it's, it's, it's cool to see that that's coming from open. See, because it hasn't always been thought of as the most open platform. Um, but They are definitely, uh, opening up, uh, their backend here. And I'm excited Oh, I'm just excited to get farther and farther [00:03:29] George: away from anything resembling money and more of a horse based anything that brings us towards that is [00:03:35] Andrew: That's right. Trade your [00:03:36] George: horse. Sorry, digital horse based economy. [00:03:39] Andrew: Right. and of course we'll that, that will be the, the peg in the long run, right? Um, boy, my breath though. [00:03:47] Yeah. [00:03:50] All right, we've got some other news here. We've got uh, big Crip, or sorry, big a VC firm. They have launched any new $4.5 billion crypto fund that is billion with a B that is huge money. Um, you know, it's not necessarily a NFTE specific, but I am sure that some of this will flow towards NFTs. [00:04:11] Um, so I think it's, it's, it's, I mean, it's an absolutely huge number and good know. Remind people that there is a lot going into to crypto, even when the prices may be aren't going up. Uh, just keep that in mind. [00:04:26] George: I think things like this speak to total addressable market and be built right. That will get the next a hundred million people onto the platform because you're not getting that amount of money, unless you can answer the fundamental question of who is the total addressable market and how do you get them there. And I think there's going to be a lot of innovation brought to smarter UX and Wallace onboarding Fiat beyond just like send it to Coinbase and then send it around. and I think it's a, you know, a very positive sign. that you know, time spent right now on crypto and collecting NFTs right now is like, I'll just be honest. like, it's tough to watch number, go down every single day. It is a different place to see that, like, Hey, there's a huge increase coming in terms of building an investment, If we were seeing, if we were seeing right now diminishing amounts of money being be spent, guess this was just like that hype cycle that. that was one and done. I think what you're seeing is the builders and [00:05:34] VCs realize that this is just the beginning of [00:05:37] something. This is new tech yet to be applied rather than like, wasn't it weird when we all lost our minds in 2021 around NFTs? Yeah. Back to normal, [00:05:49] the amount of investment just in Q1, you know, dwarfs any other previous. [00:05:53] Uh, I mean, obviously Andreessen Horowitz pulling in Billy's is a weighed into that, but the amount of investment, the amount of dry [00:06:02] powder being put behind a new [00:06:04] projects that are rebuilt, uh, is significant. [00:06:07] Um, it'll be interesting to sort of play off of our, where, then move into the market? [00:06:14] Andrew: Yeah. Well, we do know, where at least some of a 16 Z has moved some of their money. Recently, they led a round or at least participated in around, uh, Adam Newman of rework new. Uh, chain flow, carbon and 70 million going into to see. So those two stories, both coming up this week. [00:06:34] Doesn't always, uh, doesn't make me super confident that, uh, we're one of these. I mean, sounds like, sounds like an, another layer one that's being run by Adam Newman. And, um, I don't know, I have a lot of questions. We've had a lot of Romans with alt layer ones as it is, and it doesn't exactly have a lot of, or give people a lot of confidence. [00:06:59] So we'll see where this goes. And I really hope that most of this 4.5 towards, uh, things that are a little bit more, um, uh, well tested in marketplace then than these new L ones. [00:07:11] George: So you're saying that flow carbons And GNT that token it's on [00:07:15] its way. It's not a, it's not like on an [00:07:18] Ethereum level. So, yikes one, however, just to say, I is looking to create carbon offset accreditation and tracking for it. I mean, you know, clean, the Dow has already done, I think, an amazing amount of work and sort of that sphere. [00:07:40] And, you know, they've had the successes that they've had. I will say to Adam Newman's credit, uh, that gentlemen can sell people on things, uh, quite well. And one thing I know you need to [00:07:52] sell folks. [00:07:54] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So, this works out well and you know, it is what it uh, benefiting, benefiting our, uh, ecosystem as a whole, I guess. [00:08:08] George: Also, I will say [00:08:10] in terms of like, there are many risks [00:08:11] associated here, I'm actually oddly if the person's fairly wealthy and not likely to like a bunch of money out, you already did that with the last company he's done. Hopefully you won't get money out. Right. Cause history never repeats itself. [00:08:24] He's got enough dollars. So this can be like, you [00:08:30] Andrew: Maybe we should start looking at the new lunette shame. heard new loon is going to be so much better than last. The is for losers. [00:08:39] I think I'll stay away from that one. But I think this is interesting. There's some, you know, they're not the only name. There are some other big names on the list investors here. So it's one to keep an eye on anyway. [00:08:53] George: Yeah. Okay. A hacker tool hacker. [00:08:58] NFT artists, people's Twitter. [00:09:00] And you know, when people lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as to problem of crypto Twitter, and having [00:09:06] all of your wallets, [00:09:08] connected to the ability for attackers to after Twitter, um, they reportedly may have lost these investors, uh, $438,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. I mean, that's [00:09:20] Andrew: I mean, it's a relatively small one compared to all the other scams and hacks that we are at many of the other ones that we've talked about. But, uh, you know, just another one to another way or thinking to are I guess, you know, don't always even trust the links from, from the accounts that you do follow the authenticated accounts because you know, those can get hacked too. [00:09:40] And if it seems too good to be out of the blue or whatever, you know, Give it a second and slow down. Yeah, I think, you know, if you listen to [00:09:51] George: any of our stuff, it's, you know, trust, but [00:09:53] verify all these, [00:09:54] things. and I, I, I genuinely [00:09:57] think it's project owners to do a little bit of what [00:10:02] I said of white hat hacking and [00:10:05] trying to trick your own audience, just to [00:10:06] steal them against potential. And it doesn't make sense, don't do it because anything can we're talking about a lot of money now when certain projects get up there, but again, the onus is on the owner. [00:10:22] Andrew: All right. Well, why don't we move on to our affordable project? I actually have one for us this week that, uh, mentioned in the discord. there, you seen that. I mentioned I was minting this minted, a few of these, and this is a collection called across the face. by. [00:10:38] Uh, Nigerian NACI is an artist that I've been familiar with for a little over a year. Now I hold of his, but I was excited to see this collection come out. It's uh, on the async platform, which we've past. Um, this new async blueprints platform Uh, a bit of it's a degenerative art platform, it's not quite, it's not generative in the sense of gender of code building these pieces. [00:11:03] It's all pieces exist. Then they've run different variations come out. Um, so. They're all of them. It's a bit of a self portrait, I guess, of him in various stages with gait across the face. Um, there's a reference to a object actually on the face of each of the characters in the set. [00:11:24] Uh, it was a thousand pieces. and it did 4.1. Each floor is right? Um, I I really like this set. I like how it looks. It's very much, uh, very much in of these other I've seen. Um, and, I think it is, I think it's a great way to get new collectors involved in some work. [00:11:43] Um, as we've seen with some of these other blueprints, um, from Colby and the X coffee ones are now, certainly in, uh, those went up quite. Immediately, but even the Colby ones now I think are up over one E that piece. Um, and So I think this is a good one. If it's, uh, if, uh, you know, for a long-term hold, um, I think there's a good chance that it was a Nazi is still relatively, um, Uh, not well-known in the space and, and that a lot of people will come to know him. [00:12:14] He's been working, um, with blockchain art for a considerable amount of time now, I mean, over, you know, at least compared to most others over three years. Um, so I think that bodes very well for how he will age in time. people come to appreciate, uh, blockchain art specifically. [00:12:31] George: I like this too. it's a thousand items as you. And 334 owners. I like that sort of small batch art a rather than PFP, like here are like 10,000, because generated as many as you want it, but this is a very focused, smaller batch. And definitely says something I say as a, as a collection and the great time to sort of say, all right, You know, who is an artist is going to continue to build over time. And Uh, you know, as you mentioned, The art, the art is unique. it's not a derivative and it is in his style. I'll also say, cause I've been, you know, I've been in picking up individual artists in this way that I like the collection. It seems like the collection also carries cache because if it's like uh, buried in so rare somewhere in unique, obviously the artists but I'll just be honest. you need that secondary to be able to find it. And if you [00:13:31] can't find it, you're not going as many [00:13:33] competitive bids. The pieces [00:13:35] are just not going to move. So I like that this is a collaboration between the, the, [00:13:40] async blueprints and super rare in this case. [00:13:44] Super rare, so that it's potentially a larger [00:13:47] audience of this will be found in the future rather for esoteric people who know [00:13:52] how to like perfectly search that said, don't you think there's going to [00:13:55] be much smarter art platforms that, like Kool-Aid around artists rather [00:14:00] than just collections. Yeah, I can definitely see, you know, more artists specific. They, you know, maybe that's something even see spin up out of, You know, some sort of, uh, Open seat marketplace for specific artists pieces are collected in there or, you know, in a small number. I mean, I could see that being somewhat of a gallery style where you could select people to be in or select even different collections to be in a specific marketplace. [00:14:27] Andrew: Um, no, I do like that this, this is on super rare and async, and. It's interesting that You know, I don't, I'm not sure what the super rare part is actually adding to it at this point. You know, you have the knitting sink. Um, now the, the trading is primarily on open sea and super rare. Um, you know, you can view them on there. [00:14:50] So I'm curious to see where superhero. Goes with how they're expanding, trying to expand their platform. you know, at this point it. doesn't seem like there's much there other than you can view them on that platform. I, guess you tend to sell them, I believe, buy and sell them there, but it's not, it's certainly not where most of the trading's happening. [00:15:08] I haven't checked if there's there. has been any at this point. Um, I think that there's A potential for these to be used to build. You know, to build new pieces too. You know, we've with the with his blueprints piece, um, or he's doing that where You can put multiple pieces together to build a new one or build special additions. [00:15:27] So, um, it's, it's within the blueprint system. And I would, you know, I would like to see something like that maybe if, you know, come out of this at some point or I'd be interested to see it. I you know, I also love that the pieces as they are, but I could see that potentially being something that is in play down the road. [00:15:43] George: Yeah, full [00:15:44] disclosure. I uh, picked up one as well. As soon as I [00:15:46] saw that you, dropped that in the discard. And I was like, well, that's good enough for me. I'm going in? And [00:15:52] Andrew: Yeah. There's a lot of, lot of good collectors in there. A lot of other artists, uh, they're now Armin, I noticed, uh, um, Brian Brinkman, some other artists that. [00:16:02] have been around the space for a long time. You know, I think that it was the NACI has a lot of respect from, from well-known artists in the space. Ransom bits is in here. I see recently purchased a couple hours ago. [00:16:14] Yeah, I have, I picked up a couple on of drive. I like the idea of putting a few of these together and making a collection and I want to get one in each of the objects on the face. So yeah, I am, I'm a holder and [00:16:26] George: Oh, so you, so there's different objects in the trying to pull that, together. Do you think that's going to be worth something or you just like, from an art standpoint, [00:16:32] it's just school. [00:16:33] Andrew: I think it will look cool together. You know, I think. there is potential that maybe There's something like that having a full set of each of the objects will at least look cool and trying to put some variation in what the objects are and what they're wearing. you know, there's different things that. [00:16:47] Yeah, different hats. There's different, um, clothing. So there's a shirt and tie. There's a basketball Jersey. There's, you know, I dunno there's even more, um, more ways. There's four different backgrounds. I don't know if the yellow is pieces in the past that I've seen. [00:17:03] Um, but I think that, I don't know the backgrounds even add a lot to this there's I think. There's a lot of ways that people could end up putting collections together. And I think it would be, it'd be cool if there were a way to, to, to put these together in a way that, you know, builds a new piece or something, or take something out of this. [00:17:23] But, you know, I have no idea, something like that will ever happen. [00:17:26] George: So you're just planning, playing an app, but you're going and you go? along. I know you've been keeping the powder dry, So thank you for bringing this to us as a really interesting one. Okay. [00:17:37] Andrew: right. Well, why don't we move on to our theme? [00:17:41] George: So I think this is in particular to PFP projects larger 10,000 pieces that are put together [00:17:48] by, you know, a [00:17:50] developer group and agency. What have [00:17:52] you proceeds or a Dow certainly. Now [00:17:56] look, money is made. Where does that freaking money [00:17:59] go? Like hard and fast. It goes to a wallet. So whoever has the keys to those wallet [00:18:05] has that [00:18:05] money. [00:18:06] So technically you could just run away with. [00:18:10] So, how do you start [00:18:12] from there is like where, where does the money go and how can you tell where the [00:18:15] money might go? [00:18:18] Andrew: Yeah, I think. this is a good question because I mean, we've got a lot of projects that talk about building a community and they raise a of funds and it's not always apparent. How much, or, You know, at all, will be spent to build that community. And we've certainly seen a lot of rogue projects where, you know, someone really just takes, it, takes The, ease, shuts it down. [00:18:37] We've also seen a lot where it's completely normal And open that the creators are taking a large percentage of the mint proceeded. Right away for themselves as if that's, you know, the the payment. And, you know, it's a concern that we've talked about here before, when you're getting paid a lot upfront, it really disincentivizes you to continue working and to build towards something bigger, you know? [00:19:03] And I think Uh, you know, we've seen something different in a project that George brought recently in the little nouns. Um, the, now this is? a project put out by nouns Dow, and both announced out with day, but that's all pooled into a joint, uh, joint account where all this ease is pulled up. [00:19:23] And then the doubt owners, any of the NFT owners can decide how to use that. Uh, one of the projects they spun up recently, he is this little announce, the Middleton hounds Dow, little now project that is meeting one every 15 minutes. And now they're raising funds from this. Now this is also going into a pool. [00:19:39] So this is really interesting. I think in that, you know, where this is going, it's more of buying into a collective, um, collective that. [00:19:47] gets to decide then how to use these funds. Do we know where it is? You can see it. And everybody gets a say in how those are you. [00:19:57] George: That's totally true. And that, that problem of taking that lump sum up front, and like, what incentivizes you as that continued percent of sales. Right? So that's the other side of like, where does it youth go So you have these two, you have one big moment of mint And ideally human doubt and all of those proceeds kind of roll into the bank. And then how does the, the transactions daily so you can get, I think it's max, what can you take up to 10% is what is the maximum limit on. What you can designate open, see, to give you as a percentage of a cut of any future transaction, or is it higher than that? Somewhere in there. [00:20:35] Andrew: I'm not sure, actually, it's probably around that. [00:20:38] George: So you have those two moments, uh, money up front, which is like, you know, that's, that's the big nut. And then ongoing, I see it more common saying, and then every future sale, half of it will go to charity or half of it will go to that or we'll do these other things. And that. presupposes that people are that they're going to be transactions, right? [00:20:56] Cause if there's no transactions, There's, there's no money in the door. And I think that has been one of the issues that we have seen with the long-term value of access, tokens, tokens that give access to analytics platforms you have a development team, developing things. and they're, you know, they have an update next week in one month and in two months, but the big amount of that came in was. [00:21:21] When people initially bought that. So there's this problem of you know, follow the, money on how that will sustain into a developer over time. If those are not changing hands, because people are just using the tool. There's, there's a question mark there. I see This comes back to also just frankly trust. [00:21:40] And what you're doing is saying does this person plan to be with the project or even if they do, and maybe they don't. And they're like, look, it's very clear. Uh, it was a Nazi it's like taking this money and like, you get art, I have money. Future utility is on you. it's right there. [00:21:56] It's right there in the in the logic. Um, but I think for a lot. of PFP projects, And the, I get a little suspicious. I get a little nervous when I see large percentages being tagged into future transactions without like, the utility. Like, if you're going to say, all right, you have open seat, 2.5% of the cup. [00:22:17] If you're gonna be taking 10%, the big question is how has that money that you get going to increase the utility marketability secondary value. Of the project or is it just going to line your pockets in perpetuity? That's a trigger to me and be like, this is, this is a cash grab and maybe it's done under the veil of all. [00:22:40] I don't want people to be Transferring around, so I'm setting it high to make sure it doesn't move a lot. And you're like, Hmm. I, uh, I'm, I'm concerned when that, sort of thing happens. Also. Funny thing about that percentage is that even though it's [00:22:53] like, quote unquote written to the contract, it doesn't. It's more of a guideline than a rule, like platforms don't have to follow that [00:23:02] percentage allocation. Actually, even though it's in the [00:23:04] contract open, see is honorable. That's used to do it, but there are [00:23:07] platforms that you can go to that don't honor the creator [00:23:12] fee. I think it's called in contract. they just don't write it into the, the signing of that contract from that piece. Transferring another question for me that comes with. [00:23:22] What happens if I trade that board aid for some, you know, other, other ape or [00:23:28] other things, how does that, how does that happen in my paying it fee? Am I not? [00:23:34] Andrew: Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I think that there's, that's something that's going to come up obviously as this, uh, new trading I think as A trading platform comes to be, you know, we'll have to have that, that do you, I dunno how to creators get paid, you know, but I think in general, maybe we're seeing sort of a shift in how people want to. [00:23:53] Uh, what the east to be or where they want it to go. When it goes into a wallet that is controlled by, you know, people from the community, you know, I assume it's a multisignature wallet. I haven't looked, um, particularly much into the mound stout model, but I think people there's been a lot of tension on announced out for a reason recently. [00:24:14] Um, and I part of it is that that little nouns, uh, project meeting, but people also coming to a realization that, um, you know, maybe that. A, uh, a model that some other projects should be I'll say it's really been fun inside of the little nouns, like part of that they're trying to figure out how to spend the money. and there's like, I dunno, like 30, 40 eats we're talking about and they continue, to to generate because as an ongoing basis, every 10th now, Goes to the Dow And every like 11th goes to the nouns proper now, and there's talks about like, oh, maybe we should buy a noun. [00:24:48] George: So we get like rights. Maybe we should do marketing. Maybe we should do more, uh, donations to charity. Like there are actual considerations of how you guide these funds and it is a you know, it's doing well right now. Um, And you know, might be hopefully not my pick of the year, but it is. was a good pick. [00:25:11] Uh, [00:25:11] Andrew: Yeah. I noticed [00:25:12] George: also have though, related to this like how the proceeds are used and sort of once the proceeds are done, that initial sale is done. It's on the the interest in passion And reputation of the creators to continue, right. That there has to be extra energy. uh, you know, shout out to since you brought us that one, that was, that was a very good one. And they had this amazing Twitter thread where they just talk about how they launched in July of 2021, some fanfare, they just had general PFP And they just, it was collapsing. They just, utility. They're trying to be comics. and they're like, look, we're financial folks Like we know markets like. it And instead of watching yet a new thing, they brought this thing sheer will and reputation, and started churning out actual daily posts that are, very helpful and interesting hot takes on the [00:26:05] market. And also now just delivered, uh, the, the [00:26:09] wreck, uh, the Rex guy [00:26:10] drop. [00:26:11] And so, you know, that's an example of like, they weren't getting paid at And so you have to think about that. I think with, you know, how these [00:26:17] proceeds are you There is extrinsic intrinsic here. [00:26:20] And once the dollars, sorry, sorry. Dirty Fiat. Once the Eve dries up the passion has to kick in And I've been [00:26:30] really impressed with how those folks have Have turned it around over there. [00:26:37] Andrew: Yeah, I think that's a good point. you know, I think we've, we've seen some other projects with Freemans recently, and we've seen these in the past and You know, those are, that's another one where. Yeah, I guess you are really want to continue trading. If you're really looking at only getting paid based on, uh, based on a percent of transactions. [00:26:55] So I think that's a good thing, you know, we've seen, we've seen a lot of inferences. Really get up there. And I think any, any mint that is especially high is, you know, it doesn't mean don't do it, but it does mean, you know, they earned the right to do that? Have they earned the trust and will they, you know, you know, I don't know, will they continue to work at it to, to add value? [00:27:23] You know, it's something that, you know, you've really got to keep in when it's a high, mid price. [00:27:27] George: I'm afraid of making any absolute statements, but right now you can hold me to this one. I'm really going to stay away from Hyman prices. I'll just be honest. [00:27:36] If, if, [00:27:37] X copy can't hold value for a [00:27:40] mint price. The arguably well-known names in the game, then I'm, I'm really, I'm not going to be traveling too far over 0.2 weeks for mint. And especially in that, market right now, like in hotter markets. Sure. but until the next moon, birds comes along And we see it coming and we're like, very clearly you just try to do your best to get in that white list And you know, good luck. [00:28:04] But otherwise it's It's a very sharp [00:28:08] market out there. I'll say. [00:28:10] Andrew: Absolutely. Yeah. I'm definitely watching my trades a lot closer right now because, uh, I've noticed things quickly if, if they don't have much history or even if they do, in some case, this is. [00:28:22] George: Yeah. Quick note, a little alpha here for the DGN, since they did the [00:28:27] a D E G E N Z. Uh, they did do that drop in snapshot [00:28:32] already. The price tends to drop after that, but I don't [00:28:35] think the value of this community is going away. And it might be an interesting [00:28:39] time to just keep your eye on that floor. it's currently hovering And it may drop a little bit more [00:28:45] Andrew: looking at. It was up to almost half anyth by the way. So it's fluctuating, definitely worth keeping an eye on. [00:28:52] George: the problem is I don't want to sell mine. I need This is the whole problem. Like, oh shoot. I should've got two. and it's the same thing with low now. And I'm like, I can't sell it. Oh no. And now I have this like heartbreak of watching this thing right

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Theme: Can we stop saying blue-chip NFT? In the land of equities https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bluechipstock.asp  One criteria: Have you survived 1 year or more and lived through a bear market with the same team maybe you are a blue-chip…    Affordable project: Bankless DAO: https://www.bankless.community/ Discord shout out: https://opensea.io/collection/avius-animae  from JohnnyMac6969. https://medium.com/@johnjannuzzi_89786/avius-animae-is-just-the-beginning-327196677852  NFT NewsRantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines: Blue-Chip NFT Collections Hit Harder Than Bitcoin in Crypto Rout Azuki Founder Rugged 3 previous projects. Instagram is Rolling Out NFT Tools This Week, Letting Digital Collectors Clearly Show That They Own an Image   Transcript: [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable NFTs. Can we stop saying blue chip NFT? We'll get into that at first, Andrew, what he's seen in the news? [00:00:10] Well, I think you know, this is maybe alluding to one of the things that I'm seeing in the news because ah, we saw this as Zuki has been. Maybe claim to be a blue chip and Ft who that has taken a big hit. The the founder came out and exposed himself to have been a pro Ben, the founder of three previous projects that, you know, you can debate the, the, how much of rugs they were, but he definitely took a lot of ease and didn't deliver everything. [00:00:42] Deleted socials, maybe impersonated a female persona in a, in a Twitter does account for one of the projects. So all these things, so. That's a Zuki project clearly fell out of the blue chip status quickly. The floor went from over 20 to under 10 fairly quickly. Although I believe it's still holding around 10, somewhat, surprisingly to me, I haven't looked at the last day or so. [00:01:10] But yeah, that's a, that's one that I think is maybe triggering the the title here is I think we've got to look at this. There's no such thing as a blue-chip in NMT because they are an FTS. Pictures, they're JPEGs. They are digital files. And we've only been doing this for how long there's the oldest ones are like six years old. [00:01:31] I mean, like the oldest, oldest, oldest, come on, you know, there's no such thing. We know that there's no value assigned to these are most of the time. So there's no such thing as blue chip. We got to get over that. Right. But that's what we were seeing out there in I don't know, other craziness that we didn't even get to talk about last episode [00:01:50] It was, it was a bombshell that this went off and like, it was like everywhere. And then suddenly it was just, we didn't even mention it last time. Cause it just like, you know, it would have been the entire focus of a whole episode, but you're like, ah, well, so it goes, you know, like what? [00:02:04] Yeah. Do you know what the floor actually is on a Suki now, did you [00:02:07] Yeah, it's a little over 10. I just peaked it. So it's, you know, the community is holding strong, but there's a lot of A lot of negative, a lot of negative pressure there. And also it's just, I can't get behind the impersonation elements. The, you know, I want to be careful because founders are allowed to fail. However, the way you fail is very important in crypto and rugging is just something that's gotta [00:02:31] mean, you could fail, but better disclose what your failures are, disclose your past projects. Say what you're doing now to learn from that. Not after the fact not this was, you know, and I listened to a Twitter spaces that he went on with. Andrew, Wing's a kind of social NFG, social media personality. [00:02:51] And, you know, it was really disappointing because he gave very run-around answers. Wasn't. As much as far as follow-ups and didn't seem to really understand why people were upset with the whole situation. So little unclear to me why he wrote the article. There were some rumors that others knew about this and were kind of forcing him to come out about it or else they were going to meet the news. [00:03:14] So I don't know about the veracity of that, but there's also the, I don't know maybe doing this when when there's. A lot of other negative news, you know, to hopefully have people sort of move on quickly. And I don't know. We'll see what happens here. You know, I'm looking at the sales right now and they are solid. [00:03:31] There's a lot of sales happening. So he is certainly taking in a lot in royalties as these 10 plus eats sales. Just roll in every, a few minutes here. [00:03:41] Yeah, well, it's like as, as they trade hands, he does well on volume. So, you know, okay. You know, not a project that I kind of ever got into around another title and you're going to be seeing, I think a lot of this is the, this from Bloomberg Bloomberg out of blue-chip NFT collections hit harder than Bitcoin in crypto. [00:04:02] And so it's, you know, it's definitely true where you're not down 30% or, you know, under a hundred EAs on board apes and punks have fallen as well. You know? I don't know. What do you see in this? [00:04:14] I mean, it's an attention grabbing headline. I'm not, it doesn't mean a whole lot. I don't know what blue chip means also. I mean, over what period, you know, if we want to say a year ago, Four dates have done pretty well compared to Bitcoin. If we want to go, you know, a week ago, it's different, you know, I mean, that's a sort of how, how it goes. [00:04:35] It really depends what you're measuring. So I don't know. And they're using the term blue chip, which I wouldn't. I [00:04:42] Yeah. that's, the blue and that's the blue chip use, right? That's why I had to include it. I had to include [00:04:46] as that is funny. And you know, they certainly, I don't know if you're going to look at the non Bluetooth. I would say gets a lot worse. [00:04:54] Yeah. Okay. Instagram rolling out and hefty tools this week. I guess it depends on when you're listening to this, but they're letting digital collectors show that they own a image. So there you go. Following the, you know, falling with Instagram what Facebook always does, which is copy and paste, ironically for NFTs in terms of features that Twitter has already rolled out. [00:05:17] So now that. Maybe I, you know what, there's no like, oh, this'll bring in everybody. It is another little sort of minor move of web two to web three that might interest seven people [00:05:29] Yeah, and it's not a real big move. I did notice that they're working with a few different chains, including polygon. I think that's what they were launching on initially. So I think that is interesting. That polygon is being used there. I think we'll see. [00:05:40] I can bring my horses. I can get my horses into play. [00:05:43] Well, yeah, and I think it's good for that, for that layer to start getting used or getting used by bigger, bigger customers that maybe need to roll up more of these transactions. So I think that's good to start seeing them actually realize that that could be a problem later on, rather than just going on a theory of only, and assuming that it will just work. [00:06:05] And I, you know, I don't think that's gonna work for Instagram users when the fee, when they see these. Are insane on the Ethereum network. So going into polygon sounds like the right move and it makes me a little more optimistic of a polygon as well. Not that I haven't been big on polygon to begin with. [00:06:22] Yep. Nah, I'm in long polygon, but been a little painful to be old in the old MADEC token, as of late [00:06:27] Yeah, absolutely. Right. Hey, you [00:06:29] bit. The interesting nuance here, just speaking from my own perspective and what I've, what I've seen is that, like I have an Instagram account. There's no way in the world. [00:06:39] Then I would change my picture to an NFT because I have a different personality there. My web two socials are very, very, very, very different. It's like, there's this like, you know, [00:06:52] nighttime, I'm mostly stable daddy during the day. I have to be a reputable human being and also a dad and also somebody on social who's posting pictures of the kids. [00:07:01] Like I'm not going to put up. You know, I'm joking. I'm not going to post my, my, my horse as my profile pics. So, okay. On the positive side though, I'm a little [00:07:12] Maybe that says more about your NMT collection then. [00:07:15] I've Hey, maybe I can, I'm still trying to get one of these nouns, like that might do it now. It's just, you know, I just don't like the signal unless it's like designed for that, but you're right. [00:07:25] Maybe I [00:07:26] Yeah. Well, I think that's something that we need, you know, that we'll need to be champ or overcome. That is a challenge. If people don't want it at all, they're into it. You know, what is the right way for Instagram to maybe come into this? And I don't know what it is. I don't know. I'm not sure if they're just trying to force their way in here, but you know, if we need people to come in to make this grow, you know, we're going to have to see some other adoption than, than what we have right now. [00:07:49] but the Domino's are there. Right? Because if you look at Oculus and that whole ecosystem, you know, pulling in NFTs is just one step to the left. Now they're beginning to go in that direction of allowing these these entities. And like that starts to get me interested if suddenly I can like bring in my skins or whatnot into, you know, moveable elements. [00:08:09] So we're seeing the beginning of the beginning. Something to be hopeful for, but again, I'm not holding the breath. All right. Any else? Anything else in the headlines before we move? Move into [00:08:19] No, nothing else from me. [00:08:21] Okay. So I have got an affordable project kind of. That's the funny thing is I've been talking about this prior to, you know, everything melting down and I still like it as a play. [00:08:33] The Bankless Dow. So Bankless is, I would say the number one most listened to crypto podcast or for certainly Ethereum based podcasts. They have, you know, guests like. You know, the metallic and they pretty much can get anybody on this. On this podcast. They have a tremendous listenership, a very active discord in the Bankwest stout essentially is by membership. [00:08:57] If you have a 35,000 of the Bankless token, and that then gets you access to you know, their community, their, their alpha, their conversations, and also just a ton of voting and a very impressive network. And so that. You know, it's a token, mind you and everything is a pretty volatile. I don't know if you've noticed, but their play here is coming back to NFTs in their conversation with Kevin Rose, who you remember is behind moon birds. [00:09:28] And their conversation there, they were kind of picking Kevin Rose's brain about, Hey, how would you do an NFT drop if you were us? And his first statement was just like, you've got to reward the people who were there at the beginning, the people who are your original holders and people that are downloaders would be potentially one of those groups. [00:09:47] So this is, as you can see speculation upon speculation, but at the very least, you know, I think you're, you're part of a community that has attention and has loyalty and has. And when we think about things, that'll survive a fire. I know that they are committed to continuing that podcast. They have survived previous bear markets, one of those indicators, and I think they might be around. [00:10:10] So I don't think an NFE is coming anytime soon, but when prices are low might be interesting. What is your hot take on this, Andrew? [00:10:18] I like it take, huh. Now these guys have been around building. They have been wiped out. They were around in 2018 and I listened to their podcast all the time. I think they produce some of the best content, really insightful. They know. The crypto industry. They like, I mean, as well as anybody that can talk about it. [00:10:38] And I really liked that they've been here when nobody was paying attention when they lost everything. When everybody left, if that did happen again, I'm pretty sure they would continue doing the same thing. So that makes me a very I don't know, I'm very bullish on, you know, being part of anything that they will do. [00:10:57] And I think that is a great way to get in just to any project that they may end up doing, you know, who knows what they, what they have planned. They definitely seemed interested in maybe launching something. They've got the bank west Dow, and I know they, they talk about building even more. They built quite a following. [00:11:15] And I think this is, this is worth getting into, if you, you know, if you're, if you believe in the Ethereum system at all, you know, they're going to be here. So I like it. [00:11:26] Awesome. And then I have a quick one from our community, actually. And this is one from Johnny. And this is I'm going to mess up the name of this one, for sure. AVS anime, AVS anime. And that the artist is basically created these generated images, which are very sort of uplifting pro-social and passionately. [00:11:52] They're supporting the LGBTQ. I am community and with part of this and they're you know, they're looking to, they have not disclosed how much they're giving, but they're getting a part of it away. But really, you know, just cool looking images and full disclosure. I don't own any I will say they mint it out. [00:12:12] I believe it. [00:12:12] was 10,000 and there are about 3,400 owners of is in the affordable range of 0.01, three. And they do have a discourse. [00:12:22] Yeah, I really like the art on these they're cool pieces and it sounds like a cool project to be a part of, if you just want to support this. Cause I don't know a ton more about it, but I'm glad someone was able to bring this to us. Thank you, Johnny. [00:12:35] Yeah, they stated that half of the mint profits will be donated. And I don't know about continued sales, but worth worth checking out a unique art. I will say that this is not like sort of, you know, lift and shift from a, another one. Seemingly hand drawn and then sort of again, generated cool stuff. [00:12:52] Thank you. All right. Can we, can we start over? I mean, can We stop saying blue chip? [00:12:59] We may be doing that right now. We may be in the process of that. Although I have a feeling we're just knocking them off one by one. [00:13:06] Yes until there's none left. Okay. So I thought it'd be fun maybe to start with like, you know, in like Bluechip parlance, right? Like when you're talking about blue chip, it was first described as high price stocks in 1926. remember that date, right? When an employee at Dow Jones observed that certain stocks trading at $200 or more per share were like, kind of like a poker chip that of, you know, blue, white, and red, where blue was simply more and, you know, kind of funny that it was coined in a period of time where the 1920s were pretty volatile with regard to stocks, but you know, it really refers to a blue chip. [00:13:47] That has been operation for this a generally a number of years, but you're thinking like Coca-Cola Disney, right? These are companies that have been in the game for 30 plus years. And so you're, you're sort of really thinking about what a company that has survived and up and down market. Maybe multiple times a history of execution has delivered on promises time and time. [00:14:12] Again, you know, has value in the. No, maybe even throws off a dividend. Like there's just, it has very clear characteristics. They're seen as less volatile investments highly liquid, a lot of these words I'm using and not [00:14:27] They don't describe the NFCS [00:14:29] I've been describing. [00:14:30] I mean, I think it'd be hard to, it's hard to even describe that too many stocks. In today's age because things are so volatile compared to them. And, you know, I know that it was quite volatile then, but that the, the day to day volatility and the way that things shift quickly now is, is quite different. [00:14:48] In much faster trading, we didn't have people that could just trade at at their fingertips at any point. So I think the idea that anything could be Bluechip especially. Such a ridiculously volatile and illiquid market, like NFTs is pretty preposterous. Really. [00:15:08] Y it kind of irks me though, is the false sense of stability. I think it imbues on things that just happen to be very expensive. There's a huge difference between something that is very expensive and something that is very. And I think that's like, let that sit for a second. And I get very uncomfortable when, you know, people start, you know, especially with people who maybe can't afford her, it's on the edge of what they can afford. [00:15:37] Start pining. After something that they had imagined would hold their value. You can even look at something like crypto punks, which is, you know, the, the OJI of OGs of, you know, what we look at for NFTs. Do you remember. The company got bought straight up. So that is just a different company now, Right. UGA labs now controls that asset. [00:16:01] And if they want to destroy, demolish change, whatever that brand, they can sure you own the asset. But I'm looking at these as like small companies that are running to drive the attention and value and utility. Of these assets and I, I, I don't think there's a single project. I could point to that even fits the following very base criteria, having survived a year or more, and also have lived through a bear market and crypto with the same team. There you go. If you, if you can check those boxes for me, go ahead and call it a blue chip. I'll give you a second. [00:16:42] Right. Yeah. We've definitely had an issue of people, conflating price with blue chip and we see over and over that high prices leave a long way to fall. And we're seeing, I mean, we are seeing them kind of be taken down and right now, you know, I guess people are still considering board apes and maybe punks. [00:17:01] Although, you know, you've got to think that punks over. We'll never be able to to challenge board apes as a brand in any way. I mean, they're owned by the same company that clearly wants board apes to be the king there. And, you know, they should, it would be wrong for them to let another brand challenge that, but, you know, what are the, what are the more tried and true brands? [00:17:24] There aren't any you know, larger labs probably had the longest Longest record, but I think they've done a lot to sort of tarnish their reputation and they've let go of the brand anyway. You know, I don't know that I, I'm not sure that, I mean, I certainly would not put board aids in a blue chip or even the team and the blue chip category at this point. [00:17:44] We've got to see, they've got a lot to prove. And at this point, the other side minting is you know, not looking great interns. How the energy market has fared since then. [00:17:56] Yeah. And just a week ago, had we been marching through the blue chips? We would have been a mentioning Zuki. [00:18:04] Exactly. Yeah. Zuki. I think the others that have been up there, I don't know, maybe a Clonex the, what have we had? And we've had a cool cats were up there at one point. I mean, right. Artifact. I mean, maybe because of the, you know, there's all these, all these. Priced are these, you know, these big collections that are priced high that are considered blue-chip. [00:18:26] And, you know, I think if people, especially when the price is, I want them to be blue-chip because you don't want to think that your 20 EPS could all of a sudden be worth for Eve and you know, the truth is that it can happen and we've seen, and we've seen what happens in when people run to get liquidity exchange, certain tokens for what they think it's worth. [00:18:48] And that there's not quite as much liquidity there as it was. As they believe, and it changes the value pretty quickly. And that can happen with your NFTs as well. [00:18:58] And, and in short order, because the market for the other side can, can vanish very, very quickly. All right. So again, I say it here, like if you've survived over a year and you've lived through a bear market, so it's like has to be over a year because bear markets come and go. With the same team, maybe you are a blue chip. [00:19:16] So right now there are no blue chips be very careful. And that's why we always like to make affordable small bets on what's. What's out there.  

Theme: If we build it, will they come?  Top collections surge, while most collections move sideways/down Active NFT wallets have fallen, despite new platforms, tools, apps Long-awaited Coinbase NFT Marketplace has not brought new users Building and investment continues in NFT platforms, tools, etc Affordable project: Bankless DAO (35k BANK needed for membership - Bankless DAO price, BANK chart, and market cap | CoinGecko ) NFT NewsRantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines: OpenSea Acquires Gem to Invest in 'Pro' Experience  Genie NFT Marketplace Aggregator Teases A $GENIE Token or Coin  Coinbase's NFT Marketplace Gains Less Than 150 Users in First Day Open to Public NFT Marketplace Zora Raises $50M In Seed Funding   Meet the Dune wizards: The college students, VCs and crypto rebels wrangling on-chain data to help people make sense of the Web 3.0 world. Here's how they got started — and what it takes to secure paid contracts  Nike's NFT Sneakers for the Metaverse Are Selling for $8K - CNET      Transcript [00:00:00] The day on all about affordable NFTs. If we build it, they will come question mark. And I think you kind of know when you're asking, unless it is a field of dreams that is dropping an NFT in your wallet with ghosts baseball players, you might have to work a little harder to avoid that, that, that dreaded sideways motion of your NFT not taking off, but that's our theme. [00:00:23] What's the news. [00:00:24] Oh, great. Yeah. Talk NFTs again, George. Good to talk here. I am pulling up my notes. As you made able to tell the, where did I see of tabs? I got them here. [00:00:40] I have open C acquires gem to invest in pro experience. So. [00:00:46] Yeah, I thought that this was a good move by open C Jim dot X, Y, Z. We've talked about this one a little bit. It's similar to genie. You can buy multiple NFTs at once. And we'll also accurate from multiple sources. Although I think it's primarily just taking everything from. Right now, maybe some looks where it may also not be taking any from other platforms soon, but I think this is good to a good feature, to be able to. [00:01:14] Offer offer people looking for a bigger traders that aren't less looking to just buy maybe one or two pieces at a time. They're really trying to move significant amount of money around and want to maybe buy 30 of you know, 30 of a collection at one time or more. So I think it's E it gives them it gives them a lot more tools here. [00:01:36] I think the other nice thing for them is sort of stops this aggregator from. Potentially becoming a competitor at some point. We've seen how aggravators can grow quite large and open. See, just just acquire one of the, the biggest one right now. Although we'll see how the market reacts. Genie, as we've got here is going to be releasing a token of their own. [00:02:00] They vowed to stay independent. He has said that he, the founder said that. Ben a pre was approached by open sea as well, and refuted their offer so wants to stay independent and actually be able to work with multiple marketplaces. So we'll see. If that, you know, which model work, it turns out to be more successful here. [00:02:20] I think it's a good move by open. See, I am a little surprised that Jim had decided to sell there. I think it is, it's good that we've got one that will stay independent and be able to actually work as a real accurate. [00:02:32] Yeah, this pro experience and certainly for Wales looking to like, look at a market and buy up like a certain type of rarity of a project and be able to do multiple things. It makes a lot of sense, but I gotta be honest in, in the future where NFTs are lift listed on separate platforms. Be it, you know, referable looks rare, coin Bates, NFT. [00:02:56] Like you're going to need to see a holistic view and bid across platforms to find where the opportunities are. So I, you know, I get it as a, as a feature, but the real feature is being able to look across platforms. And if you're not allowing that, then I'm kind of confused. [00:03:09] Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that the cross-platform functionality will do big benefit to Jeannie in the long run on here. And actually. You mentioned Coinbase marketplace that has opened to the public has not seen a lot of action quite yet. I got the email that it is open. It was I dunno, I guess I was kind of expecting a little bit more of an event with that, or a little bit more of an announcement, something going on. [00:03:35] It not surprisingly has not seen a lot of a lot of transactions because there wasn't, I don't know. There wasn't much to get people there. [00:03:43] The headline here is on its first day. The market floor has opened up and saw less than 150. I'm not missing a thousand. I'm not listening a million. No, no, no. A hundred and one five, zero, no other. [00:03:57] million people on their list. [00:03:59] 150 new users sign up for its platform. According to analytics. [00:04:05] You know, I've been, I've been unimpressed with some of the, the usage of the looks rare platform. It, because it's so incentivized. And that it's mostly washed rating. However, They've at least tried to incentivize people to get there. I'm not sure what, what the impetus is for anybody to go use the claim basin Ft marketplaces right now, besides it being on Coinbase. [00:04:30] I dunno. It's not proven. It's not great. I thought this was actually going to be in beta for a lot longer. Was surprised to see that they announced it that quickly. And without any apparent fair, fair fanfare. [00:04:42] I my heart hurts so much because I like, I mean, you've heard us talk about this. I have looked forward to this kind of like moment where a bunch of people will be like onboarded and brought on. And it's just such a reminder that like, you just can't bet on the. bet on the roadmap. You can't bet on this like high expectation of a thing, but this is gotta be below all manner of expectation. [00:05:03] You know, I've, you know, I've had blog posts do better in a single day than this. This is not a, this is not an acceptable thing. You know, and obviously this stock took a massive tumble as a result of, of, you know, I guess a number of things, the general market, but also on this, and it's down like 30% over the past month. [00:05:22] But coming back to what I think they could have, I thought was going to happen here is that you already had users using the app and they were clicking in a single experience. They've just created a new destination or you have to go through and upload had they tied it into. The actual app and that experience and bringing those things together, like, oh, there you go. [00:05:41] But instead they, you know, similar to like Facebook trying to compete with, you know, Instagram, they, you know, didn't end up being able to achieve that. And then he just bought it. They bought the whole software and brought those users in there. But if you're trying to create a whole new marketplace from scratch, simply because you have a branded name, like it's going to take more to your point than that. So Ouch in [00:06:06] So I don't think there's going to be the catalyst that brings the next wave in which maybe we'll have to discuss a little bit more here. [00:06:13] I think, I think we have spilled enough ink and words over the expectation associated with the Coinbase entity marketplace. And just going back to the episode, we just had valuing the product versus the promise. And I think we overvalued the promise a little bit, just a little. [00:06:30] yeah, yeah. All right next. We've got that. Let's see. Another marketplace raised 50 million in seed funding. I think this just kind of goes along with what we keep saying. There's going to be more marketplaces. They keep raising more money. It's not necessarily a single marketplace world. So there's that one this next bit is a bit of a self promotion. [00:06:52] There's, there's a dune or a, I'm sorry, a, a, an article in business insider, et cetera. Dot com on dune analytics wizards. I was included in that, that article. So I've included that link. I think you should definitely go read it or at least you know, try to, if you weren't a wold from it, but there's a lot, [00:07:12] quote. What did you, what did you quote in here? [00:07:14] Yeah. Oh, it is paywall bone. Sorry. I thought there was a way to, to preview it initially anyway. Yeah. What. So, yeah, they, they were asking me about about how I got into blockchain analytics. What were, you know, what is could be discovered there, you know, and that, you know, I'd let them know a little bit how I got into it initially, which was prime will actually do looking into social tokens initially. [00:07:36] Was doing some, some dashboards for some bounty work and then got really into dune and let them know, you know, how I how much I like looking into it, because it tells you so much more than what you see on these surface level numbers. You know, we know that there is a lot of there are a lot of numbers that aren't quite what they seem in in NFTs. [00:07:54] So I, I, I really like looking into the. Trying to look at who the wallets are and look at the, the, where those, where funds are moving around a bit, trying to looking at those things, but also look at look at where big collectors are, are maybe moving into next, see what's going on there. So A lot of different ways you can use this stuff, but it's I was, I was happy part of that. [00:08:19] And I am bullies looking more into those, those blockchain analytics. So fun to be part of that. [00:08:27] Yeah. it's pretty cool. To be in a, an article in business insider with the title of meet the read the wizards of of dune and certainly your work there, it's like, you just constantly hear it. Like, Hey. The dashboard for this. And it's, you know, part of that, that open stuff. And we'll have the link in the show notes. [00:08:45] And of course your NFT marketplace, data links super helpful for understanding what's going on. Cool. Very cool. I'd be a little worried though, every now and then someone wants to talk to me about like the NFTs and my wallet. I'm like, ah, did you docs yourself in that? [00:08:59] Yeah. [00:09:01] Oh, he's out there. [00:09:03] Yup. Yup, yup. Yeah. Yeah. There's, you know, it's out there. If you look hard, you know, and I'd say even this this, I, you can put it all together. Right? [00:09:12] Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Congrats. Super cool. Well, maybe I'll have to get some new kicks, some new Medicare. [00:09:23] Oh, God. Nice segue into the Nike NFT crypto kits. Yeah, for, for A mere $130,000. You too can have digital sneakers. [00:09:35] A wait that's, that's the premium stuff, you know, but the floor, I think, is down much lower than that, but they, they do look cool. So they, there is a, these came out of the artifact company. This has been part of, let's see, it was part of the artifact. I can't remember the name of the original NMT, but then they had Sorry. [00:09:55] They had a box that came out of the monolith box that was given to the holders. So then the monolith box was opened and it had these, these crypto kicks along with a vial, the vial, axes, and skin for the for the sneakers. So there's different rarities of those vials to, you know, different look they've hinted that there'll be able to change. [00:10:15] There'll be more changes to these with, with, with what's coming in the future, on the roadmap, you know but you'll be able to actually make these sort of one-on-one sneakers and be able to print these artifact has done something like that in the past. They did that for punk holders. About a year ago, gave them an option to do a, the one-on-one speaker. [00:10:34] Each one was actually unique to the punk itself. So I think that's probably where this is going in at some stage in the future. I think there's going to be potential for merging different ones for trying different ways to customize and make it unique. Artifact has definitely one of the leading companies here and I think it's cool to see them actually put that Nike the Nike logo and see that in the in the digital version here. [00:11:01] Yeah, and it looks like there's like 10,000 items, but they said there's 20,000 total and the floor price is hovering around 1.5 as of right now. So kind of cooling off [00:11:13] a vial. Of course. So, [00:11:15] oh yeah. Okay. [00:11:16] you gotta get a vile to have any, you know, to make them look like anything. So yeah, they have cooled down a bit, but Nike. There are certainly a lot of Nike collectors out there. So we'll see if maybe some of those sneaker heads move over into NFTs. I've know that plenty of them have already. [00:11:32] I'm not, [00:11:33] Yeah, it takes up less closet space. So, yes. [00:11:35] That's right. You can have a [00:11:37] I dunno. Might be one to watch. Like if, if, if it gets quiet, like I think there's something to be said for the. The first Nike shoe drop and the sneaker head and memorabilia. I, I wouldn't go, I wouldn't attack it at this price. [00:11:49] No, not in this environment at that price either, but I think there is maybe an entry point that that makes sense there. Because I think artifact is a, is going to be pretty, I don't know, a big company. Fashion NFT space and fashion being that the way that Nike is fashion. And so I think, you know, being able to add Nike's anymore, just that swoosh is a huge, a huge benefit, but also the, the the collector base that comes along with Nike. [00:12:17] I think that that could be very beneficial over time. [00:12:20] I just put it on my watch list. So if it gets, gets us somewhere interesting, better believable, bring it to the project. All right. If we build it, they will come top collections, surging, but let's just be honest. Most collections. When you say most like 99% of projects, sideways or down. [00:12:38] Yeah. And I, I said sideways, you know, it's tough to say, you know, day to day exactly what it is, but you know, if they're not moving up anyway and they're, they're, they're, they're moving not much. And that's what we're seeing. I think in, you know, more recently we've seen some downward price movement and maybe that's even across the board for the law for a long time, we saw that the games were primarily in those board apes mute Napes You know, I'd say in a Zuki, we've seen him run in the doodles recently, but really everything else needs sort of mid-market the affordable NFTs or even not so affordable NFTs those next year. [00:13:18] If it had, there's not a lot, not a lot happening there. And, you know, despite this sort of these record volume days, it's not spilling over to, to lower volume projects or lower priced projects. [00:13:31] I feel that's because some of these large mega drops launch projects of moon birds, and the other side, you go lab stuff and they just sucking all the oxygen out. Like, look, there's a handful of users, right. We pegged it at there's like under a million there's 350,000 active wallets, depending on what you're looking. [00:13:52] It's only so much, frankly, ease that people have running around with. And if you're dropping it all into these projects. [00:14:00] and sucking it out, is it like at a certain point you've milked the cow too much, like what's going on. [00:14:05] I think it's some of that. I think it's also that you see some of these, that the best projects, the best collections launching. More collections, printing more, you know, making more NFTs available. And while they, while they initially released with a, you know, a 10 K hard cap or, or maybe even smaller, you know, they've realized that, well, we could just make a second collection and that second collection may have twice as many. [00:14:32] And we're seeing that oftentimes that second collection has a lot more a lot more pieces. So it's getting a lot more people and ability to get in at a lower price that becomes. You know, an alternative to maybe the, instead of getting the second or third or fifth best project of, of that category. [00:14:50] You know, maybe if it's you know, some sort of a race car play to earn thing. I, you know, when you want, you can instead just look at the best one. I'm not a, it's not a real world example, but instead of looking at, you know, looking at the, you know, 17th best PFP project that is basically following the roadmap of. [00:15:08] Of, of merge of eventually we'll have a metaverse we'll do another PFP drop. They're just doing the same thing that the biggest ones are doing. I think you're going to see people just move. Try to move up a little bit by being in, by, by being in a related collection to the best projects. Instead of being with the competing project that probably isn't going to be able to overtake those leading collections. [00:15:33] So, And your active NFE wallets have fallen despite new platforms. And so [00:15:41] yeah, I shouldn't say as a new active wallets is more, I knew. Yeah. Not onboarding as the pace of onboarding has slowed. [00:15:51] Yeah. And we just talk about that with the long awaited Coinbase, NFT, we talked about it so many times there's 4 million people on a wait list. Like that had to mean something, but actually. Maybe you come back around and say like, let's just people clicking buttons on, you know, on the Coinbase app. And you're like, yeah, sure. [00:16:05] I'll join a wait list, click click, fine. But it's not really customer acquisition in the way that we thought it would be because those customers, if they want it NFS probably already want to gone and did it, but it wasn't the that smooth transition that, that we were hoping for. It just, Hey, you know, it just, it really took some wind out of the sales and this is going to be. [00:16:25] This is going to be a very careful time for ed say, throwing money around on an is like, continue to do it, but I'm being very, very judicious on it. There's no sort of like, there's no longer this, and then that's going to happen moment. I think this is just grind, slow and steady over time. [00:16:42] Yeah. And I think this is where we're actually going to see a lot of projects die. A lot of these, these projects are not going to make it. People are going to become less interested. Maybe it's part of that, that, you know, oh, the realization of, oh, this is actually what we're building and people realizing, well, you know, that's what it is. [00:17:01] I'm not, that's not what, I'm what I actually came for. You know, there's going to be some of that. That could be some of the sort of consolidation that we see here getting rid of a lot of the extra. And hopefully we will see some, some big winners that, that do come out. But yeah, I think you're right in being wary of of buying new NFTs right now. [00:17:20] Yeah, that's it. I'm I'm now I have a, an investment thesis that like kind of, you know, continue to evolve and share here, but there are still like, you know, opportunities. That then get presented under priced assets, especially when enough people get bearish and enough people are looking the wrong way, right When everyone's looking at the shiny object over here, that means there's a whole world over on the other side. And then you can evaluate the, you know, going back to our previous episode, the value of the actual product, as it sits as a piece of art or as a game token piece in a stable game, or however you look at that versus promises, cause like most of the promises dry up, you can then maybe assess that and say like, Hey, what will the next phase. [00:18:00] It's not going away. It's going to go through cycles. Those cycles are going to be faster. But the other issue I see is a little bit that I, you know, I used to play poker online and in the early days it was pretty easy to win money because the players weren't good when you're playing against uninformed markets and people you can do disproportionately well, But when you start to play against people that know their stuff, you, the edge gets taken away. [00:18:29] I'm feeling like maybe that might be happening in a, in a tighter market where you don't have that many new people coming in with new ease. Not that like we're competing against each other, but if you're playing the like value and slip game, like as the market gets tighter and smarter, like projects that are full of. [00:18:44] That, you know, if they build it, they assume they will come because there's just general users being ready to throw around things and not do due diligence and not care about the team and not sort of check what's going on. Like you just have to be more and more buttoned up. So if you build it, they won't come. [00:18:57] You're playing in a game with much more sophisticated players. As of right now. [00:19:02] there's not 4 million suddenly new wallets that came from Coinbase. So that means, you know you got to step up your game when you're playing with better. [00:19:09] Yeah. Yeah. I think the market has definitely changed. People are more knowledgeable, there's more tools available. And when the the rate of new people coming in slowly. It's a, it's a bigger problem. [00:19:23] Yeah. So if you build it, they will not come where we're here. So we're, we're trading around our. images with each other. I do think there's value. I am ever optimistic, but I'm just going to figure out what the, what the next play is. All right. Andrew. Thanks for bringing this to us. [00:19:37] All right.

Das Leid in den ärmsten Regionen der Welt trifft Kinder meist am härtesten. Wer das Elend der Straßenkinder von Kalkutta einmal erlebt hat, wird das westliche Verständnis von Armut mit anderen Augen betrachten. In dieser Podcastfolge schenkt uns Claudia Stöckl als Obfrau des Vereins ZUKI – Zukunft für Kinder einen Einblick, wie diese Kinder eine neue Lebensperspektive gewinnen können. Claudia Stöckl ist vielen bekannt als Ö3-Moderatorin, Journalistin und Autorin. Wir kennen uns jedoch von gemeinsamen Kalkutta-Reisen und der damit verbundenen Projektarbeit für ZUKI, die mir bereits seit vielen Jahren am Herzen liegt. In unserem Gespräch teilen wir die intensiven Eindrücke aus Kalkutta, die Geschichte von ZUKI und wie der Verein mit Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe eine lebenswerte Zukunft für Kinder schafft. Fürsorge und Bildung für eine bessere Zukunft für Kinder Alles beginnt vor mehr als 20 Jahren, als ein indischer Ordensbruder begann, verarmte Kinder von der Straße, aus dem Rotlichtmilieu und den Slums von Kalkutta bei sich aufzunehmen. Diese Geschichte fand schließlich ihren Weg nach Österreich und führte zur Gründung von ZUKI. Was in einer kleinen Hütte mit einer Handvoll Kindern seinen Anfang nahm, ist heute zu einem großen Kinderdorf mit Schule, Berufsausbildungszentrum und vielen weiteren Angeboten gewachsen. Im ZUKI-Village finden rund 300 Kinder nicht nur liebevolle Betreuung. Sondern eine nachhaltige Begleitung von der Schul- und Ausbildung bis zum Einstieg ins Berufsleben, die schon viele Erfolgsgeschichten geschrieben hat. Es geht aber nicht darum, dass alle Kinder einen Universitätsabschluss erzielen sollen. Sondern vor allem ein Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, dass Bildung der Schlüssel für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben sein kann. Es geht darum, den Kindern Wege aufzuzeigen, ihr Leben auch unter schwierigen Bedingungen aus eigener Kraft zu lenken. Vertrauen in ihre Zukunft zu fassen, ihre Talente zu entfalten und zu erfahren, dass sie selbst etwas bewirken können. Eine bessere Zukunft für Kinder ist bei ZUKI auf vielen Wegen möglich. Ob mit Patenschaften, Spenden oder handgefertigten Produkten aus dem Ausbildungscenter. Wenn wir heute Dein Interesse geweckt haben, findest Du weitere Infos zu ZUKI in den Shownotes. Die Highlights in dieser Folge: • Was sich hinter ZUKI – Zukunft für Kinder verbirgt • Warum Elend und Armut in Kalkutta vor allem die Kinder trifft • Warum ich mich für die Projekte von ZUKI engagiere • Wie wir eine selbstbestimmte Zukunft für Kinder gestalten können SHOWNOTES Website ZUKI – Zukunft für Kinder: https://www.zuki-zukunftfuerkinder.at/ ZUKI auf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zukunftfuerkinder ZUKI auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zuki_zukunftfuerkinder/ YouTube-Kanal ZUKI : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPRg9O2iYyM7Yidp19k6Jw Blogartikel über meine Kalkutta-Reise: https://www.danielahutter.com/2016/07/13/wie-ich-in-kalkutta-das-glück-traf/ Mehr über Daniela Hutter und ihre Arbeit: Yin-Prinzip, Seminare, Retreats + Coachings: https://www.danielahutter.com/ Blog: https://www.danielahutter.com/blog/ Newsletter: https://www.danielahutter.com/für-dich/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hutter.Daniela Kontakt: https://www.danielahutter.com/für-dich/kontakt-1/ Buch Das Yin-Prinzip: https://www.danielahutter.com/shop/bücher/das-yinprinzip/

Theme: Have Utility NFTs Peaked? MoonBirds showed value of Utility NFTs as Proof floor >100, Moonbirds > 30 Speed up can be an indicator of speed down. Is this different? New utility NFTs launching (PoolSuite, Quantum, VSP, MyBFF, MetaRelics, etc) Monster projects seem to be coming up each 3 months  Affordable project: Vayner Sports Pass NFT NewsRantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines: Get Paid to List NFTs on LooksRare   Artist Trevor Jones Announces A NFT Holders Party In A Scottish Castle  ApeCoin Experiences Massive Rally Ajax football players trade Sorare NFT cards on insider info allegedly - Ledger Insights - enterprise blockchain  Transcript   [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable NFTs. We're talking about the very unaffordable utility NFTs a little bit more into moon birds and the the larger [00:00:54] ecosystem of again, how utility is really justifying valuations and valuations of, of these projects. [00:01:04] What have [00:01:05] we seen in the news? [00:01:06] Yeah. [00:01:08] Yeah, here we go. Got a few headlines here. rare. They got a new sort of marketing tactic out here where you can know. The looks token by listing your you know, it's, innovative, I guess it's not my favorite favorite marketplace. But they are certainly trying to move some more adoption to. [00:01:32] That to their marketplace one way or another. are rewarding users by adding there. So I think I read That you need to do 10 or so to make it worthwhile, but if you do have and have some that you want to list, it is check out. [00:01:48] Yeah. I mean, looks token are actually about 25% over the past seven days, which kind of nice [00:01:55] Right. I believe around $2 or so [00:01:57] right now. [00:01:57] Yeah, I got up there. I got up there. Cool. All right. So I guess another token news we've got Abe coin, which they believe last I looked was up over $15. It 30% in about one day. And that was after news leaked out. That UGA labs was planning to do their other side land sale or to hold that sale in the. Ape token rumors are, that's going to start at 600 ape, which would be w had $15 would be around 9,000. [00:02:33] So a little bit over three eat at these, at these priorities, sorry, around three, that these prices. So that's sounds like an aggressive price. When you consider that this first land sale will have thousand pieces and they plan a second land sale for hundred [00:02:50] Sorry, you said a hundred 200,000 [00:02:54] 200,000. Okay. [00:02:56] So I don't, you know, that's a lot, [00:02:58] I'm sorry. 200,000 things priced at three east. Yeah. So that would be 600, you know, if that's real, that's about ether, which would be over what over. Yeah. Oh, that's $1.8 billion or so, so I can't imagine they can really take that in. I would think that I, you know, I've heard also that it could be Dutch auction of, I don't understand how the Dutch auction or worth of work with I don't know. It'll it's, it's interesting. You know, I don't know. If it's too aggressive of a swing, certainly sounds like it may be. But they are going for it. Anyway, and so far people are buying the token in anticipation of that. We'll see closer to the launch. These are All rumors So far the actual mechanics you know, haven't been announced for that land sale. [00:03:42] Although so far, a lot of these rumors that have leaked out of UGA have proven to be [00:03:47] accurate. [00:03:49] Yeah, I'm just looking 14 days. Roughly speaking, it's up 35%, but literally as we're talking over the past 24 hours, it's dropped 16%. So this thing is, this thing is getting wild, right? It's going up and I don't own any aid. [00:04:04] I will say prior. I do own looks [00:04:06] and I know that you own [00:04:07] eight and looks right. [00:04:10] I do not [00:04:10] own looks anymore. Now I have a little bit of ape. Yeah. All right. So next [00:04:17] I just like really quick, like on the eighth thing, like I said this in the discord, but like, I'm like, I missed the train. I missed the train and anytime I find myself trying to throw my baggage car, as it pulls out of the station, like I make a mistake. I buy it. So I am firmly of the belief that like I missed it. That's fine. I, I might keep an eye on the but I'm nervous about those numbers. Maybe we'll do about land perhaps. [00:04:43] Alright, perhaps. All right, what else we get for headlines here? we've got a rate Georgia. You've invited to a castle, a Scottish going on. [00:04:56] Andrew, I'm going to have to have a whole new, a whole friends, because artists, Trevor Jones announces that NFT holders get to So Trevor Jones is an you know he's done a number Bitcoin angel and you know, this is an interesting project, one of the like [00:05:13] tying to Integration to the reaches 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 of giveaway. However, this is [00:05:21] really funny. Sterling castle in an invite only, I I don't think I'll be able to make it. It's nice to get. Usually it's just nice to be invited to a castle. [00:05:32] I mean, I, I wouldn't see a few. You can just swing by, you know, [00:05:37] I don't know. Maybe I [00:05:38] can do it. I've got to talk to you a wife and see if she'll no, no, I think I know the answer to this already. Yeah, [00:05:46] I got an extra I have to, I can give you one if you want to come with. right. Well, we'll see what happens there. I think that we'll see you when you make it over to the party. Sounds like anyway, moving on. Let's see what else we've got here. We've got this one and this one's good. so we've got the Ajax football team soccer team. We're caught like or trading on some civil rare and FTEs. had found out. [00:06:13] that they were going to switch the starting keeper. starting keepers NFTs, bought the back. Before the news went public, of course, people have figured this out. They've got public accounts. So you know, fans and others quickly figured out what happened here. So, so far they're saying not, it's technically not. [00:06:33] Regulated by commission. Although I imagine that that one's not going to hold up so well with their, with their league. I don't know about the the financial implications remember what you do on the blockchain can be seen could see the time. So even if it's not known right at the Yeah. I mean, clearly if it were a stock, that is [00:06:58] something that is frowned upon by the And in general a public market in any ways. He's a big no-no, it's just dumb. Like, what are you doing? Don't do that. But it's the beginning of the complexities of when NFT marketplaces that offer liquidity to you know, players, trading cards and pieces that impacted, like, I wonder what would have happened if those were sports cars and instead they dumped them on eBay. [00:07:26] I don't think anybody would look two ways about it. But because it's on the chain, it's with your name doing this and people will find out. [00:07:35] That's true. Yes. You know, her too hard to complete that information when it's on the [00:07:42] speaking of sports smooth transition here, look at me. [00:07:46] Speaking of sports, the Vayner sports pass, you're bringing this to us. I have heard about it. We talked about it. This was AAJ Vaynerchuk, Gary Vaynerchuks brother, this was the notorious [00:08:01] and infamous now uh, Supermint price where the cost of minty. [00:08:07] Far exceeded the actual amount that was paid for the actual project. So do you want to talk us [00:08:14] through the Vayner sports pass and why you see it as an [00:08:16] opportunity? now. , So this is now it's the collection is now sitting at about a point for a floor. I believe gun back and forth a little bit under that. We. you know, has, as we talked about, this caused a quite the waste of gas when launch and has certainly helped to keep the full floor down. [00:08:40] I think, you know, it got a lot of negative attention when it launched. So I think in some ways that is good as a, you someone at the collection now. We talked about at first, it is by AIJ banner who is Gary Vaynerchuk. Brother I don't know, a ton about his, ex his past. [00:09:01] I know he's been some of guarantees projects in the past. believe, you know, I have to think that he's going to use a lot of his connections that he felt with with Gary over the years to to help promote they do have a, they've announced that they have a roadmap coming this But hopefully it is more than some of the roadmaps we've seen where they are quickly maybe a Google doc and published. That's this is my hope that it's done in a much more, professional manner. They have announced some partnerships with athletes in the NMA area. I've not terribly familiar with MMA. [00:09:35] So I don't know, sort of the level of notoriety these athletes at this point. So these keys themselves are. There are various icons on various backgrounds and colors for the part or the basic ones. There's, not much difference among those. [00:09:54] From what I can tell, I don't there's much different in what they give you in terms of access. There are a few levels of these. So when you're looking at see that there are so. Let's see different, there are different colors that do have a more, that are more rare than others. So you see different levels. Once you get, let's see into like the gold, those jump up a bit. Let's see. The green actually. Let's eight aren't much above floor. Again, I if there's something to that color I have to think that there will be certain certain levels of access with different tier cards on here. [00:10:33] But I think it is you know, it's at an affordable price now let's see. Point three, nine, five as we speak. I've been watching it, do not have any yet. And I don't think you have any at this port point either, right? George. [00:10:46] I don't, but like my macro piece on this you know, from podcasts I've been listening to. Including overpriced JPEGs and people that have worked firsthand with ADV Vaynerchuk, the guy is sharp. The way that this was coded on chain was done intentionally. So the, the bad byproduct was the cost of gas and sort of getting this out there. [00:11:08] But it was in favor of a long-term technical decision. So far. What I know of the Vaynerchuk brand is succeed and is tied to the whole. And that they're [00:11:20] very, very deep into these sports [00:11:22] media. and what's more the sort of the [00:11:26] Vayner VaynerMedia And the marketing therapy works with a lot, [00:11:31] As you [00:11:31] mentioned, sports teams and has a lot of access, and they're becoming frankly, the leaders [00:11:38] in crypto consulting and NFT consulting. and I dunno, you combine those things for me. And I think. [00:11:44] It's very clear that [00:11:47] this probably pays back with drops alone. And the other reason of sort of like why now because that was one of the worst drops I have [00:11:54] seen ever, and I think [00:11:58] it's still holding at a price, [00:12:00] It would have killed a lot of projects and I think [00:12:03] in the water. You kidding me? [00:12:04] and I think it's really, I think it's, it's, it's great that it hasn't killed this one. and I also would have been surprised if it actually did because you know, Vayner name, they don't, they don't take it lightly when they put it out there. [00:12:16] As you said, You know, I think it's, it's interesting to think about how they think it's all part of the the whole, and you know, one bad project is going to you know, make it a lot harder for them to continue going. They've been in this space, you know, for a long time. You know, at least as, as long as you can be in it it's not like some of these other names that are coming in getting involved and then launching a project, you know, within AIJ has been in the space, you know, has definitely been around and with both Gary and Vonda own, in the space. [00:12:49] So, you know, that makes me more positive in thinking that they're to continue on this project. I also think that there's a very. A very strong likelihood that a lot more young athletes begin to get into NFTs and Vayner sports has a big leg up on the competition. When it comes to getting involved with getting those, athletes, athletes involved with them, they are already here. [00:13:13] They're web three native, and I look at that and look at this as one of the leading brands. [00:13:20] Yeah. just to make this even more complicated in addition to the card type which has escalating at that peak looking at diamond, in addition to [00:13:29] that it looks like there. are icons on them about each one, has like a couple of icons and [00:13:35] each one is associated with things like e-sports golf, football, So. [00:13:41] do actually have. Value to that. Are there, are there, are there like that's, I didn't believe that there were, there was anything to [00:13:49] those, but I wouldn't [00:13:50] This one has a baseball ache. Just one. So some have one. Okay. [00:13:57] Yeah, I don't know exactly if there is something to, you know, if there's actually a valued, tied to what is shown on the card or not. You know, so it may be worth looking into a little bit more. I haven't found anything about that at this point, if you do find something or we find something we'll of course discuss that in the discord. [00:14:16] So hop in there. If you are looking to get into this one, and hopefully we have discovered a little bit more, we can share [00:14:21] there. [00:14:22] Yeah it's, it's worth looking at. And I, And I like the why now, And also getting back, you know, to what we're gonna be talking of main utilities and new moon birds, watch this smooth transition. I think when you have a project like moon, birds come in and literally move the entire market. and when I say move the market like crypto slam for the past seven, Shows a hundred percent increase. and guess what? 375 million of that came from moon The next highest is, mutiny at 68 9, which all these numbers are absurd. So when I see that, oh, I, you know, I know I'm frustrated about missing the boat few weeks, which is. actually a lot, I'm missing a boat on, on moon birds, but the opportunity is that. [00:15:09] These other projects some of these like high value, you, [00:15:12] know, projects are out there and have an opportunity kind of some value. Right. And that's what we're, we're trying to do here. Find something affordable and all right, Andrew, let's talk about, and FTS. We just talked about members. [00:15:29] They showed the value of utility NFTs. Can you just explain, like we're throwing around utility? What the heck the actually get if you have like a moon bird, what is, how has utility. defined. [00:15:41] I mean, that's a good question for me. What the utility of the moon bird is. It seems to me that the proof pass was more of the utility They created this moon bird collection approved pass gives you, gave you access to mint, one of the moon birds. You know, I guess, how would you ex how do you think, do you consider the moon bird project, a utility still? [00:16:02] Or do you, or, or is that just a PFP project? [00:16:07] it is definitely utility And that you get access to a certain type of discord. Right? I know that you're going to be able to hang out in discord room. Kevin Rose. Cool. you're going to probably be surrounded by a lot of whales and people. Influential or at an absurd amount of money, for these things. [00:16:25] And I believe that there's going to be continued utility. They talk about what is it like towers or elements that they're going to be developing. And the way that I see the utility is like yeah, you get access to this discord. Yeah. future drops as people tripping over themselves. [00:16:40] You know, do the next partnership and drop and you'll get [00:16:44] to two of them. And, you know, you'll probably have like an art blocks effect where, you know, it'll have the sort of shiny gloss of something exciting. And then the other part of it is you're kind that this is going to be the next Hugo labs because of hype and potential of a at this point. Like for that much money, you're like essentially a [00:17:05] seed investor in a company. that's kind of guess what I'm looking at. When I looked at the utility there and I was like at play ball. [00:17:16] Yeah. think we're we're sort of getting started with, with these utility NFTs. You know, we've talked about Vayner sports, you know, that's at a pretty low price, you know, I think there's not, we haven't seen what that is seeing up. [00:17:30] Quantum art the Photography platform by Justin Arsano. They've released a quantum pass recently. I see that six or seven eat now. And access to future drops. We seen some others pool suite is one they've been operating as kind of a, I don't know what you'd call them, but an agency of sorts doing pool sweet they've recently done a NFT project, That again, is going to give access to things. I think we're going to see a lot more of these especially with I don't mention this before, but when people start looking at the, the amount that was raised by moon birds, so quickly 78 million, and have, you know, have. The credibility of people like Kevin that are looking at that and starting to make plans right now. So I don't think that I don't think they we're even close to seeing utility in FTS peak yet. I think we're, we've an immense demand. And I think everyone's trying to maybe spin their project, the mold of a utility and Ft. [00:18:41] Now, you know, it's going to be, I think we need. To start thinking about, you know, how to actually at what a utility, what utility really means to an NFT, because it's going to be a term that every project uses now. [00:18:57] Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, they were using it before, but this is just to look at this. It blew away. Even my high-end expectation of like price tracking and what I thought would actually happen when a bunch of frankly, random you know, two things that they had bought and it just, it was incredible. [00:19:19] And so I, I also agree, I don't think utility utility is peaked, but I thought it'd make a good subject title. So I toss it in the top. And the reason ties into, I think you're selling in part belonging, tied to financial website, and both of, those things are quite powerful in and of themselves. [00:19:38] But what I mean by belonging is the same. Dynamics that happen on Sunday in a church, in your neighborhood where people show up into the same room in the same way and say the same with the ability to feel like you [00:19:53] belong to a group is in large part. What I think I see the value of a utility when you talk it about [00:20:02] as like, all right, we have access to this discord. [00:20:04] Oh, I'm going to be able to socially identify as this, you know, group of people. Capture some part of my identity and you know, there's very much value in that utility There's a reason why people signal with, [00:20:18] you know, $60,000 Rolex watches, because they want [00:20:21] to show off that they have been club. [00:20:25] I am successful because I have this thing, so that's not going away. So it's not peaked. It's very much endemic to [00:20:30] our [00:20:31] Yeah. So I had argued that that part The value for the sake of having it be high value. Isn't that more of a PFP sort of aspect to a, a, collection than a utility. And if key, I mean I don't know nobody who, people, at least weren't calling board apes and, utility and Ft. [00:20:52] Although they've proven to be that if you've held the I've given away all these things, but, you know, initially it was more like, well, you're around these other people that want to hold this thing that is absurdly you know, I think in that regard, but you can always say that as long as private discord and it's a high for praise there's, you know, It's a there is some. [00:21:14] Utility to it and that It's keeping out people that can't afford that if that is not saying that that is what you're you know, I'd say, I'd say that these, the moon birds is certainly prompt. You know, they're already talking about adding more to this. dates And and have to do this, at the time. [00:21:28] And I don't think that it would have meant much to people to say, to promise all these things, you know, nobody knew that that were going to hold any value. Now people have seen that play. kind of explicitly saying we're going to continue to build they've even they've hinted at tokens. all out there. So I think there's a, it's much more known that these are going to not just be a highly valued collection or not. And I can't say collection. It's not just seeing it's a highly valued collection. It's also that they will. [00:21:58] Give holders more value or at least more assets, you they'll have to prove. But they're going to give them more assets. They're going to continue to build. And they're going to put, put effort into this, that a lot of projects maybe have promised and have yet to deliver on. [00:22:14] So your original interesting and I can take the extreme that a position that all PFP projects and all NFTs have a promise of. I could put them on a utility spectrum. Right. I bought a one-on-one piece of art and the utility I get is it's beautiful. I like looking at it you can say, I get access to a discord. I have, you know, an extra that I can own and I can, I have all of the rights to so I can put it on a t-shirt And a mug. So I think the, question is what is the versus what is the actual utility you get? you know, You're seeing now it's more about execution and trust. I'd say there's no longer a, a new clever, like, and by the way, in our roadmap, we're going to have sparkles. [00:23:05] I think the, the magic of the are kind of fading away. And coming back to what happens here is it is trust in the founders. And you know, he's built up this community of people that listen to his podcast. that like this is, you know, the guy [00:23:19] behind dig knows how to build things. [00:23:21] And then, you know, the, that vision, you know, getting behind that vision and believing it is, is you, you're just acting like a seed investor. More so baked, into there somewhere. five spot. There's a new competitor, right? Like this time you, the labs didn't freaking exist. Like hold that in your mind for a second, And punks were like dominant. [00:23:45] Leave. They were out at this point, but it was right. they were just in their infancy. Believe it was around. [00:23:52] I could be [00:23:53] Let's look it up. I'm kind of saying they hadn't launched yet and you're saying they have, okay. See, 30th is the first [00:24:14] day I saw. [00:24:16] All right. So about a year [00:24:17] ago, [00:24:18] I'm a mirror almost on the universe. Like when this comes out, this will be so, so about that for a second, right? Like time, suddenly this like massive company [00:24:26] starts you know, it didn't take off until a couple [00:24:29] months after the project, then you have something like a Zuki, which launched like massively in, [00:24:35] I think you know, Q3, whatever it was. [00:24:37] Have to get the [00:24:39] memory of a [00:24:39] Right. I mean, I think we've seen a lot. I mean, I think even going back further unit. Two a year ago This is in 2021. It, you could even look at it. If, if you want the market was there was nothing going on And it would, it's amazing to think then you the labs launched their project. And it people into it. [00:25:00] We saw art blocks going it was kind of leading up to that. It wasn't until the summer that it really went crazy, that has certainly died down, but then started really noticing the UGA labs success or bird ape success. And I, you know, I think it spurred a lot of. Copycat projects you know, just some other animal project that you know, we're promising the same things and people have, over time kind of maybe realize that it's not a matter of just a ton of different projects of the same of the same ilk. you know, you need different projects. And I think that's what we're seeing here with, You know, with proofs and with with moon birds, even with the quantum different projects lead of categories and. become the project to to, to sort of dominate that category. [00:25:50] And we don't necessarily, we're not going to see said we're not going to see maybe, you know, a hundred different projects that are successful with that same model. You'll see a few different ones, but they're going to need this. have something different to them. And I don't just mean the animal that they're using. [00:26:03] You know, I think we've, we're seeing, we're seeing board aid to be very successful, what they do. You know, obviously you see move birds right young project. We don't know, you know, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to say. Overstate what they done at this point. You know, I think that come back down to a a level below that 38th floor and still be as quite successful. [00:26:25] But, you know, it's hard to say the long long-term success, but I, I think it is, you know, it's interesting to think, you know, as, you know, getting back to what you were saying, like how we've seen different projects, take the lead and. Yeah, I guess, you know, another one is at a Zuki and seeing more of the sort of into this. [00:26:40] I think that was a big entrance and we do see a few projects, but it's not like it's completely shifts the market. And I think we're starting to see that a bit that the best projects from these different, continuing to [00:26:50] shine through. [00:26:52] Yeah, another one I was going to call out was artifact And when they, when they dropped but it's like it's like every three months. it seems like, there is just this sort of like, [00:27:02] Huge [00:27:03] setting, [00:27:03] launch. What I'm also noticing is different than board apes, which frankly sat at a 0.5 E floor for like a months. is that these newer ones, right? the ones I just went through, like every three months, we're getting these new big. There they're up. into the right almost day one. you have to take really uncomfortable levels of risks to get in on these, on these hype cycles. Right? Like we looked [00:27:33] at artifact and we talked about it as affordable project. [00:27:35] We were like, oh, Nope, sorry, psych your [00:27:37] mind. and like Zuki went from zero to 60 immediately [00:27:40] within a matter of like days and hours, not months. So like, clearly we just talked about what happened with boomers. So these new large [00:27:47] projects. In my mind [00:27:49] prior was this idea that like, oh, there's like very treasure around. [00:27:52] One of [00:27:53] these is going to take off. And that the truth seems to be more like there's going to be something that is absurdly hype that comes up. And the question on something [00:28:04] So massive size bet. I would say we have to start thinking about this a little bit more. They are it's big bets. They are big sized bets. But I think what is interesting to notice, these are some of the most hight and they're succeeding. So you know, in, in the sense of the risks, Reward as risky as risky in the terms of it's going to go to down, you know, at least if you can get in at the very early part, you know, now at 30th, obviously I think that can that can go down 50%. Pretty easily, you know, at, at that 80th floor, when you see the volume that had, it's a you know, in you know, I'm thinking about that And that's not, it it's, it's hard to think that it D volume was Oakland to all of a sudden disappear to the point that the floor would printed 80 is a lot of ease to get into that part is challenging. You know, it it's but I am starting to see that the big projects, it's not exactly these, these diamonds in the rough they are, well-known, everybody's talking about them. And if you can get into them, even, you know, at the, the inflated floor, the initial floor price of them, they've been. [00:29:20] Extremely good investments. And especially compared to kind of trying to find the, the follow on projects that, that launch hopes of, you know getting some of the, you know, getting some of the success of those bigger name projects. [00:29:39] Yeah, I, I, guess, you know, kinda, still, I'm still like frustrated by like the fact that like, even if you see the next one coming, the, the level of risk you have to be in it is like pretty darn high. and you know, I think coming back to like, what we're doing here are the look at things like. [00:29:57] I'm not giving up on that I think there's a lot of fun to looking at, you know, pieces that won't make the top 10 and that's fine, but you, know, things that, by the way, still can like provide value and like give access still very much part of this Coinbase [00:30:14] bringing in the NFT market. And I'm hoping that brings more life to the middle market. Because look, we're, we're dealing in a market and we're like suddenly looking at [00:30:23] Lamborghinis and we're like, we don't drive fricking things. Like I drive a, you know, a cheap, a cheap plugin. I want to that's fuel efficient. it's just, it seems like we're being asked to look at markets that outside of our size range. In general, [00:30:39] you know, if you, if you talk about [00:30:40] what's. Appealing to you know, it's just a disturbing show of money being thrown around at a I'm still doing it. I'll still look for affordable projects. They're out [00:30:54] there. [00:30:55] Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, I think there's affordable projects. It's I, I'm, I'm more wary of, of, of thinking that the market will follow a leading project rather than just that leading project becoming the sort of category filler. And then moving to sort of, what's going to be the next innovative project that that does something different to define. [00:31:17] A project rather than just a lead or follow along with the trend. [00:31:24] Yeah. Well, I mean, what's interesting is that every quarter Massive run-up because one, the Capitol is going to look for another place go with it and throw, throw around. [00:31:34] And there are so many talented founders, leaders, developers, companies that have not [00:31:40] even touched this space yet. And you know, they're coming and there's going to be [00:31:45] opportunities in there. And know, that. that, that is exciting. So I'll, I'll get over my I'll get over my phone. [00:31:52] Eventually and look at, look to project, but man, I don't know, Maybe next time [00:31:58] I, when I, have that high conviction, just, you know, it up and just say like, all right, should I do this? and maybe I'll just trick you into splitting it with me. [00:32:09] All right. Yeah, we've got, I mean, it isn't, these are great wins. If you do win [00:32:12] the the raffles and those [00:32:13] course, I did respect that they did the raffle. that was very [00:32:17] they did, gas. And obviously there were some big winners there. So, you know, I'm a happy for the people that were able to spend the two and a half Yves and now are sitting on a 30 each asset. [00:32:25] So that is that you know, that. Didn't have a lot going into that. We're able now, Ooh, that's a big, that's a big win. So hopefully there are a lot of people that really appreciate that and you know, whether they take it or not you know, that's you know, that's a tough choice, but [00:32:42] yeah. [00:32:43] Good one to have, [00:32:44] Yeah, I had one more note just to call out here is that I get I'm always concerned about the speed and time with which something runs up as and time it takes to run down things that burn fast burn out. so there's, of this coin for sure. And those founders know it though. [00:33:02] I know is very, very savvy in terms of building tech tools And user engagement. As you know, as far as dig your window to execute is, is very [00:33:12] narrow, I would say. And [00:33:14] also the risk of saying like, you know, it took, you know, three, it took one week to get like 36 ease. Okay. I'm much more comfortable if that's like it took three years to get to this point. [00:33:25] Like that's a, sturdier base with people that have been sort of like holding in a competency And tested. You know, the board ape apes and moon birds right now is, is really not a fair at all. But those prices, I imagine, like their minds, they're like, oh yeah, this is like going to be a blue chip stock. Oh yeah. Bloomberg's is blue chip now. And you're like, because prince. [00:33:48] Yeah, I'm sure there are already people putting that in there. And I think price is a dangerous indicator of it being or dangerous sole indicator of something being blue chip. You know, there is a, there is definitely a concern that it. could come down relatively quick. We have seen it in the in the past, not saying it's going to happen. [00:34:06] And I think that. Nesting slash staking mechanism will help some with with a sudden flood of, of listings. You know, that being said, you know, things, things can change in in very quickly and, and FTS. [00:34:25] All right. That's what we got. Hopefully that was helpful. In summary, utility NFTs have not peaked. All utilities have NFD. All, all utilities have NFT, you know, NFTs have utility. [00:34:37] One of those is maybe true, possibly true, but one, well, we'll let you think about it.

Less than 500k monthly active users on OpenSeaInstagram - 545 million, Discord, 121 million, Candy Crush 119 million, per Most Popular Apps (2022)  One big driver for NFT growth will be Coinbase's new NFT platform, they currently have 3.7 Million users on the waiting list. Value of all digital art estimated at $2.8 billionAll art (mostly physical art) volume last year: $65 billion CryptoArt.io , All Art Sales  Over 4 million on waitlist for the “coming soon” coinbase marketplace Early-adopter stage Affordable project: Illuvium https://medium.com/illuvium/illuvium-dev-blog-march-2022-c782348b031  NFT NewsUS government connects North Korean hacking group with last month's $600 million Ronin exploit  Coinbase Is Creating A Three-Part Bored Ape Yacht Club Film Series Lego x Epic Games Partner To Make The Metaverse Child Friendly NFT News: Under Armour Files Trademarks to Enter the Metaverse - DraftKings Nation    Past project updates:  The Red Village is running tournaments, Pegaxy just introduced a fascinating burn mechanic      Project:   Transcript [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable NFTs. How big is the NFT market? The answer 47. No, [00:00:09] that's not exactly. I think the spot on. Yeah. Good to talk to again, George. [00:00:16] Yeah. So we're going to cover some news. We're going to cover some projects. We'll probably remember to do all of those things inside of here, but just to start, we've got little oh, here, the us government connects North Korea hacking group with last month, 600 million Ronan exploit. [00:00:34] As you remember, Ronin is the the currency under lying, the Axiom infinity game along with SLP, which is the earned revenue. There was a problem in there where frankly, they got us for all of their ethos that people were holding. They're going to be made whole because there's a lot of money floating around. [00:00:54] So I don't know if there's anything else on this interesting North Korea. Yeah. [00:00:57] There had been some rumors that it was probably a state actor around the time, just because there was so little information coming out about it. And 600 million is kind of a large number to not, to have a lot more discussion around. [00:01:11] So not too surprising if if you had kind of read some of that, the Lazarus group they'd been known crypto hackers in the past. So. You know, interesting. There's about 450 million tied to one address specifically unclear where the other, I don't know, 150 million or so is all right. Well, anyway, let's see, we've got the next bit of news here. [00:01:35] We've got news of Coinbase NFTs. Cool. It sounds like Coinbase in a P is coming out. Right, George, [00:01:41] stop it. You're you keep teasing me with this and I'm done. I'm done with it. It's never going to happen. Not going to. Never gonna make it. [00:01:49] So they've got a three-part. Film series coming out with the board API club. [00:01:54] They did, they announced this didn't seem to be huge news in the board. Ape world is bigger news in the Coinbase world. Interestingly in quick days, it did slip in there that their NFT marketplace is coming very, very soon. So, you know, they have a different scale than some of us. But you know, maybe that who knows what that means, but they are, they're at least finding a way to put themselves in the conversation with board apes at this point. [00:02:23] Yeah. I mean, they've got the wallet app, which I think is actually much bigger than folks realize because it's tied to the mobile. And it's tied to your ability, frankly, one of the best and easiest on-ramps for turn and Fiat into crypto at, at low costs and low friction. And you know, even knowing what I know, I still use the Coinbase to my private wallet, you know, conveyor belt. [00:02:51] What do you use actually to get your, to get Fiat's or are you just no longer. Moving stuff that way [00:02:58] yet. I haven't done that in awhile. Move Fiat to crypto. Got a, got a good, a good amount of crypto at this point and move around and crypto much more often. But that is a good point though, that, that they do have that wallet. [00:03:13] And they do have a very long pave and see that you've just made a note. They have a very long waiting list for their NFT marketplace and heard it's as big as 4 million people at this point. So you know, they, and the Coinbase NFT marketplace, I believe it will. Some point, you know, it is becoming a running joke around you know, around the NFG world of, because it has been such a long time and especially as fast as things move in in crypto world. [00:03:45] Yeah. Well, I I'm not holding my breath and I'm moving, I'm moving on from, from hopes to sort of make making other other plans. When it comes, hopefully it'll move the market because that's a lot of people that enter into it. Once you get an idea of how big the NFT market is and isn't we'll get into that a little bit more later on in the episode. [00:04:07] Next step, next story we've got here. We've got Lego coming into the metaverse. They've partnered with epic games and they are looking to make a child friendly. Metaverse you know, so I think this will be more in line with I'm not sure if it, it roadblocks or The other one craft Minecraft. [00:04:29] That's actually the one that I'm more familiar with, they know, but there, and I think from what I know, a Minecraft is much more actually kid safe than roadblocks is as a platform. So I'm sure they see that and see an opportunity. They're so interesting that they are getting into this Lego. [00:04:46] Does, you know, it seems like it would work with a lot of the the Minecraft style of building with blocks. They could use. You know, use a Lego like block to, to build in the world and partnering with epic certainly gives them a, a big leg up again, getting started here. [00:05:05] Yeah. Well, we'll see you know, talking about this next generation of just fully normalized to ownership and creation in on online ecosystems. [00:05:16] I actually liked that partnership. I like that. Groups like that, getting together as opposed to saying like, yeah, let's trust mark Zuckerberg with our, with our kids in the metaverse, which is not the first line I'd maybe go for and in, in my bed. [00:05:30] Yeah, absolutely. You know, I do think that like has has a good reputation and we'll work to uphold that you know, with a metaverse that is actually safe for kids. [00:05:43] Yeah. I mean, in epic games, obviously that's the creator behind 14. Which, you know, say what you will like it's guns and whatnot, but they have really brought the multiplayer battle Royales to the foreground. And also I respect the heck out of that massive donation in aid to Ukraine the other month, like totally, I think it was over 80 million. [00:06:02] So hats off and respect. They know how to manage youth in an ecosystem on. [00:06:08] Absolutely. All right. One more news item here. We've got another company entering the metaverse and other, a fashion apparel company under armor. This time I, a gear I'd say, but a Nike Adidas. And now under armor, all very active or sorry, Nike. [00:06:28] Adidas are already very active in NFTs and the metaverse and now we're seeing under armor also getting into the space. So, you know, as we've been saying, you know, I think this is just going to become, every company has some sort of metaverse play at some point and it won't be such news, but you know, at this point we're still, you know, I think it is still somewhat headline grabbing when when these companies do make plans [00:06:51] yeah. [00:06:52] In this Tweet. And here the Nike recently now 6.7 million Robox roadblocks players had visited the virtual Nike land store talking about attention. And you're talking about attention in these digital ecosystems. So brands are definitely waking up cause they realize where the next generation of consumers are spending time and might be making. [00:07:15] All right. Well, let's move on to our affordable project. George, you've got another one for us today. And what do you have? [00:07:23] So for change, it's not soccer. How about that? [00:07:28] Well, wait, so it's gotta be a stable, stable base game, right? [00:07:33] Kind of, but no, not even as the Lindsay's. I've been watching and you've probably heard this before. [00:07:39] Alluvium for, for awhile. It's kinda like then in, you know, I got a lot of stuff on the site in the side view Ramir but essentially, you know, I can dedicate like many, many hours to the lore of what's being built around Eluvia, but they have technically not launched as a full game. They are going to be a think of it as what the next. [00:08:00] Brand of Pokemon will be in the metaverse and that's most exciting implementation. And they've got a tremendous discord. Right now they don't have anything in the NFTE land that frankly I would be getting into, but they do have a token and it's that sort of dangerous game of token defense. The the game, but you know, right now, just looking at the overall just size internally, they've got I believe something like, you know, 42,000 folks on YouTube, 290,000 on Twitter, and then what they called survivors 190, 4,000 in there. [00:08:42] So they've been under development for a while now, the sort of reason I'm bringing it up now they've got Eluvia island, V I L V. Total. And, you know, you, you can look at the price and move around, but I think the play right now is to potentially look at getting in at whatever your size is for some of that Eluvia token. [00:09:02] Cause they have just launched they're staking V2. And so they're staking V2. Earn yield on that, but also sort of, kind of be ready once. Once the play starts watching and they've got a, a game launcher that's going to come, it's gonna be a desktop downloader, and they've got some amazing graphics and art here. [00:09:22] They have a fully doxed team. And they've just, they've been building for a very long time. Look the risks of this, as I've said before, like, you know, when game and you're sort of play this game of like waiting and. But I'll tell you a good time to get in. It's like a team that can execute and finally does launch will, and they do sort of hit part of this, like be able to capitalize on a community, ready to go and look, there's going to be the next Pokemon, the next branded, catch them, breed them, interact in this multi game world. [00:09:55] They've got all of the game dynamics really planned out and it's. There's going to be a winner. I don't know if it's this one or not, but it's something that I'm kind of watching the side. What do you see about alluvium from, from where? See. [00:10:07] So I've heard this one talked about a lot and you know, I think he gets, I don't know if it's getting a lot of attention, but it's certainly getting mentioned in a lot of NFT circles looking they're looking ahead to what's coming. [00:10:21] I, like you said, there's not a ton there for NFTs at this point. So it is kind of playing on the future. That being said, I think it is somewhat overlooked at this point. And you know, if they are able to. You know, to, to make this work, even if it's, you know, I think you have to be, you have to be wary that any of these games are going to run into the same problems as, as we've seen over and over that, they're going to go through a, a good cycle and then maybe run into problems. [00:10:50] But I think. If you're aware of that cycle, there is an opportunity here. You know, it would be, I would, if the price does increase by a lot, I would definitely look to maybe at least a move you know, move the original investment out and, you know, then if you are looking to hold long-term you know, that would be the way that. [00:11:13] Would look to play this kind of one. [00:11:16] Yeah. And they've got some tremendous marketing goals, such as like Guinness book record for largest pot for a game played, but they've got the sign up for the auto Bandler private beta right now. But there's sort of testing and getting an idea of what's going on. [00:11:31] So it may be a period of time where the price is low interest is kind of at a, at a point that might make sense to test it out and take a look to see if this might. Something that that takes hold, but obviously, yeah, like there's nothing better than playing with the house's money kind of building on that. [00:11:48] I had some other updates that I wanted to throw out there of past projects. One, the red village, they are running active tournaments and I have been playing in them. I've been winning with some of them. I've got a nice guy. He's got like a 50% win rate. He's a little drunk. It was an R for my R one is not performing very well. [00:12:07] Mary wind Claus, just saying interesting. I don't know. She's she's just not achieving like, like prior, so I got a Druid doing it and it's actually, you know, it's, I'm, I'm, I'm really excited for them because I feel like I've watched their sort of story unfold for a number of months. But it's, it's That's actually working. [00:12:24] It's actually fun. The other one is Pegasi back to stables. He knew I was going to, I didn't talk about soccer stables. So here we go. I guess they have a super fascinating burn mechanics. So this has been the wildest ride. I think I've ever been on for. Peak value and then peak crash. Like it was so aggressive because of the, [00:12:49] and you own dose. [00:12:51] So I think that's really saying something [00:12:53] I've written some waves I've written. Yeah. And I owned a fish. So that's thanks for disclosing. That's great. Sorry, [00:13:02] is that a, was that not? [00:13:03] I at least I at least took my initial. I follow my own rule. Take the initial investment outside. I did something smart there, but there's a different universe where I made a lot more money, but I still believe in dovish. [00:13:14] I'm a. Anyway what happened with Pegasi is they sort of ran up in the price for the, the base currency and then which is called biz. If you want to track it and you can kind of look at a story and it was like crash. So it was up at like 25 cents. And then I was like down at like 0.04 cents. [00:13:34] So pretty, pretty epic bottom falling out, which is just the nature of play to earn games that expand and breeding. Right? If the breeding is increased, you can see it every single time that effectively there's no other side of the market and re reason to keep it. What they have done is reasonably rollout and they did this on April 14th. [00:13:53] So it's been a little while. So it'd be interesting to take a look at where the market is, have created a burn mechanic for general Pega. So the base peg is. The Pacers that you have to burn to and admins to get a epic and to get a rare, to get a legendary. So they have this sort of, you have to burn more, to get more into a higher tier. [00:14:12] That'll let you earn more. So they've actually sort of rearchitected the whole way that the token will be earned and it sort of is going to neutralize this like massive breeding problem that happened where the proliferation of. Very low tier horse. Peggy's got introduced into the market, so I'm optimistic and it might be interesting if you kind of heard me talking about it and take a look at like this inflection point where things are at the Flory, Flory, McPherson, and seeing what's going on there. [00:14:43] And one of the tactics might be I'm looking at. Looking at undervalued founding. So, you know, remember the don't buy what you can breed founding and, or potentially the the legendary, which are now are of higher value because they can earn a heck of a lot more than the other ones. So I'm very curious, it's a team that develops and does stuff, but you know, nothing, nothing like seeing dynamics play out right in your backyard and saying hope that works. [00:15:11] All right, Andrew, how big is the NFT market go? [00:15:17] All right. Well, not very, I would say overall, there we go. Seven. Okay. Oh good. Todd. You know, this was something that I've, I dunno, it came up. It came up recently when I was looking at I guess it was on Twitter and someone was talking about how they're at an NFT event and asking others if they knew how many active users were on, on open sea. [00:15:40] And, you know, at this point, you know, everybody seemed to be way off and, you know, there's about 500,000 active monthly users on an open seat. And to put that in some perspective, Instagram has 400 and 545 million monthly active users discord as 121 million. So when you think about the fact that, you know, every NFT project seems to have a discourse. [00:16:06] Yeah at most you know, maybe there could even be double if people aren't actively trading, but even if there's a million NFT holder using discord, there, it means there's another 120 million using discord that aren't NFT that they're, aren't using open C on a monthly basis. So this is, you know, it really puts it in perspective how few people. [00:16:25] Actively trading NFTs on a monthly basis. And I think that's, it's really important to consider here. You know, there's a lot of talk like, is it over? Is it I shouldn't say a lot of times there's always discussion of, you know, with new, with new technologies of whether, you know, the bubble has been burst, whether, you know, it's, it's all over, whether it was just a fad. [00:16:44] And I think, you know, when you looked at this, we're seeing that the numbers are growing, but it's still. It's still quite small. You know, at 500,000 users we're talking about, you know, more like a, you know, a relatively successful iPhone app or mobile app of some sort you know, that's, that's what the numbers are at this point. [00:17:05] And granted, you know, Things that have, you know, you have to actually be spending to be an active user, but that's, you know, that's, that's not that hard. Once people get into the crypto the crypto crypto world and have their wallet ready to, to move some crypto around and into NFTs. [00:17:25] Yeah. Something like the total active. [00:17:28] So you're, I think you're, you're right to look at like monthly active, cause there's like people that maybe got dropped one thing and then like left it alone and like ran away. But it's like anywhere from a million to 1.4 million, but in terms of active wallets, it is so, so small that, yeah, like when we were talking about how like, yeah, the liquidity could be pulled out by one project, because by the way, there's, there's only half a million of us running around with E doing this sort of thing, which you know, is a good reminder that this is still very, very new in terms of an adopted technical. [00:18:04] But yeah, there's definitely hype. There's definitely gonna be pullbacks, but I get to say, like, when I hear from, you know, different people in various podcasts and interviews of like how, when they first realized that this is the ownership layer of the web and how excited they got and how they found these communities, it is a type of excitement that I just don't see, like going away. [00:18:28] So it's very sticky for the people that get into it and enjoy it. And it kind of like pulls people in, in the same way. I'd say that like it's apt to compare it to a social media platform where it is it's an experience is improved by the, the you know, end of number of nodes in it, right. Extra people in it create extra value. [00:18:53] And it accrues in that way. In the same way, I think is true for a lot of these discords and NFT. So there is a, a virality, a K factor here that is positive and seems to be trending up. Though they're going to certainly be dips along the way, but you know, it's hard to argue like the run-up that you saw in 2021, continuing, but I think it can easily be done when you look at again, 3.7 now 4 million, like people on a waiting list. [00:19:22] On, you know, [00:19:25] the thing I said, the waiting list, the waiting list is now about eight times the size of the number of monthly active users on open. See, that's, that's, that's a lot of people that are waiting to that. And if half of [00:19:37] them fall into a coma and say, I don't feel like it, that's still four times the amount of monthly active you four times the amount. [00:19:47] Not necessarily maybe liquidity, but certainly individual purchasing, which gives me more hope for some of those longer tail projects. Right? If the folks that were interested in buying the, like the top tens, like, oh, I've got to get my Zuki. I have to get my board ape. Like they would have already done it. [00:20:05] I think this is much more about the retail interest of getting into entities in a safe, vetted way. That is not the wild west of openings. [00:20:13] Yeah. I mean, I think there is, I mean, I think there are a lot of people that will actually end up on open C after trying out maybe Coinbase and empty, you know, we've seen this happen in the past that you know, it can lead people to to other platforms. [00:20:28] But certainly having a I don't know, a safer platform to try it out on initially. We'll make it a little. Easier for people to at least take that first step and understand what it means to own an NFT. And like you said, once you do own it and understand the, the ownership and the, how that plays in. [00:20:47] And I think it's so much easier to understand by actually interacting with these. So, you know, I, I do think that Coinbase we'll have we'll have. They big marketplace and a big effect, but I think it will also bring people into the space or into open sea and into some of these other more decentralized, not that open seat is, but these other marketplaces that are maybe not custody such as nifty gateway or Coinbase and make people more willing to try these out after they've had the experience of actually owning one of these in a safe environment. [00:21:20] Yeah. I mean, obviously. Super cost-prohibitive. So on the contrary to this, like the MCOMP to saying like, look at Instagram, it's viral. Look at like candy crush is 119 million people. Like frankly, the starting point for NFTs is, can be embarrassingly high for certain projects. However, you know, Solano got listed. [00:21:42] I am the first one to say I'm not a huge fan of the salon ecosystem, but as. Projects of higher quality jump onto that platform, you know, like, yeah, you're going to be able to get in quite easily for like under a hundred bucks and play a different type of game and interact there. And so it'll be really you know, it'll be exciting when it happens and we'll do an emergency podcast and say, oh my gosh, it's happening. [00:22:06] We have another note in here though, around the total value. So it's like a different way of measuring the NFE market. We're talking about. But how do you look at the sort of value quote, unquote of, [00:22:19] yeah, you're right. This is, so this is another way of looking at it and this is. Specific to crypto art, digital art, and not necessarily NMT collections, but crypto art.io is a site that tracks NFT art and they value. [00:22:34] They have an estimate of about 2.8 billion for all of. All of digital crypto art. I'm not that sold last year. Just the total value. So the, just to put that one in perspective, the volume for traditional R for all art last year, including digital was 65 billion. So. We would have seen, let's see, almost 22 weeks or so. [00:23:03] The, we would had to seek a 22 X the turnover of all of the digital art for it to equate to that much. So there's just a very small amount. That's whoa, a small amount of art, but also a very small amount of value that's currently on on the blockchain and in NFT art. So I think that we're going to start seeing that change. [00:23:22] I think there's going to be a lot of traditional. Art collectors and art institutions that are moving into crypto in the future. You know, especially as more as more users come in, you know, it becomes a I don't know, any more meaningful piece to hold. And, you know, as you said, that's when the. [00:23:41] Inflection point in the metaverse will be when these digital goods become more meaningful and more, and therefore more valuable to us than a physical goods. And I think that's what we will see with some of these physical arts are these digital arts over time. [00:23:55] I just don't see how that isn't the future of this. [00:24:00] And it's weird. Cause I, I sometimes have to like look for alternative narratives to be like, oh, all of this is going to blow away. Like the wind. It's not going to say. No, I'm not going to save that thing. That by the way, has to sit in a warehouse or behind a screen that you can't ever see, but it sits over there as opposed to like my ability to use this in the metaverse use this in the real, like, I can put it up on a screen here and be like, Hey, here's my art. [00:24:24] I mean, I went over to the other day. I saw your art rotating the wall, and I'm like, I'm very jealous. I'm going to get one of those things, but I'm gonna get the next version that gives me a little more. [00:24:31] Oh, no, [00:24:33] I'm going to get the V2 can get the V2, but I just, I think just to come back to it this is the early adopter stage. [00:24:41] If you look at adoption cycles, we're in a micro height moment, let's just be very clear, like we're in a hype moment, 90, 95% of, if you look at the top 100 projects gone, go away. If you, if you look for the next five years, will they still be around? And that however, I think in the overall market and then in playing into it saying like, this is something you have to pay attention to. [00:25:05] And that's what gets me excited about this. And, you know, it's why I got fired up to do this podcast because I think this forces me to do the research and pay attention to it and also stay with it because there's, I will, I will say weeks where I'm kind of frustrated at decisions I've made quite a bit. [00:25:22] And like, that's the other thing it's like, it really stings. Like when you, you know, you buy a dud horse and you're like, why did I do that? [00:25:28] Great. I mean, if you think about the fact that anyone can. Yeah, can basically try to sell at any point. And, you know, even in these companies that are, you know, these, these projects that are trying to build something early, you know, it would be akin to someone saying, yes, I'm ready to invest in a, you know, at a seed round. [00:25:45] And then maybe two weeks later saying, you know what, as it moved fast enough, I'm ready to sell. And that would be, you know, that'd be kind of crazy. Kind of what we're working with in NFTs. So we haven't really had this sort of liquidity to a marketplace you know, and all of these different projects trying to do so many different things at the same time. [00:26:06] You know, I don't know that there's an apt comparison to look at for for what we're seeing in NFTs. Right. [00:26:12] I, I struggle, you know, you have to kind of cobble together a bunch to get there, but you know, also saying like, okay, if you're an early adopter, early adopter phase or about to go through a bit of a trough and a pullback fine. [00:26:24] But long-term like, where are we now versus where is it going to be? You know, you hear me talking about games non-stop and like trying to, you know, guess on soccer, but the smartest thing. Recently is kind of picking up on your lead of, of looking at capital a art versus PFPs things that are created by artists that are really defining the art movement of this time. [00:26:47] Like I'm still very much long on that. And I think they're, they're getting overlooked. They truly are. I'm really excited. I picked up a Sarah Zucker piece from that Ash chapter two and I also picked up And so, you know, I'm, I'm pretty pretty happy about both and holding on to both for a little while. [00:27:09] And it's because I know they're going to continue to create. And I think that there's like a moment in time where certainly, maybe it goes up and down, but longterm it sort of epitomizes like a type of artists at that at a moment right now that I hope that like one I'd want to display it. It's. And, and to sort of survive. [00:27:29] They're like, oh, it's not part of this PFP project that the community went away. Like the community is people that identify this as art created by an artist in this moment, that is a typical of a style and format that was Sarah this time. [00:27:43] Yeah, I think that's, yeah, that's great. I mean, those are two artists that have definitely shown dedication to their work and. [00:27:50] I think he can be pretty comfortable knowing that they will be around here, be around in the space. Interesting. Interesting to note the dead fellows artist is also a female seat. So we invested in two of the more well-known females in the in this face. So [00:28:08] you're [00:28:09] given a little hint on our next our next step. [00:28:12] I want to give way too much alpha. Don't want to get. [00:28:14] All right. So how big is the NFTE market? Keep in mind, very early 500,000. They'll you'll see like numbers, like a million, but monthly active users. What we care about, people throwing things around and a lot more to come. Obviously when, when Coinbase is the elephant in the room, but it continues. [00:28:31] Yeah. If you were, [00:28:32] if you were in and if these at all right now, you were early in the space and well ahead of many others, and there's a lot left to come, I would say. So feel free to hop in our discord. We encourage you to up in our discourse yet [00:28:44] it have some projects. Stop me from continuing to find horse, horse related. [00:28:48] If you have, honestly, if you can find something that relates to horses and playing soccer or something, please bring it to versus playing [00:28:56] soccer. You immediately get in our discord at three NFT and you bring that to me right now.  

Theme: Trickledown Ape-a-nomics How does historic significance affect value? How are sales from biggest NFT projects finding their way to the next gen of projects. Or is money just flowing out? Newer projects have dominated during NFT booms, with BAYC, Azuki, World of Women, Doodles, etc dominating while CryptoPunks have been surpassed and older projects like Mooncats, Cryptobots have not seen floors rise NFT News Rantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines:  OpenSea rolls out credit card payments for NFTs  How the FBI made its first NFT “rug pull” bust  Liverpool's NFT range flops with 10,000 sold out of 171,000 in first six days cryptocurrency foray | Daily Mail Online  Past project news: Red Village launched their game!       Transcript [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable NFTs, our theme trickle-down economics, essentially. How does historic value actually get impacted? And how does that significance plan to Andrew? It was going, what do you see in the news? [00:00:15] Yeah, I think this is a good topic. We have seen a lot of, a lot of movement in different projects ever since that ape token was dropped. [00:00:22] And it's been interesting to see where it has fallen. So we'll get into that a bit more during the show here. But let's see to start off. We've got another shot or another headline with open. See all we've always got something going on with open seat. And this one is in case you haven't noticed yet they have rolled out credit card payments directly on open sea. [00:00:44] So you no longer have to have already purchased your crypto somewhere else. You can actually purchase crypto, right. Or purchase the NFT via. A credit card similar to have nifty gateway and some other platforms do it to open. See has this. Now it's been out for a little bit. You may have already noticed this if you've been on the platform. [00:01:04] I don't know. I haven't taken a look yet at how if that's actually if you can see this on chain, I assume that there, that this must be visible on chain, but it's done in different ways. So it would be interesting to look at how much it's being adopted by users. [00:01:18] Yeah, I'm curious. I mean the moon pay application doesn't actually serve as a wallet. [00:01:24] You still need your own wallet connected. So there's no custodial element, but what this also does, it's not just a small payment feature, but think about what a credit card is. It's buying on credit. It's not the same as saying, Hey, I have to actually have these assets in the form of ether west in my. [00:01:44] Wallet it's. I am going to borrow money from a financial institution to make a transaction here that I have to pay back in 30 days or pay a, an APY on. It's interesting. [00:01:59] Very interesting. Yes. We've seen a lot of discussion around this, on other platforms other. Robin hood comes to mind. So it'll be interesting to see what happens here. [00:02:10] Yeah. I mean, it makes me a little terrified. I may just never do it because I gotta be honest. I'm one of the ways I stopped my fricking FOMO and clicky clicky of just running around and buying stuff nonstop is actually a throttling. The amount of these that is in my wallet at any given point and, and just, just taking it away from the hot wallet and moving it to staking or moving into other places so that I think. [00:02:33] I feel like, oh my gosh, here's an opportunity. But only for now, now, now, and having my credit card attached really removes friction in a way that I don't think helps the the inner demons. [00:02:43] Yeah. That's, that's a dangerous one. I am likewise going to stick away from a connecting that I do have ways to spend my ego as it is. [00:02:53] And don't need to add to that. [00:02:55] All right. We have how the FBI made its first NFT rug pull bust just in time to save other would be victims. So reminder rug pools, meaning the founders create a thing. And then they just run away with the money after making many, many promises. And in this case, it's a couple of 2020 year olds that they found are not facing. [00:03:19] Criminal charges in Manhattan, federal court for scanning investors under the NFC project. Frosty's w it looks like 1.1 million from NFT buyers, and then they just abandoned the. [00:03:31] Yeah, actually a relatively small rug full we've certainly seen much bigger ones. But you know, they left a lot of evidence around and made it relatively easy for the FBI to catch them. [00:03:43] And it seems like they definitely want to make an example here and hopefully it is a warning to others that are doing the same, not to get into this. I'm sure we will see some other busts similar to this. In general, It's tough to, to cover up all those digital tracks. And I think most of these, most people weren't necessarily thinking that they were going to need to do all of the cover up when they got into it. [00:04:10] So they, they likely have some leaks out there and we'll see similar from other rugged polars in the future. [00:04:17] I here's, I got to say it like I smile when I see this type of regulation kinda come in because if you. Predators like this continue to proliferate and profit from the NFT market and people that are still figuring things out. [00:04:31] It hurts the overall ecosystem. Like the truth is you do need oversight. You do need some form of punishment, not just like, oh, too bad. You should have known, like should have known what that like taking a bet on two unknown founders that created a thing and they were. Young when they did it, didn't have a past record. [00:04:49] A little thing called you know, the board eight gap club came out of a similar start. So you're betting on limited information and promises made by folks. There is punishments for false advertising for falsely representing a product. In addition, And this is just sort of making it a touch, more tangible. [00:05:06] And for the other folks out there that people that are planning on saying like, oh my gosh, what an easy way to rip people off. I feel like it's a little bit like the early days, early, early days. Facebook follow me on this where I was, I was like one of the first colleges in there. You were one of the first colleges in there when we were at our age and Facebook rolled in and we didn't realize taking stupid pictures on spring big, but actually be associated with a professional identity down the road, all tracked, watched, and saved and recorded. [00:05:35] That's what's happening on the blockchain. Now, if you are being a jerk at scale, like in thinking you can just roll into your next project, there's a and they're on the blockchain and it's very clear that there's a long memory here in the same way that like making those mistakes are, are hard to cover up. [00:05:52] I'll be honest. Maybe we should go on Facebook now, take down some old. [00:05:54] Yeah. I mean, I think there's a lot more people looking at these things, a lot more people looking for ways to, to find these people. So it's not even just the FBI, but there's people out there looking at these and, and voting people to next projects that people may be connected to. [00:06:12] So definitely a good to see that Action being taken against people like this, because I think making the industry safer will attract more people to it in the long [00:06:21] run. Yeah. I mean, the truth is when you piss off 2000 people, you've also added financial incentive for them to destroy you, find you and bring you to justice. [00:06:32] I'm looking at the Frosty's NFT and there's 2000 folks that bit into this one. And like, it kinda is. [00:06:38] All right next on the list here of our headlines. We've got, let's see, we've got Liverpool, the soccer, they football club, Liverpool soccer, they sold 10,000 NFTs. Isn't that great, George. [00:06:51] They sold out. They, they there's a, there's a. [00:06:53] Oh, they were trying to sell 171,000 NFTs and they sold 10,000. So not so successful in that light. I have no idea why they would start with 171,000 as their first drop, because as you can see, 10,000 would have sold out, they would have had a success successful drop and stead. [00:07:14] It's looking not so successful. And I can't imagine that they're going to mint out. Rest of the 161,000 of those. Anytime soon I could be wrong could have changed by the time you're hearing this. However, I doubt it. [00:07:27] Yeah. Fans were not happy accusing the club of trying to exploit them. It did seem like a lot of the money or a portion of the sales were definitely going to their LFC foundation. [00:07:38] But again, it's, it's very clear when you, when you push it too soon or you don't. Your base in the right way. They see it as a, as a cash grab instead of a, a stake, a stake in something that connects them with the, the team and the brand there's ways to do it. It's a waste to not do it, but I mean, that's an aggressive start, your first drop. [00:07:59] I think we can push 171,000 in these things, the market size of people that like Liverpool's about a couple. Yeah. I feel like somebody did. Forgot to carry the one in the total addressable market game. [00:08:13] Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't look good now for moving forward with that project or any other projects when you've got that on on the blockchain. [00:08:22] Yeah. And I'd like to see that it makes me sad too. Cause again, I am long soccer this year. That's right. [00:08:28] Yes. I have [00:08:29] not brought that up at [00:08:30] three episodes. The recurring theme George has moved on from, from these stable games to re reminding us of soccer games, soccer, NFTs, [00:08:40] soccer entities. Past project news. [00:08:43] I was very excited because the red village, the other week, I forgot to mention this, but the red village launched tournaments, you can now play with those figures, the red village being a project that we have had, and we are both a full-disclosure owners of these little champions who then go beat each other up in the ring. [00:09:01] I'm just happy to see a team finally get to launch. And I see this again and again, where there is a game launch date set and it just, you know what? Surprise games are. Hard games on blockchain are also really hard because we're also saying there are financial implications of them, but they have launched. [00:09:20] I have actually fought with some of my some of my champions. We haven't had any big wins yet, but I am not deterred. And it gets me excited gets me excited for that project, but also puts in the back of my mind when you see a date, just add three months and then consider what that does to the assets. [00:09:38] Yeah, I think that's a good point. The game development we're seeing is a much more timely production than, than most of the projects predict. And whether whether it's red village or cool cats or any of these games nifty legions we're seeing that these take a lot longer than anticipated and. [00:09:58] Crypto unicorns. Eluvia like, there's tons of these things I'm watching. I'm on human park. There's like a little bit of a delay. Another one I'm watching is the crypto bots. Obviously we're both folders. There are, I'm a holder there and there's delays like it's it it's it's part it's. [00:10:16] Yeah. And unfortunately I, it doesn't seem like any, like, there's a, like there are many teams taking the, the step or the approach of, let's not say anything and then just deliver the game. [00:10:28] Th th we haven't, I guess the people that have been doing the most of not saying anything and delivering something is The yoga, the yoga team, but we haven't seen a game from them at this point. And I don't think that they would be one to say, it's going to come on made first and then fail to deliver on that. [00:10:45] That's something they have gotten, right? They haven't set dates, set expectations, and then missed on those. And we are seeing a lot of teams do that. And that's, that's tough to keep people interested in. Happens a lot, even if you end up delivering later on, [00:10:59] I don't envy the marketing teams and the marketing planning going into this. [00:11:03] You have X number of marketing dollars say to spend, and you have got a sort of range of time. So the question is, when do we start? All right, we should start now in anticipation of this window or this range of a game being launched. And suddenly you, if you've blown through a lot of your marketing mechanism, pulling people in, you've gotten people really excited and expectation, and then you're dealing with this trough of production. [00:11:26] Where the real data production then just eats into all of that momentum. And so when you don't get those Dominos aligned and it happens a lot, a lot, a lot it's, it's tough, but also I, I view it sometimes as like a, a test, your conviction and buy-in then so even if you sort of miss the mint and a lot of these games there's another project had been watching traverse actually, which is similar. [00:11:49] Like I was I almost like eight, 10 to the initial drop. I realized they didn't plan a game until Q3 launch. And I was like, tell you what I'm going to check in on you this summer, see how you're [00:11:59] doing. And I think that's a important aspect. With these games, if you are interested, there's probably going to be a lull where there's going to be a good opportunity to buy because. [00:12:10] Unless it's a completely bucking the trend. There's going to be a delay in the delivery of the actual game. And we haven't seen any any team not take that route at this point. It's hard to not do the mint when you see the opportunity to go. Get the money to do the development for the game. [00:12:27] And it's, it's tough to deliver a game. So that's the order we're seeing it happen. And for the most part, but it doesn't mean that mid price is often I dunno, not the floor in the at least medium term. [00:12:40] Yeah. All right. Let's talk about our theme, trickle down economics, which is just a sort of joke at the the ape economy. [00:12:49] We all now live in, in the NFT land where 25% of all of the area based, I guess activity, roughly speaking is under the good old UGA labs with a board, a yacht club and punks and me bits and and all of the projects under there. But. Think about it though, when someone is buying in what's what's the floor at, for board apes right now, [00:13:10] like close to a hundred. [00:13:13] Oh, I believe it's over a hundred right now. Thank God, 15 or so it's some, some absurd number over 300,000. Yeah. [00:13:22] So when that amount of money is sort of in volume and floating around, just in that ecosystem, it has a sort of a gravity to it and it pulls money into its own orbit and the hope. This is maybe what we're starting to see is that as people begin to take profits and diversify, so for example, maybe you're holding a few of these assets worth hundreds of years. [00:13:45] Maybe you take a beat and say, you know what? I can't help, but notice a lot of these apps are being targeted for hacking attempts or who knows what's coming, take the profit and roll it back into other long tail projects. The next sort of round of. Of board apes, right? I mean, the truth is if you own a board ape, it'd be one of the best investments in recent history. [00:14:06] Had you found it at the beginning because of the multiple, when you have multiples like that? I think there is some narrative that saying like, all right, let me like take the profit and maybe look for that next round, because clearly I was smart enough to find it once and it had an absurd model. [00:14:23] Yeah. I mean, there definitely are people rotating out of these. We've seen we've seen some other big name projects shoot up in price. Pretty significantly lately. Zuki is one that comes to mind the price, the floor price there got as high as 30 at one point, I think it's down, back down to 20 some odd at that point, but there's a lot of projects now that have really. [00:14:46] The uh, is over 20. And I think that is it's it's some people coming in, but I think it's more often people rotating out of some of these, these really big projects and maybe it's selling out of them, but I think it's, it's often people may be diversifying if they have multiple apes, if they we're, we're fortunate to buy those at the right time it's certainly certainly worth selling it at a certain point or at this point, and maybe looking at some other projects and I think the F the first place to look when, when you're selling those, isn't looking at the tiny projects there it's, it's pretty significant. [00:15:20] It's a significant amount of youth. And I don't think that most people want to go and buy a lot of things under maybe half an and it, after selling a 110 each piece, so there's still a lot of people willing to buy. These other pieces that 5, 10, 20 Eve because they can, that's still diversifying quite a bit from, from holding it all in one single piece. [00:15:43] So know, I think we're seeing a lot of people rotate into those trickle down to these other projects. And you we'll see how much of that continues. Like I said recently we saw the, the highest number of sales in a single day. So I think that is telling that maybe there's more going on than, than just. [00:16:03] Projects we're seeing those four prices rise, but I think we're starting to see volume kind of trickle down to other projects. And it's, it's, it's kind of easy to assume that that the same thing will happen from these, these other projects where a 25 eats sale is all of a sudden split into smaller projects. [00:16:21] And so. [00:16:22] Yeah, you see this sort of the next tier. So you move from the shopping at the top the top 10 to the next 10, and then you get in the land of like you have your MF offers and Adidas, a world of women galaxy. I think you own one of those. [00:16:38] Yeah. Th that was the one that just dropped. [00:16:41] So that was their second part of their drops. So yeah, that's when the worlds of women, I think that's gone, I believe that's well over 10 at this point. And I think seeing people kind of connect to some of these stronger brands that have continued to deliver and I think that's what we're seeing with the world of women with with Zuki. [00:17:00] And I think they, I can't remember the name of the the airdrop that they just did, that, that grows to a. I don't know, over five Ethan value. So in an associates needs associated projects, I think people are looking at someone as the, the mutant ape version of the the board apes looking for projects that are connected to the, the big brands that are delivering and realizing that it's these teams aren't just limited to one single project. [00:17:24] If they are able to deliver they're going through. It's a community. So we'll continue to grow and add value and not actually dilute over time. [00:17:32] Yeah. I mean, You're saying that the trickle down is really just looking at that next tier. And you think that when people are flipping the larger projects, they're still looking for that type of historic significance, but also executing team, cause there are overlooked projects. I happen to own a lot of them. Cause it's my narrative thesis aside from games that involve horses and. Soccer this year, but it's about the, sort of like the moon caps, moon cats in crypto bots that just like, I'm like, they have historic significance to sit in there, but they're [00:18:07] sitting, that's a good question. [00:18:09] Does seem like historic significance if it's not held much value. At least in this rotation of projects it's, it's been going to to newer projects. Like Zuki, like Ms. Firs and a lot of practices have been [00:18:24] like, [00:18:24] yeah. Like 10 that that has continued to have to move up where I think that's up in the high freeze now as a floor and. [00:18:31] But a, I I think, I think part of this is we're seeing teams learn from the other ones we're seeing from ones that have failed in the past, but we're not seeing much value attributed to historic projects. And there could be a couple of reasons for that. One is if they haven't had much success in, in marketing their project for a long time it's hard to imagine that. [00:18:54] It will all of a sudden start clicking. And they obviously would, would have a challenge with a relatively inactive hold their base. It's people that aren't there's not a lot going on in these projects, so it's tough to kind of light a fire. So we're seeing these active teams that come in and there's a lot of excitement and they can ride the momentum and continue to deliver value. [00:19:19] Those are working right now. We've talked about how that, that can you can run out of momentum. But at this point, I think that the teams that are there behind the projects. Where these profits are being rolled into where or trickled down to have largely delivered in their teams. [00:19:38] They aren't individuals, they aren't maybe projects that just were happened to come by and mint on the blockchain. They're pretty well thought out. And they've learned a lot from the projects that came before them. And so it's hard to see that these will that are just rotate on from these two other projects that maybe are overlooked. [00:19:57] Yeah. And I, I think the problem is we're looking at the irrationality of this week in NFTs, as opposed to this decade and what I mean by that there was a an interesting thought from milk road last week, and then. Articles saying that only about 1.4 million users have boughten in a Tiana open sea, which means 99% of the internet has not bought an NFT. [00:20:19] They posit that what percent of internet users, people that are savvy, regular interacting on the good old interwebs will buy some kind of NFT in the next 10, 15 years more that's the answer. And there is a report. The, like we stopped, we stopped with the hypobaric, but the Coinbase NFD platform has 3.7 million users on the waiting list. [00:20:45] I'm going to just put that in context again, real quick. 1.4 million users have bought an NFT on open seat. There are 3.7 million users on the Coinbase waiting list for the NFT market. There. [00:20:57] That's that's a big number. That's a significant number. And I think there, you can make an argument that anything that's already there can hold significant hold historical significance to, to a new user. [00:21:08] And the, the difference between a project that came in 2017 with it hasn't and, and in 2021, or may not be. As big as we think it is in terms of the significance. And there's a big difference, I guess, in, in the approach that the teams have taken. And certainly the momentum that a 2021 project could have versus a 2017 project. [00:21:35] And at this point, the strongest early project is crypto punks. And we've seen that, that. That has struggled. Certainly that the historic value narrative there has, has failed to keep up with, with board apes and it's not even close. So we're seeing that in other projects as well. [00:21:53] And I think that's something that we didn't seem. Crypto currencies when we've got these layer ones that come along and, and maybe steal some of the, the shine from a theorem for a time, for a short time, at least but then it does come back to with your hands. So it's tough to say what is going to play out over time and NFTs. [00:22:11] But I do think that we have, you have to be a little bit wary of assigning value, just due to historic significance. As we're seeing that doesn't with most of the, the, at least the. Profits, it doesn't, it seems to be rotated into newer projects that maybe are more influenced by board apes than by crypto punks. [00:22:30] Yeah. At a certain point too. It's you're sort of testing your, your, your thesis and I, the immediate project that comes back to I come back to like moon cats and they continue to press forward. Right. They're still pushing stuff out there. And. Their, their team is certainly docs and known they were at it. [00:22:49] And since 2017, we talked about it as an affordable project. It had a this sort of perk up and down and it's it's a little bit down right now. I'm like do you double down on your thesis or do you like start shopping for something new? And that's kind of like a tough call. [00:23:05] What do you think? [00:23:05] And there's been some. Some more active discussion in the discord there. There's been some some maybe unhappiness among some of the discord members there, but it's not just in that project. It's eat moon. Cats are sinking. Cool cats. There's people grumbling about the a lot about the, the price, a lack of action. [00:23:24] Both of these have both those projects have talked about games that have yet to be released. Moon cats has been upfront that it's going to be a very long time until the game. Is actually released. Cool cats. On the other hand was supposed to release the game, I believe in January. And it's still not. [00:23:41] I think, I think they have it in testing. [00:23:43] That's the, that's the production trough. It's like you get it. I really think you do a moon cast. I was like, look, we're trying, but it's. [00:23:50] Cool. Yeah. And moon kids has also admitted they're not great at the marketing side of things. And that's been a challenge for them over the years. [00:23:58] And that is a concern at a certain point the marketing is necessary and you can't just expect people to do see the significance of this historic The historic importance. If if people aren't paying attention that historic importance, isn't going to demean a whole lot, especially if another game is doing it much better I'm not saying that it doesn't hold value. [00:24:19] I just, I get wary when I see teams kind of delaying things and people getting wary in Cuba, getting concerned about the lack of delivery. Yeah. What, what is to keep the bill around there? I guess it's is it just their [00:24:34] certificates? Here's a, here's a brutal, what if for you, because you're a bit of a whale out there and you have owned a crypto punk at one point. [00:24:43] And me that's as well. Here's here's the trade off. You can technically buy, let's call it 10 moon casts right now. Or you can buy one MF, right. And MFR is in the teens right now for a top price. Maybe it gets some trickle down love. Maybe it's like the next one to go from like definitely hyping to like absurd hype. [00:25:02] Or do you say like no, no, no place in like a attendant cat bed. [00:25:06] Yeah. That's a, that's an interesting one. So what would you do? Yeah, I'm, I'm thinking, I think. [00:25:12] Yeah. He filled me in a tough position here. I think, you know that, I think at this point it'd be tough to at the end of the day, it's a little tough to buy right now at that phrase. I think it may be a little high up close to four, so, oh man, I guess I would take the boom cats. You're making me say that. [00:25:31] Yeah, no, it's right about, so the floor price from him is 0.38 and the MFS is yeah. 3.3. [00:25:38] Okay. Those have, does it come down again to three, three, those keep bouncing around I couldn't see. Going higher. I don't know that. I see that as being, I dunno, a project that gets to some sort of 10th floor though. [00:25:51] Yeah. I mean that's so you just nailed it, right? Like what's more likely to happen. Moon cats get to call it one ear or like 1.2 eats or an effort to get to 10, [00:26:03] I think it's more likely that moon cats. That. [00:26:06] And so I think it could be, you gotta be patient. But I feel [00:26:10] so much cooler because I already have a Mooncup it's just much cooler with the M effort, but you really, I think it's important to run that thought experiment because you can get blinded by the, like the, the forget around opportunity costs. [00:26:21] Like there's a lot of, there's a lot of NFTs, Andrew. I don't know if you realize that. [00:26:24] Yeah. That's two out there. Huh? Several. Are they making more? [00:26:28] Thanks for humoring, my wife. All right. I think we nailed this. I think we nailed this topic. I'm no smarter than I was before, but I might be, I might be looking if moon cats drop below a certain amount, I may go get some. [00:26:40] All right. Well, good talking. And if you're listening, leave us a review, give us a five stars or, or come let us know in the discord why you want to do so before you leave a rating. [00:26:51] Yeah. If you're not going to leave us a good review, don't stop listening. [00:26:54] You should stop. I think we're going to kick off the show with asking for a rating next time, because 'cause, I think nobody's [00:27:00] listening. All right. I'm going to go rate us. I'm gonna go on by Andrea.

How To Buy NFTs What is a Non-Fungible Token NFT How To Make Your Own NFT Best NFT InvestmentsEpisode Summary:Today's episode of The Roadmap:BlockChain GamingNFT HeadlinesHosts:Chris KatjeBrian MoirProducers:Alyssa ColeFollow The Roadmap on Twitter!Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited Transcript:all right, everyone. This is the roadmap work. It's Tuesday. Hopefully everyone had a good, long holiday weekend. I'm seeing a lot of people here in the chat, including some people who might have some super stickers and emojis here. Benzinga actually just launched our subscription service on YouTube for 3 99 month.You can get those custom emojis and be one of our, a star supporters. 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Brian Moore, Brian, what's going on buddy? Oh pretty good. Now, after we got those technical issues out of the way, we're ready to rock and roll technical issues. It feels like a Monday, Brian, it's not it's Tuesday, but I'm pretty much thinking it's Monday, all day.So I would expect technical issues and more issues to come. But. Yeah we got some stuff to talk about. We got a lot of NFT news some events that happened over the weekend. And then we did get the big news that  our friends FTX are launching a new gaming division. We'll get into that.And we thought that since we're going to talk about NFT games, maybe we should take a look at five play to earn an Ft games that should be on your radar for our viewers and our listeners. What do you think of that? I love it and want some more. Definitely. All right let's dive in to the news flow here.So it's Tuesday, AKA Monday or Tuesday. One of the things we always like to start the week with is a look back, right? So let's look at the top 10 NFTs by sales volume of last week. And topping the list was a Zuki 33.7 million up 47%. NFT world's 27.1 million up 171%. This is similar to the central land and the sandbox a metaverse play a virtual world.We also saw efforts up 48.6%. We had Eden horde, Kobata AXI, infinity, tasty bones, board, API club, three, Landers and clone ax, rounding out the list. Just to highlight a couple of Zuki has a floor price at 12.49. And FTE worlds. That's a collection of 10,000 17.49 east. And then am efforts 4.59. I remember when that thing was trading at a floor of 0.2, it has risen significantly.People are using this as their profile picture. It's almost the new crypto punk  style, a lot of people in it. And then of course, some new ones Eden. Tasty bones, but then we also saw board API club Clonex and ACCE remaining in the top 10. And then which we're going to talk about later on the plater earn NFP game on the avalanche blockchain, Brian showing some strength being in the top 10 for two straight weeks. We don't often see avalanche projects in the top 10, and now we have one that's been there two weeks. What catches your eye and stands out to you top 10 lists. I like what you just said about how avalanche is now. The second week in a row, they're on a top 10. That's just, that's a lot of good news for avalanche.It shows a little sustainability and a little good inkling that we'll have more to come. I like that the M efforts is top three and cause that project is a little, it's fun. It's interesting. And there's like some stuff. Hidden stuff in there that if you're a part of the community, you know about, I don't know, a lot of deep dive into it, but I've seen a lot of talk on Twitter and I just liked that project just cause was fun and vulgar and I don't know, it just makes me smile.So that's good enough for me being on the top 10. I'll take it. That sound, a game in blockchain project that's on there. I think that's the most interesting aspect of it all. Yeah.  We talk about the top 10. The other thing Brian I'd know is so out of these 10, five appeared on last week's list and five were new either a return or brand new to this top 10 list.So it's nice. We got to change the pace here. NFP world. Brian, we've been talking a lot about decentral land in the sandbox. Those are the two big plays, right on the metaverse NFTs and Ft worlds. Those starting to show some strength almost as like a a former third wheel that could be a triple threat here. I know a lot of. Very high floor price. Now, 17.49 last I looked, I haven't looked today. But the one thing I know is crypto debt, oh, 15, eight now at the time of this episode, crypto dads, which I own some NFTs and crypto moms, they have land and NFT worlds, and they're going to launch their own universe there.And along with that, you'll be able to  participate and maybe earn some of the world token. Just for playing some games. And FTE worlds. I like what it's offers. Cause it's all about connecting your project, your community, and you can essentially build your own world. It's also compatible with Minecraft, which is obviously one of the bigger games out there.Yeah. There you see crypto dad's right there. And I hadn't looked at what the world token was. But my guess is that maybe that one could see some some volume here as this project grows.  Not financial advice, but I would definitely keep that one on radar. And Brian, I'm excited to explore NFT worlds just like looking at the sandbox and the central land.All right. Moving on from the top 10, we did get big news out on Thursday, and it's been that long since we last talked to all our listeners and viewers here, world of women, which is a project we've talked about several times. Reese Witherspoon features a world of women as her profile picture on Twitter, and she's taking it a step further, her hello sunshine, which is a production company, signed a storytelling partnership with world of women.So they are going to build out a character universe that includes films, scripted and unscripted television shows based on world of women. Hello, sunshine also wants to launch and highlight other women led NFT products. You're not familiar with world. The women. It's a collection of 10,000 women NFTs. It had a mint price of 0.07 back in July of 2021. Lots of celebrities have gotten into this one and guy Oseary who also has a deal with boredom yacht club. Was signed as the representative of world of women.  No surprise that media was coming here. This project has shot up in value. Just insane. It's gotta be getting close.To at least being considered a blue chip at this point. And Brian so we're at 9.25 east floor. Now it actually came down over the last 24 to 48 hours. How about this media deal though? Movies and TV and coming from hello, sunshine, Reese Witherspoon. It's the same company that actually produces the morning show, which is a show on apple TV with Boone and Jennifer Aniston.Yeah. So that's one. So I know the company. What do you think of this media deal? No, it's huge.  It's enormous and I'm very excited about it cause it's going to lead to a lot of stuff. And then a T space.  This isn't, we're not gonna break this dance or anything yet, but we do have some interesting guests lined up coming soon that have other TV shows.  Different production values tied to it that we're pretty excited to talk about. And I'll fill you that in later, because I don't know if I want to worry if we're a ruined anything or if I'm even allowed to really talk about it yet. But there's a lot of stuff happening in this space.And it's really exciting in this deal itself, I think is going to spearhead just so many new. Crazy great projects and different ways it's going to disrupt the media industry as a whole. So I'm super excited. I think it's great news. I think we could talk about this for hours. Yeah. And maybe we'll do a special episode sometimes to Brian that a new show that you were talking about, maybe when that.Announced, maybe we do an episode talking about all the NFTs related to a TV shows or movies. Cause we have this one now with world of women, we have board a yacht clubs sign that talent deal, crypto punk signed a talent deal. So maybe they announced film or TV show eventually. And our friends at robotics they have an animated series coming with the robotics and the robo pets. There's a lot to like in that space and a very exciting time. And I fell all day, which is from dapper labs. It's a  the same company that brought NBA top shot. So if you were with us a couple of weeks ago, I know Brian wasn't, but I'm sure he was watching from the sidelines.I opened up a pack of NFL all day. So there was three moments in that pack. I have a couple unopened packs that I'll be opening on future episodes. So if you want to see me open those, definitely let me know in the chat right now and hit me up on Twitter. I was able to score a pack on Friday, which will have a rare or legendary moment inside of it, along with eight others, including some super bowl moments, but the marketplace for NFL all day is going live today, Brian.So that was something I said last week. NFL all day launch these packs, but you weren't able to sell the moment. And now the NFL season is over. So are they losing some of that momentum? With the marketplace launching today, we'll get to see real fast. Whether these have high volume of transactions.If the price drops on them, if people are making more money than they spent on the packs, et cetera. So I have. Rare Patrick, my home's a numbered two 1200 and last I looked Brian, the lowest listed price was $1,400. So I will be following along. Cause I don't know if I want to hold onto this, my homes or sell it today. I want to see what we get for a volume. What do you think the all day marketplace opening today? You think we see a surge today and we reach peak or you think this will  happen over the next couple. Ooh. I don't know what the it's really interesting to even think about because it's new and this is like a Kind of a trading practice, if you will, that's much older than NFTs, but now that we've tokenized it and made it digital, it's a whole new ballpark, but I can't say either way, but I can say that I bet you it's going to gain a lot of traction.I think over time, we're going to see a lot more volume and interest in this whole aspect because there's already there's YouTube videos. That are directly made just for opening packages. I've seen people where they accidentally drop a card and it's $50,000 and nothing looks bad about it, but because they dropped it on videos.Now the value has tanked three fourths of what it was worth. It just crazy. I don't know. But yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of interest and we'll see a lot more value in these than we do now. As soon as it's launched. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. And the other thing to watch is NBA top shot has done a real good job of doing like collections and challenges.So like right now during the NBA season, if you like collect the top scores of every night, you may get an extra pack.  They're going to tie in some fantasy football into this over the next season.  Today in the next couple of days could be the days to S snatch up some of these low priced moments and sit on them until next year.Cause I don't know if the values are going to skyrocket necessarily now, but I think we're going to see increased volume when the NFL season starts in September. Something to keep an eye on there as well. All right let's move on up next. We have the women try, which we talked about last week.They had their mint and their reveals. So Eva Longoria, who hosted a spaces with the team, she put out a tweet showing off some of her women tribe there. You can see them on screen. This has a floor of points three to nine, and I was hoping it would come down a little bit. I wanted to get one of these, but right now just sitting on the sideline, I wasn't able to meet these. But now that we have the reveal I'm going through some of the images. They're real cool. Look  earthy, some vibrant colors. Brian, what do you think of a women tribe now that we have the reveal out here? The look you said, I liked the colors. I like how how they pop.And I think I've said it earlier. I really liked the pastel colors, but I like how this has a neon aspect to it. And little bit almost cyber punk mixed with that pastel kind of edge. I liked the artwork a whole. Thing is really unique compared to yeah, and it's not a guarantee, that all women led NFT projects are going to run, just because that has been a trend lately, but with a floor price of 0.3, two, this does offer a little bit, a better entry point than some of these other women led NFT projects. So definitely one on my radar.  And I'll be looking at some of these. Now that mint and reveal is done. All right, guys, let us know if you are watching live right now. Again, shout out to all our live viewers on YouTube. Let us know in the chat. The chat is rather quiet today. We'd love to hear from you. And if you're listening to us or watching this after the fact, let us know, hit Brian and I up on Twitter, or leave a comment on this YouTube video.We want to know where all our loyal fans are and maybe let us know where you're listening or watching from. So we can see that global audience that we have. Brian. I think it's time to get into today's big subject, is play to earn NFT gaming. I'm so excited that over the weekend, I found out from our friends at FTX, who of course are sponsoring this episode, that they are launching a brand new gaming platform. So this is going to be FTX games. Which is going to provide complete solutions for companies and projects seeking to grow in web three. So they're recognizing the monetization efforts of NFTs and web three and the the head of FTX gaming. There's a future where 2 billion gamers get to own what they earn and we want to help build it.So they're calling the new segment F a or FTX as a service. They're going to offer an end to end solution of their core product to launch NFTs and tokens, our custodial wallet with non-custodial integrations, primary and secondary. Compliance and license syncing and more so I'd like that there really being that back end behind the scenes thing behind the thing supporter for some of these gaming companies or these NFT projects.  They obviously see huge growth ahead in NFTs and gaming. This is huge news and they have some job postings and in those they're looking for software engineers and people.  A specific familiarity to unity game engine from unity software, unity game engine. One of the biggest gaming platforms out there responsible for helping build around 50% of the top downloaded games. FTX launched a hundred million blackchain gaming fund in November. And of course, FTX raised $400 million in January when they were valued at $32 billion. Brian, I just said a whole lot of stuff. I'll let you chime in now. FTX gaming. What do you think of.  You've pretty much laid it out. Word for word.What needs to be said, I think is really exciting. I think, like you said, a unity is one of the biggest software engines to build software platforms to build software that there is out there. It almost every game that you've ever played, anyone's ever played as somewhat been either influenced or built by unity.So that's going to be big. I think that they have actually been in the web, not really web three, but the crypto space because people have integrated a web three or NFTs or blockchain technology into video games for a while. Relative to how old blockchain technology is. So it's going to be exciting to see this go mainstream.Of course, anything FTX does or touches. There's going to be a lot of money. That's going to be put into it. So you know that there's going to be a lot of Skilled professionals that are going to be building on this platform. And there's going to be a lot of resources that they have available to them to make it as good as it possibly can be.So it's pretty exciting and we're in a really cool time and error era that we're about to see something. Most influential technologies be built, be it gaining or tokenizing of assets and stuff like that. And plus video games are so mainstream. Now, unlike whenever I was a kid, you were a nerd, or even though it was fun to play video games, you were nerdy.If you played all the time, which I still do. But now it's cool. And people are making our professional athletes are e-sports game gamers and they're making millions of dollars. So having this be tied into it with all that money and revenue and high popularity who knows where we're going to be.And it's awesome that we're having some of the biggest savings in crypto and the gaming space and gaming development mashed together. So we'll see some cool things come from. Yeah. To me again I used the phrase that our CEO and founder likes to use with some stocks and some companies, the thing behind the thing, companies that help power other companies behind the scenes.And to me, that's what I see FTX doing here with its gaming platform. We all know FTX as a cryptocurrency platform. We know it as a growing NFT marketplace for Ethereum and Solana. And now we're going to get to know it as a gaming platform. They're not going to necessarily build out their own games. They're going to provide that infrastructure for companies wanting to launch games, and there is such an unmet need. In this space and that's why I'm excited. And again if FTX was public, if open sea was public, if looks railroads, public, those are the types of companies that I'd be investing in. Because they're not a one trick pony, we're going to see some of these different NFT projects come and go,  it's part of what it is. It's unfortunate, but a lot of them will not be around. Couple of years from now, right? And your NFTs of those projects may lose a ton of value. But the ones that stick around are going to be the ones that engage with their communities, provide utility and the companies that are going to benefit the most are these companies like FTX that are working as a platform as a infrastructure place. So I like this move by FTX. And the other thing I'll say, Brian  I was a big video gamer as a kid. I like to play some mobile games now and some of those games cost money. A lot of them are. But the more time you spend, you can level up your character, you can earn rewards in the game. What do you have to show for it? A lot of times, right? You can't sell your character.You can't sell in game items unless a few sell your whole account.  I remember when Pokemon go was huge, right. And I played that and people were selling their whole accounts. So you could get an account with a bunch of legendary. And  complete your polka docs, but what if they had a marketplace in there right where you earn along the way, and you're able to sell those items.That's massive. And it's going to increase engagement if you're a gaming company and you have a way for people to earn. Th you're going to have people want to play it. I just feel like that's a fact and the big companies that I know working in this space that we've talked about, Brian Ubisoft and Zynga. And I think we're going to see more gaming companies. Get there, but I just think FTX is ahead of the game here and we're going to get more announcements of gaming partners out of them. What do you think, Brian? When you play games, would you love the ability to sell some of that stuff that you earn along the way and maybe  make some money to where you can spend it in a game or elsewhere?I think that'd be cool. Yeah, absolutely. Especially if you spend a lot of time and work and what's While you're doing it is to create this extra source of income or it'd be your main source of income. Yeah. I think that's a great way to do that. I think it's awesome to be able to sell sell your work and what time you put hours into it, instead of just collecting it for a hobby, you can make it a living and Brian, I do see a question here in the chat from a black Buddha, which I'm guessing.So it says, I totally agree with. But why are gamers so mad about NFT earning? So my guests here is that there's been this old adage for a while  brian of   played a win or pay to win, right? Where people who have a lot of money can buy items and essentially they can win because they have the best items.So that would be the unfortunate side of NFTs in the marketplace is that yes, you're going to be able to buy items and possibly have a leg up on the competition, but that's  a free market society within the games. And to me again a game like Fortnite, you pay 10 or $15 for a skin.That doesn't give you an advantage in the game. It's just an aesthetic thing. I would much rather have an advantage if I spent the $10 or $15, right? Like that's me. Maybe I'm on the the minority side here, but that's what I think. Brian, what do you think of you're spending 10 to 15 bucks on a scan.I think. I might be wrong, but in my opinion, I think that's more geared towards younger kids  where it matters what your character actually looks like as opposed to what advantages it gives you, because hell I'd ever pay $20 just for a skin for it to make my character look good because either you're in first person mode, so it doesn't really matter.Or it's just showing off online that doesn't matter. But like you said I still, I'm not going to pay $20 to get myself an advantage in a video game if there's like a way to earn it. And even if there wasn't, I wouldn't really care that much about it, but I know that Paying for some sort of service or utility that it brings besides just cosmetic or subjectively makes yourself look better.I wouldn't do that. But yeah if I get like an unlimited gun or instead of having to crank out 10, 15, 20 hours on a game to get a certain loop box, I can pay $9 for it and get all the guns that would have taken me. A month to get then. Yeah. That would make sense, but not just for some aesthetic or if it gives me no value in it gives me some advantage rather.No. Yeah.  There's definitely a ton of work here  in the gaming space, but I just really feel  we're early, still. And again, I I think that. Gaming is a big area for NFTs to tackle. Yeah. We don't want you to spend that much on skins either Chile. That's a lot of money. Shout out to Shelley here in the chat. One of our, one of our loyal viewers and yes, Alyssa is here. And is the best NFT producer, to be honest, I would agree. And I think Brian would as well. So shout out to. All right. Let's get into some play to earn games that Brian's. So there are some that are already out and that are being built. Aside from this big news. So probably the most well-known play to earn game is ACCE infinity. And it really took the world. And world global scale by storm last year. We got people in some countries earning a little. Playing and breeding with their axes. So in ACCE infinity, there, there's a couple of ways to earn money. You need three axes to play the game and you start accumulating the two tokens, SLP and AXS, and then you can breed your axes. So if you have two axes that haven't been bred much before you pay for a X S N amount of SLP. That scales along the way. So then you've got a waiting period as you get those axes.There's obviously a lot that goes into this. I'm not an expert on. But I do want to share. Brian, we got massive news that Axion infinity passed the $4 billion sales volume milestone, $4 billion in transactions for that game. And that came less than five months after they hit the $2 billion sales milestone in September.So in five months, $2 billion more there's 166,870 axes in the game. Over $45,000. 1.9 million transactions.   And   to point out how massive acts the infinity is it's actually the third largest NFT marketplace with $4.14 billion open. See 21.85 billion looks rare, 16.8, 5 billion.And then ACCE is third on the list. So they're in game currency. Surged and in price in 2021, it hit a high of a hundred sixty five thirty seven, and now trades at 48 82 ACCE ranks. First, all time beating out crypto punks and boarded yacht club, which of course have a much smaller collection size.We did see ACCE dropped 40% in sales volume last week, but it still was on that top 10. And I saw news out this week that ACCE announced a partnership with bit to me, which will help grow the brand in Southern Europe and Latin America. So it doesn't look like axes going away anytime soon, Brian, I still haven't played ACCE.I really want.  Having to own three when they were around $250 each, I shied away from it, but I think you can actually get it much cheaper now. So I'll definitely be taking a look at ACCE now.  And maybe play it just to say I played it and maybe to earn a little alarm the way.Yeah, I think it's really cool. We've had a on mineral bus, we had one of the co-creators of XC on, and it was crazy just to see him or just to speak with them and talk with them. And that was right when they were first blown up. And that was what, two, $3 billion ago.   It's just, yeah.This game taking the world by storm. It's awesome. It's it really revolutionized? Play to earn. And they, even whenever they first started, they made it a little bit more fair where people didn't weren't priced out from playing. And then once that it blew up, they even brought it down another peg.So even know people were priced out, they made it a little bit more fair and they keep doing that as it grows. And it's just really cool to see that. They care about the community and see what this game single Handly has done for other players to earn and FTE games and just revolutionize gaming as a whole and disrupted it from its core.It's pretty neat. Yeah. Definitely it  it's really cool to see what ACCE has done. It's been really successful. And again all along with that being said, I just want to. I want to experience it.  So I can say that I played it and whether or not that means I earn money along the way, but it's really cool to see.And they really helped pioneer the play to earn in the NFP space and the fact that it's still so massively popular all these months later is a Testament to their success. So shout out to act. Brian, this next one I'm excited to talk about, but it's another one that I still am in the middle of doing more research on for myself.And it is the horse racing game, photo finish game based on so Lana, and if you were with us, when we interviewed Solana legend, it was one of the five Solana projects that he said he liked best. It is like the Zed run of Solana and it is being developed by several former employees at electronic arts. Brian, speaking of video games, electronic arts, one of those. Gaming studios out there and yeah. Get in the game. And they brought a lot of people over to this game from EA they've already built a live simulator. That's been used by media companies, including CNBC. They also launched a mobile game previously that didn't have the play to earn mechanics.So they already have proven six. They mentored their male studs in September for around $70. When we had legend on, he said that the male studs were going for $600 each. When I looked Brian, I think the cheapest horse I could get was a little under $800. So we're already starting to see this go up and remember the game hasn't launched.But they did just start breeding. So that's an important element, right? That they're doing breeding already before the game launches. They have a unique breeding system where, you know, those horses can only breed a certain number of times. I don't know if you ever played Zed, Ron, Brian, but that was one of the biggest takeaways for me was that breeding.You could breed it. Three times a month and their supply has just been so massive now that the valuation has also dropped, right? Because now that you have so many horses, everyone can own one. There's no longer a scarcity of supplies. I like what Photofinish is doing here with their game, you're also going to be able to obviously horse your horses against each other.There's going to be a token. You can earn. There's just so much to this game. And also the fact that it's not going to be on a Sirium, those transactions are going to be a little bit cheaper. It's going to be fast. Brian. I know you are a fan of this project when legend was on. Have you done any more research? Or is this something that you're still interested in here with? So I've been a little bit more in a research in, I did try to buy a horse, but I was priced out. I couldn't actually figure out how to utilize it and play it, which I really wanted to. And I did get to the point where I gave up.So I was hoping to maybe we could run through it on a show on how to play and actually use some of these games maybe later this week, or on an upcoming show dish. Users like, this is how some of these work and especially this one, because I think this is one of the cooler ones, especially being on Salada and being you have the little gas fees, like you said, you can breed them.And so there's more there's more. Of them out there that you can own. I really like this one. I'm still interested in it. I'm in no means  a written off the game.  I'm all about it. I don't know much more about it though, but yeah, I love it. All right. If you're watching us live, let me know in the chat. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it today, Brian, but should I buy an $800 virtual race horse? In the future, I want to know. Let me know because yeah. I know. Brian's going to say yes. And I know some of you guys out there are going to say yes, but we'll have to do this on a future episode where I dive into the world of Photofinish.Again, I do have some experience with Zed run. I never owned a ton of horses over there and the breeding by the time I got in, again, it just wasn't as successful in valuation because the supply had increased. So much over time. But yeah, so photo finish next on the list for play to earn.And then we move over to one. We talked about a couple of weeks ago sky Weaver, which is a free to play trading card game from horizon blockchain games. So this is a TCG, right? Similar to magic the gathering or. I did play this one. This you did see. Yeah. So I downloaded it. I've played it. I haven't earned any of the NFTs yet.I'm working my way up through, I'm working my way up through those battles bride. Cause I, I want to earn them. I want that that reward at the end. I want to be able to sell them or say that I have some NFTs here. But it's a really cool game and it's addicting  the matches take anywhere from five to 15 minutes, which is a nice in terms of time, you can do a at night or after work it's not going to take you hours, right? You can do one game at a time or you can play a couple back to back. And try to, I love a, her stone and imagine. Played magic a lot in highest school. And then as an adult, a little bit dabbled back in, but it wasn't as fun to have as many people, but I love her son to play every now and again.And this is a lot like that, but it has the  the blockchain in Ft, Ethereum mix into it. So I love it. Cause I nerd out about anything that has to do with solidity and blockchain technology. So I really liked this. This is one of my favorite ones too. And I haven't, I've just like you haven't played it.I've been going through the tutorials. I haven't won anything yet, but I've been taking my time and just dabbling when I have time, I don't have much while I'm working, but it is a lot of fun and I love the aspect of love, how the gameplay works and I'm all about it for sure. Yeah. And again, it's not something you have to spend a ton of time in, it's not something where you got to read through a huge white paper.If you do those tutorials  you, you pretty much learn it. They released some gold cards. Recently, they actually partnered with open sea where they did a drop there where you could buy some rare cards. So I feel like that's going to be something to watch too.  As they cross promote with open, see in some of these platforms, The chief storyteller recently did an interview with NFT and cider.I haven't listened or watched that yet, but that's something maybe I want to take a look at. And see what is the plan of growth here? I have seen quite a few people playing it on Twitch or on YouTube playing live. And again, They do it leagues at a time.  Those gold cards that you can earn, they reset every so often.And then those gold cards will never be available again. So there's going to be a scarcity there. Once the season ends, if you were able to earn a silver card or a gold card if you wait to sell it until it's no longer earn a bubble, I think you're going to see valuation go up. So here you can see some people  playing this game and Brian, again, played an earn, right?If I'm playing a mobile game I'd love to get something in return, right? If I'm spending hours yet it's fun, but it's also more fun and more rewarding. If I have something in my wallet to show for it. All right. So that was of course sky Weaver. And I do have an article out on, Benzinga talking more about that. I want to turn to another one here that I don't have all the information yet. It's one I've been researching for a time. I remember when they did their mint of their first round on open seat, galaxy fight clubs. So if you don't know, galaxy fight club, a mint or a floor price right now in open seas, 0.49 a collection.10,000, but this is cool. It's going to connect some different NFT collections. It's going to be a cross-platform player versus player fighting game where holders of different NFT collections can battle with each other to win and earn rewards. They have the G coin is their total. It's a cross IP cross platform.It's really going to be like one of the first to do what they want to do. And they really are taking after   Nintendo that they call themselves the super smash brothers of the world. And they've already partnered with  board API club, Chris crypto punks, deadhead animals.  And some other groups, BYO Hills. So it's really cool. And again, they sold out of those fighters. But I'm still looking at 'em and again, that floor price 0.49. It's really not that bad for  play to earn game that is up. And I saw some of their big investors.  They've got some decent names involved and  there's just a lot to like about this game as it comes.Brian, what do you think of galaxy fight club? The Nintendo of NFT played earn games here. I don't know too much about it. I'm actually trying to look look through it right now. It looks really, it looks a lot of fun. Like I, I think I mentioned just earlier. The gaming aspect of a crypto blockchain empties is not something I really dove into till recently.And this is definitely one of the games that I can see myself spending a lot of time on. I hope to see more of these games go to like mobile apps. There are a couple of. That I do. There's one, I play called up land, but it's not really a game. You play, you just buy properties and you hold them and pretty much stake.One form of the other that it's on mobile, but if I can get more of these on mobile, I definitely play them a whole lot more. And this one looks a lot of fun and I liked the aspect. I liked the, this I don't know if it's turn-based or not, but I do think this one looks like fun and I can enjoy.Yeah, I was thinking it was turn-based, but based on the trailer, it almost looks like it. It's not here. And Brian, it does say on their website download our game for iOS or Android. So it is going to be mobile three V3 team tournaments and 10% battle. Roy ALS also coming where you can earn more gene points and also. Theory.  So if you play this game and you get good enough you can actually participate in some tournaments. So that's pretty cool. I like the fact that they've already partnered with some of these different cyber Kongs and wicked craniums also our partner. They don't have a date.That's the only drawback, is they're still really working on getting this out. They'll have alpha test and beta testing. Later this year, you can sign up on their website to try to get early access.  This is just exciting, right? Another game that combines all the elements of  play to earn along with mobile games and the freemium model.And I really liked the fact that yeah, you're going to be able to play it, have fun and also possibly earn along the way.  For anyone watching or listening, that's galaxy fights. Again, a project that minted a while ago, it lost steam and I haven't heard a ton of news about it, but it's one, that's definitely been on my radar since they meant it out in August. So again a while in terms of NFTs, right? An August, 2021 mint but 0.49 floor price. I think we're early here. I'm not financial advice before this game launches.  Yeah, galaxy bike club. Check it out if you have not. Brian, last on my list here we have CRA Bata. So Kobata you heard me say in the top 10, right?This is based on the avalanche blockchain. And it's another one that maybe we're early to, right? Because the game hasn't launched they had their motto is mine, Lou breed and battle. And if we pull up down at the bottom of their website, I believe is the roadmap and it's got a time table. I believe of specific things.Yeah. There is there road. If we can zoom in. So fourth quarter 2021 is done we're in the first quarter 2022. So there's a lot to like about this project, Brian, because they've got a ton of events happening this year as they build out that game. And as I said, the fact that this has been on the top 10 for two straight weeks, I think is showing strength in this project.So again, avalanche was. On my radar, but it is definitely now I'm with this Kubota game. What are you saying? A hundred percent. Yeah. Avalanche is booming there. Them and salon are taken on Ethereum by storm, by force. Sooner or later, I think that they're going to definitely match what a theme is doing.And like they're already steps ahead because they're fully proof of stake as opposed to a theory. The E 2.0 or whatever the new Eve name is. It's still in launching mode, which is going to take awhile. I think we're going to see a lot more of these happening and I'm all for it and all excited about it.It's awesome. Not complaining Chris, not complaining one. Definitely. I pulled up the Kubota marketplace just to take a look, Brian, cause I was thinking Hey maybe  I can start buying up some of these NFTs and according to this, it's sorted lowest to highest price. The lowest that I see is $1,605. For one of these crab looking NFTs. Brian, that's a decent price. It looks like a, this thing. People are interested in it. And again, I want to do some more research on it. If anyone out there plays Kubota, please let us know in the chat or hit me up on Twitter. I do want to learn more about this game.Maybe we'll work on getting that team to come on for an interview as well. Again, Brian, as we try to diversify. Not just a theory. I'm right. I want exposure. I've got flow. I've got Solana. And now avalanche on radar here as well. All right. That is going to do it for our five play to earn an FTS to watch we hope that everyone enjoyed this segment.We're going to be trying to do more top five and top 10 list. And we can also clip that out. We can do an article. We can do a shorter video. I think it provides good education. So if you're watching us, let us know in the. Did you enjoy doing this top five list to get Brian and I's thoughts on some projects to watch and speaking of projects to watch.We talked about the upcoming mint schedule last week. And I do just want to bring up some of these projects again, because we have a big week ahead. So we already had the mutant bats of that happen. If you owned a crypto bat, you could fight one of the partnered NFT projects. And now there is a mutant bats collection on open.See, I believe the floor was underway. We also have a big event tonight, Brian, I don't know if you saw this. We're getting a mega mutant reveal for a board ape and mute and eight yacht club. Someone is finally using one of those mega serums. There'll be doing a live video starting at 6:00 PM Eastern time.We also got the launch yesterday. Of sneaky by vampiress syndicate for 0.16 east. That is from sneaky vampire, syndicate the floor right now, Brian 0.2. Or 0.209. So not that much higher than the mint price. So I'm definitely watching this one. This is a way to get into that sneaky vampire society through the vampires is here and they have not revealed Ryan. So there is the potential that you buy one at the floor and it ends up being rare. I did love the artwork here on the vampiress. So another one to watch and then turning to this. We have star catchers minting today at 0.1, one, one, Ethereum, a collection of 10,000. It is one of the most hyped projects out there. So there is going to be a gas war likely. So I will be waiting to see where these land at AF ger the mint. And then we also have the doggies from. D O double G of the sandbox avatars. The presale is today at 10:00 PM, UTC, the public sale tomorrow, and the reveal is happening on Thursday.Fingers crossed that you get a rare dog or alien and those costs 150 sand plus a theory them for gas. So sand price right now. Is 3 0 9. So these are around $450 for these avatars. Brian, do you think these us Snoop dog avatars the doggies, you think those sell out super fast between today and tomorrow?No. A hundred percent. Yes. No flat. Yeah. And you'll be able to play them in the avatar. They're going to be, you're going to be able to be in a music video, right? Not you personally, you technically are. That's your property, so that's. Definitely. And then also today we have dented fields which is 2:22 PM today.So it actually happened during the show, their pre sale. There is a total of 11,111. and then tomorrow invisible friends minting a 5,009 at 0.25 east Brian, an insane project, right? Invisible friends. I think we see that. Absolutely. Just take off tomorrow. It's one of those floors that I could see hitting a couple of ease right away.And then we have weather report. Which is the project from the former artist. That's doing dented fields. They are launching on the 24th and then wonder pals launching on the 26th, which is Saturday 10,000 at a 0.08 east mint price. And then also one to throw on the radar because our show is of course called the roadmap.We like when project. Hey roadmap, but sometimes they also release a new updated roadmap. So we have a collection out there called alien friends. Which minted, I don't even remember how long ago, but they will be releasing their roadmap 2.02 months ago. December was their mint. It looks like they will be released.Alien friends roadmap 2.0 on March 3rd, Brian, which is next week, Thursday. So as always not financial advice, but when these projects tend to list a new roadmap, you tend to see some volume pour in, either good or bad. Yes, a hundred percent. I think this will definitely pump that up a little bit.And on the backside, of course, Brian, it'll probably get pumped up going into the roadmap. And if people do not like that roadmap, what happens on the backend? The project could fall because people likely will want to get a ton of new stuff, they want to be rewarded. And we'll see if alien friends what their plans are for the future.But this is one of those that. Was minted in December. It was in that PFP phase. I did see some people use these on Twitter as their PFP, but the project has lost some momentum and maybe roadmap 2.0, helps bring that back in. I haven't taken a look at the sales value of this project recently.It looks like it's been pretty flat to start 2022, it did have a good little pump at the start of January. But yeah, we will see what happens with that roadmap or release next week. That's what's on our radar. As always guys, if there's anything you're watching, let us know in the chat. I think we did have one that someone pointed out when we were talking about play to earn games. If we can find that comment, nifty league DJ Jens is a great working NFT gaming multi-player with live play to earn. I don't think I know nifty league. I think I looked at, I did see something about this on Twitter today and looked into it. It's pretty interesting. I don't know a lot of information, so I'm not going to dive into it, but it's weird that someone mentioned this.Cause I, I realized I recognize the NiFi, the  And I thought that was pretty cool. So they read your mind. I pulled up open sea and I see a floor price of 0.57. Get ready to brawl. Nifty league is one of the first NFT gaming platforms set to change the way NFTs and games are experienced.That is something we've been talking about, right? Oh, these are their pixel art style. There they are. Yeah, this looks pretty cool. Another one to put on the radar for a play to earn games. And I do like when they have a floor price under one    once we hit one, if it's not a project that I'm fully invested in or fully committed to, I tend to stay away. Just because of the opportunity costs out. But a 0.5 range is definitely interesting. And yeah, this roadmap here so shout out to the chat for letting us know about this one. Definitely. On radar now, a hundred percent. All right. Time flies, it looks like that is going to do it here for our Tuesday episodes.As always let us know in the chat, if you enjoyed today's episode. And again, if you'd like that top five segment for play, to earn games that you should watch. And then also the calendar, which is so important to talk about upcoming minutes. At the end of the episode, we will be back tomorrow. 2:00 PM Eastern time.And as always  stay tuned, we got pre-market prep at the close coming up where Joel and Spencer will break down all the top stories and trends for stocks and crypto. I know that there's so much going on in the world right now. We did have a speech from Joe Biden and we of course have all the world news out there.A question here from Russell. What was the first one you mentioned? Was it star catchers was the first one that I mentioned for a today for upcoming mints. I hope that is the answer to your question. Russell's star catchers, February 22nd. All right, Brian, anything else? And to leave us off on today.Nope. Can't wait for tomorrow. See Wells in the store. All right. And as always, Brian and I will be doing some research into some of these plater earned projects. You never know when we might be playing them live on screen. And when you know, my horse stable decides to kick off in high gear here.  Take care, everyone stay tuned and we will catch you tomorrow.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-roadmap/donations

How To Buy NFTs What is a Non-Fungible Token NFT How To Make Your Own NFT Best NFT InvestmentsEpisode Summary:Today's episode of The Roadmap:NFT HeadlinesHosts:Chris KatjeBrian MoirProducers:Alyssa ColeFollow The Roadmap on Twitter!Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited Transcript:all right, everyone. Yet, this is the roadmap Benzinga NFT show. We've got so much to talk about as we previewed last. We had one of the biggest sporting events, the super bowl. And there was tons of rumors, tons of conversation about what was going to happen during the big game. So without further ado, let me bring on the man who I talked to about all those rumors and all that news we have Benzingers oh, Brian Moore Hola. Brian, before we get started today, I have to remind everyone that today's show is sponsored by FPX U S one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume and daily use. The FTX app is used by over 6 million people that buy crypto and NFTs, no transaction or withdrawal fees from your phone or computer.And that FTX us trading platform offers NFT trading on both the Ethereum and Solano blockchains with no gas fees. You can find out more by clicking on the link in the description below and also pinned to the chat right now. And Brian, speaking of FTX we talked about this last week, right? That our friends from FTX, we're going to have a super bowl commercial and they were also going to be giving away Bitcoin based on what time that commercial aired.So Brian. That commercial was the FTX featuring Larry David. It was one of the most talked about commercials and I thought really well done and really funny. What'd you think of that commercial? Yeah, I really liked it. I liked the other coin based one where I had no idea what was going on with it, the bouncing around on the screen. So Brian I was way off with my guests on a FTX. I thought that commercial was going to error like nine o'clock. And it actually, I shared the tweet here. 7 54 was the actual time. So they're giving away 7.5 for a Bitcoin to anyone who retweeted and entered that contest. Fingers crossed here, of course, but again, props to our friends at FTX for getting that Superbowl commercial out.And then Brian, you of course mentioned the other one that I've heard so many people talk about. Coinbase not a 32nd ad. They did a full minute, right? Yeah. What seemed like it would last forever, which was probably good because it gave a lot of people time to figure out what was going on. So $14 million is the estimated cost that they spent for that 60 seconds to have a QR code bounce around. And. For many of us in the crypto space, in the NFT space, I think we knew what was happening right away. I grabbed my phone so fast, Brian. I already had it out because I was live tweeting commercials during the super bowl, but I scan that QR code and I was hoping, Hey, it's going to be the Coinbase NFT marketplace.Let's go, let's start buying NFTs. It wasn't but still just disappointed. Like I even, I ran into. As I was in the kitchen, fixing, finishing what were made for dinner because my wife and I stayed home and I saw it on my phone and of course I couldn't do anything for my phone. So I ran into the bedroom, we were watching it and then I started scanning it and got it.And I was like, really disappointed, but she had no idea what the hell was going on. And she was like, I don't get it. That was stupid. Why? And I was like I bet a lot of people scan that. And then a lot of you are disappointed like me because we didn't really get anything. Yeah. And that's the key point, and I, as my, my takeaway is that I scanned as fast as I could. And what did I get out of it? Nothing, possibly something. So on the top of it, something to talk about, there you go. And what did they get a ton of new users potentially. And that's what they spent money on. Of course. And also Brian, I saw the data yesterday, there.Chief product officer actually said that they had 20 million visitors to their website in one minute. So one minute after that commercial aired or during 20 million people last or in the month of December, they had 77 million visitors. So around a quarter. Of what they normally get in a month, they got in one minute, thanks to the power of the Superbowl.So obviously $14 million is no small amount, but it looks like potentially money well spent and also their app.  It went all the way up to number two, I believe on the U S app charts for downloads. So again getting their word out there, we also saw. Crypto.com. So FTX, Coinbase, crypto.com.All doing ads. And then Brian, the surprise one for me. And the one that I think a lot of people loved because it had so much going on was the E Toro one, right? So the equatorial commercial, it featured a Sheba dog, that we saw lots of different crypto communities fight over which coin it was actually supposed to be.But then also hidden in that commercial, which no one seemed to find until each Toro tweeted out. There was a board ape from the board ape yacht club, NFT collection. Brian, I didn't see this the first time there it is on screen. You have to really slow down zoom there. Yeah. So they tweeted out and said that they brought a friend along.So that is a board ape that belongs to their founder and CEO. So here we have the the. Of the actual NFT, right? So there it is. That's his, and he featured it in the commercial. Brian, there was all kinds of talk, that we were going to see board apes in a commercial, we were going to see board apes as part of the halftime show.That stuff didn't happen. But instead we got a one second image of a board ape in a commercial. Is that kind of a small constellation prize or just a non-event. Yeah. It's just  here you guys go quit talking about it. Yeah. Now people can't say that aboard wasn't in the Superbowl commercial. Cause technically  so I guess on a technicality  we'll take it, but  has also mentioned that maybe they're going to get into the NFT space. So maybe this was just a glimpse of what they have coming. So again  watch out open, see, there is tons of competition out there or coming your way soon. But the super bowl is very exciting. We also saw the bud light next commercial that featured the nouns. Which is something we talked about, those nouns glasses. That was really cool for me to see. And technically that was the first time. And Ft ever featured in a Superbowl commercial. So a bit of history there.What did you think of that bud light ad? That was, it was really neat. I saw bits and pieces of it. Then I had to rewatch it because it. I wasn't really paying attention when I first saw it, but it was, it w it was what you expected, I guess it was pretty neat. I still go back to what I was saying on the episode before the super bowl in hope and hoping that this will push the nouns Dow out there a little bit more.And we'll have more Dow's actually. Follow what they're doing. Cause I don't know why, but I really liked their style. I really like how they have done everything and just the fact that it's never going to end and it's a daily auction.  Maybe a couple years from now when people might forget about or whatever, you might be able to snack one for really cheap, just out of nowhere kind of thing.So I don't know. I think it's really cool. And I, hopefully they, we see a lot more of them because of the commercial. And the. Yeah, definitely. And  something else, Brian is we gotta give a shout out. We talked about a couple players, right? So winning the super bowl and it wasn't his first super bowl ever Von Miller defensive player for the Los Angeles Rams.And we highlight. Because he is the owner of a couple of board apes. So let me get this cowboy on the screen, right? This is his board aid that has been his profile picture before. He also owns two mutant serums that he has not used yet to make those NAPE yacht club NFTs.  I'm wondering when we get news or anything on that, but  cool to see someone who's so heavily involved.In the NFT space, as far as athletes win a Superbowl tweet about it, be congratulated by the community. And then also we saw Odell Beckham Jr. Who has a dead fellows and FTS his profile picture. He also owns a crypto punk. And Brian, I don't know if you saw this picture. I just actually remembered about it to add it in here.During the celebration he wants again, war his crypto punk. So here it is. I didn't see that the Lombardi trophy there is Odell Beckham Jr. On the right with his crypto punk on his shirt. I mean talk about a flax Superbowl champion, crypto punk owner. I love. And not the first time he also wore this way before.  We talked about that last week, Brian. Odell was having a great game. I was really rooting for him. I had, I may have had some money on him to win MVP. And then of course he got her. Which was very unfortunate. Sounds like it is a score one. So I was fine. I know he did get that touchdown yet.So good call Brian. I did get some money off of that, but he didn't hit the over on the yards I needed. He didn't win MVP, so that would have been cool to hit those things. But again, my hats off to him, he has now a super bowl champion. But Brian, I think that's what we've got for Superbowl.Anything else that really caught your eye or   to talk about what the super bowl here? The halftime show was really awesome and it made me think about back when I was a kid listening to rapper a teenager listened to rap and all those people were. My favorite.So I really liked that in sneaking Kendrick Lamar, but yeah, it was overwhelming on the sense of, we, we definitely maybe got a little over excited about how crypto and empty focus it would have been. But then if you look back on retrospect, it makes sense. There's not really much else to do besides commercials and stuff like that.I was just hoping. I would have seen a lot more stuff, maybe on social media and different announcements, different drops, and just see a lot more trending stuff than just the usual just to have a halftime show, blah, blah, blah. It's a little underwhelming on just that small aspect of it. Overall. I thought it was good. Yeah. And looking back now, I feel like maybe we should have thought that all along the fact that there were so many performers that there wasn't going to be room or time to really do anything NFT related. And also it's not like it was just Eminem and Snoop Dogg, performing who both owned board ape.There were other performers who, to my knowledge don't own any NFTs. So what would that have Look would they have just  stood on the stage watching, would they have bought some before? Would that have been part of it? And that, that performance Brian, you mentioned it.Yeah, it took me. Years ago, listening to all those songs and  I could've listened to that halftime performance for so much longer. And then it ended and it was like, oh shit, it's over. They all performed,   so there probably wouldn't have been time to really get into anything crypto or NFT related. But it was a great game and also a great halftime performance. And again, we did get some NFT and crypto connections via the commercials, at least. So a lot for us to talk about last week and of course today to wrap it up. But I think that's going to do it for Superbowl talk. Brian let's get into  something we talk about a lot is the top 10 from last week.So the top 10 and FTS by sales volume, we did have a couple, a new ones on the list here. So we had Kara Fu Ru was number one at 54.3 million pixels. Number two at 52.7 and then criminal punks came in third. Cool pet fourth ACCE, five board, eight, six, no surprise. A Zuki fell from one down to seven and then Clonex and mutant, Abe.And then number 10 I believe it's CRA Bata. So Brian, I'm going to break down a couple of these cause they caught my eye. So Kara Fu topping the list. This one came out around 12 days ago. Now it's a collection of 5,555 floor price of 3.15.  So it's an interesting one. And then pixel mine, it has really been talked about a lot and we might get to that later on in today's episode of these NFT projects with huge followings starting their mint price way too high. So pick some on, had a Dutch auction. The starting price was three east. And now we have a floor of around 1.4. So people are literally underwater from where they got in depending on when they bought in this Dutch auction and then crypto punks. Brian, did you see the record?Crypto punk 5 8, 2 2. For anyone out there watching or listening? It's one of the rare alien punk. So there are only nine of these alien punks in existence. And it sold for 8,000 EAs or $23.7 million. Brian, that is a huge price tag. And with that, we then saw a little bit of a run on a crypto punks.And then of course cool cats and cool pat saw good volume because of the cool pets launch. The surprising one for me though, Brian Kirabati coming in at 10. This is based on the avalanche blockchain. It's a plater earn game sales volume, 18.2 million Brian, I don't know a ton about avalanche, but this game.Tell me more about avalanche?  I just saw an article that avalanche is now trending up because a DFI is coming back and I've actually seen a lot more mentions on different parts of Twitter that Defy's kind of making, not necessarily the same kind of run, but we're seeing the NFT.Pretty much only focused now expand back to inclu, include a tokens and crypto into NFT and both or vice versa or NFTs with tokens or tokens with NFTs. So finally, we're having this mesh that. It should have been all along and maybe we'll see a lot more of these EIP or ERC 1, 1, 5, 5 protocols where you can have fungible and nonrefundable and tokenized assets all in the same. Avalanches. Yeah, just another defy protocol with staking and all that kind of stuff. Just like Solano. We're just seeing a lot more rise in it. And that probably is why this and if T project had a big boom because AVX shot up 40% or something like that, the last little bit in a very short time.Yeah. And I have the website pulled up in my browser because I've been meaning to do some research on this game and find out if maybe I want to get involved, but play to earn, we've got the typical mining, looting, breeding, and battling.  Obviously looks a little bit similar to ACCE 64 breed types.It looks like we're still in the early phase here though. So they have a demo for windows, Mac, and Andrew. They have a token, their own token, their own in-game currency. And then also the NFTs that are playable.  This is interesting. I'm going to need to do some more research on it. Brian, but   it's always nice to see something non related, pop up in the top 10. Usually it's just ACCE. Occasionally it'll be something on like the wax black chain, right? Yeah. But lately we've been getting these other ones. Solana now, avalanche it's nice to see  some difference and some diversification. And that's why when we did our interview recently with Solana legend, which we actually replayed yesterday, too  Those NFTs have been kicking it. It's an area I want to get more exposed to because I want more diversification in my portfolio.  I'm definitely going to be checking out Kubota, anyone out there listening or watching has experience with avalanche NFTs hit us up, let us know. Cause maybe we can feature that in a upcoming episode.Brian, I tuned into a Kula Twitter spaces yesterday. It was actually hosted by a Coinbase, I believe. And it was with a bunch of the women in the NFT space. So it actually featured a Reese Witherspoon.  Known actress and entrepreneur, and then women behind So we had like dead fellows, world of women, long neck ladies.And it was really cool just to hear like their perspectives, the different  inspirations for their artwork and really get a spotlight. And from an investment perspective, Brian, we've seen a run on a lot of these women led projects. So to me, I was able to take notes right.And less than, and see, okay. Which of these projects have taken off. People know about, but they still haven't taken off all the way. Because obviously world of women. Out of my price range right now, it's taken off a ton, but some of these other ones, I still think there's room to grow because they have that that factor, they have a good community, a good roadmap.So a something I'm interested in. What do you think of some of these women projects? Brian? I think they're awesome. I liked the the. Ah, it's, it'd be really weird to say no, I don't like projects that are  headed by women, but I really do that fact that we're having a lot more projects that are focused, headed up by women.And they're making this a. I would agree that the crypto space has been inclusive over the past couple of years to be mainly male dominated, because it's just, maybe it's because of like how it all is laid out or I couldn't really tell you why I'm not. A social scientist or someone that could really explain the difference, but they're just not as many women led projects are really women in the space.So it's really awesome to see a lot more of them. Kinda take charge, take ownership and kick ass because it, this crypto and blockchain empty any part of this space, it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from. You could be part any part of the country, any part of the world. Any demographic, any, anything whatsoever, and you can make a name for yourself in this space, and you can either tell people who you are, or you can be completely anonymous and be the creator of Bitcoin.And no one knows who it is, but has changed every single person's life that you'll ever talk to for the rest of your day for the remainder of time.  It's pretty cool. I really liked that, that we were seeing a lot more and they're taking charge of it and being. All I said that. Yeah. Yes.Love it. Yeah. No, and a good, another good use case of Twitter spaces, right? An area that we've tried to grow with. Benzinga Brian, I know you're so active in the Twitter spaces. I've been trying to listen in on more, right? Obviously. I spoke on some weed co-hosted, but sometimes it's cool to just listen, and get that perspective from other people which is what the NFT community can be so much about.  Different opinions, different  artists, different perspectives.  That was really cool for me. Brian  one of the areas I've mentioned was that we had.Some controversy in the NFT space. So we have some of these projects. Yeah. Nothing new, but it seems like it's really coming heavily lately. So the biggest things I see are a lot of these projects have large followings and then they're doing these high mint costs. And it's something that they're doing because they have the demand, or they think they have the demands. But then they end up not having as many people maybe as they thought, or  some of these NFT well-respected names say, no guys like this isn't right. You shouldn't be doing this high mint costs.   I've seen a couple lately. We had a serial club mint today and they did a Dutch auction and it just seemed like it was really high.Squiggles, which we talked about not too long ago, they're meant they actually ended up getting delisted from open C they had some transactions that were questionable from team members, weather report, which we'll get into on the upcoming mint. Their former artists published a document today saying that he was only going to get 5% of royalties and the two co-founders.Split 50%. So now there's a debate on whether or not weather report is going to make it. And then we also saw jacked ape club, which was another ape derivative project where we actually had some influencers not disclose that they were influencers. The project manager. But then we saw the founders kinda walk away with the money. Which is something we never liked to see was it a rug poll time will tell because then we saw some other people start to buy him up and the floor price actually rose Brian what do you make of all this? I know I just rattled off a bunch, but there just seems so much controversy to where, if you're new to this space, how do you get into some of these mints?You're almost better off. Going to existing projects, rather than trying to get in one and find one, that's not going to rug. I think you almost nailed it. Whenever you go into a mint and a not financial advice, of course, but everyone, you need to keep something like this in mind, if you're going to be trading stocks, assets options in MTS grip to anything with NMT is especially if you're going into a mint. Just know that at that moment is the most speculative. The asset will ever be, especially in MTS, that being said, MTS are on their own. Are speculative in general because unlike cryptocurrency, unlike say we'll take a one ether. For example, one ether equals one ether, but one board API club token does not equal another board come together.Everything's really subjective. So when you go into the minting aspect say the mint price is 0.06. They mint out, then they're on open sea and now they're going to be trading at 0.03 for the next six months. Do you hold onto it to goes back up to 1.3 or do you get rid of it and try to move on because you don't really want to hold something for six months unless the project keeps your attention, keeps you involved and keeps you motivated to stay in.So I always wait until see things on open seat. See how much left is in the mint, and then go from there. I've mentored a couple of things, but I think of. Done to in my whole time where I made money off the mint, specifically over buying or minting and holding for awhile yeah. You know what we're trying to provide some education and guidance and Brian, that's where  I try to be as honest as possible and we don't provide financial advice and I don't want to see anyone get hurt.I don't want to see anyone lose money. And that's where I almost want to call people new to this. To look at existing projects that have been established. We know who the founders are. We know that they didn't walk away with the money. They're still active. The discord still active. The community is still active or they're projects that maybe you can buy in with the USD. And get some  some early experience with NFTs, right? Like dapper labs with top.  Some of these other drops, right?  It's just, it's so hard to get behind some of these projects that have these large followings. And then all of a sudden they say, Hey, our mid price is going to be four ease or our mint price is going to be one ether.With the exception of cool pets, right? Cause cool. Cats was established their mint price was 0.5. I get that when Newton API club launched, everyone got a serum, but they also did a Dutch auction or a launch public launch. And that was a couple EAs. But again those people have clearly made a lot of money that meant then, but I think that price was warranted because they had that community, they had already done a successful launch.I just really don't think some of these. Can a do these ones. Yeah. And we got nifty hunters in the chat saying, I believe in jacked, a club Bradley Martin took over the projects, Bradley Martin. I believe has a huge following on Twitter, a fitness person, I believe.  He was active in that project and now seems to  be in charge and again, the floor price did go up, but they did have some questionable influencers and questionable group of founders. And sometimes red flags are enough to just get me to steer clear of a project. And Brian, it's not like we only have five projects to choose from. We got thousands.  I get a number. So if I pass on one, there's more to choose from and that's. Anyone new to the space. I just want to remind you guys again, to be cautious out there. I've seen a lot of people get burned over the past couple of weeks. And unfortunately when people are new to the space and they get burned, usually that turns them away forever. And that's not something that. For the space and to see NFTs, continue to grow, we need to get more people involved in the space as well. So just a word of caution, Brian, I didn't even put it in my notes, but I was actually thinking that metaverse right. You missed Thursday's episode.Last week I had Mitch from Benzinga with me and we opened some packs from MBA, top shot and up all day, but we also spent some time in the metaverse. So we played around in decentral land and Brian, it's a date a day. Doesn't go by that. I don't see a headline or get to write about decentral land. So today. I actually got to write about the metaverse. The Atlanta Braves are going to be the first baseball team to put their stadium in the metaverse. So they are going to create a virtual copy of their park. And the really cool thing here is for fans is they're going to have some Easter eggs and some scavenger hunts.And if you're able to complete puzzles and win games, you can win. Maybe some tickets, maybe some memorabilia. And again, it's not like it cost you money. You're just hanging out in the metaverse. And then also J JP Morgan, one of the largest financial institutions out there, they launched a bank in the metaverse this week.And they also put out a 18 page report, which Brian I'm still reading and working on articles about it. Talking about growth of the metaverse. They see it as a $1 trillion. I know market size. That is insane. But something we've heard other say, but to hear JP Morgan say yes, metaverse $1 trillion and they talk about the growth of work in the metaverse. Even saying people in other countries could work from the metaverse and not have to worry about moving.  To the U S or to other areas. So we could help some emerging markets, it could also help with gaming companies, which obviously we've seen all these. But what do you think Brian?$1 trillion. Is that just hogwash or is JP Morgan onboard here and that's a legit number in the. No, I think that's absolutely legit number in the future.  It's speculative, we say that word a whole lot, but yeah it was JP Morgan first off, so there is a little bit of credibility behind that whole conglomerate. But also. Yeah, there's no telling like $1 trillion. I that's almost on the low end, in the whole grand scheme of things of what it can be worth in the next 20 years. Within the next five to 10 years, we're going to see probably double one. 2 trillion and who knows it's going to be its own entire ecosystem and decentral and the central land up land sandbox.And there's maybe a few others, but those three, I think are the forefront of this whole thing. And yeah, it's no telling where they're going to be. And they're definitely going to be way bigger than Facebook and all these other ones. Yeah, but easy Chilean, easy. Yeah. And for those looking  looking for more information, like I said, I'll have a couple articles out.We have one up on Benzinger right now about JP Morgan opening that bank in the metaverse. So you can find a link to that report with that article. Brian. So metaverse huge talk obviously. I want to get to some upcoming mints, right? That's something we always like to do on the show. And again, I stress, right?Not financial advice, Brian and I are not telling you to go out and mint these or buy these right. We're providing the data, the date, the mint cost, right? Some some information. Oh yeah. You reminded me of the New York stock exchange. They filed a couple patents and they are possibly exploring the metaverse right.I actually spoke to a representative from the New York stock exchange it's spokesperson. And this is the quote that they gave me. Brian, the New York stock exchange has no immediate plans to launch cryptocurrency or NFT trading. The New York stock exchange regularly considers new products and their impact on our trademarks and PR protects our intellectual property rights.According to. So a vague statement, right? That they don't have immediate plans, but they filed trademarks. So for those of you out there listening or watching the New York stock exchange, one of the largest exchanges in the world, they filed trademarks to potentially launch virtual currency, a NFT marketplace, NFTs, virtual events.That's huge. And we've talked about it recently with McDonald's Panera.  All these companies where they file and it doesn't mean that they weren't. But normally if you file a trademark, either means you want to block other people from using your brand or you have intent to do something with that. So to me, I feel like there's intent here, right? Brian, that maybe. I see them launch  if, Hey, they can make money off of people buying and selling stocks. Maybe they want a piece of people buying and selling NFTs. What do you think is the New York stock exchange going to take on open sea and Coinbase down the road?Yeah, I think so. I think one, they be stupid not to form like kind of a. A tokenized version of stocks on their own  anybody who is in any ticker that goes through the NYC it has a tokenized version to it. And then there, you open up  this is legality and stuff like that.We're not lawyers or anything, but you can open up a futures. You can open up a fractional. Shares, you can open up a ton of different things, even collateral against your tokenized stocks, because you have all your stocks in your portfolio. Then you also have a tokenized version of them. You get the tokenized version of them as collateral against a loan or may your margin and stuff like that. There's endless possibilities, what they can use it for. And you know what New York stock exchange that's free. It doesn't consultants. Yeah we got Brian in the house giving some advice to the NYC and Ryan, you made some great points there. And  I would highlight with what you said, the IPO process, right?When a company decides to go. They can choose between listing on the New York stock exchange or the NASDAQ, are the two major ones and there's disadvantages and advantages to both. But what if the New York stock exchange has an NFT marketplace and can make that fractionalized trading option of your symbol, your ticker, your company, right as shares and the NASDAQ can't right.That's a competitive advantage. And then. AMC, right? They did where everyone who owned shares got an NFT, it was part of their investor connect program. And what if the New York stock exchange could be like the. The middleman for something like that, right? If you're publicly traded we know who all your shareholders are, we can get that data and we can give all those people in NFTE.So I really think there's strong use case here. And I was pretty excited to see at first, Brian, when I saw the headline, I was like, oh this is fake. The New York stock exchange files for NFT is I was like, no way. So I had to dig in and like I said, I was on the phone yesterday with the NYC. Cause I wanted to hear it from them. We were able to get an article out and to get that source, that spokesperson in the article, that's something Benzing always tries to do. Is get the source, make sure they're reliable, but a great point there, Brian, on the New York stock exchange thing that they could do, which is something I thought might be interesting.I'm just coming up with it. But they could also take the tokenized version and different time zones can all sync up to be like there. Preferable eight or nine 30 to 4:00 PM open and close. It could be on all their times, but you can also have the amounts of trade and volume, everything match up to where it wouldn't change anything throughout the country, but everyone's on the same thing.I was just saying, there's so many possibilities that I'm just so many now we're excited and that would give us a ton more to talk about in a future episode. Let's get this some upcoming minutes.  Brian, I mentioned this, we missed you on Thursday show. I had Mitch fill in   one of Ben's thing is great video team members here.I'm sure people had seen him before, across other shows. And one of the things we did was we opened up some packs, right? So I had some NBA top shot and an NFL all day past. Brian. I ripped open the NFL all day pack and I actually had a rare Patrick. My home's a moment. They don't have a marketplace yet, so I can't sell it.But people in the chat were saying all that's going to be worth a thousand. That's going to be where 2000. I don't know what it's worth yet, but I was pretty excited. Guess what? There is another NFL all day pack drop happening this week. And this isn't just any old pack, right? So at 4:00 PM today, for anyone on the closed beta list.So not if you're new, you had to already be on the. They are dropping 32,400 packs, $59 each. And you get four moments in the pack and at least one moment will be from the super bowl that we just watched on Sunday. So the very first ever super bowl moments from NFL all day. And then on Friday, they are also launching a premium pack, which will be $259.No real details on this yet. But two drops this week and the most they had done before, that was one. So it looks like maybe NFL day getting ready to fire on all cylinders and maybe closer to a public launch. Brian, what do you think? Sports NFTE seemed like they're really here to stay. NBA top shot led the way.And now we have these NFL moments launching is part of the problem here though. Could it be a timing? The super bowl is over the season's over. Are we going to cool off here? And maybe they they're going to see  not as much demand as they thought at the end of the season.What do you take on that? We'll see cause each sport has their own diehard fans. So now maybe we'll run over to basketball and we'll see a lot more like with top shot and stuff like that. And another thing that we're I saw that LeBron or not LeBron, maybe Dwight Howard, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure you get the name right.Who it was, did a made like 330 something thousand dollars betting Bitcoin on the super bowl. And they, he only bet a big, oh, Drake, it wasn't a basketball player. It was Drake, sorry, but a Drake made a $381,000 from Superbowl Bitcoin bets. And so I think we're going to see a lot more  crypto game.It, now that there's a whole lot more sports betting because I like football more than basketball, but I like to bet on basketball more than I like to bet on football. Cause this is a lot more predictable. And I think with NFTs in this whole thing, not just remembering Billy and not just for collectors items, but with NFTs and cryptocurrency in general, we're going to see a lot more betting move towards crypto, as opposed to just or that secure.A ACH transfer, all that nonsense. That's outdated and whatnot. You'll be able to verify people's location, age, all this other stuff. So I think we're going to see a big influx of that within this year. Yeah. And speaking of  tickets in the blockchain, Brian, I hadn't even looked yet. I'm going to have to look after the show.But we did have where everyone who attended the super bowl got that free  Ticketmaster, NFL, NFT. And I hadn't looked to see what those were selling for yet. But again, sports NFTs I think are definitely here to stay and just gonna grow another mint that's coming up soon. This isn't per se a mint, but.I don't think you had joined the show yet when we talk or no, I think you did. When we talked about crypto bats, the Ozzy Osborne and smattered. Yeah. Okay. So remember how we talked about how they had partnered with a couple of other NFT groups and eventually you were going to be able to do like this bite process, create a mutant bat. I don't think you've seen this yet, Brian, but before you joined backstage today, we actually where to watching this video and having a good one. Brian, I want to share this crypto bats video. And to me, this is how you make a NFT hype video.  Let's take a look at this guys.  I really enjoyed this and I'm an Ozzy Osborne fan  hats off to him to.Do you hold NFTs, but don't know what to do with them. Do you wish your JPEGs have a little bit more powerful? Introducing the new muni bats, biding utility brought to you by using lines of code in the ERC 7 21 smart contract. You can have hours of fun. Simply visit crypto bats.com. Connect your wallet and select the NMT victim you'd like to buy.The blockchain will magically create a mutant bet that you can call your own. Wow. On it. Doesn't stop there. Your cool new music fat who share the traits of both your cryptos and the victim might have a selection of blue chip projects, including foreign API club crib. Self ducks, alien friends and Cybercom street, the crypto bats floor today on open scene, but for, to learn to bite off more than you can.Launches February 20th, crypto bats can only bite warrants visit crypto bats.com/ for more information. This is not investment advice. Brian, how about that? What an NFT commercial, right? And they even got Ozzy Osborne or participate. He probably has no idea what NFTs are wa you know, an ERC token is, but they did get him to participate. Look at that. He looks so excited, Ryan. He is ready. He is ready.  I didn't get into crypto bats cause I didn't make the white list and that project took off. I think the floor price now is 1.25. But I think it's really cool that they partnered with these projects. And you're going to be able to combine.So if you have a crypto bat and you have a board ape you can do the biting process. And I just want to see what these look like.  The mutant bats, I think they're going to look so cool. So I'm very excited about that. So that is February 20th. So that is first here on our list of some upcoming things February 21st sneaky vampiress syndicate, which is from sneaky vampire syndicate who were on a past episode.Oh, this is their next project, Brian and a 0.16. Ease is the mint cost. But if you own a sneaky vampire, you have been collecting or earning the blood token. So you will actually be able to pay less by utilizing that blood token. So I liked that, you're rewarding existing members. The 0.16, I do think is a little high, but again, it's a well-established project. They're been successful.  The new collection will have a supply of 12,545. I don't remember if I put any of these pictures into the overlay here, but they look really cool.  The sneaky vampire syndicate always reminded me a bit of Oh here's a vamp. Yeah, there we go.  The sneaky vampire syndicate all released reminded me a bit of Adam Sandler's character in a hotel Transylvania the artwork, but I always thought this was really cool. Brian. I'm interested in this. If I'm able to mint and get in at 0.16, or maybe a little bit more, that has been a nice community, right? The sneaky vampire. They also have that blood token, which they can continue to utilize. So that's one that's on my radar. What do you think or know about sneaky bay? Not much besides what we talked about, we covered the I thought that they were really cool. I liked the art. They have a lot of this neat utility and I think the bats project is one of the cooler ones out right now because they've collaborated with a few other projects. I'm pretty sure wall street bulls has a similar aspect to theirs and.Talked on the show and like on Twitter spaces with different projects that do have some sort of connection to other projects and written in the smart contract to where it's open-ended to where you can, if you hold this token address in your wallet, you'll actually get either. This NMT, this token will change.This NMT will change or that one will do, or you'll get a whole new one, that kind of stuff. So I think that's really cool to include in your projects because you not only get your community, you get their community and you get different ones and everyone's coming together, driving the price up and always have a good time.If you're a smart NFT token developer or a project, this is what you want to. Because you're eliminating yourself just by only your community, might as well join forces or have other people in. I think it's really cool. I like it. I can't wait to see what's next on the evolution of what's going to be the next hot topic as every other week, every other project.There's something new and cool and exciting. And this is the last one. I think that's the most exciting to me so far. Yeah, no shout out to Gilberto Rodriguez in the chat. I know we've talked to him before with wall street bulls during the, those interviews and the chat and saying. They partnered with a lot of female projects.So he got white list spots due to owning world the women.  You heard me mentioned that Twitter spaces, and now we have sneaky vampire doing a female trait project. And that's one of the things with board apes is the board apes were all these male traits for the most part, which has led to some derivative projects that have been female.Because board apes, hasn't done a female launched themselves. So I really liked sneaky vampire doing this themselves, creating a whole nother way. Also crypto dads, which I own, they did the crypto moms mint, where you got a free mom for holding a dad. There eventually we're going to have the crypto taught down the road, but I really am looking forward to this.Brian. And another one we talked about recently with star catchers, right? So star catcher is very cool artwork. A big hyped project. Their mint date now is out February 22nd, a MC cost of 0.1, one, one east supply of 10,000. They just did a spaces recently with robotics and I know the robotics team. I like that, that gives me some nice validation of the team because the last couple projects that we've seen that have these huge Twitter followings have ended up not being the greatest ones to get in. So star catchers has over 77,000 followers. But we actually have a hundred and common right. Between me and them. Which I like seeing that, that means a ton of people in the NFT space.  Follow them, look at that image right there. We got the backpack, the jacket and that star and that, even that background that is PFP a bowl right there. What do you think.Yeah, I like it. I like the colors. I like the pastel aspect to it. Yep. Yeah. So again, that is star catchers and that is February 22nd 0.1, one one. All right. So February 23rd Brian, this is probably the biggest project that I have heard about or seen since makeover launched a couple of months ago. Invisible friends. So invisible friends, February 23rd 0.25 Eve is the ma costs 5,000 supply. Their discord is now locked because they want to fight off any possible, but attempts when they do their mint. Last I looked invisible. France has 470,000 followers on Twitter. And I have 230.Followers in common. Again, this is the biggest, most hyped and Ft project I've seen in a while, but Brian, there's only 5,000 and they're meant costs is 0.2, five. What do we think is going to happen? I know they have a big white list. So those people are going to be able to get in and probably avoid gas wars, but I don't know how many are going to be left for public.But I just have the feeling that floor is going to go up significantly. And I actually respect this team a lot for keeping it at 0.2, five. Again, that's higher than we've seen other products. But the last couple projects that have had this big of a following have done a much higher mint costs.So what do you think? Point two, five mint cost with this big of a following and only 5,000 supply. Was that the right call? Is it too high, too low? That's going to probably sell out very quickly and the floor price will be between on and to eith within seconds of it selling out. If if, even if it's that low I'm thinking higher.I, this one has been really hyped and yeah. It's gonna, I think it'll explode. It might dip a little bit when people try to sell, get out. Cause it, if you are going to mint, one thing that I would do again, not financial advice. If you're. Try to always get multiple of them. Try to get more than one and do it at the same time.So you don't pay ridiculous. You're not paying for one and just gas he's alone. Keep doing that more meant more than one. And then take your profits off one of them, or  try to flip at least one of them. And if you have multiple more, but if you only buy one don't just flip it right.When you get. I wouldn't flip it right when I got it. That's what I meant to say. You just hold it do what you gotta do. Maybe by more than one. Yeah. This project. Again, it's so hyped, I'm looking forward to it a 0.25. I'm not on the white list. I don't think I have any chance of getting one.So I'll be looking at open C for secondary sales, but again, I just think that they're going to be too high  pre reveal and I might get priced out of this. But the fact that it has this many followers and this big of a a community and hype I'm still going to take a look, and see  and then Brian, on February 24th we have weather report. So weather report, I can't remember if we've talked about on the show. It's one that I've been following for a while. Another one where people are really drawn into the artwork. So they announced their mint date, February 24th.I have not seen a mint price yet. Look at these images though. Really cool. Really unique.  And the thing with this though, Brian, of course, as I said in the drama segment, they have. Some drama out there. The former artists took to Twitter today, released a paper, saying he was let go from the project. He was promised 5% of royalties. The founders were going to get 50%. There was a huge disagreement. They stole his artwork and the list goes on. They did a Twitter spaces today. I don't know if the former artist was part of that Twitter spaces, if they all cleared the air, if they came to any agreement, my guess is that was probably one sided. But who knows? So if anyone out there listening or watching knows, let me know, but otherwise I'll be sure to play the recording on that Twitter spaces later tonight. But Brian the fact that there's a little bit of a a phot on this project going into the, I don't love it. When there's other projects that we could find a. But again, it should be on everyone's radar that the mint date is February 24th and we'll definitely keep everyone updated. And then last on the list, February 20. We have wonder pals, minting wonder pals the wonderful artists MENA a collection of 10,000. Brian, look at those. They're so cute. They remind me of some of these other projects.  And the thing I love about this project is that when we had like toy boogers on and some other. They love this artist. They love the project. Look at that mid price 0.08. Let's get cement back under 0.1.I love it. This one's on my calendar February 26, 10000.08. What do you think? Have wonder pals here, Bri? Yeah, like that. I liked the price. I liked the art and I liked the. Just the whole aesthetic. Cause that's kinda my style. I really liked those like the cartoony, but like the pastel colors kind of thing.I like it just on a aesthetic.  Just by looking at it. That's what I like. So I'm down with them. I like, I don't know if I'm going to get into them yet. I got to see more about it, but from just the way it looks, I do really like it. Definitely. All right. We're running out of time here, so I just want to recap, cause that was a some big projects that are coming up over the next two weeks.So again, today we have NFL all day dropping packs where you get a guaranteed Superbowl moment inside those packs for moments $59 32,400 packs available on February 20th, we have crypto bats being able to bite and another NFT project for the first time to turn into a mutant bat floor price on crypto bads.Currently 1.25. February 21st, we have sneaky vampiress syndicate launching from sneaky vampire syndicate 0.16 east mint price. Or you can utilize your blood token for a cheaper cost. That collection 12,545. A supply. On February 22nd star catchers, 10,000 NFTs 0.1, one one east mint price, February 23rd, invisible friends 0.25 east 5,000 supply.Their discord now lacked over 700,000 followers on Twitter, February 24th weather report. And then February 26th, wander pals, 10,000 NFTs 0.08. There I got through on Brian. That was a lot to rattle off, but  again, a big part. What we want to do of the show is  letting everyone know what's project should be on their radar and they should be looking forward to, so we'll let everyone know. If any more pop up. Brian, one thing I do know is I saw an update from Photofinish the Solana based horse racing game. And I think maybe we're going to have to talk about that on an upcoming episode and get more into some of these Solana projects, because I wrote an article about that interview with legend. And there was I listened to it again, Brian, when he named his top five and man, that guy is so smart and those five that he named. Yeah. I got to get some Solana and I got to start getting into these projects, especially getting my stable setup and photo finish.  What do you think Brian?We're we're going to have to buy some Solana enough to use right now. I'm two steps ahead. All right. Brian, anything else to add before we wrap for the day? All right. We will see everyone tomorrow, as Brian said to take care of 2:00 PM Eastern time tomorrow, again, shout out to everyone watching us live, watching us on replay and listening in on the podcast.Be sure to smash that like subscribe to Benzing as YouTube. A big, thank you to our friends at FTX for sponsoring this episode and getting that killer commercial in the super bowl. Shout out to Ruelle in the chat right now, too. I see him there. He has a show talking crypto and NFTs and Benzinga as well. And we will catch everyone tomorrow. Stay tuned, take care. Every one.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-roadmap/donations

Trigger alert: this contains references to sexual assault and childhood trauma.This episode is sponsored by Zencastr. Visit zencastr.com/pricing to try it out for free. And when you're ready to up level, enter the code "wellevatr" to receive 30% off your first 3 months of the Pro plan! "Piece by piece, I picked up the parts of me I'd lost along the way of life, restored parts of my marriage I didn't even know were broken, and forgave my family. I had to look at the little hurt boy inside myself and even forgive him too. It wasn't his fault, and he deserved no more blame." The road to healing and joy is difficult, especially if you have experienced childhood trauma or sexual assault. While the journey is hard, it can be made easier with love and support. Your spirit can be healed. Whitney Lauritsen listens as Certified Life Coach Isaac Jemal recounts the path back to himself after a harrowing childhood experience left him deeply traumatized. Hear how Isaac, or Zuki to those close to him, healed his spiritual wounds and learned to find joy, peace, and identity. Get inspired by Isaac's venture - it may help you feel ready to take your own.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join the This Might Get Uncomfortable community today:wellevatr.comWellevatr FacebookWellevatr TwitterWellevatr Instagram

Kako saznajemo u BRC "Aquaterm" sve je rezervisano do kraja avgusta dok su toku rezervacije za septembar.

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A new chapter begins! This time with with guest GM, Zuki as the four of us play together as characters for the first time in a while as Ryder gets a call from an old friend for a sneaking mission. This adventure was kindly written for us by @Urbandragon of Twitter, and run by Zuki. Check out our aftershow 'The Drift Sessions' for more Cosmopunk goodness! www.cosmopunk.carrd.co www.patreon.com/cosmopunk Intro and Outro music : Reformat - Vectrex (www.reformat.bandcamp.com) This week's intro showcase: WafflesMapleSyrup

Die beliebte Ö3-Radiomoderatorin Claudia Stöckl ist durch ihr langjähriges Wochenend-Talk-Format „Frühstück bei mir“ in ganz Österreich bekannt. So gut wie jeder Promi des Landes war wohl das eine oder andere Mal schon bei ihr zum Frühstücksplausch eingeladen.Neben ihrem Radio-Job, den sie liebt, hat die Journalistin vor Jahren eine Hilfsorganisation namens ZUKI ins Leben gerufen. Sie ist sozusagen ihr Herzensprojekt.Im Podcast mit carpe diem-Host Daniela Zeller plaudert Claudia über ihre Indien-Charity, im Rahmen deren man die Patenschaft von Waisenkindern übernehmen kann. Außerdem blicken die beiden auf das Jahr 2020 zurück, das für so manche Schwierigkeiten und Ausnahmesituationen gesorgt hat. Claudias Fazit: „Es war ein Jahr, in dem man sich auf das Wesentliche konzentriert hat.“Im Gespräch mit Daniela äußert sich die Talkmasterin auch über das Geheimnis ihres Erfolges: „Wenn man Geschichten gut erzählt, also Storytelling mit Herz und Verstand macht, kann man ganz viele Menschen erreichen.“ Außerdem verrät Claudia, wie ihr Charity-Projekt ihrem Leben mehr Sinn und Tiefe gegeben hat und wie sie ihren oft doch recht stressigen Job-Alltag bewältigt (Stichwort: To-do-Liste). In Sachen Gesundheit schwört die Moderatorin übrigens auf die F.-X.-Mayr-Kur, die ihr geholfen hat, Ruhe zu finden – und sie spricht über ihre neue sportliche Leidenschaft: das Rudern. Außerdem unterhalten die beiden sich über – passend zu unserer Jahresabschluss-Episode – Verabschiedungsrituale. Claudias Lebenslearning lautet: „Wenn man sich geliebt fühlt, dann liebt man das Leben.“Und zum Jahresabschluss vertraut die Radiomoderatorin auf folgendes Ritual: bewusst Bilanz ziehen und sich von ungeliebten Dingen verabschieden, um Neuem einen Platz zu geben. Viel Vergnügen beim carpe diem-Podcast!Hinweis: Der carpe diem Podcast macht im Jänner 2021 Pause. Daniela und Holger laden ihre Batterien auf und melden sich am 2. Februar wieder zurück. Auf ein gutes und glückliches 2021!Wenn euch dieser Podcast gefallen hat, dann schreibt uns einen Kommentar und schenkt uns 5 Sterne auf Apple Podcasts. Wir freuen uns immer über Post, Anregungen und Ideen – oder einfach darauf, von euch zu hören. Mail an -> podcast@carpediem.life

OG rockcrawler turned desert racer, Mike Shaffer, joins us for Episode 32. There’s some great stories in here! From stuffing the back of a trophy truck at 70+ miles an hour to driving through Ensenada with only three wheels. Catch up with one of the originals.4:18 – “If it doesn’t have a motor, it’s not a sport.”6:26 – New kid on the Rubicon breaking Birfields 11:11 – the little black Zuki is born, along with the comp scene16:32– that’s not a bad payday20:54 – the building of the Diablo chassis27:19 – sponsors matter, how Toyo stopped Mike’s rockcrawling career34:14 – stuffing the class 10 into the back of a Trophy Truck, you gotta hear this one!41;11 – “I miss the rains down in Ba.Ja” says no one ever51:40 – some good dudes have worked at Shaffer Off-Road https://www.shaffersoffroad.com/1:10:54 – Racing a 4 wheel drive, and the dream team crew was in Baja in 2010 – good times! We want to thank our sponsors Maxxis Tires and 4Low Magazine.www.maxxis.comwww.4lowmagazine.com Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BigRich)

Todo el mes de septiembre hemos hablado de este tema en La Libreta de Lola Podcast y es que la ansiedad es algo que todos en algún momento de nuestras vidas hemos vivido, acrecentándose en nuestras relaciones de pareja. Por eso para el episodio de hoy traje a Johann y Zuky de Dier quienes también son host del podcast y programa de radio Cordonde3. Con ellos hablamos de como ha sido para ellos lidiar con la ansiedad como pareja y como todo este tema del asinamiento los ha afectado. Hablamos de crisis, pero también de nuevas oportunidades para fortalecernos. DALEEE PLAY porque de paso me traje al Hubby para este episodio!!!

In this weeks episode we are in conversation with Dr Zukiswa Mthimunye a leadership, organizational development, and education consultant; whose work is informed by a fundamental belief that leaders must be developed and prepared for the specific places, people, systems, and competitive environments within which they are called to lead. In this episode, Dr Zuki (as she is affectionately known) shares her thoughts on the construct of identity and its relevance as we navigate our own personal journeys as well as the collective journeys of the organisation we are called to lead.  We had this conversation with Dr Zuki via Zoom.

I denne episoden snakker eg om Hundemassasje sammen med Hundemassør og Rehabterapeut Siwi Endresen. Me brenner like mykje for hundemassasje som behandlingsform. Dette er ein dialog og samtale mellom oss om dette temaet. Ho har massert Mallen Zuki 11 av sine 13 år, og Zuki har vært trent i Bruks og Lydighet. Til tross for hard bruk av kroppen har Zuki holdt seg veldig bra med jevnlig massasje. Siwi og Zuki vant NM i Rallylydighet i 2016.

Episode Summary Part 8 of an 8 part series on Working From Home, Responsibly Episode 22: Home Office Ergonomic Hacks with Rebecca Greier-Horton The human body matters, especially at work. As we transition to work from home, some aches and pains may have crept in. Rebecca describes her own WFH challenges (two adults, two teenagers, and a pet!) and shares with us how to “life-hack” a work from home environment that is good for the body and the mind in her guide, Home Office Ergonomic Hacks: Real Tips for Real “Work From Home” Scenarios (https://hubs.ly/H0pVxmj0) .   Bio Rebecca supports her clients in both a hands-on and consultative manner. By sharing workplace wellbeing research and knowledge on behalf of Herman Miller Group she tends to the ergonomic and wellness needs of individuals and organizations by focusing on their greatest asset: People. As a life-long Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Manager with Fortune 50 Companies, Rebecca has managed Sustainability and Wellbeing across multiple industries. She instinctively provides insightful and cost-effective workplace consultation, support, and solutions. Rebecca was recently accepted as a member of the International Well Building Institute’s COVID19 Task Force. She is a Master Pilates Instructor trained at Ballet Memphis and teaches Pilates Reformer in Dallas, Texas, where she resides with her husband, two daughters, and her Shiba Inu, Zuki.   Topics CoveredRebecca shares what you could be experiencing if your work from home set up isn’t aligned with your body’s needs How the “Wonder Woman” pose can work even when you sit How to stack your body from the feet up for proper alignment even if you are using a less than optimal chair The laptop is the devil of ergonomics. Learn how to set up in a “Rebecca-approved” style using items around your house The University of Waterloo recommended ratio of sit to stand working Setting up the proper distance from your computer and keyboard What a cashew body is and why you don’t want to be a “nut” Why natural light in your work from home environment will help your productivity, stress and sleep The 20/20/20 rule to combat Computer Vision Syndrome Tech-Neck and cervical spine pain: how much your head weighs and what happens when you lean forward The Ergonomic Intervention for kids, teens and adults Rebecca’s Fave Work From Home Tips  Free Resource (https://hubs.ly/H0pVxmj0)   1. Download our free resource from Rebecca: Home Office Ergonomic Hacks: Real Tips for Real “Work From Home” Scenarios (https://hubs.ly/H0pVxmj0) 2. Click the player above to listen  3. Let’s talk: We encourage you to go to our Say Hello! (http://www.destinationbetter.com/contact) page and send us an email or leave us a voice message to let us know if this information was helpful to you and how. 4. See more resources below.     Mentioned in this episode www.HermanMiller.com (http://www.hermanmiller.com) https://www.containerstore.com/welcome.htm (https://www.containerstore.com/welcome.htm) - great ideas for counter-top shelving  

Welcome to my podcast! This is the one and only, Sunny :) In this episode, I got to interview Zuki. She was such a positive influence and I enjoyed chatting with her!! She shared about her study abroad in NZ as well as in Cali, the difference between college in Japan and the US, job-hunting process, and her dream. Emiko san from Her Confidence Her Way podcast actually introduced me to her! Thank you Emiko san

In this episode, Jan and Jacob sit down to talk about Jan's most recent trip to Slovakia, his first time returning in over ten years. Jan's mother is a first-generation immigrant from Slovakia, and his father is a second-generation citizen, giving Jan and his sister Zuki an opportunity to become dual citizens. Additionally, Jacob relays his experiences studying abroad in Rome and living in Shrewsbury, England, where his dad worked while Jacob was in high school.  Together, they explore how their experiences overseas gave them insight into the variations and similarities between American culture and European culture. If you want to support us, there are two ways to do so. One is to donate to the cause at www.patreon.com/theapexpodcast! Even a small donation of a DOLLAR a month opens up access to all of the up-and-coming Patreon-based content and a FIVE dollar donation earns you a live THANK YOU from Jan and RJ live on an episode of The Apex! The other way is completely FREE. All we ask is that, if you learned something from this episode or know of someone that needs to hear our message, share it with them! Follow us on social media: Twitter (Jan): @_theapexpodcast Twitter (RJ): @docholliday92 Instagram: @_TheApexPodcast_ Website: www.theapexpodcast.com   Know someone who would be a good guest? Email our producer Jacob Popio at jjdprodthought@gmail.com!

Show 34 was a treat to curate. @mindsoupmusic created by @abeltronmusic has an impressive list of extremely talented artists with an enormous library that is music to the electronic-music-lover's ear. This show doesn't even feature any of the Mindsoup releases which are incredible on their own. We can't urge you enough to visit and follow @mindsoupmusic and @abeltronmusic and every artist on this show - you will not be disappointed! ~ Mindsoup ~ twitter.com/Mindsoupmusic @mindsoupmusic submissions: mindsoupmusic@gmail.com Abletron: @abeltronmusic twitter.com/therealabeltron 00:00 @illexotic - New Vibe Radio Intro 00:41 The Aether @fadetoblind - One more minute 03:50 regtheledge @regtheledge - Tuesday 06:36 Telemakus @telemakus1 - Explorations 08:02 kayoti @kayotimusic - pleasure 10:50 Zuki @beatsbyfire - Merky 14:56 evän @lofievan - shawty- 16:08 Amber Haze @raulphlauren - pass the syrup 18:08 kayoti @kayotimusic - purpose 21:41 dane. @danewav - Waitin' 23:54 Atreesto @atreesto - Mist 26:53 Amber Haze - @raulphlauren cancun 28:42 Amber Haze - @raulphlauren quad pumps 30:34 Sazetrax @sazetrax - Chronic By The Tree 31:46 evän @lofievan - every morning w/ falcxne 33:58 cuanzi @cuanzi - Cosmos 35:54 dane. @danewav - GOTCHU w/ UPPER 38:53 AIN SOUF @ainsouf - First Movement 42:27 NoLabel @nolabelbeats - Dont Leave Me Now/Pursuit PT.2 43:47 cuanzi @cuanzi - Oops 46:00 quattro. @tha_fourth_wun - fair one (feat. RōMZ The Great) 47:28 menta - solitaire 48:28 menta - ambientalista 49:20 dutchess @duhhtch - holographlc 51:47 Telemakus @telemakus1 - Colossus 53:30 AIN SOUF @ainsouf w/ Jo-sub - When I Clap 56:46 Telemakus @telemakus1 - Dilla Reprise [batch #788] 57:33 Sazetrax @sazetrax - 4 AM 59:22 Orange Feels Pink @orangefeelspink - Theplazzy6 1:01:32 The Aether @fadetoblind - Somebody Like You

Nick hat Gummis über, die er nicht braucht - Micha glaubt, wir schneiden seine Versprecher raus - und Zuki zahlt für denselben Kinofilm den doppelten Preis.

Diesmal treffe ich Claudia Stöckl. Seit 21 Jahren schreitet sie jeden Sonntag auf Ö3 in ihrer Sendung „Frühstück bei mir“ auf Ö3 mit ihren Gästen deren Lebenswege ab. Heute sitzt sie auf der anderen Seite des Mikros. Ich frage – sie antwortet. Anlass ist ihr neues Buch „Interview mit dem Leben“ Darin stellt sie die großen Lebens – Fragen und beantwortet diese mit besonderen Gesprächs – Passagen ihrer Gäste. Was lerne ich aus Scheitern? Wodurch geschieht Entwicklung? Und: Wie gelingt die Liebe? Ihre Gedanken und persönlichen Erlebnisse dazu beschreibt Claudia im Buch – und in unserem Gespräch. Die Bilder zu unserem Gespräch gibt es wie immer auf www.ichkraft.com

Zuki, from Mr. Foster's 4th grade class, interviews Ms. DeWitt, our school secretary and the woman who gives a warm welcome to everyone who enters Leeds Elementary!

For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land. I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.   Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.   As most of you already know, today is last Sunday of the church calendar, with Advent beginning the new church year next Sunday. And every last Sunday of the liturgical year most churches shift their gaze towards celebrating the point of church itself, the reason we gather together, the reason being the Christ, and the reign of God that Jesus promised was both not here, not yet, and yet was actually here, even now. Today is called Christ the King Sunday or sometimes the Reign of Christ Sunday, drawing as it does to the monarchial images of antiquity, monarchies being the governmental norm during most of the world’s history. On this Sunday, we often get images of Christ or God being lifted up and acting quite kingly, and today’s text is no difference, in many ways, and I’ll get to that in a second. What I want to do before we get to the Ezekiel text itself is to explore the images, the impressions, the ways we might try to describe Jesus to someone who simply asked us who this Jesus was and is. Who is Jesus for you? How would you describe him? What did he do, and what does he mean to you? If you were describing Jesus to someone who had never heard of him, never heard of Christianity, how would you explain this Jesus, this Christ to them? Now, that question alone might require a few minutes to sort out our thoughts, on where to begin, and how to begin, and where to end up, even, as we formulate our understanding or understandings of who Jesus is to us.   And then, on top of trying to describe Jesus who might be to us, to explain this Jesus, we might then have to go into trying to explain who God is, and what relationship God and Jesus are to each other, and that might get us into all sorts of mysteries like the Trinity and what and who the Spirit is in relationship to who Jesus is, and it all gets pretty messy from then on out. I do think, though, that if we were to try to describe the personalities – and yes, I realize the inadequacy of language when speaking of divinity, especially using a word like “personalities” to describe the divine –if we were trying to describe the personalities of God, of Spirit, of Jesus, many of us might likely land on the idea that Jesus was, in a way, the heart of God put on full display some two thousand years ago. Despite all Jesus’ difficult teachings, and sometimes harsh rhetoric towards his enemies – and he did have enemies – most of us imagine him as a gentle soul, perhaps the gentlest of souls, imagining him almost as our friend, the Christ of songs like “Jesus Loves the Little Children” and “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and in another favorite, “Softly and Tenderly.” As noted by others, Jesus often functions in our imagination as God’s soft side, as God’s heart, whereas God, the Lord, God the Parent, plays the role of a strict, sometimes harsh, but still loving father or mother. Of course, that is a not necessarily how God the Creator and Parent is always presented in our Bible, but it is there enough in our Bibles that people often mistakenly relegate the mean God to the Old Testament and the nice God to the New Testament. And we do the same with Jesus, as if Jesus was showing us a new, kinder, loving side of God in New Testament that we didn’t easily see in the Old Testament – for some, this false dichotomy found in the idea that the God of the Old Testament is the God you fear and the God of the New Testament is the God you love.   But just as that assumption about God and our Bile are too simplistic, our images of Jesus should be more complicated than that of the gentle Jesus, especially if you read the actual Gospels – I mean, there are times when Jesus is angry, violently so, as you see him turning over money changers tables in the Temple in a fit of rage. And you find in places like the latter part of Matthew and parts of Mark where Jesus is seen as the Messiah who will come in the last day to judge the quick and the dead, who will hold us accountable on whether or not we have practiced his teachings of love and justice. The echoes of that image have their roots in texts like the one we have before us today, in this beautiful text from the book of Ezekiel, where once again God is seen as the Shepherd and we the sheep, a common metaphor both in the New and Old Testaments. The prophet Ezekiel, the same man who will ask whether or not dry bones can still live a few chapters later, puts before us in chapter 34 a vision of God that mirrors one of Jesus’ own stories about sifting between the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25. In that parable, Jesus asks the sheep and the goats about whether or not they have visited him in jail, etc. and he divides up the world by those did and did not do these acts of compassion and justice. Ezekiel is writing and speaking hundreds of years earlier to a people captured by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and though the vision he was given by God was harsher than his counterpart the prophet Isaiah, he had still hope, he still believed that God would remake Israel from the inside out, and create a more just nation. Unlike Jesus’ story in Matthew 25 of separating the sheep and the goats based on their deeds, here there are no goats, and only sheep, and the first divine act is bringing all the sheep, the lean ones, the fat ones, back into the sheepfold, back under the care of the Divine Shepherd. The Promised Land the sheep will find is idyllic when they come back home, especially as they have come from an altogether different pasture, out of a place of clouds and thick darkness, Babylon itself, as the text here says.   But it’s interesting that a shift quickly happens that moves the people from coming out of Babylon to a newly reconstituted Israel, with all sort of utterances about who this new Israel will be. And this important, because in the prophetic narrative, the reason why ancient Empire after ancient Empire has simply rolled over the nation of Israel is because the people have been unfaithful, and thus God has allowed Israel’s enemies to defeat them, or, according to some prophets, God has actually sent these empires to punish the people of Israel. What concerns so much of Ezekiel’s attention is what kind of people Israel will be – and how will it treat the rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless, the somebodies and the nobodies. All this talk of lean and fat sheep, culminates in this verse, where the prophet, in speaking for God, says the following to the fat sheep, the powerful sheep, the sheep who were somebodies: Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I have to admit that when I read this verse, I thought of one of our dogs, Chloe, who is bigger than our other dog Zuki, and whenever there is something to be had, some treat to be dispensed, Chloe will use her weight and size to push herself in front of a two dog line, and poor Zuki just has to step back a bit, being smaller and thinner than Chloe. That is what the poor, the powerless, the nobodies often experience in this world, pushed and pulled, butted around until they are scattered far and wide, which makes them even more vulnerable than they were before.   But our God in this text says that this sad and unjust arrangement will not be forever, that God will save her flock, that she will not allow this to happen forever, and that God will be their God and a King David will reemerge, will arise somehow from the past, and be their prince. For us Christians, we’ve typically understood this sentence as foretelling the coming of Jesus, this new David, and perhaps it does so, but I want us to pay attention to how different this particular image of Christ is from the one we think about when we sing “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” and “Softly and Tenderly,” the sweet and gentle Jesus that many of treasure, including myself. In our text today, God and Christ are imagined as bringers of justice, as ones who free the people from outside forces like that of Babylon, but also frees us from the bondage and prisons found within Israel itself, from the ones that keep the lean sheep lean, and the fat sheep fat. And what is so interesting here in this text is this image of God feeding justice, feeding the food of justice to the sheep, but actually, not to all the sheep, but to the fat sheep alone, which is so unexpected, at least it is to me. In my mind, it would seem logical to feed the lean sheep the food of justice, they who have been deprived of food, they who haven’t had much justice, but in fact the text says that it was fat sheep, the powerful, the somebodies, that were fed justice. Now, you could think of it is hate feeding, of cramming justice down the throats of the unjust, but I don’t think that is the case – God doesn’t judge us, doesn’t hold us responsible simply to punish us, but to correct us and invite us into a new way of being, into a way of justice. God doesn’t forget the lean sheep, neither does God forget the fat sheep – they too are a part of the family, and they will not be given up on, which is a piece of good news for all of us, really, especially for those of us who don’t realize how fat we may have become compared to the rest of the world, or even the people around us.   And so that image of a God who sends a figure like David, like Christ, into the world to mete out justice is one of those pictures I want us to add to the myriad we have in our heads, to set the image of Christ being the one who judges both between the sheep and the goats, as found in Matthew 25, and the sheep and the sheep, as found in our text today. This Christ, this God, really does throw his lot in with marginalized, the meek, the poor, the nobodies in this world, and that should be not forgotten – and it continues a long and strong thread found throughout the Bible, of God and the prophets speaking out against the injustice of those who oppress Israel from the outside, the various Empires and their rulers, but who also speak out against those oppress others from within the tribe of Israel, the fat sheep, the ones who need justice fed to them. Jesus is not only the one who holds us when we are need of hope, and he is not not only the one who heals when our bodies and spirits are broken – he is also the one who stands within and beside those lean sheep, those despised by the world, the losers, the freaks, the nobodies, and brings justice to them, who makes the world right again, now and in the great Last Day.   Rosemary Radford Ruether, who used to teach up at Northwestern University in the United Methodist seminary on campus, reminds us in our Modern Lesson of how the church has so often failed to put that particular image beside all the other good and true images we have of our Christ. In doing so, she references an old Jewish legend about the coming of the Messiah, which tells of Rabbi Joshua ben Levi (who lived in the first half of the third century) who was meditating near the tomb of another great rabbi, and who was then mystically visited by the Prophet Elijah. "When will the Messiah  come?" asked Joshua. "Ask him," replied the Prophet. "The Messiah is at the gates of Rome, sitting among the poor, the sick and wretched, the lepers, begging for alms. Like them, he changes the bindings of his wounds, but does so one wound at the time, in order to be ready at a moment's notice." That image of the Messiah, for us Christians this Jesus of Nazareth, sitting at the gates of Rome, the gates of unparalleled power and wealth even in the 3rd century, sitting with his fellow lepers, his fellow nobodies, his fellow wounded, I mean, its stunning image, at least to me. The earlier image I invited us to embrace, the one of Jesus being our judge, the one of him handing out justice for the nobodies, and redemption for the somebodies, stands beside this image of Jesus, this one of a man, a leper, outside the gates of Rome, the gates that seemed to embody all that mattered, begging alongside his sisters and brothers. And yet, he will only untie, clean, and retie his bandages one at time, so that if he called upon, he will be ready at a moment’s notice.   Christ as judge, and Christ as the one riddled with leprosy, the Messiah as an instrument of divine justice, and Messiah as an instrument of solidarity with all those who have been wounded by life and injustice itself – those two images, among many others, needed to be added to our understanding of Christ the King, and what the reign of Christ might actually look like in the real world, the one that might come at a moment’s notice. The challenge for all of us is to make sure that we see the fullness of our Savior, and the fullness of what God is doing in this world. What gets us and our fellow Christians in trouble is when we think of Jesus being only our personal Savior, and thus uninterested in the salvation of the world, uninterested in making the world whole again, a Christ uninterested in justice, but somehow obsessed with us in particular, and our particular needs, Kevin’s particular needs, your particular needs. But, of course, we can also get ourselves into trouble when we think of Jesus as being only about justice, as one only interested in making only the world whole again, in making only the world a just place, but not also passionate in making us, in particular, whole again, in bringing salvation to us, wholeness to me, to you, in particular. Jesus is the prince who brings justice to those most in need of justice, the lean sheep, the thrown away people of this world, and Jesus also is the leper, the beggar at the gates of Rome, wounded, in need of healing, but ready, oh so ready, to be the instrument of God’s healing when time comes for us, and to us. Both images of Christ are true, and we’re asked to embrace both true pictures of him, and certainly many others as well. We just mustn’t make the mistake, as we and others often do, of not recognizing the fullness of our Christ, the many faces of our Christ, the one found in the image of Jesus as King found in our stain glass, to my left, right over there, the bringer of love and justice, but also the face of Jesus deformed by leprosy, hidden as it is by a hood, in the sculpture found on the front of your bulletin, the one who stands beside all the wounded and lean sheep of this world. May the Christ, in all of his fullness, in his complex beauty be praised, and welcomed and celebrated, forever and ever. Amen.  

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Vice City Riddim 1. Prince Pronto - House Party 2. Preedy - Vice City 3. Sekon Sta - You Are The One Caribbean Flavor Riddim 4. Pternsky - One Dance 5. Voice - Far From Finished Lip Service Riddim 6. Machel Montano - Lip Service 7. Kreesha Turner - I Will Be Here 8. K.Rich - Feels Like Love 9. Preedy - On The Low 10. R.City - Nobody Ready 11. GBMNutron - Rock You Out 12. GBM Nutron x M1 aka Menace - On D Inside Vicey Ridim 13. M1 (Menace) - Vicey 14. GBMNutron - Only Good Vibes 15. Shal Marshall - Famous Calabar Riddim 16. Denise Belfon - Teacher 17. Swappi - MAMA Ya Yo 18. Rome - Looking For Wuk Bashy Vybz Riddim 19. Kerry John - Make It Work 20. Jahmel - Messi 21. Makamillion - Good 22. Zuki & TimTim - To The Point 23. Porgie & Murda - Pepper In The Doubles 24. Stiffy - Stir 25. Swappi - Backbone 26. Destra - Waistline Killer 27. Mr Renzo X Kern Rose - Sit Dong 28. Ricky T & Superman - Dangerous Winer 29. Ricky T & Eempey - Freaky Girls ReBorn Riddim 30. Swappi - Switch Up 31. CollegeBoy Jesse – Dangerous 32. Olatunji - Tun Fo Meh 33. TriniboiJoocie – Doh Run From It 34. Swappi - Ana 35. Olatunji - Bazu!(Push It Back) 36. Iwer Geogre - Take Ah Bathe 37. Mya - Ray Tay Tay 38. Lavaman - Cuckus Bag 39. M1 aka Menace – Tizick 40. Lyrikal - Jammin Sake Breaking Dawn Riddim 41. Lyrikal - Picture Perfect 42. Kuttit - Waist Loose 43. Marcus - Good Morning 44. One Voice - Dutty Behavior Rankin Ting Riddim 45. Blaxx - Rankin Ting 46. Asten Isaac - Rum Friend 47. Aaron Duncan - Mega Vybz 48. Fay-Ann Lyons - Air Supply 49. Shurwayne Winchester – Oxygen D Avenue Riddim 50. Preedy - Freeloader 51. Sekon Sta - Mad Man 52. Lyrikal - Hello 53. Blaxx - Coming Over 54. Olatunji - Oh Meh Darlin 55. Patrice Roberts - Who I Am Rose Gold Riddim 56. Patrice Roberts - Lifestyle 57. Problem Child - Here We Go Again 58. Sedale x Preedy - Land I Love 59. Preedy - Outta This World 60. K Rich - Rude 61. Nadia Baston - Replace 62. Orlando Octave - Single 63. Malaika Ballantyne - Defiance 64. Farmer Nappy & Destra - Technically 65. Farmer Nappy - X Man 66. Lil' Bitts – Automatic We Jouvert Riddim 67. Sizwe - We Big 68. Wildfire - We Jouvert Soca Is Yours Riddim 69. WildFire - Big Man 70. Noah Powa - When You Wine 71. Marvay - Know The Face 72. Kerwin Du Bois & Teddyson John - New Day 73. Erphaan Alves - Cyah Wait 74. Ricardo Drue - Iron 75. Kes & Kernal Roberts - Shake 76. Destra - Closer 77. Nadia Batson x Olatunji - Geelay 78. Hypasounds - Get Up And Move (Bubble) 79. Yankey Boy – Boat Rocking 80. Ragga and Lyrikal - Devotion 81. Timaya - Bang Bang Happy Days Riddim 82. Rupee & Black Shadow - Tipsy 83. Skinny Fabulous - When The Lights Go Down 84. Olatunji X System32 - Midnight Cruise 85. Flipo - Company 86. Calypso Rose ft Manu Chao & Machel Montano - Leave Me Alone (Kubiyashi Remix)

Welcome back to this week's show, boasting 3 new pressure plays coming from Grenada, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Our featured event is sure to have a nice blend of Music, where Afrobeats meets Soca on the night. It will have top DJ's representing each side to ensure you bust a move on the night!! With that being said, enjoy the freshest vibes each and every week as we squeeze the joy of Soca to your soul! Track-listing: 1 - Marvay - Survive The Weekend 2 - Marvay - Know The Face (NEW MUSIC) 3 - Danielle Veira - Man Of Steel (NEW MUSIC) 4 - Mason - Dem Vincy (NEW MUSIC) 5 - Kev - TBT (NEW MUSIC) 6 - Lyrikal - Dip & Roll 7 - Skinny Fabulous - Watch Thing (NEW MUSIC) 8 - Maddzart - Tourist (NEW MUSIC) 9 - Foreigner Frank - Push Wood (NEW MUSIC) 10 - Peter Ram - The Tribe (NEW MUSIC) 11 - Edwin Yearwood - Til They're Here (NEW MUSIC) 12 - Lil Rick - Way Up (NEW MUSIC) 13 - Ricardo Drue - I.D. (Stamp Yuh Name)(NEW MUSIC) 14 - Kerwin Du Bois - All Kinda Kind 15 - Flipo - Oh Gosh 16 - Valene Nedd - In My Dreams 17 - King Bubba - Calling In Sick (NEW MUSIC) 18 - Sekon Sta - Night & Day (NEW MUSIC) 19 - Problem Child - So good (NEW MUSIC) 20 - Hance - Drinking Partner (NEW MUSIC) 21 - Chewalee - Rumist (NEW MUSIC) 22 - Keido - Frass (NEW MUSIC) 23 - Flipo - Gone (NEW MUSIC) 24 - Ragga - Right Up In Dey 25 - Jamesy P ft Luta - Nookie 26 - Jamesy P ft Fay Ann Lyons - Pushing It (Remix) 27 - Crazy - Cold Sweat 28 - Galanaire - Do You 29 - Blakie & Skinny Fabulous - Take off D 30 - Pumpa - Wining Instructor 31 - Biggie Irie - My Island 32 - Nikita Ft King Bubba - Tequila 33 - Lively - We Drinkin 34 - Maddzart - Ah Guilty 35 - Elvis White - 02-Elvis White - Sexy Waist 36 - Terra Mike - Winin 37 - No Limit Band - Dirty Rhythem 38 - King Vers - Look Trouble 39 - Voice - Cheers To Life 40 - Patrice Roberts Old & Grey 41 - Machel Montano - Temperature 42 - 5Star Akil - Different Me 43 - Mikey - C.E.O (NEW MUSIC) 44 - Denise Belfon - Saucy Baby 45 - Destra Garcia - Choo Choo 46 - WCK - Balance Batty 47 - WCK - Best Wuk Up 48 - King Bubba & Outpatients - Wukup Police 49 - Lil Rick - Now 50 - Lil Rick - I'z A Bajan (NEW MUSIC) *PRESSURE PLAY* 51 - Dj Tarrus - We Nah Normal (NEW MUSIC) 52 - Lavaman - Cuckus Bag (NEW MUSIC) *PRESSURE PLAY* 53 - Tallpree - Welcome To Jouvert (NEW MUSIC) 54 - Keith Currency - Fire Fi Dat (NEW MUSIC) 55 - Skinny Banton - African Inna We 56 - Hypa 4000 - No Behavior (NEW MUSIC) 57 - Blaxx - Stink & Dutty Feat. Mr Killa 58 - Blaxx - Tusty 59 - Machel Montano HD - Doan Hold We Back 60 - Patrice Roberts - Turn It Up 61 - Lectrick - Overheat (Road Mix) (NEW MUSIC) 62 - Mad Skull - Nasty Habit (NEW MUSIC) *PRESSURE PLAY RIDDIM* 63 - Wetty Beatz - Thing Start (NEW MUSIC) 64 - Hitty Lance & Brandon Harding - Expensive Drinking (NEW MUSIC) 65 - DYP (Derek Yarde feat. Brandon) - Bend Your Back (NEW MUSIC) 66 - Sedale feat. Black Boy - Bounce Da Daw (NEW MUSIC) 67 - CJ - We Doh Back Down (NEW MUSIC) 68 - Lyrikal - Freedom 69 - Swappi - Bubble On Ah DJ 70 - Farmer Nappy - Big People Party 71 - Machel Montano - Like Ah Boss 72 - Hypasounds - How She Like It 73 - Dj Puffy ft Stiffy - Squat 74 - Lil Rick - Brek Down De Fence (NEW MUSIC) 75 - Flipo - Doctor 76 - Olatunji - Bang Bang 77 - Hypasounds - Bam Bam Back (NEW MUSIC) 78 - Destra Garcia - Piece Ah Dat 79 - Olatunji - Oh Yay 80 - Wetty Beatz - Under Day (NEW MUSIC) 81 - Fryktion - Soca Man 82 - Skinny Fabulous - Don't Give It Away (NEW MUSIC) 83 - Zuki & TimTim - Doh Beat Up 84 - Brother B - We Black (NEW MUSIC) 85 - Mason - In Yo Panty 86 - Fadda Fox - Dirty Habits (NEW MUSIC) 87 - Ricardo Drue ft King Bubba - Rum Again "Drink Up" 88 - Lavaman - We Nah Change 89 - Lil Rick - Great Day

A Mix I Call More Than 4 Meaning Playing Music From More Than 4 Islands Track Listing: 1. Show Time - Remember (VI 2013) Produced by Daddy O, Mixed and Mastered by Abx 2. Cool Session Brass - TAKE A CHANCE(STT 2013) 3. Shiloh - Come back(Tortola 2013) 4. JAMMERZ HP 2013 - Tight Grip 5. Bunji Garlin - RED LIGHT DESTRICT {{{SMJ REFIX}}} 6. Blacka Dan - Whole Day We Jammin 7. Coxilus - Feeling Nice - Ex +5 Riddim – Xpert Productions 8. Shortpree - Plain Talk, Bad Manners 9. Mr Famous - Play More Local 10. Skinny Fabulous - Behaving The Worst BTW (Soca 2014) 11. Machel Montano - HMA [Happiest Man Alive] 12. Kerwin DuBois - Happiest Man Doh Beg (Dj Gomez Remix) 13. Baby Musik - Baby Musik - Work That (Prod. by KM1) 14. Skinny Banton - Ah Want To Whine (Soca 2014) 15. Gyptian & Kes - Wet Fete 16. Byron Bash - Rep Yo Island 17. RUDY - DONT TELL ME (Rum&Rave Riddim Prob AJ) 18. ADAM O - HEARTBEAT (Rum&Rave Riddim Prob AJ) 19. Dennis De Mennis - Dont Kill The Vibe (Rum&Rave Riddim Prob AJ) 20. Avalanche - RUM ON MY MIND **(STT 2013) 21. Scrouge - FETE CRIMINAL 22. Cassi - MAN IN YUH HOUSE 23. 5Star Akil Feat. Nadia Batson - NEVER DONE[Advokit Productions] 24. Daddy2Sec - Rose Arbor Riddim(SKB 2014) 25. Daddy2Sec - She Body Alone 2k14 26. Kes - Siddung (Soca 2014) 27. DEEVINE - Handle Meh(BIM/UK 2014) 28. Big Red The DJ - Siddung Pon It REDMix (Road Mix) 29. Scrilla - Go Round [Beatboy Roadmix] 30. Patrice Roberts - Bomb Drop (Soca 2014) 31. Pumpa - LETTER M (2013 Virgin Islands Soca)(Gabba Riddim) 32. Showtime Band - Get Down 33. Spectrum Band - Rising Up 34. Pantha - Private Place 35. De Movements Band - Tek It Off 36. Pantha Vibes international - No Bareback 37. RUDY - Proper (GRABBA RIDDIM) (VI 2013-14) 38. BigShaw - Water Slide 39. 4mBand - I Am 40. SHILLOH - CHARLIE 41. BUFFY - MANWA 42. Scrappy - Wining Song 43. Fya Empress - Cool Scene 44. Kerwin Du Bois - Press A Button 45. Shurwayne Winchester - My Team 46. Kylo and The Stylee Band - Hannah Montana (Remix) ft. Planet VI 47. BLAXX & SKINNY FABULOUS - EXTRA BAD PON DE ROAD 48. Erphaan Alves - Contagious (We Drinkin) Feat. Blaxx 49. Sizwe - Miami Anthem 50. Rudy - All Night [USVI 2014 Soca] 51. Lex -No New Friends Riddim(VI 2013) 52. Back to You Soca Child 360 Remix 53. Kerwin DuBois & Lil Rick feat Mark Cyrus & King Bubba FM - Monster Winer Mark Cyrus RMX [2014] 54. P-Square - Alingo 55. Mr.Legz HT & Yung Image - No Worries 56. Iyanya - Kukere 57. P-Square - Lagbaja 58. Timaya - Shake Your Bum 59. Zuki & Tim Tim - Work (Soca 2014) 60. Mr 2kay - Mr 2kay Bubugaga Remix Ft May7ven moelogo 61. MasterKraft ft Flavour - Egwu (Dance) 62. D-Cryme Ft. Fuse ODG - Wow [Prod. By Masta Garzy] 63. Fuse - Antenna 64. The Kore - Mirror feat. Delly 65. DENNIS THE MENNIS - Down In The Saddle(STX 2013-14)