10KTF Teaching Tuesday’s: What would you like to see from web3?

Recorded: May 7, 2025 Duration: 3:18:37
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Short Summary

In a dynamic discussion, key topics included the expansion of Clay Nosaurus to the Sui network, the upcoming token launches from Doodles and GZonApe, and the growing interest in virtual real estate within the metaverse. The conversation highlighted trends in partnerships, growth opportunities, and community engagement strategies in the evolving crypto landscape.

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We are here! How are you guys doing today? Welcome to another edition of 10 ktf teaching tuesdays let me go ahead and put our
agenda up here and see what you guys are thinking how you're feeling where's your guys energy on a I'd say I'm like right now, like a six and a half, seven.
Yeah, I was a little tired, tired today.
But aside from that, I mean, you know, it's been business as usual.
So I guess nothing, nothing negative.
So I guess that's a positive in a sense.
Let me go ahead and just put our agenda kind of a little late but still here let everybody get in here
trying to set up my live stream. All right.
Oni Samurai is here.
Lovejoy is here.
Raelene is here.
Go ahead and put my headset in.
Hopefully you guys can still hear me.
A lot of...
A lot of...
In the week. in Web3.
Luckily, I have gotten a number of bookmarks that I have.
So we're going to cover the Web3 happenings.
Feel free if anybody wants to come up on stage.
More than welcome to have you coming up on stage.
Excuse me.
I guess I should probably log in on here as well.
All right.
But yeah, tonight's topic is what would you like to see from Web3?
So that's kind of the prompt, kind of leaning towards just, you know, I'm starting to think like, well, what do we need more of?
What's going to help drive this space to the next level?
And what is the next level?
Is it broader adoption?
Is it just having things be more normalized?
What is it exactly?
So I'm kind of just thinking, well, what do we need to have?
More USDC, more incorporated all around?
You know, these are some thoughts I'm starting to have.
Is it more content creators?
Is it more builders in some form factor?
Is it entertaining games?
Is it more utility in tokens?
So, yeah, what do we want to see from Web3?
So kind of think about that.
You know, as I set up a live stream here,
and we'll kind of get into the Web3 happenings.
Because there always is something happening,
even though I don't always catch all of it.
Mom says, where's the live stream? I where's the live stream I'm setting it up I'm setting it up see trying to get it going it's just keeping me honest
here I like that so let me go ahead and put up this first thing just you guys can take a look look at it let's see so much stuff here oh yeah there was the it was the fortnight thing from six
days ago um there's cleanest oh this is a good one too the clay nosaurus uh there's some other
side tweets so let me go ahead and put this up above just because i think
this is kind of an interesting one uh this is from four days ago pin it up here uh so this is coming
out of the clay nasaurus camp which is an nft project on the solana network. And so that's the original collection. And so in this tweet from
six days, four days ago, this is actually Erica Lee, who was one of our guests a few months back,
a journalist, a legit journalist in real life. But she does also write-ups for Web3 and crypto
and tech companies. And so she just did a little tweet here, uh, kind of bringing this to attention,
it does have an article as well,
but it says Clay Nosaurus is expanding to the sui network.
Spoke with the team for an exclusive.
There will be a new 25,000 collection.
The OG collection will stay on Solana mobile game in the works to release
this year,
new achievement reward system.
So I'm going to give a round of applause on that
and i kind of i kind of was thinking of doing like a newer segment too like bullish or bearish
on a scale of one to ten i don't know what you guys think of that so like
scale of one to 10. I don't know what you guys think of that. So
like, bearish would be I guess zero and then bullish would be
10. And so on the bullish to bearish spectrum or chart,
where where would we put this? So was kind of thinking about
doing something like that. If you guys are up for it. Let me just
invite some people here. Whoops, Let me spam some DMs here.
A bit of a long day, so kind of catching up, but we're still here.
We're still showing up, trying to make some waves, trying to be present.
There, I just sent the invite to a bunch of people.
And so on top of the original collection, this is going to be on the Sui Network now.
So, again, expanding.
There's no blockchain discrimination there.
Sui Network, we've met the community lead.
Sui was down here for one of Valerie's events.
And Sui was one of the sponsors for that.
You know, it's, it makes sense.
It makes sense to be having a little bit more reach where we can.
I personally, for transparency, I'm not holding this project.
I've been aware of it.
I think it's pretty cool to see because, I mean,
I feel like this is a project that's been around for a while
on the Solana network.
And, I mean, that's got to be exciting for the holders, right?
And if you click on it and you read up on it,
you can see those little dinosaurs.
Those are characters that I could totally see being, like,
really coming to life in a cartoon, in a show, in a movie.
And I believe there was a show announced too.
I didn't save the tweet, but I saw it like two days ago.
I think they announced in Dubai that they're going to have a 45-part episode,
seven minutes each.
So, I mean, that's kind of cool.
And this goes back to the original topic, like what would you like to see
from Web3, right?
And so if you think about it, like, well, what are my projects doing that I'm holding?
You know, you spend a certain amount of, you know, crypto on certain projects.
You're like, well, what have they done?
So then you kind of take inventory and you reflect, you know, depending on when they're released, how active they are, what it's about.
You know, and it's different, right?
It's different from one project to the next.
I mean, if I had to give it a score
and like bearish to bullish,
like I'd probably give this like a
I'd say like a pretty high
like seven and a half, eight.
Probably like an eight, right?
I mean, I don't really see a downside to it.
I mean, unless you're just hating from the sidelines
because, you know, maybe our project
or a project that you're holding
isn't doing it, but, you know,
I think it's good overall, right?
Expanding, I think it's a positive.
So, yeah, let me know what you guys think.
Planasaurus.
Is anyone in the audience holding one of those? I'm not holding. I-nosaurus. Is anyone in the audience
holding one of those? I'm not holding.
I'm just curious. I'm very
curious about the community and
how I've never been to a Clay-nosaurus
event or side event or
a sponsored event. So I don't really know
too much about it. I just know
that I recognize it. So I'm recognizing
the brand, if you will. Like if I see that dinosaur
with the eyes like that, I recognize it. So I'm recognizing the brand, if you will. Like if I see that dinosaur with the eyes like that, I recognize it.
So I think that's kind of cool.
See, I'm kind of wondering what you guys think here.
Let me get my stream up on abstract.
Give me one second, guys.
Feel free if anybody wants to jump up on stage or bring you up.
More of an open discussion.
We are going to have a guest next week.
Oh, and there is a PO app, but hopefully it works this time.
Last week we got sandbagged by the time frame,
which I'm not sure why I did that,
because I never had that problem for the entire month or month and a half.
I'm doing my – I'm like doing my,
this is like old school,
me multitasking, like in the classroom
when I was live streaming and everything.
Let's see, stream details, description,
blah, blah, blah, update all.
Okay, so hopefully that's set.
I think I got it.
All right. So that's it. All right.
So that's it.
Moving on.
We're up through happenings here.
This is coming out of the Board of Yacht Club.
This was from five days ago.
So this is Believe in Something.
thing. Full disclosure, I'm not a holder. And so, you know, this is a piece of artwork that
Full disclosure, I'm not a holder.
I forget what this, the dog is called off the top of my head. But basically, I saw some
stuff in the timeline where people were kind of exploring this artwork and seeing little
clues and little stories and trying to
figure out what's going to be the next move. And so again, this is from five days ago from the BAYC.
Let's take a look at that. Let me see what else we got here.
this was kind of um well i don't know if i want to share that one yet because that was a little
kind of sad but
we'll wait on that one game night
how about other side let's look at other side since we're going this way
pin sub above from six days ago temple in distress story told in two parts first the
drink with unintended consequences the restoration is our mission but the world is what we make it
for every payment and creation we must service a debt of destruction this the year of other side so there's been a lot of i mean
for on my timeline anyway and this is again this is why i like to have the show because then i can
kind of hear from the field like well what does your timeline have and no that's not what i'm
seeing mine's really positive or mine's really negative so i've been seeing a lot of other side
scroll on my timeline um it's mainly a lot of people just kind of picking up the land.
I'm thinking that they're getting closer to other side live where it's live the whole
Again, full disclosure, I'm not holding.
So I haven't picked up any land, but I do know that there's a lot of support
I'm a supporter from the sideline
I mean the Grailed which is 10KTF's PFP
is supposed to be integrated into the other side
we saw over a year ago I believe now at this point
the 3D rendering, starting of the 3D rendering of the models
so I mean it's going to be a big deal like there's no two ways about I mean, it's going to be a big deal.
Like, there's no two ways about it.
Like, other side is going to be a big deal
once it's here.
Excuse me, once it's operating.
So, I'm not doubting that one bit.
And I think it'll probably catch people, like, surprised
and then they'll be like,
oh, let me go buy some that now
and go try and get it.
But then it's going to be like, all right,
it's going to be like half an ETH
or some ridiculously high number.
Mind you, probably not as high as it got to when they minted.
What do you guys think?
Bearish, bullish, scale 1 to 10, where are we at?
I mean, I like seeing content. Again, thinking back to my topic here, what
would you like to see from web three? I like to see content. So
if other side is starting to put more continually put out more
content weekly, I think that's great. So I'm gonna give him
round pause at that.
I'm gonna give that a seven as well.
So let me go ahead and continue this.
Oh, Convo's here.
I don't know, Convo.
I don't know about tonight.
I don't know if I got the energy for the backtalk, to be honest with you.
Don't know if I do.
Let me go ahead and do my live stream.
Do I have noise cancellation on?
Sorry, guys.
Still getting set up.
But feel free if anybody wants to give their two cents in the bottom right-hand corner.
But where?
Live stream, but where?
Okay, good point, Raylene.
Good point. Got gotta start it first
hopefully this works
okay i think i'm live here start start refresh
sorry guys a little bit behind A little bit behind. A little bit behind.
All right.
What else we got here?
All right. I'm going to pin this up.
I think this is a big positive, in my opinion.
I'm going to give this a solid 8.
This is coming from GZonApe.
So, if anybody's been following anything on Ape Chain, you've heard of GZON APE.
This is led by Rita.
He created this project.
It's one of the highest floors on Ape Chain for an NFT.
And so definitely keep an eye on what they're doing.
But in this tweet, it says, calling shotgun in May, redacted with at Nifty Island, redacted with where play zero, redacted with only force, redacted with persona journey, always on eight chain.
So what does that mean?
What does that mean, Keegan?
What does the redacted mean?
I don't understand.
I'm confused so they're implying that something's going to be happening with those one
two three four projects in collaboration of some sort in partnership of some sort with gzon8
so for anybody that has followed or knows rita that he developed a platform which allows you to
have your 3d models basically create these little animated shorts.
I know like VDizzle has done some shorts with some other AI tools.
So Rita created a tool set that allows you to manipulate and create little short animation things, maybe even longer.
I actually don't know, to be honest with you.
I haven't used it firsthand.
But I've seen some of the content that has come out.
And so, yeah his his studio developed
these tools so that you can have these 3d rendered animations um with with uh with the gson apes
and so what i'm thinking is that is being implied that maybe those tools are going to be
brought to those communities i mean that would be the hope. I hope that's what
it is. Again, I think having tools to create is a real big, amazing part of the process,
which will allow for awareness, something for people to do. So,
Kind of looking forward to that.
kind of looking forward to that. So, a round of applause for him.
So a round of applause for him.
All right.
Moving along, moving along.
I probably should log on on my laptop too.
In a second.
Oh, it looks like I got my live stream is live.
If anybody wants to go on abstract,
there's multitasking here.
Okay. Let me move this over here. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry
for the delay, guys. But your poops in 10 more minutes, if
you're into that sort of thing. Let me go ahead and add this
Alright, so
this is something Alright, I'll share this first, and then I think this is an interesting thing to kind of be aware of.
I'm going to pin two tweets, okay? So this is from April 30th, and this one was from April 30th as well. So
this is coming from Tim Sweeney, who's the founder of Epic Games and Fortnite. Maybe you've heard of them before.
I don't know.
So this was kind of a big deal because they won a big case.
Actually, let me make sure that I have all my stuff on here because I actually do want
to record this.
And actually, I should be sharing this.
So let me go ahead and give me one second.
Go ahead and take a look at that.
Those two pinned articles.
Tell me what you think.
Is that bearish?
Is it bullish?
But, I mean, I think it's actually like a pretty big deal, and I'll explain why in a second.
Okay, let me get that up.
Let me get the live stream. we're there okay we're good
she's breathing let me share my screen one second guys
thanks for stopping in too i see people sneaking in here rodrigo coming through
sigan's coming through through. Bobby, Bobby's son. Yeah, I'm hoping to not be too late again. But yeah, these past
couple weeks have been kind of busy with work. May is just a really busy time with work. The
school year coming to an end. It just gets a little hectic. So a lot of loops I've been having to close,
but we're here, we're here.
And hopefully we'll get your pull-ups working this time
compared to last week.
All right, here we go.
I think we're set here, set there, set there.
Braylene said, where can you see the stream?
So you gotta go to abstract, abstract.abs.xyz.
Uh, and actually I have the link I can post here in a second.
Uh, just let me go ahead and stay on my screen.
The entire screen share audio share.
All right.
I got both.
Multitasking here. No big deal everybody does it it's no big deal
okay uh let me mute this real quick and make sure
can you guys hear me okay?
Still breathing here?
Let me get a thumbs up.
Okay, I got a heart.
I'm not seeing any thumbs up, guys.
Okay, I got one.
All right.
Two, three. All right. Two, three.
All right.
Four, five.
All right.
So let me go ahead and share this on the screen too, for our abstract viewers, a whole one person,
which might actually be me.
I don't even know.
But I still need the points anyway, the XP.
Maybe one day it'll do something amazing.
Or maybe it's just going to continue to accumulate as points.
I think they're going to continue to accumulate as points.
I think they're going to do something cool.
OK, so there's that.
I've got the link.
Arlene said where.
Post it here.
This is multitasking.
All right. So I pinned the link for anybody that wants to check out the live stream.
I didn't pin it, but it's in the bottom comments.
All right.
So where was I?
All right.
So Tim Sweeney, CEO, founder of Epic Games, Fortnite.
So I'll read the tweet.
It says, we will return Fortnite to the US iOS app store next week.
So basically back into the Apple ecosystem.
Nobody on Apple can play for a few years now.
Epic puts forth a peace proposal if Apple
extends the courts friction-free Apple tax-free framework worldwide will return
fortnight to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on
the topic. And so let's read this one.
No fees on web transactions.
Game over for Apple tax.
Apple's 15 to 30% junk fees are now just as dead in the United States of America as they
are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act.
Unlawful here, unlawful there.
Four years, four months, 17 days.
So what does that mean, Keegan? Here's four months, 17 days.
So what does that mean, Q?
Well, for those of you that don't know, Apple takes a huge gouge, uh,
of profits and percentage from any platform application game.
Uh, if they want to be on the app store in their ecosystem.
And so basically Epic said, no, we're not going to do that.
And it's just been this long court battle for a long time.
And I forget how they circumnavigated it and ended up putting their foot down and they had some like justification and how
was the antitrust and all this stuff and like basically apple was trying to continue to take
advantage and apple excuse me and epic and fortnight knew that they had such a big uh
market share and so when we think of market share,
like you think about all the transactions
for anybody that's played Fortnite, you buy skins,
you buy items, you can, you know, the cosmetics.
So basically Apple wanted a cut of all that stuff.
Any transaction that went through,
they wanted a piece of it.
And so Epic's like, no, you're not getting a piece of it.
We'd rather take it off the entire
Apple ecosystem than give you anything. So I forget the details of how they ended up winning
this, but apparently it's going to be coming to an end. And so I think that's going to change the
landscape for a number of applications uh in terms of like
apple being able to take 15 to 30 percent fee uh from applications games and um platforms that are
on the app store and to be honest i think that that's a little much that I mean, mind you, a lot of us use apples, a lot of
these iPhones.
Like Steve jobs, you know, created a number of things and pushed the company forward,
but like, we don't need to gouge too hard.
You know, it's just like, come on. 30%? 30?
Not even 20.
Not even 10.
So Tim Sweeney can put his foot down with the company in them,
and it sounds like they're winning on this one.
And speaking of Tim Sweeney he recently did uh an interview
with lex friedman just like youtuber does interviews with a lot of different people
um and so he actually spoke about metaverse stuff kind of positively uh that they are creating i
guess their own separate metaverse, separate from Fortnite.
And basically, he's implying that he is in favor of interoperability.
Excuse me.
And that the tooling and things need to still get there,
but he's not against it.
Which, I know I've said this at least a year ago when I read the book, The Read, Write, Own the Internet,
because he has a quote in there.
And so it's nice to see this kind of come around full circle that one of the
biggest gaming online platforms, Epic Games,
who controls a huge market share.
And let's not forget Disney and Marvel is hugely embedded in the ecosystem of
Fortnite, which are billion upon billion-dollar companies.
So if they're starting to vocalize a little like, yeah, we're in favor of interoperability, that's a good sign.
Now, whatever fees and transactions they come up with down the line, whatever piece of the pie they're going to want, that remains to be seen.
I don't think it's going to be no free, though.
I think it's going to be like, hey, yeah, you can transact and everything's fine interoperable.
We're getting a piece of everything.
I don't think it's going to be 30%, I hope.
But I kind of like wonder, though, at the same time, right?
It's like, well, Disney exactly doesn't have cheap toys and cheap products either.
It's not exactly $20 to go into the park of Disneyland.
It's more like probably $90 or $100 for a ticket now.
I don't even know.
I haven't been for a long time.
Point being, do you think there's no rookie on the street?
And if you think they're going to give stuff out for cheap on 20% off and discounts, think again.
That's not happening.
So going to be interested to see how this plays out,
not only when this gets finalized with Epic Games and Apple,
but once interoperability becomes much more relevant around us,
and it's not just like Stomnia and Futureverse and Improbable.
I'm wanting to see how that's going to really play out,
where there's a standard that everybody can follow
so what do you guys think be bearish and bullish on this
bearish or bullish on the tweet above for team sweeney
basically winning a court case against apple
which is rare i mean i'm i going to say this is like a nine,
in my opinion.
There we have that.
What about the poll app?
You guys ready for the poll app?
Let's just do it right now, in case I forget.
All right.
So secret word for the PO app.
Let me know if it works.
If it doesn't work, I'm gonna file a complaint to PO app.
Okay, the secret word is Grills Gang.
G-R-I-L-L-Z-G-A-N-G.
All lowercase, all one word.
If you want a gold star, if you're into that.
If you're not, that's fine.
Wonder if I can show it on the screen.
I don't know if I can log into the POAT thing on here.
All right, so grills gang, one word.
Let me know if you got it pin in the bottom
how's your guys energy even get a response on that so maybe you guys are at a zero scale one to ten zero to ten chickens that is zero yep
okay all right I feel like they added a little laugh at the end of that? Did you notice that? Anyway.
All right.
Moving on.
So this next kind of tweet, I felt like it was a little sad.
But a little, I guess, just an honest situation.
Let me pin it up.
It's from 19 hours ago.
Some of you may have missed it because this was, I'm guessing,
Australia time in the morning, night for us.
In the morning night for us. This is coming out of the dead fellows camp
This is coming out of the dead fellows camp.
So let me go ahead
Pin this up above
Bring it up on the live stream for my last game folks
And if you are watching live stream go ahead and the heart. Help me get on that algorithm up there.
But yeah, so it says, as of today, this is Betty from Deadfellas.
It says, as of today, I'm no longer acting as a CEO of DFZ Labs.
PsycNFT will take over as CEO.
I will be moving to a director position,
while I will continue to oversee all aspects of the company
and its verticals day to day, just at a different capacity.
Haven't spoken about this publicly,
but a little while ago, I was diagnosed
with a progressive disease called Meniere's.
It's an inner ear disorder with no cure that results in debilitating attacks of deafness and loss of balance.
During an attack, I can't stand, move, or hear anything.
These attacks are not predictable and last anywhere from a couple minutes to an hour.
It can put me in a dangerous and vulnerable position as it isn't safe.
The attacks have become more frequent and
difficult to manage. I've made a lot of changes to my life to be as healthy as I can to be put
to be but this is something that will will be with me as I get older and I need to spend this time
ensuring I'm doing everything in my power to lessen the frequency and severity of the attacks.
Eventually I may lose my hearing permanently.
There is no cure, and there isn't a way
to predict what will happen or when.
Stress is a known trigger, and so I am actively trying
to remove as many stressors in my life
until I can get the attacks under control
slash slightly more manageable.
I'm not leaving the company or Web3.
I'm just reducing my workload slightly
to give myself the best shot in an independent, healthy i love my work and to reiterate i will not be leaving this space or
the company i will remain very involved i just won't be at the very front of it for a little
while thank you for your understanding and love and you aren't getting rid of me but my bio is changing temporarily.
Yeah, that's a little sad.
You know, I'm no longer a Dead Palace holder for transparency.
But, you know, again, you can't deny Dead Palace has a very big presence in terms of awareness of the brand, the project, the company.
You know, they had cold links, I think a month ago they announced, which allows you to have a connection between blockchains and platforms that are not blockchains.
It provides a pathway, so then that could be the vehicle.
They've had a couple of different collections,
dead friends, dead fellas.
Betty's been a very vocal figure in the Web3 NFT space.
We went to a few of her events in Miami,
as well as a Halloween event up in LA.
Very nice, very courteous. I know she was a guest two weeks ago on the Grail chat with John Carl and Figgy. So, you know, it's sad again that this
is the kind of stuff that happens sometimes, but uh they they carry a lot of weight
they carry a lot of stress and it's hard to balance sometimes and i don't know if what was
the reason or how this came about i don't know if it was because of what she was doing or carrying
with work or if it was just natural but i mean, this is what I vocalize many times on the show
is like health is paramount,
especially preventative health.
And there's no escaping it, right?
You don't get enough sleep.
You can't think and operate as properly the next day.
You don't eat properly. You're not going to feel well.
If you smoke cigarettes for 30, 40 years, good chance you're going to get some sort of cancer.
If you continue to eat, you know, not great food, you may get diabetes of some sort.
when do people start wearing a seatbelt once they've been in an accident?
When do people start wearing a seatbelt?
Once they've been in an accident.
So I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but it's like,
these are things where we can try and be proactive to try and help situations.
We're not always going to have the full, like solving of everything and being 100%,
but there's some things that we can control.
And I'm not saying that that's what this is,
but this is just me reiterating about how important health is.
And so I do hope she gets better.
I do hope that she's not getting a lot of criticism from the Web3 space.
I mean, I'm sure she has.
But it's just a reminder.
We've got to take care of ourselves.
We need to have balance.
We need to be being physically active.
We can't be on the computer for 20 hours a day and expect, like, we're going to get great output on our physical health or mental health for that matter.
So just something to keep in mind. I mean, this isn't the first type of leader in the space.
We saw Gordon from the Bored Aids a couple of years ago.
He needed to step back.
I think he had Crohn's, kind of like a digestive type situation.
I know he had a heart situation.
And so the stress of the space doesn't help anybody's health situation um and so
again just something to be aware of and i hope eddie gets better in to a certain extent as much much as she can given the situation and uh yeah all right
what do we what do we see here chicken is a debbie downer okay thank you
okay vdizzo has gotten a gold star, the gold star.
And if you're still looking to get the gold star,
if you're still trying to get the poll out for the gold star for today,
secret word is Grills Gang.
All one word.
Grills Gang.
Gang, gang.
People like saying that, huh?
People like saying gang, gang. People like saying that, huh? People like saying gang gang. All right.
Okay, moving on.
Let's see what else we got for the web 3.
Happenance here.
We have a new trailer for GTA 6 that was released today.
You guys excited about that?
Or not really, since it's not until May 2026.
I mean, kind of a long way.
kind of a long way away
i'm wondering if they keep having to like change and pivot a little bit like
maybe they needed to change engines maybe they needed to incorporate some crypto or non-crypto
like i wonder if that's what's going on why it's taking so long
i mean i've seen a game take long
as well. Like, if anybody's heard
of Duke Nukem or Duke Nukem Forever,
that shit was, like, 10
years in the making. You can Google
Maybe it's an OG
that played online games
before they were popular.
I don't know if this was just
a little bit of a gag or if this is something real,
but I figured I'd just share it
because I saw it from nine hours ago from MetaMask.
It says only one wallet is safe in Vice City.
What are they implying?
Are they saying they have something cooking with Grand Theft Auto?
Are they just trying to get attention?
I don't know.
What do you guys think?
I like the colors.
I'm down with that.
All right.
Let's see what else we got here.
Six hours ago from the Doodles.
Doodles camp.
Full disclosure, I'm not holding.
Although I was a fan of their events.
VDizzle, myself, and Creatures went up to an event up in LA last year.
I think it was during August, maybe?
Really great.
Great vibe.
Great music.
Free drinks.
Free food.
Catered food, actually.
We got this love sack decor. Two foot rest and a love pecs.
Little seat, excuse me, which if anybody's heard of it, that stuff is a grip.
I had never heard of it.
It's a few hundred dollars.
You can check it out at LoveSack.
So, all right, going to Doodles though.
All right, let me just get this right here.
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I like how they use the word New Blood.
It's kind of funny.
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Excuse me, the FAQ.
I mean, I really like this art, honestly.
I've always liked the colors like this.
So this is the last post in this thread from the official
dudes that can't be aware of impersonator accounts and phishing links.
So how do you guys feel about this?
Are you excited about this?
This is not a big deal.
Is it surprising that it's going to be on Solana?
Did you guys think it was going to be on base?
I think it was going to be on Card? Think it was going to be on Cardano?
So you're down there?
I mean, they're doing something, right?
And that's the thing.
It can't be doing something every single day being a project.
But yet, the space moves so fast every day,
you hope that they do.
But they don't.
So I don't know.
Again, I'm not getting an allocation,
so I'm kind of bummed about that.
But you know what?
Good for all the OG holders. They need more of a stimulus check.
Right? I don't know. Bcast, what do you think? Are you getting an allocation of ticker dude?
All right.
Just updating my abstract description.
All right.
Moving on.
I'm just going to post this because I think Solo does great work in my favor of giving more attention to people that probably don't need more attention. Not really. But
attention not really but solo who does a lot of ar artwork amazing amazing short trailers and
little shorts little uh films um he's done the dark metallic which was really cool if you haven't
checked it out he does a lot of stuff with his forgotten runes he did like two episodes shorts
of like this la Vape Cabal.
So you guys can kind of look that up on your own
of who that involves.
You already know, most of you.
And so this came out 10 hours ago.
I think he does a great job of,
you know, his work, his craft,
creating the story, the designs, themes.
So shout out to Solo solo you're probably saying but it says dope queen what is that so that was actually something that he started uh it was
like this basically central the main character and it's kind of like thematic through a few of his
like pieces of work and it's like this AI agent AI sentience,
excuse me, excuse me, AI character in the story. And it's kind of just woven in in weird ways.
So pretty unique. And so you can check it out up above, you can see his work.
Yeah, Bloodshore, I think I shared that last week, which is basically one of the
lands in Forgotten Ruins. I'll pin that one up above as well in case you guys missed that.
So yeah, round of applause for him.
All right.
And I think that's all I got for the Web3 happenings here.
See if we cover doodles, Betty.
We'll check my other bookmarks.
Some moon pan now since I I saw today a little bit.
Some Kato announcements.
Klaynosaurus, we covered that.
All right.
I think that was a lot of what I wanted to cover.
So I guess we'll just touch on our topic and feel free if anybody wants to come up.
What would you like to see from Web3?
I mean, I can share my opinions, but if you guys have opinions, please feel free to put them in the bottom right-hand corner.
Let's see.
What I've been thinking is that as a project, as a platform, as a DAO, as a creator, like what more can we add?
What more do you want to see?
Like what else needs to happen?
Because I don't know who's bringing new people into this space.
And I'll be honest, like I haven't been as excited as I have in past years about Web3 and NFTs.
Now, mind you, I have shifted some of my attention to the San Diego FC football team, which is the soccer team here in San Diego, which won 5-0 this past weekend.
Shout out to them.
I've been having a lot of fun with that.
Really excited to see in person.
A lot of really cool stuff.
Uplifting artists, uplifting communities, in real life action.
So I'm really getting into that.
But I guess it comes back down to the attention, right?
Like, where is the attention at?
Like, who's garnering the most?
Or who's providing the most value?
And I think the question is, well, what can we do to help elevate?
Like how can we bring more people into the space?
Is it more education?
Is it more content being created?
Is it, I don't know. Like do we just need to have the guidance?
Do we need to have the governmental guidance coming into play here at this point?
Is that what has to be like one of the first step?
Does Bitcoin need to hit 200,000 before people on the outside start to take more notice?
start to take more notice, but not just notice, but actually take the time to learn and then
participate even at the smallest of entries.
1837, how are you doing?
What's good?
What's good?
I kind of got a hot take.
Something I've been saying for a couple of years now but um pretty much it's not
going to come from us as individuals us we actually make it worse when we're sitting here
and trying to explain why nfts are or anything ens domains or, any of this stuff matters. It makes us look worse.
What needs to happen is Starbucks needs to do it, right?
Kanye West, Taylor Swift, right?
The National Basketball Association.
That's when onboarding is going to come.
Because what's going on is, think about back in the day.
I'm about 40 years old.
So I remember Napster and LimeWire.
Imagine if we were trying to explain that to somebody, we would be like, you download an MP3 and then you put it on a hard drive.
And like that's not like that's not what we should be doing.
What we need to do is get to a point where it's like, listen to this song.
And that's what NFTs need to get to that point.
No one cares about the file types or how it's integrated or any of that stuff. It all really
determines if Taylor Swift says you need to have my NFT to buy my concert tickets, that's when it's
going to work. And it's not going to work because they're not going to do that yet because the SEC has not created their stance.
I think with the new politician in town and him changing things, the rules are still being laid out.
Now, it's going to take some time for that to occur.
And then once that occurs, why would you build it on a Solana or an ETH?
If I'm Taylor Swift, if I'm Starbucksbucks if i'm disney if i'm any
of these companies i'm building my own layer too so therefore it's not going to be any of us
and it's going to take some years
Yeah, I agree with that.
And that's why I've been kind of like, just thinking about it, like, okay, well, people are creating content.
There is new Layer 2s coming out.
The project's already here.
But I'd say more people have left in the past couple years and more people have come in
and i think to your point i think that's kind of like gonna have to be one of the main kind
of like catalysts right there needs to be the guidance the guardrails and the direction and
the policy and then that's when you can see the big players okay here's our blockchain straight from disney
here's our blockchain straight from warner brothers like but we've seen some of it right
like you met like starbucks was in the space vv did have disney collectibles
sony has a blockchain now so like like, it is starting, right?
And maybe some are just trying to like,
preemptively get their foot in the door first.
They're like, okay, we don't care.
If we get hit by STC, we don't care.
We'll deal with that after.
We'll ask for forgiveness down the line
versus permission now.
Because before the permission led to ramifications which were more negative over the past few years.
Right. Whereas now it's like, OK, at least again, now is in like just this year, like the past few months.
We've seen kind of like the sentiment change.
And it's not fully there. Right. And maybe that was the excitement we all thought, like, oh, Bitcoin Reserve, it's real.
But you're right, like, it's going to take years.
Like, just getting the rule and deciding, that's one thing.
Getting it actually implemented, another story.
Actually accumulating, adding the Bitcoin in, another story.
Like, so there's going to be phases in the rollout right
yes sir what do you think yeah and just to add on to that we got to also
think about the already set examples in history of people or the timeline it takes for people to
be onboarded how long did it take for everybody in the country or the world to have
a cell phone? 25 years? How long did it take for people to have microwaves? 20 years? You know,
like there's a natural timeline for what it takes for people to get comfortable with something
that's new. We could even go even back even farther, like the first car, like how long did
it take for people to say you know horses
aren't the answer you know what i mean like so this is like human behavior so it's a 30-year
journey man and that's not what everybody wants to hear but this is just examples in history that
lays out our future right yeah i mean it takes it takes a while for the stuff to be normalized, right?
Autonomous driving is becoming normalized right now in real time. Like it's no big deal.
You go back 15 years, even seeing or thinking about full self-driving, fucking future. Futuristic.
Now it's just normalized.
Or it's becoming more normalized.
And to your point, like, even social media.
Like, it took a while.
You're right.
Smartphones and cell phones.
It took a while.
Not having CD-ROMs in laptops. How about that, Norm?
I have plenty of laptops that have a CD-ROM built in.
All of a sudden?
All right.
No, we're phasing that out.
We don't need it.
It takes time, right?
I think you're right.
And part of it is the policy and guidance,
but it's also like the people, society, being comfortable utilizing it.
The same could be said for credit cards going back to the 80s.
Like even Google Maps, like all this stuff, like it's so fast.
You mentioned Napster before.
I know what that was like i was just thinking about that two weeks ago i just turned 41 this year 84 so i was burning
those cds and i was thinking about all these cds like i have but now we don't even have the player
but how cool was that, right?
To have that music where you burn it.
Okay, here's the copy.
Here's the copy.
Like, you felt like you were ahead.
Like, oh, I'm getting this music.
We're sharing.
We were ahead.
But eventually, those music users were showing that fly, right?
But also throw it out there.
The people who were burning the CDs didn't explain how they worked.
Like, I think that's what we do.
And I'm not saying anybody in this room specifically.
I'm just speaking generally that we do a horrible job trying to explain things to people.
People don't care.
You know what I mean?
Like, like, stop trying to explain it to people.
Like, all they need to know is what's in it for them.
Hey, you get what you can't have any other way.
That's all they want to hear.
They don't need to hear the backend technology and why it's cool and all that.
And I think we do a disservice to the goal when we try to do stuff like that.
But NAPSA is a perfect example.
I think that's the exact example that we should consider this type of tech because it's innovative.
It's a new way to consume content. So that's pretty much exactly what we have here yeah and sometimes
sometimes the platforms or the whatever whatever may be the tech
Or the whatever it may be, the tech.
Bear share up.
Okay, thanks, Jiggins.
Appreciate that.
I'm not sure what it means, but all right.
Sometimes the tech doesn't make it, right?
Blu-ray, it was here.
It came in and went.
Dial-up was here.
It came in and went.
3D TVs, what happened to that they were pushing that hard for a few years those were fucking
expensive tvs i didn't buy one one of my old roommates uh i think he somehow convinced his
fiance for a little bit well i don't actually i don't know if they were engaged at that point
i don't think they were.
Anyway, they bought
one of those TVs
and they had like
the little basket
with the four pairs
of 3D glasses.
And then they used to like
I remember Mark like,
oh, you're going to be like
sitting like in the basketball
seats like courtside
and you're like right there.
There's still a little bit
of 3D movies,
I think, in the theaters
sometimes. But it's more niche
right and it's almost like i'm feeling like um
certain segments of the space are just niche like the tech nerds were into it i mean i am
don't get me wrong but I think like what you're kind
of sharing is a good point to look at, right? The regular people that aren't into this tech
are not going to engage unless it is as smooth and frictionless and easy as
opening their phone and clicking on Instagram, opening their phone and clicking on Facebook.
And even that for a long time was not accepted by a lot of age groups.
But eventually, it becomes normalized.
And grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle know,
okay, well, if I want to talk to my family and be connected
and see what they're doing, this is the avenue I have to go to.
Because this is where the people, the eyes and ears are.
I mean, if we're still talking tech, I have to go to, because this is where the people, the eyes and ears are. I mean, if we're still talking tech, I mean, look at Amazon.
Amazon just started out as selling books.
Like that's all.
And then eventually continue to scale more and more,
and higher and higher, like people want convenience.
They're going to use Amazon Prime.
Even if they don't like Bezos,
we will be hypocrites and still use the tech
because it's that good, right?
People value their time.
And I feel like like especially in 2025, it's in some areas like
people are working a lot. People are trying to save money. Stuff is expensive.
People are under the gun from their bosses or their managers. And mind you, I see some of this
in the education field at the school district. I've been very blessed and lucky to be in the position I am.
Mind you, 13 and a half years in the school district.
So it wasn't like just handed to me.
I did have to work through it.
I did have to get my stripes, if you will, put in some time repetitions.
And so like, yeah, I, like, I want to know, like, what do you want to see in web three?
And, and like, maybe there isn't anything that we can do to further it other than just
be here ready to maybe share our neighbor about something cool we saw, but right, but
you're right.
I think taking the time to go in
depth to break it down to do it like it takes a certain individual that's going to gravitate
towards that and i tried that i tried that with my best friends of 20 years i was super excited
about it i came into the space through vfriends back in 2021 I broke it down from them. You get this NFT, you get to go to
these conferences, it's this IP, it's like Disney, he's building it out, he's the characters.
You're like, oh, okay, that's kind of cool. But they weren't like, all right, let me stop and
drop and give several hours a day onto Twitter at the time,
X now to follow every movement on the feed,
to participate in Twitter spaces,
to try and buy and flip and sell and make profit.
My friends weren't having it.
And they're competent, you know, kind of smart people.
Like they're all graduates.
Like they're all very in tune with, like, tech.
And, you know, one's in business development, has no business.
One's in software engineering.
So I was like, you're right.
We can't force it, right?
And eventually, I realized that, too.
I stopped trying to convince. I stopped trying to convince.
I stopped trying to convince people.
And I just sometimes tried to share little things that I felt were like relevant.
And then if you know that's an individual that kind of would be open to listening to you or is an open-minded type of person, they'll find it.
And they'll start to explore or they'll ask those questions on their own
versus, hey, let me push this down your throat and learn
and understand and be a part, right?
Yes, 5-2-1-1 in the front row.
Yeah, and also, like, another good comparison I make,
exactly what you're saying, like, it could be your best friends, but a comparison and an analogy I use basically is like the Jesus comparison.
Like you could preach Jesus to someone all day, but if they don't give a damn, they're just not going to give a damn.
You know, so it's like we're preaching the NFT gospel or the Web3 gospel or whatever it may be, but we're falling on death's ear sometimes.
And we just can't beat a dead horse sometimes.
And if the people are about it, they're going to go and learn and spend time.
they're going to go and learn and spend time or ask questions.
Or ask questions.
I mean, speaking of like the gospel,
even someone from the VFriends community,
and I guess I'm going to give him a shout out
because he's had such success just continuing to create like micro content
for the past like month.
He has like 15,000 followers.
He finally hit like a million views on one of his content
just yesterday or today. His name is Dalton. That's because the right people found his content
and he was super consistent about it. It had nothing to do with Web3, nothing to do with
blockchain. It was just him reading the gospel. So shout out to him for his success.
Well, yeah, what do you guys think of the audience?
Give me two cents in the bottom right-hand corner.
Mom says, I don't work, but everything better be convenient.
Seriously, people like convenience right i mean at this point we've been kind of like used to it with this tech that we have and
not just blockchain in general but i mean many things whether the cell phone whether it's the
uber whether it's ordering our food like and picking it up those weren't always things
like and picking it up those weren't always things so yeah I guess what you'd like to see
from web3 is there's no there's no right right answer right because I think a lot of products
have tried a lot of things I don't I mean that I'm saying. Like, I don't think that people have just been sitting here waiting. I do think there's been plenty of people
that have tried, that have built, that continue to be here. And sometimes these things just take
a lot longer. And I don't know all the project goals and objectives. And so maybe,
and so maybe
maybe it just is art
for certain projects right
mission accomplished
the project's out
my art's out there
shout out to all the artists
I guess what I would like to see
in the media future
excuse me I can't talk enough for some reason
I would like to see in the media future, excuse me, I can't talk right enough for some reason.
I would like to see USDC or stable coins
be one of those first steps.
I wanna see that being used in multiple places.
I wanna see that being used at Vons, at Costco,
at the freaking gas station for those of us that get gas.
Mr. Shiggins, what do you think?
Good morning.
How's it going?
My turn to be Debbie Downer.
What have you truly used in web 3 or blockchain technology that you feel like has actually been made better by blockchain technology what really has have you
used so far i will say recently what i've used was the MetaMath debit card that we found out about East Denver.
I was that excited to use it, to get it, or to find out about it, that I signed up and went
through the process. Mind you, V-Dizzle was there and she was already doing it. And I was trying to
And I was trying to leave to go to the next event, but I was like, you know what?
leave to go to the next event, but I was like, you know what? All right, fine. This is cool.
All right, fine.
This is cool.
I trusted Michael.
He shared earlier.
I was like, all right.
I connected dots, went through the process.
I was like, all right.
I get these rewards.
This is cool.
I could see this being a norm.
So that's something that I think has been kind of unique and cool.
Is it pushing the entire space forward? So that's something that I think has been kind of unique and cool.
Is it pushing the entire space forward?
No, but it's pushing one avenue.
I'll take the debit card from MetaMask.
I don't have the physical card.
I know Creatress does.
I mean, I'd love to hear her feedback.
If she's not, no, she jumped out.
She's not here.
She could speak on it.
I would say a lot of,
I would say a lot of things though.
A lot of us believe, myself included,
that like the financial and monetization,
that's kind of why we're here
and sort of interested in it,
or a lot of us are.
But the mass adoption part and the part where
blockchain actually becomes useful aside from like accounting or whatever else is like actually
using it as like a ledger for truth and like authentication i don't really feel like we've
really scratched the surface where that's useful like we, we've had a bunch of things that were activations that were this or that, but
like at the end of the day, that's still like a credit card.
You're getting points, right?
You can still, or whatever debit card and you're getting points or debit card, right?
There's nothing inherently like that much different about it.
or like even like the other side you know you can join like a a massively m-o-o-r-g or a or a
shooter there's really been nothing that's been like actually like blockchain enabled i feel like
that's really made it that much better like top shot you can still do like uh what you call it
like uh online um panini is really not that much different, you know?
And it's, I don't know.
I feel like we still really haven't proved that it's better,
even though we kind of all believe in it.
Well, I'll add to that.
And then we'll go to BDizzle.
I would say one of the first things that I did find exciting,
and again, this is me when I came into this space back in april 2021 i was not a crypto trader i did not take time and spend time
in blockchain i was not a dev i wasn't an artist i didn't really know anything about it i wasn't a
trader or regular you know uh traditional finance i wasn't any of that about it. I wasn't a trader or regular, you know, traditional finance.
I wasn't in any of that.
I was coming in as a teacher lens.
But when I heard and understood that artists could get royalties through the sales,
I was pretty intrigued by that.
That made sense.
Just on that principle.
I know that's taken a lot of shapes with royalties and no royalties.
Platforms that have it, some that don't have it.
But I do think that was a good value add prop once I understood the concept.
So that's something.
All right. so that's something right all right uh let's go over to to
vdizzle but also to if you want the pole app or the gold star for tonight
the secret phrase is girls gang.
G-R-I-L-L-Z-G-A-N-G.
And director, creator is probably not even going to get it because it's not even here.
So if anybody wants to tag him.
There's still some left though.
Mints on Ape Chain.
No big deal.
Trying to support everybody here.
V-Dilzo, what are you thinking?
You were compelled enough to come up on stage. on ApeChain. No big deal. Trying to support everybody here. What are you thinking?
You were compelled enough to come up on stage, so I must have sparked a nerve
of some sort. What do you think?
multitasking and working,
but I've been hearing a little bit about the
conversation that's going on.
For me, personally, I wanted to
just share my experience with
how blockchain and crypto has bettered my life and how I've seen it used to better others lives.
As of right now, I do agree that we've just scratched the surface.
We still have a lot of user interface that needs to improve and the tech.
And so it's getting there slowly but surely but
obviously working in web 3 is really nice like getting paid in crypto instantly right it's it's
been really nice to work with clients and get you know money directly into my wallet ASAP. So that's like, number one, it's been nice. And then the
second thing is being part of DAOs and initiatives that want to help humanity. So seeing where
there may be countries or families in the middle of war who need immediate funds where certain banks in America
do not allow payments internationally because of war or because, you know, there is a delay
and by then it's just too late to get supplies for people in need. So I've seen initiatives like Nouns, DAO. I'm part of University of Ethereum where we've helped students in other countries that are in middle of war and in times of need, you know, you can see that they're receiving the funds and directly like using them for actual, you know, water, food, diapers, whatever it is, which is really nice. that like blockchain has definitely helped with everything being on a ledger everything transparent
and pretty much instant sending funds to someone else so that's like the bare surface i feel like
i do agree with chickens that there is going to be hopefully we're hoping that there's going to be a lot of other use cases that we see where it's helping.
And, you know, I've heard things.
I haven't necessarily seen it yet personally, but I have heard, you know, things like RIDs are going to be on as NFTs.
And there's already processes that are on blockchain, like in farming, you know, being in you being used in the background so those are
things i've heard i've read about i just haven't seen those yet personally but maybe 5211 can speak
on that or has other comments to add in yeah yeah i was just say, like, I think it's all going to determine like what brought me to Web3 is owning our own agency.
agency. We need to plug in our 5211 or whatever our ENS domains or NFT, own our own identity,
have our own agency for once. And another big component, which I feel like a web browser,
a web three web browser, and I kind of want to have a hunch that Brave is probably going to be
the first one. But once we start having web browsers, because I can and like DNS and like traditional Internet sites do not offer what Web3 could offer, because what Web3 does is turn everything into a DAP, a decentralized app.
And that's not what I can and traditional Internet sites do now.
and traditional internet sites do now.
But the big thing is,
it literally, the reason why I really rock with Web3
is because of the future of owning your own agency.
Basically meaning if you're an artist,
you don't need Spotify no more.
You are Spotify.
You are YouTube.
You are, you know, Wells Fargo Bank.
You're all these things.
So we're eliminating all the fat that
was eating at us and taking and taking and taking. And that's what I'm here for. But we need browsers
in order to navigate those waters. So that just goes back to my original point that we're just
nowhere near where we need to be to have mass adoption but i'm a
believer i'm here obviously i'm buying up all sorts of stupid things so but that that is why
i feel like the powers that be don't want this moving fast because it really why why would they
want to put themselves out of business why does go daddy want to support ens names they
don't you know what i mean like why does spotify want to support like music nfts like they don't
you know so it's just like the people who have the power are fighting against it
and it's going to be tough to beat them
yeah i mean
you don't like those 10 to 20 transaction fees uh on ticketmaster
talked about gouging earlier with apple stop it bro that's what i'm saying though like you're i mean you're right we don't
have the full support but then the question is well why would they want that and so it's gonna
takes like basically somebody to come and disrupt it like just like with the tax industry, Uber and Lyft, they came and disrupted it.
Airbnb came and disrupted it.
Like, Kanye, bro.
It's going to be Kanye.
I'm a Chicago guy.
It's going to be Kanye, bro.
It's going to have to be a big player.
And that will probably push it, right?
And one of the things I felt like i was hearing earlier
is the convenience right valerie you spoke a little bit on some convenience stuff
i mentioned earlier the artists getting their royalties the convenience
my mom in the in the bottom uh comments said she liked the Starbucks stuff. That was nice.
But it's going to take some... I feel like it's going to be a give and take.
One of these bigger...
A couple of bigger entities is going to get on board,
but it's going to come at a cost.
But they know if they don't actually accept and be a part of it,
they will be left behind.
Because it's going to take a big player, it's going to cut into it,
show proof of concept, and then it's going to be, oh, shit.
Well, this is real.
I mean, you can ask any of the car companies what they think about what Tesla is and what it was, whatever you feel about leadership or the board or the CEOs.
But they were an underdog for a long time.
And they have at least the electric vehicle market share, in my opinion.
So, yeah, we're in an interesting time here.
Yes, we did.
Yeah, I just wanted to add that, yeah, I definitely think, like,
we need some bigger players that come in and, you know,
basically be a pioneer, like being on board, you know board with the rest of the Web3 crowd.
But I think another part of it too is like word of mouth.
I think us as individuals, I think can do a lot.
I know I've heard there's been challenges like, well, how do you onboard your family
or how do you onboard your friends or
your neighbors you know and and a lot of people are skeptical a lot of people have heard negative
things about it being scammy or a ponzi scheme whatever they say right but i think what i have
found is like just planting the seed like i'm involved and like showing them you know some of
the live streams i'm a part of.
Keegan's obviously sharing the spaces with his mom so she can tune in and stuff like that.
And I share, you know, my show with my family.
But eventually what resonated with my aunt was, you know, she's in her mid 50s.
She's still working, you know, a nine to five, you know, corporate job.
And, you know, she has a 401k, you know, a Roth IRA.
And, you know, she is hearing these things about by the time she's retiring, there may no longer be Social Security anymore.
Right. And all these things about like, well, what do I invest in?
It was it took her so long to buy her first house, you know, and she's like, well, what do I invest in? It was, it took her so long to buy her
first house, you know, and she's like, well, what do I invest in next? And how do I grow my money,
you know, into wealth, and not just savings, you know, waiting for, you know, whatever,
a 3% interest rate on her savings account, whatever it is, right?
So what resonated with her was like, you know, investing in Bitcoin.
And so I think that word of mouth, like implanting the seed with people
to see what will capture them, right?
Some, they may resonate with the royalties
because they're artists or musicians
and they understand that. Others may resonate with, man, when I retire, I may no longer have
social security or stocks may be crashing in the ecosystem, right? And so what can I invest in
besides, you know, the standard gold or silver?
You know, let's look into crypto next.
And so, yeah, I think, yeah, I just wanted to add that.
I also think word of mouth is really important and to not forget about that, that each of us can plant the seed.
I mean, maybe that's all we can do, right?
Is just give the idea. And then if they choose to spend time and learn and explore,
I mean, how long did it take for Cash App and Venmo
to be normalized?
I remember when Venmo came out years upon years ago.
Like not everybody's using it.
I was hesitant to use it at first year.
I was like, wait, what the freak is this?
Like why do people need to see what I'm spending money
and why do I need to put a fricking emoji with it?
I don't know who used the platform regularly like that.
I use it from time to time.
You know, we don't have, okay, let's share.
Here's some money.
So, like, I got to send to you paying for dinner.
I'm not spending time posting up emojis.
All right, I got gas.
Let me post an emoji.
Like, I'm not tired.
I'm weird.
I'm weird.
I like to look what my friends pay rent to their roommates.
Like, here's rent.
I don't know. I'm weird. I like looking at the Venmo feed. I don't look what my friends pay rent to their roommates. Like, here's rent. I don't know. I'm weird.
I like looking at the Venmo feed.
I don't need to know that.
Nobody. I don't need to know if Bobby-san is paying his rent
and what emoji he's using for it.
I don't need to know if Eric F. is eating out and he spent $200.
Like, I don't need that.
But if Bobby's asking for a loan
and you're a bank
and maybe you look at his Venmo
transactions and you're like, oh,
Bobby pays his roommates
on time. He's
trustworthy. Maybe
that's something down the line, but rather than
looking at Venmo transactions,
it's blockchain transactions.
Okay. So then, now we're getting somewhere.
Maybe this is the process of the phases in order for us to get there.
I don't think Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America are going and checking the emojis on the timeline feed of Venmo to see.
Yeah, he got the gas up there. Yeah. He's, yeah, he's responsible.
The tax man might.
I'm going to get, I'm going to get out of here and it's getting late for me,
but I just want to say one thing. Everybody's just mentioned the same thing.
I think Valerie is just mentioning FOMO. It's just fear of missing out.
It's almost like we have to be the cool
kids and not the nerds.
That's what I want to say.
Have a good night, everyone.
All right. Thank you for stopping in.
Appreciate you.
There he goes.
All right. Chickens in the front row. What what do you got any hot memes or what uh i i like
the way you pronounce emoji i think emoji is very funny to me so that's pretty good am i not saying
it right i think it's emoji dude you're saying emoji like it's two words but it's funny okay aside from that um
okay uh aside from that i don't think that uh it's gonna come from uh like a big player coming
in and like just deciding that they want to build on it right so the internet think of
all the biggest internet companies right amazon google uh facebook none of these companies were
like web to were like uh there but they weren't like some legacy company like ford didn't show
up on the internet and then like change the world you know what i mean so we're gonna need some sort of blockchain native technology that is just like has to become so
ubiquitous and like the only way it works is through blockchain and then everybody needs to
end up having to get on it for it to to really like catch on in terms of in terms of that i don't see it as being like
facebook decides to implement that or like you know it's gonna be have to be something that's new
have you jumped into the facebook metaverse yes or no uh no i have not am i about to get school
they spent billions in it so what went wrong
i feel like that proves my point right
uh i saw the videos though i watched all the zuck videos on it and they look pretty shitty
They went about it the wrong way.
they went about the wrong way
I think if anybody takes some time to listen and learn,
hear what Herman Narula has said in his book, Virtual Society,
there's some good concepts and things to think about in terms of metaverse.
We've talked about that before in different space.
But yeah, I don't think it's going to be any one thing,
but I do think it will
be something that is a disruptor for someone to take notice but oh shit you're taking a piece of
my pie i don't like that now i gotta start exploring and i think, I think like being a truth ledger is very important, right?
So AI, it's going to be very hard to tell what is true, what is fake.
Videos are real.
Videos are fake.
Pictures are real.
Pictures are fake.
Somebody made this content themselves.
It's AI generated.
And I really think as like some sort of like authentication ledger and what is real legitimate, like whether that's news or again, like ticketing or non AI generated content, I think that that's going to be something that's going to need to be important.
Yeah, these things are going to have to be here, right?
Like the market will speak for itself, but the tech is not going to stop, whether we like it or not.
Like I said, I'm impressed with the MetaMask stuff.
Mind you, again, I don't have the actual card.
If Creatress wants to come and share, she has the real card to learn about how she feels about it.
If it's amazing, she's getting some good returns.
I don't know.
She wants to share that.
But I'm impressed with what Metamask is doing.
But, yeah, Sweet Dizzle.
No, I was just going to say, now, Shiggins is making me think.
No, I was just going to say that Shiggins is making me think.
Yeah, I think he's right.
And yeah, I think he's right.
You know, with AI has been adopted faster than blockchain or crypto has.
And all the investors are looking for startup companies to build on it.
And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like, yeah, I mean, it's so crazy.
Like literally every day I see new videos that come out and I'm like, yeah, I mean, it's so crazy. Like literally every day I see new videos that
come out and I'm like, this looks so freaking real. It's ridiculous. It's pretty crazy, right?
And so, yeah, I think people are going to demand and absolutely need transparency and knowing
whether this is true content or fake. Is it fake news kind of thing?
And so maybe perhaps it's where AI drives us in that direction
where eventually everybody has like the light bulb go off in their head
and like, wait a minute, we need transparency not just for AI,
but we also need it for voting.
Hey, you know, maybe we also need it with government spending,
you know, in our local cities, they say they're gonna, you know, build infrastructure, but where
did the money go? You know, I think maybe hopefully, I mean, that's, that's the hope.
That's the hope. But yeah, maybe AI is gonna be the one to drive us in that direction.
Yeah, I don't think the governor wants that.
But we demand it!
Get your digital
picket sign
in the Facebook metaverse
and we'll rise up for the people that are
listening there.
Take care to your teaching Tuesdays.
Appreciate everybody stopping in.
We're just talking about our topic here.
What would you like to see from Web3?
We've had some good conversations here
feel free to give you two cents in the bottom right hand corner or if you're
really compelled to come up and share feel free convo no I just I don't have
it I just don't have the energy I don't have the energy for the sassy remarks
right now I don't need you shilling the coin.
I'm not about that right now.
But I was thinking as we were talking about something that could push it or cause some disruption,
just for people to take notice, is the IP rights.
for people to take notice is the IP rights.
I think with Story Protocol and a number of other things
that involve the IP, I think that will put the other outside
Web3 companies on their toes.
Once somebody makes them headway and there's a cartoon, anime, movie, TV, maybe a certain project that's developing a TV show.
And it really is IP that came from the crypto Web3 space and then disrupts on the outside.
I think that will be one of the avenues that will really cause a disruption,
but it is going to take time.
we know only force is going to be having some anime IP here.
We're going to be making waves.
V friends IP. I go on and on about that every other week.
Like, it's literally just in your face all the time.
For anybody that's following this space.
And actually, Shiggins, I might want to ask you some questions
because I feel like maybe you might know a few things.
But IP is going to be, I think, a big, big catalyst.
If it's done right.
And if it's actually done with the outreach correctly,
VFriends, Fudgy Penguins, Ford Apes, Oni Forest, and how long can the companies survive, right?
They have to be profitable at some point, right?
I'll tell you right now,
VFriends is freaking selling nonstop on fucking whatnot.
A sticker sold for $1,600 three weeks ago.
A hologram sticker.
You go on eBay, go on eBay right now.
You look up VFriends.
Again, I'm following this to have a pulse.
I'm not buying nonstop. Full disclosure, I'm following this to have a pulse. I'm not buying nonstop.
Full disclosure, I am a holder.
I do believe in it.
But I can't continue to buy every freaking week.
But I'll tell you what.
There's a lot of community members that are.
Because they are that passionate about the brand, about the characters, about what they feel, how it makes them feel.
I buy some stuff full disclosure i did buy these cards and shiggins maybe that's why i want to ask you because i think you commented like a few weeks ago you know about cards, right? Like trading cards and Topps cards and stuff like that?
A little bit.
So I haven't bought cards for a really, really long time.
But I got access to buy the box for $99 by being a Series 1 holder.
And the box that opened is selling now for $25 on eBay so like sold items in my opinion that's good yeah so my question to you is when it comes to like the Chrome version of
tops that's supposed to be like the premium version is that my
understanding correct tops chrome is definitely better than regular tops
series uh so there's so tops tops is a is a card brand it's akin to like a panini um so tops is
like the originator of the tops chrome so tops
chrome is is is an elite elite brand right um it's not like the super super insane high end where
you're paying like you know 10 grand for like five cards but in terms of like the regular ish cards
it's like about as it's it's it's very premium right so that's good and then they have another series called uh
bowman chrome and that was like a little bit depending on the sport they would have bowman
like their bow and mostly like baseball but they had some basketball and stuff too uh i mean football
but um yeah so the chrome versions are definitely better so if you want to like in if i was going to
invest in like some sort of like trading card and trying
to like, so if you, if you're down with V friends,
you think it's going to be like a valuable in the future,
I would definitely get the Chrome version.
I would probably not get the regular tops version.
Got it. Yeah. There is no regular tops version.
In this release.
But Gary V is very like, he like he's he he understands cards for sure
like he gets it he's been a sports card guy for sure so he gets it he has like deals with them
and stuff and i personally don't really understand the v friends like ecosystem that much but i do
respect that gary definitely has his inroads with uh fanatics and stuff and he gets it and he
knows that tops chrome is definitely like you don't want the regular tops version you you want
the tops chrome version much better yeah i did some research before buying them
like pops owns fanatics or fanatics owns tops correct all the way around yeah fanatics
so tops fanatics owns everything yeah yeah yeah so fanatics owns everything so tops was kind of like
a not not a dead product but like so there was um so Panini for a while owned like NBA, uh, I think
NFL and then tops only really. So Panini is like, was the, was like the card company
that sort of took over like NBA and, um, uh, I think NFL there, there, they have like, uh,
if you've seen, uh, like Prism, if you've seen products kind of like that,
that's Panini products. So Fanatics took over, they bought out, they got like the licensing
for like NFL and NBA cards, and they sort of brought back the Topps brand, who is sort of
only doing baseball, I think. I mean, don't quote me 100%, but
basically, Fanatics
has almost bought the entire trading
card or sports card market.
And then one of
their major flagship products is now
Topps Chrome.
It was like dead for about 10,
15 years, and now it's back.
Interesting.
All right. And I think Gary Vee is definitely
in with Panetta.
We are learning here.
Shout out to Shiggins,
giving us some history.
You were saying Panini.
I was thinking like Panini and Panini Press
like a sandwich.
It's making me hungry.
It's similar.
It was an Italian sticker brand actually
so they went from stickers
to trading cards
no sandwiches as I'm aware
so has there been other
non-sports
with top chrome
I think Pokemon
did they have one Pokemon so pokemon is its own thing i don't
think they're i don't know who makes their stuff but there's been a lot there are lots of trading
cards that are not necessarily sports cards that have done very well uh pokemon is a very good
example uh there's some disney cards out that are doing pretty well it's called they
got like a one called like lorcona and then they have another like chinese uh disney product that
was doing well maybe last year i can't remember the name of it but there's non-sport stuff that
do well uh comic book cards do well as well there was a bunch of so like Fleer and I think made a bunch of
like comic cards and those are pretty interesting too so you can get like you
know spider-man Wolverine all that shit and that was doing very very well in
pandemic actually so they were definitely having a moment there I
personally actually started, I bought,
I picked up some like 1960s Marvel stuff that I thought was pretty cool back
So I, I bought the Batman's rookie card,
like Spider-Man first Spider-Man's and they're actually pretty cool cards.
They're from the sixties actually tops.
They, those Topps. Those were Topps.
So, like, the 1960s Topps Batman, I think, are actually pretty cool.
You know, I actually just saw content on that.
Like, I think Gary Vee was at some card show, one of them,
and he was responding to some of the people that were, like, interviewing,
asking, like, oh, what have you bought or what have do you think and he just said kind of what you said like he mentioned these like
1965 or 67 66 yeah so 1960 so they're both in 1960 so 1966 tops batman uh it came in both american uh british and canadian uh variants the black version is the u.s version
the british version is like the little one but it's a very cool card set so if you ever look
them up they have very very interesting art they're very cool i like those a lot there's a
1966 marvel set uh not as cool um but the Marvel characters are interesting. I mean, the Batman
only has Batman people in it. So the Marvel one's interesting because then you can get like
the first card, like Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, but the cards are not as visually as
interesting. The 1966 Batman is definitely a little cooler. And then if you want sort of like the deep cut, like one of the OG cards is the 1939 Superman set.
Those are very cool.
So the 1939 Superman number one
is probably like the king of non-sports cards.
And if you want one of those in a PSA one,
it's probably going to run you over two grand.
But they're also very cool.
That's what I'm saying.
Some of these cars
are just so expensive.
But I mean, like, it's from
1939. I think it's almost 100 years old.
You know what I mean?
I mean, see, that's notifiable.
So, I mean, and I do get the cards to an extent.
Maybe that's why I'm kind of intrigued about what BeFriends is doing with the cards and the comics.
Because we're seeing IP built out in real time.
Valerie's here, we talk about this multiple times.
She's tired of it. She doesn't care that that much but she also is intrigued by certain things but i used to have cards when
i was younger like my dad used to take me to the comic store like i have a bunch of dc cards in a
box at his house like before any of that ip got sold and built out the way it was, I have tons of cards.
comics. And these big
figures of Iron Man
in the attic. These toys
before they made millions on that
IP in the theater.
I don't know if it's worth anything now. It should be.
I would hope.
So. So I will. I would hope. So.
So I will say
I learned something.
Or they need millions
on Alex B in the theater.
I would hope.
Alright, we got you, Shiggins.
All right.
Well, we've covered a lot of ground tonight.
I mean, I appreciate everybody that spent some time.
If you didn't get the PO app, get the PO app.
We've been going for a quick minute now.
It's going on two hours.
I told myself I'm not going to do three hours like last week.
But get the PO app.
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All lowercase, no space.
Or if you hit me up in the DM, I can send you it.
If you want your gold star, if you're into that.
Or maybe you don't want a gold star.
Maybe you're not into that.
Next week, we do have our guest Abel in the audience.
Round of applause for him.
Someone who continues to build very authentically.
Very creative.
Excited to learn more about the journey and everything that he's done.
Love the sounds, love the music.
I actually wanted to be when I was younger. Like I've shared this a
few times. I wanted to be my job. I must have been like 10 when I
realized this. I was like, I want to put video game music into
the games, or a game music into the games. And it's because I
listened to so much from like Sonic the Hedgehog,
Mario Brothers, I was like, wow, this is really cool.
I was like, I want that to be my job.
Clearly, I never fully explored that path,
but that was something early on in,
I was like, I wanna do that.
Yes, Minty, thank you for being here. How are you doing, sir?
You know, I got a slip in in the back at the very end of class.
Yes. How are you doing?
Get some cheat notes. Fantastic. I was actually at an event. I do this a lot where I talk to students who graduate from college and they want to, you know, sort of, how do I do this? How do I get into, you know, movies and media and film and television? And so I do a lot
of these and I'm just always so shocked at the end of them, how little they care about technology.
Anytime I sort of like lean into like, oh, hey, are you, you know, looking, looking what's going
on with AI or, or even like, you know, blockchain is like just complete like glass eyes.
And I'm like, God, are they not seeing what we see here, the opportunities with technology?
It's just they want traditional success so bad.
They just, you know, they just want to be famous.
They don't want to have to do the work of like utilizing technology and all these sort of things.
But I'm just always gobsmacked by it and
it's unfortunate again like I was just so certain I was like oh this group is gonna really I think
maybe get it because they're you know AI has been out for a while now and I think there's gonna be
adoption of it but it's a little a little scary how traditional success the idea of traditional
success gets in our way of understanding the work.
And it's just like they just want to be it.
They had no idea how to, you know, go about doing the things they wanted to do.
They just wanted to be it.
And I was like, well, it takes a lot of work.
Much like yourself, you know, it takes a lot of work.
Yeah, I do think that's an important point, too.
Being willing to put in the work and time.
And having the ability to have.
You know how much time Abel has put in?
We're going to share it all next week.
I did the research.
You want me to look at the phone?
I just checked out.
I looked at the music.
I checked all those links Abel got you
talk about repetitions
putting in the hours
Minty you wanted to ask
VDizzle some stuff
or was that like more of a DM type thing
talk about it.
V. Dizzle, I know you do parties.
Do you do conventions and kind of booths?
I thought you were going to say, I know you do parties.
Do you also do kid parties?
Yes, do my kid parties, please.
I just need a Roblox themed events let's do it
let's do it um yeah i i can do whatever you need me to i'm uh multi-skilled i can multitask um
which uh conventions are you are you are you gearing up for that's already on your schedule right now?
The current one is the Bitcoin conference in Vegas at the end of this month.
Are you thinking about going?
Well, here's the thing.
I need to try and find conventions that I think I can do a little cooking in because my project is getting very, very close to reveal soon.
So I'm really trying to plan out what that looks like
in terms of my time at these conventions
because I feel like the IRL is going to be very important
in this particular project as I'm sort of going about it.
So I've always enjoyed them too.
Like, you know, anytime I could get out there, I like getting out there.
I like getting out to, you know, to eat Denver, to see Bobby and pull pranks on our friends
and, you know, just getting out to these places and enjoying the conferences.
But I really haven't been able to do a schedule of it.
I haven't been able to do the circuit because i've been so busy but i think uh this summer i'm gonna have to do that circuit
just to really uh sort of ground myself and this project oh okay i'm intrigued to hear more
yeah so i'll i'm right now i've got the bitcoin conference and And then in June should be NFT NYC conference.
More so, not really the conference itself, but more so like the side events, I would say.
Nobody goes to that conference anymore.
It's like you go there and you're like, it's like somebody who's been in this space for six months.
And they're trying to shill like, you know, some token that they created.
And you're just like, dude, like, you don't even belong on stage kind of thing like i don't mean to be disrespectful
but like a lot of those people that i saw at nftnyc you're just like they're kind of like
extractionists and they're just there to shill and it's so fast too like they would just get up
there and they only have about like two minutes to show their project and then they peace out
so i really didn't feel like anybody really goes that's serious about the space to the conference.
It's all about the side parties, NFT and YC.
And that's on the organizers of the conference, obviously.
But yeah, I should be in New York
and then usually Miami at the end of the year.
And I'm not sure in between there,
I think there's like a Solana conference in Miami.
I got on my radar thinking about Rare Evo,
which is more of a Cardano conference in Vegas also.
And then Ape Fest, also in Vegas.
A lot of things in Vegas this year, it seems like.
Let's just buy a house there, guys, and we'll just hang out there.
Tokenize it it let's go tokenize that house we'll have a party house and all the people that
pass the KYC get in tokenize entrance and you can stay with us at our pad.
So am I hearing that you're going to up the ground game?
Is that what I'm hearing, Minty?
I have to.
This one is really important to me and I think important to a lot of people.
So I'm going to hit the ground pretty hard on this one.
So you're looking at hosting a booth at like either side events or conferences?
Exactly. Okay. Yeah. Not hard at all.
I've done a few booths myself.
I've definitely done some leaders on chain booths during Miami Art Basel a couple years ago. And yeah, there's some stuff, you know, some standard stuff.
Like if you want to have a branded tablecloth, if you want to have a banner, you know, if you want to have a little activation to interact with people coming up to your booth and how do you funnel leads and all that stuff.
So, yeah, happy to chat more if you need some help.
Appreciate that.
You're a rock star.
I shouldn't go to NFT NYC, right?
It's just too noisy.
There's just so much going on.
I guess it's, you you know what's your intention i i wouldn't go just to go you know like you know i i kind of go obviously for the networking but i always try to find work like that's my number one thing. In 2023, it was, I think, we went to almost like any conference we could.
And there wasn't much intention behind it.
And, of course, because of that, we, you know, spent a lot of money without much in return.
return. Of course, new connections, but it was a learning process. And so, yeah, going forward,
Of course, new connections.
But it was a learning process.
there has to be some sort of real value. And in order to get that, you have to set an intention.
So unless, you know, you got to have to, you know, meet someone in person that you think could be
beneficial or there's work or you're going to be a speaker or something, then yeah, that makes more sense to go.
In your opinion, top three networking conferences.
That's a good one.
ETH Denver, for sure.
ETH Denver has always been really great.
What's another one?
Miami or Basel can be. It's a lot of partying a lot of events but you know if
you're trying to you know get in the front you know face it you know facing with like magic eden
you know magic eden has a big presence usually during um art basel so those can be really good
to meet some of like the bigger players and have more
intimate uh settings like at a private mansion and stuff like that so miami art basel is usually
known for those like private curated like exclusive nft events sometimes so that can be great um and
then i would go like honestly right now there's not any one particular conference, I would say for this.
But AI, if you can find an AI meetup or AI summit happening in your city, like those have been like freaking awesome to attend.
Agreed. I actually was at one last week, coincidentally. And it was like, it was a,
it was a great meetup. I kind of didn't know what it was. It was just a funny enough. I won't,
I won't talk some, but it was just like, it was somebody we all know was there and running it.
And I was like, what the hell? He saw me, he's like, oh my God, the worlds are colliding.
And it was like 200 filmmakers. And it was like a prompt you had you get a prompt
and you had two hours to make an ai commercial basically you know something like 30 seconds
um off this prompt and my team won fyi and but it was like it was really an engaging and fun
um experience to you know to vibe off of a people who are working in AI.
But I think that, you know, the sort of creatives that gravitate towards wanting to play with AI
is a fun group. I feel like I need to explore events that are like that. I had heard creatives
the other day saying she needed to go soon i think i forget
where we were at we were we were online we're somewhere virtual she's like i need to go soon
because i have to go to an ai prompt battle and i didn't i didn't get a chance to ask her what that
was but i could only assume it's like a competition to see who can come up with the best prompts for AI.
I think also, too, I saw Eric put token.
So I'm assuming token, was it token 2049 or something like that?
Ooh, the international ones. But I feel like that does get a lot of accolades.
Yeah, I haven't been to any international conferences yet.
I'm hoping because the U.S. has relaxed the laws that we're going to bring some of those.
I feel like I've heard consensus kind of fled the U.S. because of the regulations.
I feel like I've heard consensus kind of fled the U.S. because of the regulations.
And I'm hoping that some of the good events either come back or are initiated in the U.S. this year.
I think so.
All right.
Well, Minty, I am one for one.
I'm looking forward to see what you're cooking.
You're someone I trust.
I actually trust a lot of people in this space.
I'm fortunate enough to meet a chunk of you in real life.
And I do appreciate you guys spending time here.
It's just something that I'm going to continue to do,
at least until August for the three-year anniversary.
you want to support, check out
my website, send my handle,
Ground Game Strong.
Check out the shirts.
Show up, be present, make an impact. That's what Ground Game Strong is. So coming up with some other ideas. I'm thinking about it's still working right now full time, but I do have summer break coming up around the corner in June. I'll be off for two months.
So I'm going to see what I can explore.
What I can come up with.
Because I feel like
I feel like it's important
to invest into your ideas
if you have the means to do it.
Because the standard issue
route of things just doesn't always work.
Or there's a ceiling to it.
Or you can only take it so far.
So definitely gonna kind of focus on some brand building,
possibly business.
So we'll see.
I just, I don't have a lot of extra time right now,
but in June, I think I'll have a little bit more to do
some exploring and building and
trying things out.
And I'm glad we're all here.
I'm glad that the real ones are still here.
Do you have a plan?
Run those ideas by us. What do you got?
Yeah, exactly.
What do you got?
I mean, it's nothing fully in stone yet.
I just feel like I need to lean into some of my professional skill background.
Like, it's going to be 14 years in public education.
Like, I can do some strategy.
I can do some consulting when it comes to educating your community or guiding them how to do it, best practices and lessons.
I just was a little bit fired up this past weekend.
I didn't really share it in the space earlier tonight.
I was open a conference up in LA, and it was a work conference.
So it's non-Web3, non-crypto, non-blockchain, all educator.
And so it's a three-day conference, similar concept.
They have the speakers.
They have the keynote, this and that.
And I'm just like analyzing, critiquing.
And I'm like, I can do a better presentation.
I can add some sprinkles of creativity.
I can have some good presence on stage.
And so I'm just thinking like,
I feel like I need to help share some things and just do more.
And I also think again, that is opportunity on the table.
If I can do some brand building and maybe start a business and do some consulting and do some guiding and make some side profits and also contribute some creativity and help.
Because as a teacher, you're, you know, there's a ceiling to how much you can make.
We get paid once a month.
That's it. It's not necessarily a full nine to're, you know, there's a ceiling to how much you can make. We get paid once a month. That's it.
It's not necessarily a full nine to five, if you will.
But you are not making what some of these individuals in social media, whether that's, you know, marketing and branding and sponsors and influencers and blah, blah, blah, like,
where chunks of cash just come in. Like, I think there's opportunity for anybody.
It's just a matter of putting in the time. And I feel like there's something else I can do.
I don't exactly know what it's going to be. I think having a video presence is important in some capacity,
which is why I've gradually started to sprinkle little things in like, okay, let me add some
pro apps in just to get some reps and do it. Let me do the live stream so I can have the reps doing
it. Like these are all, these are fundamentals. Like honestly, these are the basics for a t-shirt.
I'm just telling you right now.
Like when we were all teaching online,
these were the very basics we were doing.
Like this was nothing amazing.
So, but again, I'm not trying to toot my own horn.
I'm just sharing some like things that I'm thinking
and I'm like, well, help me come up with the topic.
Like, what would you like to see from Web3?
So I'm like, well, are other people going to do anything more?
There was all these like influencers per se for the past two, three years that were on the timeline every day, all the time.
And I'm like, well, I don't know if they need to be the champions
for the space moving forward or maybe that's just not the shape that this space is going to be
anymore maybe it will just be something different so i'm kind of taking inventory analyzing
seeing again what certain products are doing what's working, how things are taking shape, watching certain blockchains
about what they're doing, how their leadership moves, how they operate, how they implement,
and sprinkling in creativity. Because again, I do think it comes back to attention.
Who has the attention? And why would you spend your attention with project a versus project b versus
project c what what are you bringing that's gonna like okay i gotta go check that out
and is it better than product a and b well if you need market share attention you better hope
you're adding something of value and creatively for them to do that. I can tell you a big chunk of us in this space
were tuning in every freaking week for 10KTF.
And I was intrigued.
I was excited.
I liked it.
It was fun.
People were engaged.
The attention was there.
Like I haven't seen as much of that.
I do see some stuff.
I do appreciate the streaming platform and abstract.
I think it's really freaking cool. I do want to see more stuff like that. I do see some stuff. I do appreciate the streaming platform and abstract. I think it's really freaking cool.
I do wanna see more stuff like that, innovation,
like the MetaMask thing I like,
but these aren't big, big jumps,
at least not as fast as we would like.
So I'm like, all right,
well, what can I do with what we have now
and I can control?
So those are some things that i'm thinking about chickens
yeah i'm gonna chime in here yeah oh better no no you go first i'm gonna talk like super long so
yeah oh here's from there okay he's sneaking out of work here we go
Vinti you go first man no no I'm here to listen to you go sir oh okay well I know
Keegan you talked about a lot about um no we need to like make some extra I
guess money in the space or you know this is web free that's why we're all
here for like you know in this space either you you know you dj some money into some project i
hope it goes to the moon or you you know do some marketing if you don't know any like if you're not
dev or any tech um there are there are still ways like i'm actually a very big advocate of Kaido.
And if you're not on there, please just register and talk something.
Because right now, they're having their first token unlock, a big one in August.
So in August, they're going to release a lot of different things coming out for different creators. So right now they have, I guess, right now there's a leaderboard and everyone's ranked on there.
And I think the top 1,000 and 2,000 people is kind of solidified in positions and ranking there already.
It will always be the ones that will get, I guess, the most, I guess, creator money, I guess.
When they write something, people listen to them and they get the money.
So right now, they're doing the middle section.
So they're going to go for who's going to be the rank 2,000 and under.
Because what we've seen on timeline right now is just the top 1000 people
and that's it like like on crypto twitter it's like this is like a thousand people over and
over again or like two thousand people over and over again and it's not that a lot to be honest
um like i think there's probably like a lot of it in space but the people are actually vocal or
like a thousand two thousand people and uh they're now, Kaido is incentivizing a lot of different builders
to build on Kaido.
So they're using their Kaido token to do a lot of stuff.
So there's stuff like YAPS.Market that came out, I think, two weeks ago.
So even if you're not big on talking on, you know,
whatever is MegaEF or whatever the thing you want to talk about on Yaps Leaderboard, there's some small projects that actually give like bounties to give like 100 Kaido or 500 Kaido.
And you just tweet there and then you get like 10 Kaido, like just for one tweet.
And one Kaido is like 80 cents a
dollar so you know just like tweak a couple times and you get like five bucks so it's like very easy
and they all care of uh how much uh you have been yapping for the last week so if you yapped a lot
in last week technically you're higher so you get a bigger portion of that pool.
What that small project has given out.
So there are ways for out there to actually do that.
And, you know, a lot of people, they start doing those, I guess, collab managers, getting whitelist.
They were like very big back in the day, and it's still going on.
There are some projects, new projects that pay for mods that are there, but do be careful. There
are a lot of scams out there too. There are some small stuff you can do on the side
to earn. I can't say earn like much as a full-time job, but no, there is some stuff up there. And
then you build up to a point that uh you can you know
someone asks you to be part of projects like for me like some people ask me part of project
and you know often often and most i say no because i just don't have the time it doesn't fit my
vision but there are things out there that people pay for i got in calls from headhunters selling oh do you want to be a co-founder for this guy
the guy will pay you and i was like it's just there are things out there you just have to
i guess what you're doing has to make sense right yeah it's just what you're doing in the streams
is actually very good already like you're putting yourself out there you're building a brand your
reputation here so i don't see anything wrong just maybe keep going this path but have a strategy like
okay I do this for three months and after three months it's something else you know
I'm talking to myself because I do this the same thing every like three months or six months I'm
like shit what I've been doing for the last six months, I'm not going anywhere. And then I kind of like reflect on myself.
And believe it or not, I actually write, like, I wrote out my past life and reflections.
And every six months, I actually like have a journal or diary-ish.
And I'm like, okay, so it's about my whole life, i did in my breath free journey or life in general
like what i've done i failed so far if i you know i wrote about i wrote about meeting star lordy
i think last year or something two years ago and he like kind of put me back uh in place you know
i was in san francisco for six months and blah blah blah like you know and i look at him like
oh shit this is uh i at the end of the day i'm gonna give everything i write every six months and blah blah blah and like you know and i look at it i'm like oh shit this is uh i at
the end of the day i'm gonna give everything i write every six months to a year to like my future
son or like my son or like you know when i die a funeral someone has to know about what i did
and i guess they can read all about my life when i was like you know 30 30 years old right so
i i'm like i'm not writing a book but but I just like, I just close my eyes.
Literally, I just close my eyes and type for like half hour. And I like release everything that like stressful, whatever it is.
I just, I just do it. And then I, um, what I do is what I wrote. It doesn't really make sense because I don't even care about spacing
and backspace. I just like
copy and paste into chat GPT
and I fix my fucking grammar.
And it doesn't.
And I have a diary of
unfiltered thoughts
of everything. I mean everything.
And after that,
you know what you're going to do.
It just comes to you.
Yeah. And then, yeah, just find it.
And then when you're in a space, you're in a streams.
I'm sure a lot of people do message you in the streams and we have a chat here.
There's more opportunities there um and thank you you connected me with uh uh some somnia
somnia network the other day oh yeah and yeah and that was like amazing because i went not done
without you so i'm like oh my goodness is there a find industry in there there's something there's something oh damn
there's coming through so i'm just saying like like these these things are like really important
like i don't know like sometimes like it's hard to monetize i do understand but yeah it's like
what what uh val said you know if you're gonna go to an event, make sure you have a goal in mind.
I get it, but if you're a nobody in the space, just to have to go there and figure it out.
In Asia's space, sometimes I know half the people, but when you're in an event, you don't know one.
I'm an introvert, right?
I become an extrovert, like I force myself to talk to people.
And then somehow, you know, you talk this and that,
and then you become friends, and then kind of like,
oh, I have this event coming up soon.
I'm like, really? That's so cool.
And I get invited to the next one.
And somehow that might lead to another opportunity.
Like, it just happens.
It happens to me more than one time so
um putting yourself out there in your own just being in outside your comfort zone is right enough
or for a big part of it yeah it's a big part of it being being comfortable yeah like and i appreciate
you saying all the stuff that you've done and experienced yeah and i just i
think in my new year's resolution i plan to keep it because i remember last year i faded a lot of
things and this year it's like if i see something and i do talk about that five yeah exactly five
minutes extra time just at least look into it a little bit I'm not saying buy it
or something at least look into it and then you know if you don't see what you like then
whatever it's like it's only five minutes it's like you know do it over coffee or something like
I literally have a to-do list and then if I have like I just write down everything and every day I
do that I just like you know erase it like i literally still
have a notebook i keep like on actual physical paper book i bring around and i write stuff in it
and i write and i don't and i finish it i just cross it like literally i'm like okay i gotta
look at i gotta come in the chat or i'm just gonna finish this email my face over yeah are you the same thing i write a lot of better i'm better
of a book than actual a phone like not like i don't like digital i just like like like actual
paper and pen so yeah i mean you just touched on a lot of things yeah but yeah i will send you the
the gap start market and then it's basically these smaller
projects that they don't appear on kaito yaps leaderboard and it's like we basically they
launch they they'll they'll put out uh like a project they have okay there's a 500 kaito 500
dollars worth and then people just click it and they make a tweet and they just
paste the tweet in it and it's like automatically you'll get 10 bucks like pretty much so so i'll
send you that and then or i'll send you or actually you can even put it up it's called yap
yap.market like y-a-p and then dot market i did did not fade the app or Kato.
And just to touch on some of the things you said,
I do think reflection is important
and trying different things and being consistent.
And that's kind of like what you said.
It's kind of like what I'm trying to be good about doing.
Be consistent with just doing even a little bit,
I think is important.
Again, for me
like not getting rusty making sure you're being present and getting the repetitions
yeah and even if you're not on like twitter or something like the i think the algorithm kind of
like you have to be on at least like once a day or something it's like stupid like if you're not here like i remember when i when i stopped using like twitter for probably like a week
because and then whatever i posted after had like no engagement like it took like another
three four months to come back so each day i tend to like at least like tweet once at least
check in yeah and and you were doing the videos too,
every day for a long time.
Yeah, I faded that.
Like the videos were good.
I actually got a lot of followers and actually everything,
but making videos are hard.
Like you gotta come up with things to say,
my mind was only a minute.
I was like 30 minutes or 60 minutes of sharing
like what I did today in web free.
And it was difficult. Like, yeah sharing, like what I did today in Web3 and it was difficult.
Like, yeah, I did for a hundred days.
That's what I mean.
Just if you're going to choose something, just do it for a while.
And that's why I've been like, all right, I need to know, like, I know what I'm capable
of, but realistically, like, that's why I like, okay, I covered some things I wanted
to make sure I do. Okay. I explored K's why I like, okay, I covered some things I wanted to make sure I do.
Okay. I explored Kato. I explored abstract. Like one weekend I was like, all right, I'm finally
going to sit down and sign up for this forgotten runes. I'm going to play the game. Like,
but it takes time and not everybody has the time. But there is value. I do think,
yeah but there is value i do think especially in web 3 like at least check stuff out like i go on
and on about vfriends like just explore a little bit if you're curious i don't really gain much
from it but i think some stuff is cool and that's what i try to bring here and to your point about trying stuff like i try different
things like i did the green screen like summarizing the teaching to take a day of teaching
tuesdays for a couple months you know you like have the green screen you point the
you point to it and you have the article go behind you like but it was like i don't know if this is a
good value of time for what i'm giving it's a lot of time not a lot of work but it was like I don't know if this is a good value of time for what I'm giving
it's a lot of time not a lot of work but it's just a lot of steps and a lot of processes
so yeah definitely kind of stay in the course and I guess I was actually a little inspired
this past weekend too.
I said I got fired up a little bit,
but there was two instances
when I was a little motivated and inspired.
I told Valerie this already.
But, so this is a conference up in Pasadena
for physical education teachers.
So again, they have the speakers, blah, blah, blah. But there was two times when I was
like, I feel like this is a sign here from the universe a little bit, which I usually always
don't get, but occasionally I get them. And so I found one of the speakers and he's an older
gentleman, probably in his late 50s. I think he said he just retired this year.
He teached in North Carolina.
And I saw him speak last year in Ohio at the SHAPE conference, which is like the national conference for the teachers,
for physical education teachers.
This was the California conference.
And he does a really good presentation about being real, being authentic.
He shared his examples, you know, just different,
different practices and techniques. So I was like,
he was a presentation I really liked.
And I saw him in like the lobby and I said, hello, his name was Bill.
I was like, Hey, I remember you, blah, blah, blah.
And I was just telling him about like what I was seeing,
why I was there and this and that. And he's like, yeah, you should, are you speaking?
Are you, are you doing a presentation?
I was like, no, I'm just here kind of representing the district and,
you know, just doing some networking and connecting with the teachers.
Just going to some speaking sessions.
He's like, oh yeah, you should.
I was like, I was like, yeah, you know what?
If you go to NetShare, I'll do one.
Cause it's free, like you don't have to pay to do it.
You just have to submit your presentation
and you can go if they accept it.
And then there was a second time at the conference
on day two, there was a different presentation I went to.
And the topic was like, how to work with your principals and build the relationship
with your department.
So, and I was kind of like outspoken in that session to like responding to some of the
questions that the speaker was asking.
Cause I think it is a valuable discussion to have, cause I do think school sites struggle
with that.
And then later on in the day, I was looking at another one and this younger teacher comes up to me and he's like, hey, do you have a minute? I just want to pick your brain. You were like really inspiring to me. You're really passionate about when in Long Beach. And so I was like, okay, yeah. So then we, you know, I walked out of like the
presentation room. So, cause like, I didn't want to be rude to the speakers there.
We talked for like 10, 15 minutes about scenarios, situations, what I've done,
how I would handle it, how I would navigate it. And he was like so impressed. And then certain things that I just took a second nature from being in the classroom
was like kind of impressed.
Like, well, yeah, I didn't think of that.
Yeah, I should do this.
And I shared about my opinion, field awareness, what that means, being present and looking
at this and sharing that.
And so he was just like very like impressed and it and say, can I follow you this and that. So then I was
just like taking those as like, reference notes is like, you
know what, maybe I do need to do more. If I had that impact, at
that kind of smaller level, I wasn't proactively trying, I was
just there sharing. And so that's kind of smaller level. I wasn't proactively trying, I was just there sharing.
And so that's kind of what we got me thinking
from this last weekend,
on top of just these other things I've been doing.
And a lot of us do stuff in this space.
A lot of us in this space right now, we all do something.
Greatress does great art and performances.
Valerie does amazing things with her company.
Bobby Sun is helping lead the charge with Oniforce.
Rodrigo is out there in the field,
teaching educators like Minty, Abel, like Eric,
like everybody, my mom, Oni, like Samurai,
like we're all doing something.
And it was like, I think it matters. And I think when the time is right, you'll start to see those signs when it was like, I think it matters.
And I think when the time is right,
you'll start to see those signs when it's like, okay,
I think this path is kind of like something I need to lean into a little bit
more. And so that's what I'm starting to feel.
Because it can't just be about day trading day in and day out,
unless you have time and money to give to that,
which I don't have either of those
at a high level right now.
So I was like, all right, what do I have?
And I have my skill set and my knowledge.
So now how can I deploy that effectively?
And it makes sense.
So welcome to my mini TED Talk for 10KTF Teaching Tuesdays.
Thanks, Eric.
You motivated me.
All right.
Well, covered a lot of ground here.
Well, covered a lot of ground here.
Oh, I think I do have a small update on the AI side,
if you guys really didn't know about it.
So I think everyone kind of saw the Zerbo kind of thing.
Like, he kind of faked his own death or whatever.
I did see that in passing today.
I'm actually worried that this might negatively affect the whole,
you know, space, to be honest.
And, you know, but there are many, many things
that are still going on with AI now.
I think virtuals is killing it with their Genesis token.
I'm sorry, Genesisesis launch so it's like
kind of like back then it's kind of like pump fun um you know pump fun you you basically like buy a
token and then and then when it goes to a certain uh point that goes on bonding curve and it goes
on to like a dex but now it's different like everyone kind of like puts in the same like pre-sale allocation if it
goes if it goes within 48 hours then it'll go go on to like uh uniswap or on solana whatever it
will be if it doesn't within 48 hours obviously you get your money refunded back so they're doing
really well kind of thing and they have i's see that yeah they're actually killing it virtuals Genesis Genesis oh the Genesis part yeah yeah and then
other people are starting to copy them so hollow world is doing that I think
they have like similar AI agents to their you know everyone's trying to do ai agents these
days but however um i i do want to point out there are actual old og money like from back in like
you know bitcoin era so these are like people forgetting because i was yeah i was always a miner, right? So I started 2018 on Bitcoin Eve and then mined till 2021.
So I was mined a lot.
I was mined like this and that and tried out.
People are going back to like OG coins to mine now.
There's Helium, if you remember, it was like this kind of router thingy.
Yeah, I remember.
Router and I remember that.
Yeah, they're coming back now.
They're actually getting really strong.
In the miner community, they're all like,
Oh, I have to get my own miner back out.
And apparently some of them, they need to like adjust a little to mine again
because they migrated.
So they migrated all to Solana.
So it's like surprisingly all the some of the og
coins actually went over solana um is that what prompted it to get a lot of traction uh i think
they went over last year and i guess because last year there wasn't any like anything happening so
you know nothing really happened and now i guess people are catching wind of it.
And then they are looking into it.
And they're like, oh, I got mine again.
And there's other things.
Yeah, it is.
They did so many things during the bear.
They did an AT&T partnership or something.
I have no idea what that is. But Hel um they are helium is the first i guess d pin
and there are other ones out there like render if you know render was like same thing was like
around the same time as helium they were the first i guess gpu compute so everyone who wasn't
GPU compute. So everyone who wasn't like mining ETH went all over to like render.
In that sense, it was like a, it was like a coin that you can put your compute into.
So before all the LMs came out, they were there.
So they're like coming all back now.
And they also migrated to Solana too, last year, end of last year.
So like, I'm like, is that a trend?
I never even heard of render
render is like i think they're like rank like 50 or something they're quite high there like i only look at oh rank 43 this right now so like only like like if you want to i'm not saying like
you know put all your money in it just put 100 bucks it's good enough and you know find out what happens and then there's other stuff like suey
suey is building and there's like they're moving they're moving fast and you said they're a clay
source but i think the one that's bigger is the penguins yeah yeah but there's a last week
pokemon there's a Pokemon rumor oh yeah the
game yeah mm-hmm yeah I think that is like getting big too and I think that I'm
not sure if they added any AI on it or not but they're but they're building
like the ecosystem really a lot a lot and again I think they're the first
major token unlock like you know for the I can't remember if it's investors or for staking,
but there are token unlocks in Sui this month.
So just be careful of any volatility.
It could go down or because of an unlock,
there's something that they're putting out again.
People might buy.
I have no idea.
But usually, you know, ecosystem and blockchains now are smart.
When there's unlocks, they have other good news and other catalysts to make people buy it.
So the unlocks will be less of.
Uh oh, did we last year?
And I think there's other protocols too.
Like even a story, story protocol is like, they got like, I think Steve Aoki song on
there or something and BTS.
And they even have Maroon 5, I think.
I can't remember which song it was.
And they just, they just set it inside their Discord and they're like Maroon 5.
Now we have the IP.
So I'm like, cool, but I don't even know how to like monetize my IP.
How does that work?
Yeah, so then, do you understand how is that going to play out?
No, I don't know.
Seriously, I have no idea how Story Protocol works.
Like, I go in there and I'm like, so I have a, if I make a comic book or if I make like
a picture, how the hell I monetize this?
And they're like, yeah, go to this site.
And people, I'm like, and I go to the site and everyone's like, oh yeah, it's free license.
I'm like, I don't want to get a free license. I want people, every time they look at my picture or download it, I get like a cent or something.
And I'm like, that doesn't work.
There was actually a video that was put out by the dev.
Oh, yeah. Okay, okay.
And I bookmarked it.
I mean, I didn't share it on here because this was like maybe a week and a half, two weeks ago.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is from the dev guy.
And he was really nice when we met him in East Denver.
I would love to have him as a guest on here to pick his brain.
Yeah, he should
you should basically what you just said in the video he shows the licensing of the ip
as the free one but then like there's going to be like a paybone it's like a drop down
like a demo he was showing it's actually kind of cool if i don't find it right now i'll send it to you i'll find it and
send it to you later yeah yeah so because i was thinking like um like if you have like pictures
that you're taking your photographer or something even you you're like a amateur photographer like
back then you can put stuff on wasn't shutter shock it was like another platform yeah there was another platform
you put like pictures before and if people downloaded it and you get like a couple of
cents from it or like you know 0.0 of a cent um on splash or something i don't remember exactly
what it was and you can monetize but this is where web 2 though it's not like web 3.
so like i was thinking like how does story work so yeah yeah yeah but anyways um stories going on
with like they have like more and more of these ips coming on there so i think they're going somewhere
they're going somewhere so there's a lot of different opportunities everywhere from like IP all the way to like what I said, like the miners are coming back.
The OG miners are coming back.
So I have no idea what's happening.
But again, just if you have like a niche, stay in a niche because then you'll be too swamped with too much data, too much info.
Then you can't concentrate on like one or a few,
a few good winners.
I just usually just concentrate.
I have like a list of 20 and it just look at least 20 and anything that comes
I don't want to care,
but the space is attention.
So I get it.
So then I kind of like cycle like the old ones out and then kind of put like
better ones in.
So I still look at
only 20 so that's what i do eric can you can you share some of your top 20 that you you examine
oh yeah yeah sure sure of course um uh top i actually do like avalanche a lot um avalanche
uh they have the etf coming um they have if you know there's a maple story game they're
going to launch i think in like seven days maple story was like a it's like fortnight but for like
it's very long time like if you're as old as i am you must have played yeah it's a side scroller
like maple story like it's maybe but it's been like 20 years or 30 years since this game and they finally make
it on the blockchain and it's even on yaps naper board and it's probably going to take a lot of
avalanche network so maybe there will be avalanche and maple story some kind of like swaps and stuff
so i already got into avalanche a while ago and the last couple of days, it went up like 20, 30%. My next one is BitTensor,
Tau, if you know.
It's probably most talked besides FET
on the AI infra.
And they have a grayscale ETF
and they're going to have different tokens tokens on there so then they're gonna
have their different tokens gonna have like listings as well so that would probably push
the main token which is the tau token up more but tau is really very high already so just be
careful there it's like these are like i guess safer plays but not like it won't get you 100x
but maybe a 10x you know know, that kind of thing.
But the 10x could be when Bitcoin goes to like 200k.
So, you know, of course, you know, the safest is Bitcoin.
My next one is back then.
I did work for Cubic for a year.
They're finally finishing all their stuff that they said they would do last year for the last 9 months.
So they have the Cubic Academy, they did a Certik thing that they make their blockchain the fastest.
Like 15, like 15,000,000 transactions per second.
1.5 million transaction per second.
I think Sonya Network only has like 1 million.
But it's like so fast.
It's like we don't really need it.
But, you know, there's a lot of like politics internal.
And I was there.
But they have like their dual mining completed.
So because their AI is not like fully ready,
they don't need that much compute. they're taking half the compute they're gonna mine something else instead they're
mining um monero um if you know the privacy coin and they're just gonna mine it and then sell it
and then buy back cubic and then burn that so basically they're gonna make their burn process
even more um they just completed it um they've been talking about it and trying to do it for
the last like nine months six months and they finally started I think just
started and they're probably gonna start marketing probably next week or so and
yeah you can say you're done for. You were a person with them for a long time.
You were a content creation for them.
Yeah, for a year and I was part of the ecosystem.
I helped them build Asia.
So like the market in Singapore, we hired.
I remember that.
I hired someone in Korea.
I did probably like five,
I went to Korea like five times for them.
I did like three talks on stages.
You know, like because of them, I learned more of, you know, the ecosystem here too.
So, you know, like they're not strong in Asia. They're really strong in Europe and they're starting to do U.S. now.
But there was no one in Asia.
So if you're in Asia, you want to you know want a job go
work for them they actually pay pretty good it's just there's just like a lot of expectations
yeah i remember you talking about them for a long time when you were working with them
yeah and i felt like they were earlier before a lot of the wave came through with all the AI stuff.
I felt like, because conceptually, I didn't grasp it from all the stuff you would post.
But then I started to see a lot of the stuff that came out.
And AI, AZ-16, all these, Luna, all these things.
I was like, oh, shit.
It's very different.
They're going a step ahead of what the virtuals and Jatchi PD is doing.
They're trying to do AGI instead of AI.
They're trying to get the sentient AI that actually thinks like a human.
So they're doing a step later.
Very ambitious.
So much knowledge, Eric. I appreciate you sharing. I appreciate you sharing appreciate you sharing the alpha
i feel like our uh our friend amyeli missed out on the alpha today
last week i'm gonna be there next week we'll have to send her the link
all right but they're there yeah but anyways they're they're there's oh yeah i'm gonna go down
list very quickly so virtual is my next one ava which is a hollow world one i said earlier render
sui story protocol kaido helium believe it or not pudgy yeah and uh and that's about it like Story Protocol, Kaido, Helium, Believe It or Not, Pudgy.
Yeah, and that's about it.
There's other ones that I keep swapping out, but these are my main 10 I look at.
I hope that helps, Minty.
Minty, you take your notes?
Absolutely, because it's a strong 10, And, you know, Eric's a very smart
guy. And he's, you know, been on the other side on the builder side, when you're on the builder side,
and examining, you know, a company like Quibic, you can start to see, you know, what the competitors
are, what the other front runners are, and who actually is doing the business, because there's
a lot of vapor AI going on right now. Just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got, I can't believe some of the,
like I'll get into the spaces of some of these
and I'll be like, yeah, where your H100 is coming from.
Oh yeah, yeah.
We're putting them on order.
Like, yeah, you're going to get those in like three years.
So you're not a real company.
So it's like, there's a lot of this.
Once you get on the other side,
you start really seeing who's actively building.
I had Akash on my show a long time ago, and I could see sort of what they were building.
And I was like, this is a smart way of leveraging and utilizing this for what's coming.
And AI came.
And, you know, it's off to the races, I think, for those projects that are ready.
Yeah, when you start building, you get,
it's a different,
it's a different,
point of view where you're seeing it.
And then when you become like an investor or even retail is another point of view.
That's why I love going to like,
key in your space.
Cause your point of view is different than everyone else's.
And you know,
when you get like more side of the story,
you're like,
so that's what's going on.
Like you kind of like put it together.
Like, I mean, on the builder side, people come to me come to me it's like oh can you buy my leftover gpus for
from me i'm like what the fuck and some people just can't find the h100 it's like very different
like and then i have like google like they talk to us like and then we basically did something with them and they tried to do like a node, Google.
It's not really news anymore.
And they couldn't do it because of the protocol issue.
And they have their own like, you know, network because Google Cloud is the same thing as like AWS.
They have like a million different, million different GPUs and
CPU somewhere, and they still have to rent it out to people. Right. So what I see is,
even though there is like a mass of people trying to grab computing power, there's still a lot of
people who can't sell that computing power out there. I guess it's like, you know, it's not a
demand and supply issue.
It's more like, it's more like I can't find that person to make that connection issue.
Like accessibility.
Yeah, accessibility. So, and sometimes like if you're a different country, then, you know,
you're not going to get the cheap ones from like Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan, like Central Asia,
because you can have lag time or something. So they're like, yeah, I'm going to give one that
closer to you. Right. And if you're in the States, of course you go to like, you know, Colorado or
something, but, or Texas, but you know, if you're all the way in like Africa, you're not going to
access those ones. Right. It's like the price is different between different countries, location,
um, the internet speed there. Like there's so much like, and even with, there's a lot to think
People find opportunities everywhere.
So that's why there are those web free, like if you have a spare computer, go mine some
crypto or just give your computer up to one of those decentralized compute networks and
they basically use electricity
and they can't use something. There's so many things out there that you do look. That's all
I can say. Of course, there's pros and cons. Not financial advice. And not AI advice.
Don't. Usually you lose money to be honest. And then like your electricity never like right now, the point because no one
mines anymore because the electricity is too expensive.
And, and the people that actually do mine or enthusiasts that actually like.
From the very beginning, they mine it with the very beginning.
They probably mine the first like three weeks or like the first month.
So they have like a big bag. So they probably mine the first three weeks or the first month. So they have a big bag.
So they continue doing the network.
And even though they're losing money, that's okay.
They're still way above what they have.
So until to the point maybe two years later, they kind of start losing money,
they're like, whatever.
They'll probably still contribute to the network.
Just to add to that too i remember when
valerie was running freaking node i checked the internet the data that went up like 4x
in just that short amount of time yeah like a week remember wow videos remember that i was like
um i feel like this is going to be a blip on the radar and they're going to start charging us more.
Like, we don't have fiber here.
We got, like, you know, 5G through T-Mobile.
So I'm like, this is going to be something.
Yeah, but it's going to be fast.
Like, yeah, just, oh, yeah, alpha thing.
Helium, look at it.
If you still have, like like the old router back then
do it because i ordered five only got two and the other three they rugged me and never gave
me back my money so i was like i was pissed to the moon but i had no like a fuck whatever
yeah and i and i found it and i like i actually looked for it the other day
and then i it doesn't work anymore so
I'm like like shouting at like people trying to get it to work again um but yeah like I'm the same
I'm in the same boat Eric I was one of the first you know to try and get a helium liner and had to
wait that you know four months just to even get a chance at one and I actually got an external one
and so I was you know one of the first in my neighborhood, but it just never really functioned.
And then by the time I got it running,
then it was like, oh, you got to go to 4G now
because it was 3G.
And then I had to get the module
and then they transferred into the protocol,
into Solana, but it's so powerful, right?
It's like the idea of a cell phone network
going up as fast as
it did is really really amazing and it's good to hear that it's functional now it's functional now
and they're getting some heavy traction back again so i'm like the og chains are coming back i can
say like you know in force but they're they're still here so if they're still here after the bear market so i think we
should at least pay attention and you know i only pay attention to maybe like the top 100 coins
usually and it's still top 100 helium so and it is an all-time like i can't say all-time low but
it's like low wait isn't that what we have over here? Just like shove it back and then like, you know, plug it in and see what happens.
Like seriously, like look at it.
All right, we're going to go to Valerie and then Creatress.
Valerie, isn't that the human thing we have?
Yes, I have a helium hotspot.
Oh my God.
I won for free.
I've never freaking plugged it in.
This is a year in Wait Let me finish
So Helium has
Two different types of hot spots
One is for in home
And one is for a public space
They're two different types
And so the one I have
That I won in a giveaway
Is for a public space
And so I need to go find some sort of cafe
or grocery store where a lot of people are going in, you know, the venue and needing to use the
internet and the access for all that. So it's still in its box. I never took it out because I was confused as hell. What do I do?
How do I set this up?
I don't even know where to go or who to go to.
The closest cafe I can think of is a Starbucks down the street.
But I'm just like, I don't know.
I don't even know what to say.
I don't even know how to explain.
Like, hey, can I put this hotspot here?
I don't even know so any advice
uh on that would be super helpful because yeah people have been telling me for so long
like in the past year like i could have been like making helium token this whole time
but they they just sent it to me they didn't me instructions. They didn't tell me what I should do.
They just, okay, you won.
What's your address?
And they sent it to me and that's it.
I just was like, okay, what do I do from here?
I'm going to hook up at work.
That's the story of every minor.
You don't have to get aggressive.
You don't have to find the information.
They don't give you any instructions for any minor.
I've never gotten any anyway. i always have to go back to be like you know youtube and find
you know how to connect it to whether it's slush pools or how to connect it to network
and it really is an added education yeah yeah yeah but it is a fun ride i was gonna say like
mining is fun but like kilum is the easy one.
Like, there's no overheating or anything.
Just, I think, did it have, like, the two big antennas?
Like, but I guess take it out of the box and find out, right?
Like, I would just, like, go to some rooftop and then stick it in, lock it, and then just, like, forget about it.
I guess that's one way.
I could just climb the rooftop of starbucks and
put it yeah or something like you know like okay i tell you my uh my eef my eef mining experience
like basically i didn't steal electricity but i had a co-working space so basically i stole
electricity for like a year and a half almost two years so just like they didn't know about me
mining and it wasn't on the rent contract
anything i didn't i didn't care i just i and then they forced me to leave for like four months i
didn't i stole electricity because that's what you need to do right like like yeah you just gotta
make it work um crime launching and i already chain. Dude, you know what? I already know a place.
Keegan, just plug it into your classroom.
Just plug it in there.
No one's going to give a crap where it is
and then you just earn something.
This is not financial money.
Okay, well, Keegan tried to plug in his Tesla
at his campus
and security got on him
and was like, you can't you can't charge here why not
because they're jackasses really no one's even in the spot it was literally oh my god i don't
want to go into that that's like a little tangent unnecessary like long story short i try to do
what you're saying plug it in take electricity my car, and they weren't having it.
Just because it was something probably
that they didn't like
because we're disrupting,
we're shaking the boat a little bit.
Okay, wow.
we can't let him get a little bit ahead.
No, we got to shut him down
for no reason.
It's like, dude.
Yo, can you actually
plug into your Tesla then?
I'm just wondering.
Just like,
plug into your Tesla,
just put it on the roof and then drive around
well that's when you said helium
yeah I know there's another
company that does that with some of the
where you get
I forget what it's called though
oh wow okay that's interesting
yeah there is one
it's like Honeybee or something like that
actually somebody from the OniForce community
posted about it. They did it.
I forget who it was.
Cool. Okay.
I'm going to peace out, but yeah, keep talking.
All right.
appreciate you.
All right.
Miss Creatures creatures performance artist how's everything going on your end of the world uh it's going good i'm on a treadmill right now
trying to get a couple more steps in for the day thank you thank you
uh yeah there's a tv playing um something next me, so I'm not going to talk too much.
Oh, you support?
Yeah, you know, and say, give you a visual or I mean, a virtual high five.
Oh, well, thanks.
Appreciate that, friend.
Yeah, I heard you found a very
cool treasure today
for Miss Princess Peach
You know what?
There's just so much that rolls
through my day sometimes.
wish I had more energy.
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we've had enough fun for one night.
We've covered enough ground.
It's been a good show.
I appreciate everybody giving
some support.
I said I wasn't going to go over three hours, but...
This has been a regular thing you've been doing now.
You know what? We're not always gonna have this opportunity.
That's fine. I could just be at work, sitting at a computer for hours on end,
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Or we could be learning and sharing alpha that maybe we explore.
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Oh, hey, hey, what is the poll app again?
I tried it earlier.
Girls Gang didn't work.
Oh, it might have been past the time now.
I can send you the link, though.
Okay, cool, cool.
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Chickens, anything else to wrap us up?
Quick lesson.
Minty, go ahead.
Sorry, can you give a quick primer on streaming on Abstract?
Supposedly I had clearance, but i just haven't had time because i got like it was hard to get on at first and so i just kind of like
wrote it off but then somebody said oh no no you're qualified now you should go but i just i
don't i don't know how do i even start okay well i can share a little bit here yeah that's an easy
Okay. Well, I can share a little bit here. Yeah, that's an easy one. So you need to have a platform to log in to stream. I use Restream. Valor uses StreamYard, but I know you can use, what is it, OBS, I think.
You just copy the stream key, plug it in, and you basically choose.
You have the title, you have the description, and then if you play one of their games, you choose which game it was.
And then it basically shows in your description, oh, Minty is streaming Road Tracers or Minty is doing whatever all the games are.
So I haven't really used it, I guess,
in that form factor properly
because you get like a boosted algorithm
if you're streaming their games and their applications.
I mainly use it just for when I'm doing the spaces here
or when V, Disel and I are playing Fortnite.
But this goes back to kind of like what we were sharing with Eric.
Because I'm like, well, I kind of want to have a little presence here.
Have a little presence on Kato.
Follow some stuff on Ornals.
Like, I just want to have some, like a touchpoint, right?
I'm not going all in on it as much as I can because I just don't feel like playing games
because I don't have the time
to play those games even though I just set up a Fortnite so it's not entirely true but
some of those games you do need to have an NFT some of those applications you don't so I haven't
fully utilized it to full force if you will but I know there are streamers on there that do regularly and it's not as
like oversaturated as YouTube or other platforms,
even though people may think, Oh,
I'm not getting a lot of traction on a lot of eyes and ears,
but really the pond is not that big in general. So there's,
this is an opportunity I think, and I'm just continuing to do a little bit.
So I don't know. Does that kind of help? Or if you want to add in?
Yeah, definitely.
So you can't stream video directly in Abstract.
Like Keegan said, you need to get a streaming platform
like StreamYard, Restream, OBS, or anything else.
And from there, Abstract gives you a stream key.
In the past, the stream key used to change every single time you wanted to go live.
But they have since updated now, where you just have one stream key for every live that you do,
which is really awesome because that's pretty much the standard.
There is also a really great Telegram I can share with you where all the streamers are in,
and people are sharing insights on what's working for them, what cameras they're using,
what kind of content they're thinking about doing. So a lot of people like brainstorming and also trying to figure out how to get badges
and stuff like that.
So if you want that, I can DM it to you.
And then also too, one of the things is when you start streaming,
I don't know if this is the same with you, Keegan,
but when I stream our show,'s layers to this obviously I click
go live like I click go live from StreamYard and usually StreamYard will automatically start the
live through YouTube on X but for some reason it doesn't automatically start my abstract stream. So I have to literally open up abstract on a browser
and then click start live. So that's a little bit annoying. You do, it takes practice to remember
every time. Like if you're multi-streaming, you got to remember, go into your abstract account,
click start live stream. And yeah, that's pretty standard. In the beginning, you used to be able to see all your
tips, even those like 0.00001 pengus. But the people that like, we're getting a lot of views
and a lot of tips were annoyed about how many pop ups there were with those really small tips.
So now the only tips that will show up in the chat,
I think is like 100 pengu or more or something like that.
I forget how many.
But yeah, so sometimes you got to check your wallet
to see if anyone has given you any tips.
And yeah, you should be able to see your views now
before in the beginning.
You couldn't know, you couldn't see like if anyone was tuning in because you couldn't tell, but they've now added that.
And yeah, I don't know.
There's a lot of other little things, but they've been improving little by little.
And they're really good about listening to streamer feedback. So that's why that Telegram group is really, really good.
Because they also listen to all of the feedback that we give.
Yeah, they take a post.
And they are refining, too.
I know it's a lot of...
I saw people are still trying to get just a stream, like not even everybody's got in the green light, but they are still refining it and innovating.
Like they've added things in or even just a short amount of time.
I mean, relatively speaking, February, March, April, May, like four months to just add little things in, you know, like, oh, it's just streaming.
Now there's a chat. Now you
can like. Now you can follow.
Now you can, you know,
it's just little things.
But these are the details that I think
do matter. Excuse me.
And they're
just going to continue to innovate, I think.
And shout out to them.
What's your telegram, Minty? Or can just dm it to me if you want it's always the same i'm pretty consistent with my branding
okay but i'll uh thank you
yeah and you've done a lot of video mintyy, so this should be second nature, I think, once you just take a few minutes to log in and explore a little bit.
Yeah, I think you're right.
It is just probably about finding that stream key and acquiring it.
It's just in the beginning, like, it was just like, oh, you had to, you know, you're in
And like, you know, once I got approved, I didn't even know I was approved.
And it was just like, okay, now go stream.
And I'm like, okay. I don't even like know how,. And I was just like, okay, now go stream. And I'm like, okay.
I don't even know how, but I guess it is just a matter of getting that stream key and going on.
I almost felt like I wasn't as excited because it felt like that initial rush,
all the tips were happening in the very beginning when everybody got this boatload of Pengu airdrop to them.
They were just kind of tipping know tipping left and right you know to to certain
creators but i feel like that that i feel in my light observation maybe that's waned and as you
said they're trying to make little improvements but you still need to develop a discoverability
and you know a platform that the platform can only work if there's more people watching that
are on the platform which which ends up happening.
I've seen a lot of these come and go and they bring on the biggest creators.
Their, their focus is on like kind of being whores to like, you know,
the people who, who on, on Twitter,
on X have the biggest numbers and they go and they try and make a deal with
them or give them, you know know superior positioning on the platform and it's failed every time it's i i've just
i've just seen every big token um that's that's in media has come in over the past like five
years and done this and it's not worked and there's just something that they're these
guys might have the ability as you're're saying, to listen to the community and provide the feedback if they're in the long haul to develop, you know, maybe something a bit more native.
You know, like Keegan coming out with something original, you know, can get the support and can get, you know, sort of traction as that pond grows.
Yeah, I mean, I have nothing negative to say i mean you met some of the team in
eight them where they were pretty cool pretty nice and you know i support all the chains
i don't discriminate i am willing to explore unless you, you do me wrong and give me a reason. Like, Hey, you guys are interviewing.
You guys are trying.
You guys are listening.
You're here.
Like, yeah, nobody's making millions in here.
This isn't YouTube.
But at least they're trying.
They're pushed to this innovation.
So we'll see where it is in six months.
I mean, I think a lot of us faded penguins early on in a long time ago and not making that mistake again.
So anyway,
all right.
I think we'll start wrapping this up.
Shiggins, any final words or did you fall asleep?
All right.
Minty, last final thoughts.
Ground game strong.
I always appreciate you allowing me to come in at the end of class and raising hell. It's, you know, as Eric was saying,
you occupy a very special place within this space.
And I hope you do find what it is that you're looking for in terms of that
satisfaction of connecting your passion to platform.
I know you started with 10 KTF. Clearly it's still in the title,
but hopefully that comes back.
I think we're all waiting for that to come back as well.
There's a lot of the story builders and stuff
have been reaching out lately to me like,
gosh, wish we could get this going again,
get that going again.
But it kind of rests right now, unfortunately, on 10KTF
starting up their engine again
and then trying to find ways to to ride along with that I
think everyone's also looking at the other side as being potentially that type of thing because you
have figgy running it and he's communicating in that same way of you know mystery and evolving
story and I think that that has the potential as well to to have that level of engagement and
and following so I'm excited for that.
I know that's coming soon.
Code of prices are going through the fricking roof
because of it.
I should have bought one when I could,
but this is the space we're in always, right?
Constant fricking FOMO,
because there's so much going on.
But we appreciate it.
Self-induced.
Thank you. Thank you for those kind words
right eric f any final words or have you already gone back to work yeah i'm going back to work but
thank you so much for the space again i love the space and your perspective and many things so just keep it up abstract streaming everything um like helium minor seriously just
use all your resources and then like yeah there's opportunities everywhere
yeah and i gotta give a quick shout out to um and thank you erica for those kind words as well
and i gotta give a shout out to craig's coin purse i won a giveaway for the abstract games
have i participated yet no he just sent me it this morning.
I won it yesterday.
But he's on Australia time.
So I missed day one.
But it's like a three or four day event of games.
You can win stuff.
I know Pudgy Penguin you can win.
So I have the ticket to play.
I just haven't had time yet.
So maybe I'll play a little bit tonight.
Maybe tomorrow.
So shout out to Craig's Coin Purse for that.
And last but not least, V. Dizzle, any final closing thoughts?
Yeah, you should get on that abstract games because I shared it on our show and I was looking into it.
And the games, there's only four games and they only last 24 hours
each so all right yeah you should get on it but uh other than that yeah uh this was a great show
and um yes just happy everybody keeps tuning in and I was that random question I was going to ask you was, who's who's that guy?
He's not in the audience anymore.
But I noticed some of these PFPs, they're not following me.
I'm assuming they follow you, obviously, for the show.
But I'm like, who are these people?
And they're like dedicated.
They're dedicated listeners.
And I'm like, these people are not bots.
Like, I don't think they're bots. And I'm like they're these people are not bots like I don't think they're
bots and I'm like damn that that's dedication and so like I admire that I hope you know there's
layers to this reaches um you know that kind of audience as well it's like we have dedicated
you know viewers so yeah congrats on that um And congrats to everybody who keeps showing up,
you know, every time to the show. I remember there was a time where it was just like Keegan
and me and maybe one or two other people. But I remember, you know, he wanted to be like 10KTFM,
you know, they would get hundreds of viewers or listeners. And A-Bomb kept telling him, just keep going, man.
Just be consistent.
And here's Keegan.
Keegan is still here, you know.
Some of the other shows are not around right now.
But Keegan's still going, as Minty said, still with 10KTF in the title.
So I think that's pretty awesome.
So keep it up.
Thanks for the kind words.
I do what I can with a little bit of time I have.
And you know what?
Like Eric said,
you never know where these little things can lead to, who you meet, what it means.
I do feel like reputation matters.
And I do feel like in this space, it is going to matter more and more.
As people like to try and pretend that they know what they're doing or that they're genuine or authentic.
But we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
And, yeah, I'm going to keep trying to do little things and try stuff,
and I appreciate the support.
And, yeah, strong, game, strong.
Check back next week.
Don't know, being present, make an impact.
Maybe I'll have something to share.
Maybe I'll win a Pudgy Penguin in his Abifact games.
So we'll have to play some games.
Appreciate everybody being here.
Let me take off my headset.
Thank you for everybody
coming through.
Got to shut the live stream off.
Abstract, thank you guys.
Thanks for the follow.
That's a new follow.
Appreciate that.
That's a new follow.
Appreciate that.
You guys have a great week.
We'll stop that.
Earned XP.
All right, I'll take it.
Who's here?
Wannabe intern.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being here.
There's layers to this.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being here. William Pear Tree to this. Thank you for being here. Tokatok, thank you for being here.
William Pear Tree, good to see you, old friend.
Glad you're making it back in here when you can.
Abel, we'll see you next week.
Appreciate you coming and giving some support and time as well.
Creatress, thanks for being here.
Thank you for being here.
Check out her art, everything she does.
Shiggins, appreciate all the input.
Appreciate it.
Definitely helped with the commentary of the cards. I definitely don, appreciate all the input. Definitely helped with the
commentary of the cards. I definitely don't have
all that experience yet.
Minty, appreciate the support.
thank you for being here.
B Dizzle, thank you for being here.
Together we can achieve more.
And I'll see you guys next week.
And hit me up if you want the Po app.
I can send it to the DM. One more time
One more time.
One more time. Thank you. One more time, I'm gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, I'm gonna stop and dance, yeah.
One more time, I'm gonna celebrate, oh yeah, one more time.
Bye, guys. Thank you.