Ordinals 🟧 w/ @OnChainMonkey | IYKYK Show Ep 89

Recorded: May 31, 2023 Duration: 1:21:22
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That was the right one.
All you mysteries are moving in the sun.
I'll show some love and respect.
Get some love and respect.
Baby, you can see that the gazing eye won't lie.
I don't give up your lover tonight.
Cause it's just you and me and this one.
All right, let's tend to be mentioned tonight.
She found a lonely sound.
She keeps on waiting for time out there.
Oh, love, can you love me, babe?
Love is this loving, baby, it's time turning around.
Just your eyes, I'm the only one.
And throw me, console me, cause that's just how it should be done.
Oh, your history's like fire from a busted gun.
Maybe you can see that the gazing eye
Won't lie to give up your lover tonight
She found a lonely sound
She keeps on waiting for time out there
Love, can you love me, babe?
Love, is this loving, babe?
Love, is this loving, babe?
Some like the days we'll meet
Some will sustain us
And I can't sit on the edge
When they need to touch me
Oh, my roses we'll meet
Soon we'll leave
And I'll still stop right
You should be in my space
You should be in my life
You should be in my space
You should be in my life
You should be in my space
Hello, hello, everybody
Welcome back to another episode of
If You Know You Know, the show for Web3 creators and enthusiasts
I am your host, Bell, and each week I'm joined by a panel of experts to bring you the latest trends, opportunities, and perspectives from the creators who are shaping the future of technology and art
Nothing we ever say is financial advice and it's always important for you to do your own research
If throughout the space you have any questions or comments, please request to speak or type it in the bottom right-hand corner chat and we'll be checking that throughout the show
Today, my co-host is my partner in crime, NFT Fiend, the CEO of Holiday Labs and co-founder of NFT Girl
And of course, we're joined by GoodThings, Evangelist, Engineer of MediGood and OnChainMonkey
I am so excited to have this show
I'm going to tell you a personal story about my journey with OnChainMonkey so that everybody can laugh at me
But I do it for the sake of others
Yeah, I know, I know
Man, it's the frustrating things of, you know, you just never know
And the journey of what I've had here in Web3
But I'm going to save that story for a little bit later
GoodThings, welcome to the show
I am so excited to have you here
Thank you, Belle
Thank you so much for having me
I'm super excited, you know, to speak with you today
You know, we've got just an amazing community of people here
I can see a lot of familiar faces
If everybody can do us a favor, hit the lower right-hand corner
Throw us a rise, throw your favorite OCM Genesis or Karma down there
Let's get this space going, get some more folks in here
Retweet the space
Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Belle
I'm really excited
Of course, man, you're my kind of speaker
Like you took it even before I said
I was about to say in a little bit
Just a couple of seconds
I'm going to be pinning up a tweet here, guys
Giving everybody a chance to get in here
And then, yeah, if you could retweet it
That would be amazing
And type some things on here at the bottom of it
We always love that interactive and that engagement
NFT Fiend, how are you?
I am well, GM, GM
Hey, everyone
GM, GM to everybody here
All right, it looks like we're getting a couple more people in here
I'm going to go ahead and post up this tweet
Just like getting it out of the way right now
Good things
We were going to have Amanda on here
I know it didn't work out
But was looking forward to having her on here
And so just wanted to give you a chance
I know you're going to say something about her
Yeah, yeah
No, Amanda
Amanda is traveling right now
Amanda is almost always traveling
She's probably
You know, I think one of the biggest signals
That I always tell people to pay attention to
Because she is going all over the world all the time
You know, spreading our message
You know, basically organizing partnerships
Meeting with community members
She is our co-founder and chief operating officer
And really, I think, you know
One of the great leaders of this space
You know, going out into the world
And doing the work that it takes to build out
A company and a worldwide community
So yeah, she's actually heading to Asprey Studio in London
Super exciting event
We partnered with Asprey and Bugatti
To launch their upcoming collection on Bitcoin
And so they're having an event
In their brand new studio that they've built
And they're going to have all kinds of amazing collectors there
You know, I think Seedphrase will be there
I can't remember the other person
But there's several big collectors within the Asprey Studio community
Because they already have an ETH collection
And I see Jaybrush down there
Jaybrush is one of our amazing community members
He's a Celestial
Which there's only ever going to be 20 of those in our community
And he actually, I think, is involved in that in some way
I think he's got on the list
For their upcoming Bugatti egg collection on Bitcoin
And I think he's going to be able to show some of his art
Hopefully Celestial, I would imagine, in that studio
So maybe we'll get him up on stage later on
And he can talk about that
But yeah, Amanda really wanted to be here
I definitely would love to do this again
And have her come on
Because she is an absolute legend
And a leader of OCM and Medigood
We will absolutely make that happen
So, I mean, you know, just another day
Bugatti, man
That's not a name that you throw out there every day
I mean, that's really amazing
I want to talk about OCM
But I'm going to take this opportunity to ask
Just straight off the bat
How in the world did you guys get linked up with that?
Yeah, so Ollie John Walker
He's the Chief Creative Officer of Asprey Studio
And Asprey Studio is a partnership
Between Asprey of London and Bugatti
So Asprey of London is a 200-year-old company
I actually hadn't heard of them before
Because I'm not super
You know, I actually probably am not a normal consumer
Of such high-end luxury goods
You know, they've done work for the royal family
I mean, they've done amazing things
They're a 200-year-old company
And Bugatti, obviously
I think a lot of us have heard of
They're a 100-year-old company
And so between the two of them
You know, these are two of the oldest companies in the world
Known for producing the highest quality craftsmanship
You know, in the goods that they produce
And, you know, they basically saw Danny
I think speaking in the Twitter spaces
About what we were doing with our Genesis collection
What we have built with our Dimensions collection
Which is upcoming
And, you know, they had a meeting
And Danny showed them our Dimensions collection
And they were basically very excited to work with us
So we are their technology partner
And, yeah, there's a lot more to come
That I can't really go too far into
But there is a linkage between our Dimensions collection
And their collection
And this is a very, like, innovative
And important step for digital assets on Bitcoin
And I think digital assets in general
So we're super excited
You know, we've been
Danny and our co-founders
Amanda Terry and Bill Tye
These are three people who have been building companies
And building in crypto
Pretty much since the beginning
And so they have a reputation
That I think speaks for itself
Once you kind of look at the work that they've done
And what they've been involved in
So, you know, I won't say it was like a no-brainer
But I think, you know, once they found out
About what we were doing on Bitcoin
It just, it pretty much, you know
It was pretty quickly that we were able to
Ink a partnership with them
So let's take a step back real quick
Because I want to talk about
I definitely want to talk about Bitcoin
And, you know, how OCM has embraced that
And obviously Ordinals right now
Is the talk of the year
Or the talk of the century, if you will
In the NFT space and in Web3 in general
So absolutely, we need to talk about that
But before we go any further
OCM, OCM, OnChainMonkey
And excuse me, everybody
I'm getting over a cold
So if you hear me clear in my voice
Apologies, apologies, apologies right now
But we're going to get through it
Because this is an important conversation
And, you know, here for that, right?
Here for it
So apologies in advance
But bear with me for a second
So OnChainMonkey
Is an OG in the space
And has done so much
In my opinion
Just one of the experts in the space
That not only saw the importance
And Ordinals
And, you know, what's going on in Bitcoin
But took it from the very beginning
And bringing something into the Web3 community
That I'm going to argue
Had not been seen before
You guys have fantastic value
Which is the rise that we see
That everybody talks about, right?
The core values are respect
Integrity, sustainability
And enrichment
Those are not words that we get to see
Every day in the so-called
Degen, Web3
Crypto bro culture
That people normally
Think about when they think about
Web3 or NFTs
So do you want to talk
A little bit about
Like the genesis of that
And, you know, the community
Behind OnChainMonkey
Yeah, absolutely
So I started off as a community member
And in fact
A lot of our team
Started off as community members
And, you know, I think this is
A very rare thing
Not just in NFTs
But just in the world
As a whole
So my background
I started my career at Boeing
Spent about six years there
Then I moved into AWS
Amazon Web Services
Spent a couple years there
I quit Amazon Web Services in 2019
To pursue my master's degree
In computer science
At University of Washington
And there I worked with
A lot of great people
We had a very small team
Of grad students and undergrads
And a few high school students
We were building
An AI application
For structural biology
And so we got to work with
People in the national science labs
All of the major universities
You know, Boston University
University of Chicago
Harvard, Stanford
UC San Diego
And so I worked with like
I think really
Like high level people
But the way in which
Those people
Came into those organizations
So, so different
From how we built this team
At OnChainMonkey and Medigood
And it really is about
The people with us
And I literally
I was watching
So I got into Bitcoin
And Ethereum in 2017
Just kind of as a degen
I started buying out of FOMO
I didn't know what I was buying
I just knew that
You know, it was
In my mind
It was worth buying
And I learned about it
After the crash
Like what it actually
What these systems are
What they're going to enable
And so when I came into NFTs
Or when the NFT bull run
Really started in 2021
I was watching for
Pretty much like nine months
And it wasn't until
I found OnChainMonkey
That I felt convicted enough
To actually convert
Some of my Bitcoin
And Ethereum
Into some of these NFTs
And it was so early on then
There was no definition
Around like
You know, Danny and the team
Weren't putting out a roadmap
Like everyone was putting out
These roadmaps
Which was similar to
In my mind
The ICO craze of 2017
You know, a new coin would launch
And they would put out a white paper
And that's all you had to go on
And you know, there was a ton of promises
That never got delivered
And so, you know
It wasn't about making promises
It was about basically
Setting a foundation
For what was to come
And one of the first things Danny did
You know, I think in like
A week or so after the mint
He was in Discord constantly
You could talk to Danny
Like all hours of the day
And he would even
Hop on voice chat with us
We were just community members
We were just anonymous people
Who had bought his tokens
But he spent a lot of time with us
And he came in one day
And said, you know
We met as a team
And we think
Organizational values
Are really important
And these are the values
That we want to
You know, use
To represent our community
And this very long-term vision
That we have
For building out this ecosystem
And he put out the rise values
And it was like
Pretty much unanimous
Like there was no one
In the Discord
That was like
No, I don't like that
Or no, I don't want that
We all just started saying rise
And it became
It became really
The foundation
For everything that we build
You know, our ethos
Our philosophy
Aligns completely
With those values
Respect, integrity
Sustainability
And enrichment
And so as a company
That is what drives
All of the products
That we create
For our members
Everything that we build
Has to be of the highest quality
It has to be something
That will last forever
Because when you put something
As long as the network is up
It should be
It should be there forever
It goes into the community
As well, right?
Like so we have this amazing
Community of people
I see a lot of them
In here right now
And I think the reason
That we're able to attract
These folks
It's not about money
You know, we are absolutely
About generating wealth
You know, financial wealth
For our community
Through the assets
That we build and deliver
But more than anything
It's about building out
A positive force
In the world
So not just in the crypto industry
But in the world at large
And I think maybe
We'll get into some of the things
We've done as a community so far
But those values
Couldn't be more of an important
Foundation for what
On chain monkey is
And what it will be
In the future
I can actually attest to that
To the fact that
Danny was in there
In Discord in day one
And I can tell you that
And I know that
Because I actually
Minted two OCMs
And I was an idiot
And then sold them
So if you know
What you think about me
Then you know that
My story in Web3
Has been twofold, right?
I've always been on
The NFT girl side
Which is very art-focused
And very about the creator
And about the collector
Side of it
I am a single mom
And I always talk about
How Web3 opportunities
Are here to get got
And I did a lot of trading
Like a long time ago
This seems like forever ago, right?
But I got in
And didn't do
I suppose enough research
And thought that
As a single mom
I got to bring home
And this was such
A fantastic opportunity
To be able to sell it
And to make
And to make some money
And so I did
Fast forward
I guess almost
Two years later
Like completely
A full-time
Web3 participant
And I can tell you
Just off the back
Of my hand
The communities
That I admire
And not just
Because they are
Creating opportunities
For others
But because of
What they stand
And stand for
And on Chain Monkey
I can attest to the fact
That they really do
Danny really did create
A community
That is unlike
Any other ones
When you go to
Good things
When you go to
Into the Twitter
It says on there
OCM is a passport
To wealthy
To the wealthy
Digital nation
And I did a little bit
Of research
And it says
That wealth
Includes physical health
Social connectivity
And impact
And it is so
That that is
What the community
Stands for
So I don't want
To spend too much
Shilling you guys
And saying
That you are
The very best one
Equal opportunity
To everyone
That I invite
On to the show
That's just the way
That we roll here
But this is one
That I can
Personally attest
You really do
Not just talk about it
But live it
And demonstrate it
So I'd love to
If you want to
What are some things
From the social impact
Part of OCM
Before we get into
The conversation
Of like Bitcoin
Which I really want
But give you an
Opportunity to talk
About what OCM
Has done on that side
Yeah absolutely
Right away
I think it was
In like the first
One of our
One of our
Like just amazing
Or Polly Nice
They hit up
And they said
Because Danny
Talked about
Right away
How we were
Going to be
Focused on
Doing impact
As well as
Like he made
It very clear
All of them
They got on
Spaces quite a bit
In the first couple
And they made it
Clear that
Metagood is a
For-profit company
We are not a
Non-profit
We're not a
And it speaks
Sustainability
Because in
Order to do
You have to
Have sustainable
Non-profits
Like you know
I'm not an
Non-profits
But it's a
Very difficult
Model when
You have to
Continuously
Go and ask
Every year
Every quarter
Whatever it is
To be able to
Sustain you know
The good that
You're doing
In the world
It's just a
It's a very
Difficult thing
In order to
To kind of
Do the most
They made it
Clear that
We were going
For-profit
And you know
Right away
This member
Hey I want
Rare monkey
It's known
As a naked
Fur monkey
Means it has
No clothes
No earring
If you see
Down there
Basically this
Person put up
One of their
Rare monkeys
For auction
And immediately
Charlie Lee
Who's an investor
And good friend
Is also the creator
Of Litecoin
He started
Bidding on it
Dapper Labs
Who's also an
And good friends
With Danny
Also started
Some folks
Might remember
Snot Boogie
Bidding as
Talked with
This auction
I was like
I'm just a
And Charlie
I may never
Chance again
Started bidding
Against them
Eventually
The winning
Think around
I think it
Was almost
Donated it
Really amazing
Organization
Organization
Partnered with
United Nations
Mission is
To connect
In the world
And they're
Focused on
Developing
Places that
Don't have
Connection
And focused
On schools
Initiative
Just started
Our community
Categorize
Think fast
Month later
Two months
Thanksgiving
Signal sent
Through the
Geographic
Photographer
Named Steve
He's taken
Many iconic
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Immediately
Organization
Brilliance
Production
Activities
Collection
Collection
Expectations
Professional
Standpoint
Conversations
Cryptocurrency
Decentralization
Convenience
Interruptions
Transparent
Personally
Possibilities
Especially
Processing
Opportunities
Developing
Especially
Especially
Components
Opportunities
Entrepreneur
Opportunities
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Collections
Applications
Blockchain
Definitely
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Absolutely
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Collection
Interesting
Inscriptions
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Marketplaces
Dimensions
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Attributes
Dimensions
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Incredible
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Partnership
Relationship
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Definitely
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Everything
Sustainability
Enrichment
Recognized
Conviction
Approached
Opportunity
Technology
Participants
Collectively
Individually
Incredible
Completely
Everything
Everything
Conversations
Incredible
Difference
Onboarding
Onboarding
Resistance
Onboarding
Conversations
Participant
Experience
Differences
Importance
Continuing
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Innovation
Understood
Accelerated
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Technology
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Everything
Exponentialism
Everything
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Blockchain
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Exponential
Applications
Applications
Applications
Innovation
Appreciated
Decentralized
Governments
Transactions
Institutions
Accumulating
Applications
Understand
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Applications
Businesses
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Everything
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Applications
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Definitely
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Affordable
Membership
Incredible
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Definitely
Invitation
Perspective
Definitely
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Definitely
Multi-chain
Holistically
Contenders
Participants
Appreciate
Congratulations
Everything
Blockchain
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Well-known
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Themselves
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Technology
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Significant
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Contractors
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Infrastructure
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Absolutely
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Technology
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Absolutely
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Intentions
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Powerhouse
Absolutely
Powerhouse
Absolutely
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Appreciate
Conversation