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@RollingStone NFTs?!!?!! ☀️☕️ GM W3BTHR33 Morning Alpha Show Ep103
Recorded: Nov. 3, 2022 Duration: 1:57:12Space Recording
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Look, it's Nifty Q.
Let's send him a co-host invite.
I tweaked my neck sleeping weird.
My motorcycle got towed in Santa Monica last night.
And you know what?
We're still here.
We're still bringing the heat.
Coming at you live on a hashtag thirst trap Thursday.
Man, it's going to be a great show.
Just getting some caffeine brewing over here.
Q, are you already rugged?
My man's a rug.
He's living that rug life out there on the weird side of the country.
Shout out, Animated, Cromer.
What up?
Honey's Ghost, Chris Mullins.
Mind your business.
Vert, what's up, y'all?
GM, what's up, Q?
Hanging out.
Trying to get this NF10 live episode out.
Yes, sir.
Dude, we've got to stop going for like an hour 45.
You're telling me.
I feel like you're the one that creates the syllabus over there.
I don't know.
The syllabus?
Okay, Kane.
I mean, I don't know.
Our conversations are just so good.
So riveting.
So riveting.
It deserves two hours.
Riveting is the word that I was looking for.
If you haven't been catching us over there on the Web3 YouTube,
make sure to go sub.
If you don't subscribe, you're a rug.
Straight up.
We got beef.
You're a rug and we got beef.
Anyway, GM Web3.
Getting it going.
Sorry, I'm over here trying to make my tea.
Get caffeinated.
Should I or should I not raw dog some pre-workout?
That is the question.
I feel like you should stop this habit, actually.
Maybe the pre-workout up the nostril isn't good for your health.
It's not going up the nostril, Q.
But should I try that?
No, you're like doing this purity concept for November and you're raw doggy.
Purity concept?
That is not what it is.
It has nothing to do with purity.
I mean, it has to do with health.
Your body is a temple.
Yeah, but what's wrong with pre-workout?
That's not junk food.
I'm cutting out all junk food.
Is it organic pre-workout?
Because I feel like pre-workout is just kind of bullshit, if you're being honest.
I don't know.
It's like loaded with caffeine, I think.
Yeah, well, that's the whole idea.
Let's see.
It is loaded with explosive energy, performance, and weight loss.
That's what it says.
It is loaded with...
Oh, jeez.
Chemicals.
Yeah.
Artificial chemicals.
Artificial flavoring.
It says vitamin B6, vitamin B12, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium.
C4 ripped sport performance blend.
C4 sport energy blend.
Yeah, what's in those?
Carnosyn, beta alanine, citrulline, malate, conjugated linoleic acid powder.
L-cartanine, tartrate, sodium citrate, diglophit, dichrostacus, glomerata, fruit extract, magnesium chloride, dipotassium phosphate, taurine, caffeine, anhydrous, fixa...
I can't even read some of these.
Methyl, cobalt, I mean...
Anyway, that's some of the stuff.
All right, hear me out.
That doesn't sound organic?
None of that sounds organic.
There's like two things on there that come from the earth.
I guess I'm sorry.
Hear me out, though.
You start Web 3 at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard like you always do.
And then you play like 10 minutes of intro music.
You let yourself get in the flow as opposed to reading off a creatine label.
Getting the vibe, getting the flow, get the energy going.
Just saying.
Yo, Mumbot's up in the castle.
What's up?
Kerry Ross, Jen, Quantum Spirit, the other quantum, not the quantum variant kind, a different variant of quantum.
Binks, what's up?
Share out the room.
Let your homies know we're going to be in here for the last show of the week.
It is hashtag Thirstrap Thursday here on GM Web 3.
Always a good time.
You know, we like to let our hair down, get a little loose, have a good time on Thursdays.
But also, there is, you know, lots of cool stuff to talk about.
A couple key headlines.
Rolling Stone Creators Collaboration, Volume 1.
We're going to be digging in to what that's all about.
Looks cool.
Looks interesting.
You know, big fan of Rolling Stone and everything they represent.
You know, I mean, we're basically creating the Rolling Stone of Web 3 over here.
That's what we're doing.
So, you know, we've got to pay attention to what the OGs back in Web 2 are doing as they try and come over on our side of the web into the future with us.
So, we've got that.
And then there is, you know, Meta's Instagram.
There's big headlines there.
New tech, new tools.
Now you can buy and sell NFTs in Instagram.
This is big.
This is big.
This is huge.
This is worth talking about.
And, yeah, on top of all that, you know, we'll just be shooting the shit, talking about Alpha, talking about any other updates.
Hopefully not talking too much about Art Gobblers, but I don't know.
I want to talk about Art Gobblers right now.
Fuck.
Can we start that with Art Gobblers?
What, you want to talk about this crypto briefing article?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I didn't want to talk about Art Gobblers.
Actually, I think we should take a shot for every time somebody says Art Gobblers here today.
Gobble down some alcohol.
Wait, or do you mean shot of pre-workout?
Pre-workout.
Pre-workout.
I'm good with that because I'm not drinking this month, but, again, pre-workout, totally on the table.
What's the floor?
Someone check the floor.
Yeah, let's see if Q's ape is in.
Hold on.
I'm walking on my computer.
Let's see if Q's ape is in danger here.
For those of you who don't know, totally unprovoked, Q said,
if the Art Gobblers floor is not below 12 ETH in 10 days, it's 15 ETH.
It's still not below 12 ETH, Q.
Give it some time.
It's a slow roll.
Well, you only got about seven days.
I'm confident.
I was told I'd get a board ape if it's below 12 ETH, though.
So that's why I put it up.
I don't know who told you that.
You did.
Nah.
Check the tape, bro.
I said nah.
Check the tape.
Oh, man.
Everybody did get in a fuss over that Art Gobblers stuff, huh?
These conversations are recorded for a reason.
Wait, what did you say?
I said everyone got up in a fluff over Art Gobblers, man.
I feel like the last 48 hours is a blur of just, like, rage.
Rage towards Rick and Morty.
Would you say it's a blur.io?
Okay.
I'm gone.
Okay.
That's fair.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, there's the other thing about this, you know.
Here we go.
All right.
The other thing about this is what's the point?
We opened Pandora's box.
The Art Gobbler box is open.
All right.
So, like, here's the other thing about this that I don't feel like a lot of people are talking about.
So, what was the, um, there was a law passed.
It was basically, like, uh, fuck.
What do you call it?
Um, god damn it.
I'm not awake yet enough to have these, like, real serious conversations.
Uh, so there was a law passed.
It was like 10 minutes of intro music.
But, God.
Yeah, I should just play music.
You're right.
Uh, but there was a law passed to, like, basically break up the studio system.
Um, like, the movie theaters from the studios and all this stuff because they were basically,
like, owning the entire entertainment industry.
And, uh, let me see if I can find it real quick.
So, in, in 1948, ruling court effectively dismantled the Hollywood studio system.
In an opinion by Justice William, court killed the block booking system.
Recommended a breakup of the studio theater.
Monopolies.
Uh, so, United States vs. Paramount Pictures, 1948.
Uh, it's an, it's antitrust.
That's what I'm trying to get to.
Antitrust.
So, basically, this is a famous antitrust case.
And, what's the point?
The point is that, basically, the studio systems in Hollywood were owning, like, the whole process
from the production all the way through to the movie theaters and the distribution.
And, they basically felt like this was not a good situation for consumers.
Uh, and it broke antitrust laws.
And so, they had to break up the system so that they couldn't literally own, like, an entire
industry.
Like, you know, the studios just couldn't own the entire fucking entertainment industry.
Um, and monopolize it.
So, what I'm seeing here, uh, again, none of this shit's, like, regulated yet, right?
So, it's, like, people are just out here doing whatever the fuck they want, basically.
And, what I'm kind of seeing here, because no one's talking that much about it, is, uh,
Blur.io.
It's a new marketplace.
This is an NFT marketplace that is backed by the same people as our godlers.
This is Paradigm, right?
But, Paradigm is, like, the VC behind Blur.io.
And so, they launched their marketplace just a week or two before.
They launched this big-ass project and pumped the shit out of it.
They're pumping their bags.
Like, I'm, I'm pretty certain.
I mean, like, I don't, I don't have direct evidence.
I haven't gone and, like, forensically analyzed which wallets or who's and shit.
But, like, at, yes, yesterday or the day before, there was more volume on Blur than there was on OpenSea because of Art Gobblers, which is their project.
So, they launched this project into their marketplace, pumping their fucking bags.
And it's just, like, all right, so they're basically owning the marketplace, owning the projects, owning the whole system here is what I'm saying.
So, like, at what point does this become, like, an antitrust concern?
Like, it's kind of like OpenSea launching their own projects onto their own platform and pumping their own projects into their own platform to make it, like, seem like they've got a shit ton of volume.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm just throwing it out there.
I'm glad we started with the Gobblers.
I really am.
I thought we were going to move on.
But, you know, what's the point?
The point is Paradigm's winning.
Paradigm's definitely fucking winning right now because there are – because, yeah, because there's no one to, like, stop them, basically.
I almost feel like they should have slow-rolled it a little bit more.
Like, they did it too much.
That's what I'm saying.
And everybody got – everyone now knows.
Like, they should have slow-rolled it just a little bit more and they could have rolled it into a couple more projects.
But now we're, like, on the lookout.
Yeah, I kind of agree.
It feels like it was all so much all at once that it's just, like, so obvious kind of how – yeah.
Anyway.
Yo, Mo Runda's in the castle with us, GM.
And GM to everybody else joining in.
Happy to see you all here on a Thursday.
I'm gifted.
Co-founder of Nifty Castle and Web3 Network.
Happy to be here with you.
Joined by some of our favorite co-hosts and contributors up here, Nifty Q, Mo Runda.
Welcome.
What up, Mo?
What up, fam?
What's going on?
Mama Momo.
Happy – what is it?
Today, Thursday?
Wednesday?
What day is it?
Thirst Trap Thursday.
Oh, yeah.
You know it.
Oh, hell no.
I mean, oh, yeah.
How are you doing, Mo?
You actually are the one that shared the headline topic of today's room.
Yeah.
I got it in my email yesterday.
One of the many subscriptions I have to Web3 News.
And I saw it.
I actually didn't research it too much.
So, I'm not the go-to information person.
I just thought it would be something cool to look into.
So, it's all going to be fresh and new.
Absolutely.
And who doesn't love Rolling Stone magazine?
So, you know.
Yeah, if you don't like Rolling Stone magazine, you can get the f*** out, all right?
It would be like Mad Magazine dropping.
Oh, how cool would that be?
Mad Magazine dropping.
I don't know.
Is that the same?
It's pretty iconic.
You know.
It is pretty iconic.
Here's a quick hit of some cool info that I've been meaning to, like, hit on in the last
day or two of the show, but it just hasn't come up, I think, because the gobblers have
been gobbling up all of our focus and attention.
All right.
Ethereum, which, of course, you know, October was its first full month since the merge that
it completed.
And ETH, I mean, first of all, jumped 20% in October, which is great.
We all love seeing that.
But, maybe more notably, the ETH supply decreased by 7,000 ETH, which is roughly 11 million dirty
fiats just in October alone.
So, under proof of work, pre-merge, the ETH supply, this is how big of a difference this
shit's already making.
So, under proof of work, pre-merge, Ethereum supply would have increased by 356,000 ETH.
So, that's over half a billion dollars.
That's almost 600 million dirty fiats.
So, the normal rate of inflation under proof of work, if the merge hadn't happened, ETH supply
would have increased 356,000 ETH just in October alone.
Instead, it decreased by 7,000 ETH.
So, that's a difference of over, of almost 365,000 ETH less, and is actually deflationary.
That's fucking crazy.
I think that process, too, is like, it gets more deflationary as more usage on the platform
increases.
So, like, we could even have more deflation than what we saw, you know, from this past
month.
So, that's one of those narratives, too, that we'll talk about in two years.
We'll be like, oh, ETH was deflationary starting in November or October.
It's like, well, ETH's going to be at 3K, ETH, 4K, and that's going to be one of the narratives
people point to.
But nobody's talking about it, really.
I mean, deflation was a big part of it.
But yeah, we are.
Ultrasound money, gang.
That's what that means, is actually deflationary.
When the dollar is inflating by, you know, 20% a year, ETH is actually deflationary now.
And on top of that, the number of smart contracts on Ethereum is at a 16-month high.
And people are using the Ethereum blockchain to do things like fight cancer and sell houses.
I think we probably hit on the sell houses thing, you know.
I think most people probably saw that headline.
Somebody basically sold a house as an NFT recently.
I actually found out there is a couple other, like, real estate blockchain projects that
I wasn't aware of that people were talking about at this event I went to last night.
Where my motorcycle got towed!
Fucking Santa Monica.
All right.
But the cancer thing is actually really cool.
Basically, the Ethereum blockchain is being used to centralize data.
Or not centralize, but to share and secure data around, you know, cancer research.
Um, it's pretty interesting.
I don't know where that article is at the moment.
But, uh, yeah.
Fascinating stuff, y'all.
Any other thoughts to add to that before we kind of keep it going?
Also, feel free to come on up and hang out with us.
Share out the room.
Make sure to scissor us while you're at it.
While all your thumbs are down there being lazy and bored.
You don't got anything to do with your thumbs.
Uh, you know, hit that little scissor icon.
And, uh, you know, fill your timeline up with all of this juicy goodness.
All this amazing information that we're covering today.
Jeffrey McJaggerson.
What else do you think that you could centralize, not centralize, um, but share amongst, um, multiple things that could actually be good for humanity?
Body counts?
Is that too, is that too big of a question?
Probably.
Body counts?
Restate that, though?
What were you saying?
I was thinking, like, okay, so you have, you have, um, cancer research now being sort of centralized where all of the information is going to the same spot.
So, therefore, it's easier to, um, sort of get the data.
Um, I was just thinking, besides cancer research, or any other health research, for that matter, what other, what other industries do you think would benefit from having sort of like a centralized, um, database like that?
Decentralized.
It's decentralized, but it's, it's, it's one, it's one source for truth.
I think that's the, the main point.
Uh, but yeah, I don't, uh, I think, um, here, here's like, yeah, well, I think here, here's a weird one that isn't very, it's not very exciting.
But, like, you know, just, just like with houses, you know, starting to move on, on chain, you know, cars, car leases, and things like that make a lot of sense.
And I think one of the potential benefits there is, um, having accurate, accurate information on used vehicles.
Because, like, if, if a car's been in a wreck, if it's been serviced properly, all this type of shit, right?
Like, like, a lot of, there's been a lot of shady, you know, car salesmen.
Like, the whole, the, the whole idea of, like, a greasy, greasy car salesman is, like, a whole trope, right?
Because it's real.
Because they'll try and dress up, you know, a pig.
They'll try and polish a turd and resell that thing to people without, you know, uh, being transparent on, you know, the quality, uh, you know, what's happened to that vehicle.
I only sell raw turds.
I don't polish them.
Well, you're, well, you're a good man.
But I think, I think the point, the point is, like, that's an example where we're having, you know, data on a blockchain that can't be faked or whatever, you know, can't be forged or faked.
Well, like, that's what Carfax is, right?
Like, that whole.
Yeah, but do you trust Carfax if it isn't on a blockchain?
That's my, that's exactly my point.
Like, it's better than that.
But they tried, they tried to do that.
That was their attempt at it.
Yeah.
Um, and, and if every car, you know, like, has a blockchain history, then yeah, it's going to make a huge difference.
Oh, but sad to, um, to all those, like, old school, you know, like, I like all those old car shows.
The, the, like, hot rods and stuff.
They go down my street.
Would you consider those polished turds?
Yes.
Immediately.
Um, so, one, one of, uh, I wanted to talk about ultrasound, ultrasound money.
That's the, if you see my, um, in my name, I've got, like, a bat and a speaker.
I'm in the ultrasound money club.
And, uh, you can join it.
All you have to do is put those emojis in your name.
And, like, there's, like, a real account.
Um, like, when I switch my, um, I switch my name for Nightmare Fuel to, like, promote that for, like, a week.
And they DM'd me, and they're like, aw, you took it away.
And I was like, geez, sorry, I'll put it back.
So, wait, they, they guilt, they're guilting you into remaining in the club, even though you want to leave?
Jeff.
But I do feel bad.
Jeff, blink twice if you're in danger.
I'm okay.
I don't think there's a blink emoji.
So, the centralized, decentralized, decentralized.
Sorry, am I, am I going back to this?
Are you guys moved on already?
No, no, no.
Yeah, well, sorry.
I went back.
You can, decentralized.
So, like, the thing with the cancer research.
So, it's decentralized, but it's also centralized.
But it's also centralized.
Decentralized.
Yes.
Decentralized.
Decentralized.
Good lord.
We set the record for decentralized turn episode.
Because, because they wanted the information, massive, massive gigabytes of information, to be verifiably checked from anywhere.
And, uh, and that's, that's what Ethereum does.
So, it is centralized in that there is one, one source for truth that everybody's checking.
But it is decentralized in that it is backed up around the world.
And nobody can change it or fuck with it or any of that.
So, that is confusing.
I, I, I, I get it.
Decentralized.
Centralization.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, like, the internet is, is, like, a thing.
Like, the internet is everywhere.
That's decentralized.
But if you call the internet one thing, it's a centralized thing.
Because you have to go to the internet.
I mean, we still live in the physical world with, like, crunchy leaves on the sidewalk and, like, you know.
You still live in the physical world?
Um, until further notice.
Okay.
Have, have y'all seen this, uh, open metaverse alliance?
All right.
I'm going to share this real quick.
Because I, I want to bring them on or, like, get to know more about this.
I want to, I want to maybe get into this.
Sorry about your motorcycle.
It sucks.
Bro, I know.
I mean, I've been, I've had that kind of thought in my head of, like, okay.
I've never gotten a ticket.
I've never gotten towed.
Like, I felt like my time was kind of up.
And then, of course, I parked like an idiot in Santa Monica on the sidewalk.
Went for this event last night.
And it's gone.
And then I try to call on the police.
And they're closed.
And I'm like, fuck, all right.
So, I'm going to have to try and figure out where, I don't even know where it is right now.
I need to try and figure out where it is today.
What are the police's in Lana or some shit?
What?
Yeah.
What do you mean they're closed?
The police don't go closed.
They, I mean, couldn't get a hold of them.
So, I don't know.
I mean, Santa Monica, Santa Monica.
I don't know.
But it was late and I couldn't get a hold of them.
So, I said, fuck it.
I'll figure it out later.
Could you imagine if the police station closed at night?
Just like, sorry.
Any inquiries, please call us at 9 a.m.
It's like the purge.
Yeah, they purged my motorcycle.
All right.
Anyway.
Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Cooler people than me have been talking about this for like, you know, probably about the
last three or four years.
The energy grid system and just like the, quote unquote, the grid is something that could
be, I think, you know, made more efficient via blockchain.
That's what they tell me, at least.
Like, the army credits and the ability to connect all of these grids under some type of a more
efficient marketplace.
Just not on proof of work.
Just not on proof of work.
Yeah.
Because that would not be more efficient.
Oh, I see where you're going with that.
Yeah.
Well, we're not.
We merged, yes.
Obviously, too, one of the big things, because I listen to a lot of crime podcasts.
And one of the big things is that, you know, cross state records of people.
But I don't know if that's something that we want centralized, but maybe.
All of our personal information and our identities.
I mean, all that shit's going to be on blockchain eventually anyway.
Like, they're already moving our medical records that way.
Like, our passports.
All that shit's going to be on chain.
I have no doubt.
What is that movie where they kill you before you commit a crime?
I don't know.
My brain's broken.
Tom Cruise.
Minority Report.
Yeah, Minority Report.
That's very Minority Report.
Thought Police or whatever.
Is that what that is?
But, yo, Moe, maybe you can settle this for us.
What is with women being obsessed with sexy serial killers?
I have no idea.
I mean, truthfully, what is with everyone being obsessed with serial killers these days?
No, it's mostly women.
Like, I've looked into this at least enough to know that the majority of listeners.
Maybe you're mistaken.
Maybe they're not attracted to them.
I know I watch this as, like, maybe somehow I can spot a serial killer if I ever, because I've done a lot of research.
So, like...
Then why is it usually the sexy men that get all the play?
Like, the whole Jeffrey Dahmer situation is like a Netflix hit.
I don't think he's sexy.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I may be the wrong person.
That's an objectively attractive actor that they...
It's not, like, a fat dude.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
There's some weird psychology there going on that I'm still trying to get a handle on.
Because, yeah, it's definitely overwhelmingly women that watch and listen to all the serial killer.
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
I think a lot of women...
Yeah, I think maybe moms in particular watch this because it's, like, a cautionary tale.
I think...
I've heard this, too, but I don't think it's related to being sexually attractive.
I think it's more of a fascination and, like, a fear response.
How thin is the line between fascination and sexual attraction, though?
Like, I feel like that's a pretty thin line.
I also feel like...
So, I think that...
It's a thick line, Gif.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Maybe so.
So, I feel like the cautionary tale part is true because I think, like, subconsciously,
a lot of women have this fear that they're going to, like, get baited and do, like, dating
some guy that they think is hot and then it turns out that he's a murderer.
And so, I feel like they're...
Sorry.
I don't mean to laugh at that, but yeah.
So, can I speak for at least myself?
I can't speak for...
No, you can.
No, you can.
I thought you were saying all women, then.
Yeah, you can only speak for all women here.
Yeah.
I mean, for myself, I view...
This is deep, guys, but I think that women just experience life very differently from men.
Like, we, you know, we're kind of...
I don't want to say pray.
That's, like, very extreme.
But we go through life having to be cautious, you know?
So, I think we just sort of experience life in a different way.
So, having these, like, cautionary tales is just something sort of ingrained into us from
childhood when you're taught, you know, never walk down a dark street, always walk in the
middle of the road, you know, don't wear a ponytail.
Like, all of these things that we're told as women, you can't help but be freaked out.
Holy crap.
Ponytails are bad now?
Ponytails have been bad for a long time.
Yeah.
What does it mean?
Because your...
People are able to grab your ponytail and kind of gain control over you a lot easier than
having just, like, a small part of your hair.
This is a dark conversation, guys.
Maybe we want to steer it.
Hey, it's Thirst Trap Thursday, you know?
So, who knows?
We're going to go all kinds of places here.
Yeah.
So, I feel like that is part of it, that, like, it is a cautionary tale where, like, women
are, like, they have this fascination, to your point, because they think that any guy could
potentially be a serial killer and they're, like, trying to understand the patterns of
what that looks like.
I do think that there is some, like, very, very dark, seated place where there's, like,
an attraction thing there that I don't think anybody ever wants to, like, fully understand
or look at.
But maybe that's a small part of it.
I don't know.
That's my own weird perspective on it.
I just think that...
Definitely.
Definitely your weird perspective.
I think humans are just weird.
I think it's just humans.
Yeah.
I think humans are just weird, period.
I don't think this has to do with, like, male-female.
Like, if there's a car crash going down the road, are you going to watch that or are you
going to turn away right at the last second?
Yeah, rubbernecking.
It's basically, like, rubbernecking for...
Okay.
It's like getting close to danger.
Like, we're always kind of just, like, we want to watch it.
We don't want to be part of it, but we'll watch it.
Yeah.
You feel like you're at a safe distance when it's through the TV.
Safe enough.
All right.
Anyway, that's a weird tangent.
If anybody has any other insights, though, on what's going on with all these women being
in a sex group.
Are there any sociologists in the room?
Yeah.
Any sociologists, psychologists, come on up here.
Let us know what you think.
All right.
Where were we?
We were talking about...
I would love to...
Sorry.
I would love to hear Jess's input on this conversation.
Jayat?
Yeah.
The thirst trap queen of the kingdom?
Yeah.
She's doing, like, medical...
I don't know.
She's doing meetings or something.
I don't know.
We can't...
She said she was at the airport gift.
Okay.
I don't know what she's doing, but she's not here right now, so I'm angry about it.
I don't know.
We miss her wherever she is.
Shout out Jayat.
And, yeah, hopefully she'll come in at some point.
But, hey, pinned up at the top, I pinned the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3.
The Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3, a.k.a. OMA3, is a collaboration of Web3 Metaverse platform creators.
Our goal is to ensure virtual land, digital assets, ideas, and services are highly interoperable between platforms and transparent to all communities.
OMA3 is open to all Web3 Metaverse builders.
So, okay, to me, this sounds like what we need more of, which is people focused on the larger capital M metaverse of how do we create standards and protocols and, like, work together to make, like, a bigger, better experience where all this...
It's not everybody just out here creating their own little virtual worlds, calling those metaverses and trying to compete with each other for DAUs.
But, like, how do we actually create something bigger, more meaningful, more sustainable that can all, you know, work together, not just silo it off.
So, anyway, that's what it seems like to me, so that's why I'm curious if anybody else is in on this.
Some of the members that they have listed on the site already, Animoca Brands, Alien Worlds, Dapper Labs, Decentraland, Decentral Games, Meta Metaverse, Space, Super World.
Yes, Super World is still a thing.
The Sandbox, Upland, Voxels, Wivety.
So those are just some of the members already, apparently, of this alliance.
Go ahead, Jeff-Jack.
So, yeah, this kind of goes back to the conversation from, I think it was last week when we were talking about metaverses, and really what's going to happen, and, like, I'm going to predict the future here, okay?
So, I'm telling you all.
Yo, everyone, make sure to scissor Jeff here.
It's going to start with something like a massive breakthrough hardware.
It's not going to start with a really attractive piece of software.
It's not going to start with a new metaverse that's, like, so hot, everyone has to get it.
Everyone will have to get the hardware for this particular thing.
Before, whoa, whoa.
Before the, no, don't get me.
No, I'm being chased by a leaf blower.
Okay.
Oh, my God.
The, uh...
Watch out.
It's going to start with the hardware.
Speaking of hardware.
Yeah.
So, like, think about the App Store, right?
People didn't come to the iPhone for the App Store.
They came to the iPhone because it was this amazing piece of technology that was going to let them do other things.
Because when they got to the Apple Store, or the App Store, and started downloading Apples, they started using them.
And people were like, oh, my God, there's this huge market here.
People who want to use Apples.
And so, um, that's when they, that's when the market came to apps.
It had to be, it had to be the hardware first.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay.
Interesting.
So, what do you think that looks like?
I'm safe, everyone.
I'm, like, I made it away from the leaf blower.
So, thank, thank goodness.
We're all very worried about your safety there.
So, take care.
That was a close one.
But, Jeff, what do you, what do you think that hardware would look like then?
Like, are you talking about there's going to be some kind of, like, box, like a, like an Apple TV little box that you plug into your TV?
I think it's going to be AR.
I think it's going to be some kind of glasses.
Not Google Glass style.
So, a wearable.
So, a wearable.
It's going to be an outside rubbing elbows thing.
We're going to be having to see our friends again.
So, no, no inside the basement, you know, sex dungeon stuff going on.
Okay.
First of all, I felt like you just totally kink shamed my sex dungeon.
Did I just wake up to the sex dungeon again, guys?
What's going on?
Well, I guess, I mean, I didn't know Miko was scared.
Sorry.
But I was just saying that in terms of, like, you know, I mean, porn does what porn does.
Okay?
We're all going to porn.
But there's just this.
Not a November.
You're right.
Wait.
There's no rules against forking on my No Nothing November.
It's just fapping and prawn.
There's no fapping, no prawn.
What's the No Nothing November?
The hardware drove, like, the VHS market.
That was based on porn, according to people.
But the...
Porn.
People wanted to record shows.
We say porn or we say corn?
We say corn or we say prawn?
This is a family-friendly show here.
Sorry.
Ladies and DJs.
I talk about porn in the Reddit sense, like Earth Porn.
Corn?
Earth Porn.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Earth Porn.
Sure.
I'm going to go sit in the corner.
Getting a little bit too corny over here.
Yeah.
Go get in your corny corner.
Yeah.
I think that...
I think, you know, like, we've talked about, like, meta and the struggles that they're having
right now with VR.
You know, what did they...
They lost, like, close to $4 billion, I think, in the last quarter.
Was that it, Q?
Like, $3.7 billion or something.
Somebody check around that.
But I'm not sure if that has to do with, like, stock losses as well.
Like, just on, like, the meta, obviously, like, publicly traded stock.
But, yeah.
It was, like, $3.7 billion.
I think that was their, like, revenue.
Right?
Like, they report their earnings.
And I think they lost almost $4 billion in the last quarter.
Yeah.
They said that they were planning on losing more in the next quarter.
Yeah, because they're taking this massive, like, huge, huge investment, this big bet on
the future of metaverse and VR, right?
And so, you know, nobody could be really doing this other than a company like Meta.
And so, you know, I think, Q, you even, like, mentioned this is not something I usually say.
You were like, hey, thanks, Zuckerberg, for actually taking one for the team and, like,
trying to lead this charge and push it forward because it's not easy.
I think you actually thanked him.
Well, the dude lost more money in human history than anyone ever recorded in, like, literally
the past six months.
But the – I think, though, you know, again, like, everybody's always so focused on the
short term.
I think he understands – no, I think he understands that if and when the culture and the technology
catches up with, like, what's possible and where a lot of this shit's going, you know,
what he just lost is going to be a drop in the bucket to what the company is going to
make in the next 10 years potentially, right?
And so it's like, again, this is how investing and taking risks works, right?
He believes very much in a vision that he has for the future, which is why he rebranded
all of Facebook to Meta.
You know, he's trying to own the metaverse.
And this, like, yeah, VR tech – like, there's been now decades where VR tech has been the
next big thing.
And people keep consistently being wrong about that because the technology has not been where
it needs to be.
And so he's the one right now weeding that, investing all this money, losing a bunch of
money on it in the short term, thinking that it will catch up.
But what was I trying to say?
What's the point?
Where are we –
There's a fun fact.
We have a fun fact that my husband just told me.
Apparently, that between stock buybacks and the amount of money that Meta has spent in
the last – how long?
Since they started Meta is equivalent to the Apollo space mission in today's dollars.
And that's a lot, I guess.
Yeah.
Well, I guess they went to the moon.
Wow.
Like, okay, can I connect one more dot?
Okay.
So two dots, actually, because you can only connect two dots.
There's –
You can connect more than two dots.
Right.
It's called a triangle.
The internet existed before the iPhone, right?
But it was the iPhone that put the internet in our pocket.
And it changed the world.
It really did.
We can't just be, like, you know, Apple haters about this.
It changed the world.
The Android took two years to catch up.
It didn't exist for a while.
And so there's this, like, idea of, like, what the potential is.
The Metaverse has existed for a while.
It's getting it to a point where it's easy to use and so easy that it becomes a second thought.
It becomes like, oh, yeah, I'm going to do that.
I'm not going to sign up for a MetaMath, but I'm going to open up my phone and click an app.
And the utility has to be there, too, right?
Like, there has to be actual content, things that do there, which is also one of the issues right now.
So it's the usability.
It's also the, like, the content of, like, the why.
Why are you even there?
It's the same conversation we have about social media all the time.
It's how your friends do it.
You know, like, until all of us are in there, you know, with our fucking VR headsets.
It's the network.
It's not cool.
Yeah, it's the Metcalfe's Law.
Like, it always comes back to that.
But why are people going to be in there?
Yeah, there has to be some reasons for people to be in there.
You know, with social media, it was, like, photo sharing, like, was kind of the thing that initially, like, being able to chat and, like, photo share and connect.
That was, like, the utility.
That's all it took for that to, like, take off.
You know what would be really fucking dope to have, like, a VR headset?
Although you guys have mentioned a bunch of uses.
Like, sports games.
I'd love to, like, watch a live sports game from, like, the center field or, like, from the sideline.
That would be fucking amazing.
I would buy one just to do that.
360, immersive.
Okay.
All right.
So, sports.
Yeah, sports is definitely a big driver of media consumption and behavior.
But I think, you know, back to the Korn situation, right?
You know, it's going to be really interesting to see where the Meta Oculus headsets, like, where do they overlap?
Because, obviously, like, Meta is a very sort of family-friendly company.
And so, I don't see them, like, partnering with somebody like a Kornhub or anything like that.
But also, just understanding that, like, the Korn industry has driven technological adoption so much over the last several decades that, obviously, like, VR is going to be, like, I don't know.
That's going to be where a lot of the initial adoption goes, whether we want to talk about it or not.
So, I don't know.
It's going to be really interesting to see, like, how Meta actually, like, if they just totally ignore that.
Like, if they just ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist while simultaneously benefiting from it because, you know, all these people are buying their headsets specifically for it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, Winebags is here.
Mix is here.
Mika is here.
I don't know who had their hand raised first.
It was me.
All right.
Let's go, Mika.
What's up?
It's Princess Samurai.
Good morning, Gifted, and all the honorable people in this room.
I love this show, actually, you know.
I get my tea.
I get my little, you know, herbs.
And I say, oh, it's just great.
Great vibe.
So, thank you.
So, my vision is this.
You see, video games have been around since, you know, started with my generation, actually.
You know, I had a Pokemon.
No, not a Pokemon.
A Pac-Man watch at school.
And I had a game on that shit.
Like, I was trying to hide from the teacher.
I was playing my little Pac-Man game on my watch, you know.
That's what I wanted for Christmas.
And that's all I wanted.
But anyway, so, all that to say that right now, my vision of things is that it's all going to, how to say, it's going to go into a big spaghetti sauce.
You know, all of the games, all of the, and yes, it's going to be with something that you wear, perhaps a pair of glasses, guys.
And that will, I will push it as far as you'll walk on the street.
You know, when you're looking for Pokemons a few years ago.
Well, it's going to be like that.
But that information is going to be projected from the glasses.
Because we have it now with our phones, right?
With those funny NFTs that we can project them.
And you put the phone and there it is floating around.
It's going to be like that.
But in our glasses, everything is going to be like those sci-fi movies.
And I learned this when I was about 10 years old.
Technology, as we advance in time, right, is not a constant growth.
It's an exponent, like it goes way faster and fast.
As we get, we advance through time.
Hear this.
Technology goes faster and faster.
Okay.
It's not funny, Giftead.
It's the truth.
No, I was enjoying the way that you set it up.
Like, hear this.
I love you.
And by the way, this week, a few days ago, I was in New York.
And I was on a balcony where we met, baby.
And it was very, very memorable.
Oh, my.
Was it memorable?
All right.
And it was intense.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
Remember?
Yeah.
Technology.
I do remember, of course.
It was during NFT NYC.
It was beautiful.
But I think, you know, technology.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
I'm going to land my spaceship.
You know, I'm very afraid of AI, you know, I'm very afraid of AI, in a way.
And I'm not afraid of AI itself.
Because we might become what we are to gorillas.
You see, gorillas are fine, but sometimes they need our help.
And AI might be the human to the gorilla, you see.
But the problem is, we have right now, maybe it's too late already, but it's who's programming this.
There should have been a chart like something.
Even in NFTs, I believe, in the beginning, we're like, we defy, we defy.
No, we should have written like the kind of Ten Commandments kind of, you know, respect this, respect that.
Something.
Because humans, we actually do need a bit of rules.
Yeah, I agree.
And I think people are working on that stuff now because a lot of smart people understand you're right.
Like there is a lot of danger, potential for danger with AI.
With the robots and everything.
It's a bad combination.
We can't control them.
What you're referring to is known as Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years
and basically claims that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every two years because of this.
Yet, we will pay less for them.
And so, yes, technology, the power of technology can be exponential.
And so, all good points.
Love to hear it.
Let's keep the convo going.
I do want to get to also an update.
I want to get to Rolling Stone here in a little bit.
I want to get to also Starbucks Odyssey has an update.
But let's get our friends in here.
I don't know about their hand raised.
I think Mix has been up here the longest.
Let's go Mix, then Wine Bags, then Andy James.
So, hey, good morning.
So, I think like –
Mix feel big.
I know, Amigo.
What you're calling.
So, what I think is going to happen, people are lazy.
Like, the reason why the iPhone life was successful, the reason why Netflix was successful is people are lazy and they want convenient life.
Whatever takes off is usually like a convenience add-on.
Like, Netflix got big because people just would rather just watch a rental from their house without having a – like, you know, you just select everything from your screen versus going to the video store, having a return kit, whatever.
The iPhone came from the iPod.
That was just an add-on to the iPod.
The iPod was just, hey, I don't have to carry around a fucking – like, a bunch of packs of CDs with me every time I want to, like, change an album, right?
So, people are just going to do what is the most convenient.
When it comes down to hardware, they'll upgrade to the next device if it's a convenience add-on until, like, glasses at some point will probably be the next logical, like, upgrade, I think, with AR.
But, like, trying to, like, mass-adopt people to, like, one game system, like, I think, like, what Meta is trying to do with that is, like, I think they're spending, like, billions of dollars on Votto tickets every day trying to get a bunch of people all, like, fucking go buy an Oculus headset or whatever bullshit they're trying to roll out with that and expecting everybody to just mass-adopt with because they're making it and because they have Facebook, you know what I mean?
Like, like, or Instagram or whatever.
I don't think people are just going to go out and buy these headsets to just go be a part of this MetaWorld or the Metaverse.
Like, that's probably going to be a – like, mass-adoption into Metaverses in terms of, like, blockchain is going to be something like Blizzard adds on blockchain stuff across all their games.
And then at some point, like, Rockstar does it, and then they come up with a way where you can transfer stuff.
They make an alignment when you can transfer stuff between, like, the Rockstar games and Blizzard.
Like, I think that's what's going to wind up happening.
I don't think it's going to be – like, maybe some game will come along.
Maybe, like, if – like, how many users are there between all – like, the Central Land sandbox, like, the Bored Ape stuff, whatever.
Like, if you add up all that shit, like, every user in those games combined, they don't add up to, like, like, maybe a fifth of what, like, GTA's got online every day.
So, like, yeah, I think that's – I think, like, all these companies right now are just, like, playing the lotto.
Yeah.
Well, when the jackpot is, you know, $1.2 billion or whatever it is, it's not a bad time to be buying lotto tickets.
I think that's what they see, right?
It's a risk-reward.
They're investing very heavily right now with the idea that it will pay off because eventually, you know, the metaverse is going to be a thing.
Yeah.
I don't know, you know, how much of it's going to be AR versus VR yet.
Obviously, they're more focused on VR right now.
But anyway, good point.
Did anybody know of a good AR-like pair of glasses?
Is that a thing yet?
Apple's working on one, supposedly.
Yeah, Snapchat had one for a minute.
Google Glass had one.
I don't know what else there is right now.
But if anybody knows of a good one, please share it.
All right, let's go wine bags and then Andy.
Yeah, so Biggie Poppins also had an Oculus Quest, I think.
He's in the chat right now.
He's on with us later on NFT Live.
But he was talking about his experiences with the new Quest and said it was, like, fantastic for what he was doing.
And I think he was using it for meditation.
So it probably just happens one by one, right?
Like, adoption happens one by one.
I've actually had an Oculus for, I don't know, three years or something.
But I really enjoy – I actually have vertigo.
So putting it on, I can only do it for so long.
And most of the time I have to sit down because, yeah, I'll fall over.
So, Jay Yat's here.
Awesome.
Sorry, guys.
Yeah, let's go wine bags.
Oh, no worries.
Yeah, and sorry if this has already been talked about.
But, like, can we just sort of, like, discuss, like, why does the meta, quote-unquote metaverse, looks, like, so fucking shitty with the budget they have?
Like, it looks like a video game from, like, early 2000s.
Like, I just don't understand it.
Right.
What happened there?
They're doing, like, the Wii version.
Like, we all look like Wii characters playing tennis.
Honestly, I think the Wii looked sort of better, though.
Like, it just – how – like, how did they drop the ball that much on how it looks?
Like, it just is glaring to me.
Are you talking about meta?
Yeah, I'm talking about meta.
Not that any of the metaverses really look that good.
I mean, I guess what I saw from the other side seemed to be the best-looking one to me.
But meta, it just – with their budget, I'm just surprised at, like, yeah, how, like, 20 years ago it feels.
You're right.
It really does look like the Wii version.
But, yeah, yeah, they're probably focused more on the tech side of it right now.
And then I'm – I would imagine that the sort of the graphics and the visuals will evolve very quickly and rapidly once the foundational tech is sort of, like, in a good place.
But, Andy James, what's up, my guy?
Welcome.
What do you do, fam?
How are we doing today?
Andy!
I have a little bit of a – maybe a hot take here, too.
First things first, the leaves are changing outside.
It's beautiful.
Reds, yellows.
I love fall.
It fucking slaps.
I'm so happy it's not 85 out.
Wait, isn't it winter?
No, it is fall.
It's still fall.
It's still fall.
You're right.
It's hella folly over here.
So, this is a strange way to phrase this.
Of the top ten companies globally, do you all know who the most explicitly uncomfortably boring one is?
Any takers?
Oracle?
Cisco?
Nope.
They're not top ten.
Nope.
Fucking Microsoft.
What sector are they in?
Microsoft, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Microsoft is boring as fuck.
But they own Xbox, so –
Hold on.
Hold on.
Microsoft is the sleepiest, the oldest, the dumbest, the most literally unexciting.
They don't have a day a year where they release new products and, like, some crazy four-day seminar that's – like, no.
This is the most old, boring company ever.
And let's take a look at what they make, right?
So, just as, like, a starting point, $548 billion a year, right?
And now let's cut that into sectors, right?
This is a fascinating component.
They're going to make 13% of that on business-to-business products that are the most boring shit ever.
They're going to make another 16% of that from business cloud products.
Boring as shit.
They're going to make another 20% of that off of personal computing software for business.
Boring as fuck.
So, we're talking about a sector that's worth about $250 billion of net rev a year that has minimum to no competition in the Microsoft Office space, the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud Computing space, other than Oracle, and Amazon AOS services.
So, the thing that I think is interesting about the metaverse is everyone in our ecosystem wants to talk about this from the, like, man, is GTA going to be cool in the metaverse?
But no one's talking about the largest labor force in the world becoming full-time remote or moving to full-time remote and the importance that meta continuously stresses on their workplace products.
Like, I get that there's the desire for the adoption to come in the most entertaining fashion, but I think the bet is not happening in the, like, entertainment sector as a specific.
We're talking about, like, the highest-paying customer, which are businesses confronting a workforce that have to and want to work abroad more and make the most money and have the highest demands on their employer.
I think the business sector of these products is the one that will carry and lead adoption of these products.
Furthermore, Apple's acquisition over the last three years of automotive companies and all of the screen technology to interface for AR screens so that when you drive, like, directions happen on your fucking, the window, the front console, not like your phone.
Again, the problem with the phone right now is the phone is dated.
The phone is not going to be in our hands in 20 years.
That's just a guarantee.
We're not going to walk around with this big fucking thing with all of our apps on it in 20 years.
For sure, for sure.
That's, like, so clear.
When you drive, you need it for directions.
It's awesome.
When you do business, it's great for business things.
The transition that we're making is that the top utility items are going to drive marketplaces right now.
The gaming consoles are still great, but the largest financial sectors are not the gaming sectors.
They're not the fun sectors.
The fun sectors help you drive the worst consumer that any consumer report will ever tell you you want, which is the youngest generation.
Not because they're shitty people, but because they're flippant buyers.
They're not consistent buyers.
They're also shitty people, but, yeah.
True.
The best buyers, business buyers.
The best buyers, 30 and up.
They buy consistently.
They buy all the time.
They buy repetitively, and they buy traceably.
Predictability, right?
I just feel like when I look at the business breakdowns of where these technologies are going from MetaQuest to Apple's going to release theirs next year in 23, the biggest market share that they all want?
Microsoft Office.
They want everybody that works remote to sit in a room and be able to collaborate, work together, draw on a whiteboard, talk at the boardroom, be in the same – like, as a person that owns a creative company, man, it sucks having to work remote.
It's tough.
COVID was really, really, really, really, really, really hard to run business.
If somebody cracks that nut, and you can have talent from around the world sit in a room and do projects, like, yeah, that's going to be the $200 billion a year of NetRev.
Who the fuck cares what it looks like?
It's enterprise, right?
And that's another reason why, like, yeah, the graphics aren't as big of a focus right now.
That's exactly correct.
Yeah, like, can you just make it work?
And, yeah, so all of that, well said.
That was some Rick Ross shit right there, Andy James, coming in hot.
I haven't even had coffee yet.
I know, bro.
I don't know how you pulled yourself together there.
It's very impressive.
It makes it even more impressive.
Speaking of Meta, maybe we'll hit this real quick because it is a big, big, big news item today.
Instagram NFTs are almost here.
During its Creator Week 2022, Meta announced an update to its creator monetization system.
The new update will allow creators to share, buy, and sell NFTs directly from the photo sharing platform.
What will the Instagram NFT marketplace offer?
The leading photo sharing app, Instagram, will now allow creators to distribute their digital assets directly on Instagram.
Creators can now monetize their fan base and followers with the power of Web3.
The update is only available to select curated creators based in the United States.
Instagram plans to roll out the feature to a wide range of creators in the near future.
Instagram will allow these select creators to access an inbuilt toolkit to enable them to create NFTs using the Polygon blockchain.
Creators can then choose to sell these NFTs either directly on Instagram or off the platform as well.
So that's interesting.
They aren't stuck on Instagram after they're created.
So you can use the Instagram creation tool and sell them not only through Instagram, but also on other NFT marketplaces.
That's what it sounds like.
Meta also stated that it would not be taking a cut from any of the NFT sales right of the news.
What?
In addition to the blockchains and wallets that Meta already supports, Instagram also introduces Phantom Wallet support and the Solana blockchain.
Moreover, the company has also expanded the types of digital collectibles that can be featured on the platform to include video NFTs.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been looking to get into NFTs and digital collectibles since the start of the year and with this move has now switched gears full speed ahead.
I think that's most of the useful info here.
A couple of big interesting things there.
I mean, one is video NFTs will also be possible.
Also, again, the Phantom Wallet Solana support is moving forward.
And, yeah, I think it's – I mean, the fact that they won't be taking a cut of any NFT sales revenues, I find that hard to believe.
It says until 24.
Until 24.
And then it's going to be 75%.
Yeah, and then it will be 150%.
Okay.
So they're going to – yeah.
So they're going to be doing that for, like, some period of time initially to try and get adoption.
And then once people have tasted the sweet, sweet goodness of digital collectibles and Web3, they'll jack up the price.
So that makes sense.
That follows.
Let's get Winebags in here and see what he thinks.
And then we'll go Mix and Amico.
Yeah, I mean, I obviously have a huge disdain for everything meta, but should we be, like, just taking full advantage of this before they just – or should we, like, fight it?
Because I think it will also set a huge precedent for everything else, you know, with the general public.
And I could see them easily take – I mean, that was the initial statement that they did was, like, they were going to take, like, 40-something percent of, like, all assets created in their metaverse.
So, like, why would they not do the same for NFTs?
I'm, like, debating whether to just, like, go all in and try to capitalize as much as possible on this or just be, like, fuck them and try to get all my friends to not use it.
I feel like you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot regardless of personal stance.
And it's, like – I mean, I feel the same way about all of the big tech.
It's, like, the amount of fuckery that goes on at that level, like, it's not specific to meta in the least.
And so it's, like, at that juncture, do you want access to the largest marketplace of people in the world?
Like, if I was an artist, I fucking would, you know?
Fuck yeah.
I'd double down, triple down, quadruple down on meta.
Like, the goal for any artist is build your own brand, right?
Build your own audience.
Gather your own list of first-party data that you can use for your own purposes.
But, like, you know, you got to drag a wagon on the Oregon Trail.
You don't take the wheels off because you don't like the guy that makes the wheels, you know?
You fucking use the wheels.
Nah, fuck that guy.
Nah, fuck that guy.
You know?
Fuck.
I'm walking.
Yeah, but is that, like, just, you know, welcoming in what we know is going to be, like, a huge entity that then, like, sort of starts undercutting, you know, what we came into this to do in the first place?
Like, I was getting away from that shit.
This is, like, where we're headed, though.
This is, like, where the space is going to be, regardless of how we feel about it.
Like, these entities will get in, and they will do what they do.
We just have to, you know, go ahead.
What's up?
Well, Jay Yacht, I feel like, shout out Jay Yacht down there.
You know, I think she has, like, a sort of take on these types of things, which is, you know, she basically, like, uses them where she can, and she, like, tries to make change from the inside, right?
Which is, you know, it's like being a rebel, but also knowing where to get in and use these things to your advantage.
It's like, I feel like you can't really know what's going on or have a say in the ecosystem unless you're participating in it.
And I feel like, you know, as creators, you're more powerful to be involved and then, like, try and, you know, manipulate it or vote or direct them or provide feedback or whatever.
I don't know.
I just feel like, yeah, to Q's point, we're not going to be able to, like, stop them, probably.
So how do we just help guide it or make it better?
All right.
I also think you've seen the highest creators on these platforms actually push back.
Like, I hate that I have to say this, but, like, the Kardashians told Meta, like, hey, these two features fucking suck on Instagram, and they took them away.
Like, I know that's not, like, the thing we want to say.
But, like, we...
Did the Kardashians are right?
Yeah.
That's hard.
Yeah.
Well, not even that.
That's a hard one.
But, like, when you are influential creators on influential platforms, you do get a vote.
We do live in that world now.
Like, there is that reality.
Yep.
Yeah.
And I think the truth is a lot of these marketplaces and platforms do actually want to listen to creators because they understand that the creator experience has to work for them to succeed.
And so, I don't know.
I don't know.
Like, we have to...
I don't know.
Like, look, it's easy for us to always just be, like, really pessimistic about corporate behavior because there is so much shitty corporate behavior.
But also, like, you know, trying to understand that coexistence only happens when, like, shit's working for everybody.
And I don't know, man.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm easily swayed.
And you swayed me.
Well, I've always been, like, an anti-corporate type, like, outsider rebel type myself.
But I've also just, like, realized that inevitably, like, you know, standing a mile outside of the city and trying to throw rocks at the fucking buildings doesn't really do shit.
So, you know.
Anyway.
Let's see.
I think Q had a comment.
So, let's go to him first.
Sorry.
We'll get to Mix and Amico.
The NFT integration here is dope, obviously.
Like, the fact that Instagram, you know, one of the most used platforms in the world is going to, you know, integrate NFTs, that's cool.
And they're obviously trying to compete at the marketplace level.
But, you know, me and GIF have been experimenting on YouTube, you know, for a little while.
And I'm looking at the integrations into, like, subscriptions via NFTs.
Like, this is cool.
Like, the NFTs will be a marketplace feature and all that stuff you can buy, sell.
But once they integrate actual NFT utility into the platforms, that's what's really going to interest me, right?
Like, what if somebody could buy, sell an NFT and then actually integrate it into the app where only people holding that NFT get to see that story?
Like, those are the cool things that could be also done on YouTube.
Like, subscription-based models based on NFTs.
But right now, they just seem to, like, want to be attacking the marketplaces.
So, which is fine.
Like, it's a step in the right direction.
But I'm really interested in that second piece.
Hell, yeah.
That's interesting.
Like, your friends-only circle kind of thing.
That's dope.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Speaking of YouTubes, do we have a link for today's NFT live yet?
Or is it in the works?
Usually, I'm, like, 955, like, working on it.
But you looked lonely up here on the stage.
So, I had to jump in.
Thanks, man.
You know what?
What a guy.
Y'all, give NiftyQ a follow.
Show him some love.
All right.
Let's get mixed in here.
And then, Amiko, thanks for your patience.
Yeah, no problem.
What's more going on?
So, what Andy said about, like, how much, like, companies, like, fueling, like, the spend of new tech.
Like, like, when he's, so, what could happen, actually, is, let's say, the price of VR or AR glasses comes down, like, the weight of them, the size of them, whatever, gets down to, like, closer to a pair of normal glasses.
And companies, and they manage to get the price of them, and they manage to get the price of them, down to the cost of a computer monitor.
So, if you get people to just start using, like, headsets instead of computer monitors, because it's better than buying two computer monitors, you know, for employees to use versus buying them monitors or whatever.
And that's a better experience, and it's more efficient.
And you get enough people in the workforce just using headsets instead of monitors to do work.
And the viewing experience is good enough where it's better to watch, let's say, something on Netflix on your glasses versus even, like, a 65, 70-inch TV screen.
If you live by yourself, you might actually just use that instead of buying a TV for your house or your apartment or whatever.
So, I could see, like, maybe that becoming, like, that being a path that could be taken to get people to buy new hardware.
Like, if you get also accustomed to, like, viewing stuff on glasses instead of on, like, a monitor or a screen, and that's more immersive, and it's the same cost or less than buying a television set, and you're already using the shit at work.
Like, I could see, like, that path.
And more mobile and portable.
Like, TVs aren't portable.
Yeah, TVs are.
Like, they're stuck, and they're heavy and cumbersome and all that shit.
And it's easier for corn.
I literally did a project for fucking LG.
I don't know if you guys have fucked around with these new projectors, but, like, god damn, like, the box for the new projector is, like, the size of my mobile, my, like, little keyboard, my Apple keyboard.
You got a tiny one.
And that shit spits out 4K at the middle of the day, like, crazy imagery, like, super good, and projects it onto any wall.
It's crazy.
But imagine, like, glasses being a better experience than that.
That's what I mean.
Like, it's clearly, like, the TV, like, that shit's done.
Like, that industry is toasted.
So what we're talking about, and this is, like, putting it in context here.
Instead of taking a machine that throws light onto a surface, which is then also affected by the light in the room.
That's why Andy said during the day.
Because what he was saying was, in the light of your room, because you have windows in your house, and the light comes in, that's going to affect the quality of the surface.
Gotta have those rumens, bro.
Gotta have those high rumens.
Once you have a dark room, you're just not going to get the color fidelity and the brightness of, like, a really good projector.
So having something close to your eye that projects just, or just presents a surface or projects into your eye, whatever it does.
I don't know technology-wise, but, like, whatever that does, it's going to have to, it's not going to have to compete with the light that's in the room.
It's going to present the image to you in a way that's going to exist on the reality, but it'll be brighter without having to actually interact with the photons in, you know, in the room.
Heck yeah.
We're getting scientific with it.
Photons and lumens and shit.
Dude.
All right.
Let's, uh, let's, uh, dude.
All right.
Let's, uh, let's get Amiko's last thoughts in here, and then I want to move into some other quick headlines.
Because we haven't even hit on the main topic of the day, Rolling Stone NFTs yet.
So we've got to get to that.
So, Amiko, you get the last note, uh, last words here.
Thank you, Gifted, because I had the first one raised, but it's very good.
I, I love the honor.
Um, okay.
So, guys, this, um, this, this, well, first of all, I want, I rose my hand because I thought, listen, guys, in a few years, there won't be no more cars.
You know, there are, oops, hold on, there's construction here.
There are cities right now that are being built.
There are cities right now that are being built with a beautiful kind of video game.
You sit in a little shuttle bubble, and it's like an underground subway, and that's how, like, you know, capsules that you sit in.
You sit in a shuttle bubble.
Yeah.
It's like, no, but it goes, like, there's, everybody's individually sitting.
It's actually happening now.
So, maybe we'll be into something else within less than 10 years, I hope.
Um, but my, my thoughts on this Instagram and all of that, I mean, for me, you know, when we were talking about earlier about Zuckerberg and this and that and Elon, and I want to see more of those people.
I do, I'm not comfortable when there's only three or five of them.
I need to see a bunch of, a bunch of them so that they're, they can have some competition.
And that even brought me to thinking that Gifted, why don't you start a big-ass company, because you already did, and then we're all going to fucking build in this.
Jessica's going to be, like, the assistant president, and, you know, everybody's in there, Andy's your left hand, Nifty Q, and we're all built.
You know how we assembled, like, a conference in five minutes, all of us, because we're so smart sometimes.
I have 25 years of ophthalmology, so I was in the eye business, medical, so I know a few things, Jeff, Jack, you know, about vision and light and, you know, guys, just a quick, quick heads up, like, for your eyes.
We are so on technology right now on the screens.
Just blink consciously, consciously a little more often so that your eyes don't dry up.
There'll be reminders.
There'll be, like, you'll see a thing.
And it's going to go straight in the brain, you know?
It's like the TikTok one that's, like, making sure you have some water.
Keep hydrated.
Also, Jess's assistant.
The guy with the plastic face?
Jess's assistant, Prez, is my new favorite title.
No, she's going to be president.
She's assistant nothing.
She's Jess's president.
What if the vice president was the assistant president?
I'll be maybe co-president or, like, CMO, maybe.
You know, we won't call them those titles.
Like, you'll be king.
Jess will be, like, thirst trap, something.
Well, believe it or not, that is what we're trying to do here with the Web3 network.
That is why we're creating this new structure to actually build something bigger.
What happened to NiftyQ?
NiftyQ apparently had to go do some waxing or something to get ready for the last NFT live of – it is thirst trap Thursday, ladies and DGens.
So, you know, he's got to go get pretty for NFT live, which is, by the way, pinned up at the top.
If you don't know, GMWeb3 is the greatest heckin' morning alpha show ever created, and we do this show Monday through Thursday, four days a week.
And we go straight out of here on Twitter Spaces into the YouTubes over there on NFT live, pinned up at the top.
Last show of the week, we will be moving over there in just a couple minutes.
So, definitely join us.
It's going to be a good time.
You get to see NiftyQ's beautiful manicured, quaffed beard.
You get to see me fully un-quaffed because I'm not shaving all of November.
That is part of my Know Nothing November program.
You're going to look like a Santa Claus.
I'm going to look like an absolute wildebeest over there.
Holy moly.
But, yeah, let's keep it going, though, because there are a couple other things.
One quick hit that I just want everybody to be paying, since we're talking about the big brand integrations and stuff today,
Starbucks Odyssey.
Got a note from them.
The journey is beginning soon.
And the important note here is that you must be a U.S.-based Starbucks Rewards member to join Starbucks Odyssey.
If you're not in the Starbucks Rewards member program yet, join it now to streamline your Starbucks Odyssey registration.
So there is a link in the email, join Starbucks Rewards.
So you just got to make sure that you have an account linked to your email, that you signed up for Starbucks Odyssey.
Otherwise, it will be more difficult to get in on this once it goes.
So a couple other quick notes that are included here.
Once you join Starbucks Odyssey, you'll be able to earn and purchase digital stamps.
And they actually say NFTs.
In parentheses, they actually have NFTs in here, which I'm actually surprised.
I didn't think they would even include that anywhere.
They kind of hit it in a little parentheses after digital stamps.
But it does say NFTs in this email.
So you'll be able to earn and purchase digital stamps, a.k.a. NFTs, and unlock access to exclusive offers, experiential benefits, and collectible Starbucks artwork that can't be found anywhere else.
I kind of anticipated that, that they'll be collaborating with some cool artists, creating, I guess, stamps, like digital stamps, very much like physical stamps that have different artwork on them.
People collect those, right?
Why not collect digital stamps from Starbucks?
Our beta experience will launch soon.
At first, we're inviting a small number of waitlist members to join our beta program to test the experience and provide feedback before our full launch.
And we'll continue to send invites.
So there you go.
Again, if you are wanting to get in on this Starbucks Odyssey, make sure you have your Starbucks rewards set up.
All right.
We're going to talk now.
Wait, wait.
Can I really quick, can I say?
I'm a US, I'm a United States maxi, so screw all the other countries.
And I'm kidding.
America.
America.
I'm a US maxi, sorry.
Moe isn't the speaker anymore.
That's why I said that, because she can't slap me.
But also, I'm going to sign up for this Starbucks card, and I don't have one.
And my wife has one, and I'm going to say, hey, you should get the Odyssey.
Okay, cool.
Now go on.
All right.
Sorry.
All right.
This is America.
All right.
We're here.
We're alive.
All right.
Let's jump into the main topic of the day.
Ladies and degenerates, Rolling Stone is launching its first official NFT collection.
First that I know of.
I don't know.
Has Rolling Stone done any others?
I haven't seen them do anything.
I thought they did release something last year.
They did a thing with Board 8.
Yeah.
They had a Board 8 cover.
Okay.
They did.
Okay.
So maybe it's not their first thing.
Yeah.
Thanks.
My B.
My B.
But this is going to be one of their first big things.
It is a Coinbase drop.
So that's important to know.
If you don't have a Coinbase wallet, you might want to get that set up if you're excited about
this.
Shout out Mo Runda, who shared this gem with us.
Rolling Stone and Coinbase have partnered with 12 creators.
That's six times two.
12 creators to reimagine the iconic...
Good math there, guys.
Dude.
I know maths.
Three times four, too.
It's also four times three.
To reimagine the iconic Rolling Stone logo.
Deadfellas.
I mean, they say Deadfellas is an artist.
I guess they just mean one of or multiple of the Deadfellas artists are part of it.
So Deadfellas, Kid 8, Imoni La Russa, Elise Swopes, Boss Beauties, Jeff Manning, Giant Swan,
and Dom...
Okay.
All right.
Was that Jeff saying he was Jeff?
That's...
Yeah.
No, I'm just saying, like, you should have picked the other Jeff.
Yeah.
I was like, is this some Jeff nepotism happening?
Giant Swan, Domino, Mike Grill Made It, Mark the Habibi, Alita Sun, and Mr. Goldie.
These are the artists.
They all brought their work together to create a one-of-one that provides the holder with access
to Rolling Stone's exclusive Creators event hosted in Los Angeles this May.
So there's utility.
There's going to be a big event in May.
We're going to go to the drop site on Coinbase NFT now.
I'm a fan of Kid 8.
That's a good...
I'm a huge fan of that artist.
So that's a good one.
Yeah.
Do you have any GVOLs?
I actually was too broke, is the word, at the time when those came out.
But I need to...
I think they're probably not that expensive now.
Dude, they are so fucking cheap now, bro.
They're great.
So of all the...
Okay.
I'm going to get open and transparent and honest with y'all real quick.
So I love them too.
Of all the projects that I, like, aped into at the top, GVOLs is probably, like, the worst
one.
I bought four of them at, like, over an ETH or something, and then they've, like, crashed
down to, like, below 0.1, I think.
They're, like, around 0.1 or 0.2.
So they're very...
I'm going to pick some up now.
They're very affordable.
I'm a big fan of picking up, like, things that have pumped already and, like, are in,
like, a post-post-post-dump phase.
And, like, they're just sitting there.
And I'm like, now they're mine.
I mean, I have a real project about them.
You know, I do think, actually...
May I introduce you to Bitcoin?
You know, you could say a little...
Yeah.
Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho!
Nice.
What's going to happen to me?
A little...
That's a foot stomper.
A little bit of alpha, I guess, could be to go look at GVOLs and see what you think.
Because it is good art.
They're cool 3D assets based around this famous character that Kid 8 has created.
Kid 8 is a very well-known artist, famous artist, big following, has his own brand, has
his own characters that he's been developing for a long time and is, you know, relatively
young, is going to be creating for a long time.
So, you know, I'm pretty bullish on him as an artist and, yeah, where that whole world
is going.
They have been consistently putting stuff out.
So, you know, might be pretty undervalued.
Again, nothing financial advice.
But if you haven't checked out the GVOLs, might be worth checking them out.
Because I can tell you they are definitely very, very low right now compared to where
their top was.
I hold four of them.
I love them.
All right.
Anyway, Rolling Stone.
I think that's basically all of the info that's available right now unless we want to go read
the terms and conditions.
But, yeah, I'm excited.
I love Rolling Stone.
I love when, you know, big brands established, you know, Web2 brands, etc., do collaborations
with cool artists that are respected in the community.
I think that's a great way to kind of, like, organically, you know, integrate and do cool
stuff.
And, again, not just show up with your hands out expecting people to throw ETH at you just
because of who you are in the Web2 world.
So it seems like a very thoughtful, cool project.
And I am curious, you know, obviously living in L.A., I'm curious about this exclusive
creators event hosted in Los Angeles.
I don't see any details on, like, mint price or supply or anything like that out yet.
But it does look like the countdown on the NFT Coinbase website says 35 days and three hours.
So three hours from now, that would be 12, basically around noon, 1230.
So noon Pacific time, just over a month out.
So probably around December 8th is what, yeah, December 8th, 12 p.m.
PSC.
There it is.
All right.
I did the math and then I looked down and it was already there.
All right.
So December 8th, 12 p.m.
PDT.
That is when this project is going to launch.
So just a little bit after Art Basel and all that.
Any other thoughts or, you know, on Rolling Stone in this project?
I love Rolling Stone.
I love the magazine.
I subscribed to it throughout my teen years for music news and then throughout my 20s and
30s for politics and and just great, you know, articles kind of fell off the whole subscribing
to magazines thing probably in the last, you know, 10, 15 years ish.
But but there was an institution in my mailbox for a long time and it's a great publication.
So I'm bullish on whatever they decide to get into because I just think, you know, it's
it's like it's like the National Lampoon angle, you know, like they're they're like a cultural
staple.
There's somebody they're like an organization that people look to for guidance and thinking
on on like leading the culture for music.
And and and and what what cool is like the cover of Rolling Stone.
It's a thing getting on the cover of Rolling Stone or having an article or an interview
in Rolling Stone is like my life goal.
Literally, like I just I and I'm not a musician.
I just always thought how cool would that be to be interviewed on that in that magazine and
be like put up on that pedestal of being like respected as an artist.
So I just I think it's a wonderful I'm glad that they're here.
I'm glad that they're doing it in a way that seems legit.
So, yeah.
And I mean, that's you know, I think it is a really big deal for these artists that get
to be part of this type of thing for a similar reason.
Right.
To get to collaborate with a brand like Rolling Stone on something like this.
So, you know, Deadfellas, Boss Beauties is in there.
We do have somebody who looks like from the Boss Beauties team joining us here.
What's up, Yadidah?
Or do you have thoughts?
Yeah.
What's good, Gifted?
Man, been a long time, my friend.
Yeah.
It's Clubhouse.
Right on.
What's up?
Yeah.
Let's see.
I'm loving the Rolling Stone thing.
I was reading up on it this morning.
We did do a collab with them back in the late winter for the Super Bowl.
We did a Boss Beauties collab piece that was free to holders.
And then it got a free subscription for the next year.
Don't go buy them now because that's already passed.
You can't get the free subscription anymore.
But, yeah, we did that collab.
We actually sent a couple of OG BB holders to the Rolling Stone Super Bowl party.
And I know there was a couple of other projects also that did.
I think Deadfellas might have been one.
And I think the apes may have done something small with them, too.
I'm not sure.
Or maybe one or two apes did.
I can't really remember exactly.
But, yeah, there was a few different projects that got involved.
So, I'm pretty sure all of those original artists are who are contributing to the new NFT project coming up.
I don't know much more about it than that.
But, yeah, I got to assume Boss Beauty is going to have a little bit of a hand in there.
So, go buy Boss Beauty.
Hell, yeah.
Do you have any idea about the supply?
Like, do you know anything about it?
Nothing.
Nothing at all on that.
It's top secret.
All right.
No worries.
Hey, well, thanks for joining.
Also, check out, pinned up at the top, Halloween's over.
Spray tans are fading.
Now what?
That is a great question.
But absolute master class up here in Thirst Trap Thursday, how to get, how to Thirst Trap online.
Jess, how did you do this?
Break it down for us.
How did you manage to trap all this thirst?
Are you there?
Maybe not.
All right.
Well, we'll see if we can get just up here.
But check out that amazing Thirst Trap Thursday post from the one, the only Jay Yacht, Thirst Trap
Queen of the Kingdom up there, pinned up at the top.
I also wanted to shout out Mumbot because I don't know that we've actually gotten to chat
with her or say congratulations.
If y'all don't know, Mumbot's project on Coinbase, her drop, I think it was about a week
ago, fucking sold out, getting a ton of attention.
Some awesome, awesome shout outs from Gary Vee also I've been seeing out there showing up.
Maybe I should pin that.
Where's that video?
Let's, let's find that Gary Vee shout out and pin that one up there because it's pretty
cool.
So people, people get on my ass for simping for Gary Vee, but I don't give a shit.
I think he's, I think he's cool.
Oh, here it is.
He answered my message one time because I commented and he answered, but I didn't know it was
a big deal.
Like if Gary Vee answered you, like, I just think he's cool, you know?
And yeah.
Yeah.
Well, if you want to check that out, pin up at the top.
Also, I put that cool little video with some of her art.
And so, yeah, huge deal.
Whenever Friends of the Castle, our homies in here are dropping big projects and selling
them out.
So that's amazing.
Congratulations.
She has the most beautiful voice and she's so kind to Mumbat.
That's what I love about Mumbat.
Yeah, her heart's all right, but her personality, personality.
I grabbed the middle of those ghosts.
I know.
Everything, everything about Mumbat is great.
Absolutely.
And yeah, Mumbat, feel free to come up and say hi if you want.
We will be here for a little bit longer.
Covering off on anything else that's going on.
And in the space.
I'm excited about Rolling Stone.
Anybody else have any thoughts on that before we kind of like keep it going?
I like Jeff Jagg's comments.
But yeah.
Any other thoughts on that before we keep it going?
Or do we all just want to...
Keith Grossman's going to have some competition now.
Like, you know, like it's another major magazine.
And that'd be great.
Yeah, competition's good.
Definitely.
Yeah.
Time Magazine.
But not for real, right?
Like, I mean, Keith Grossman and Time, they are pioneers in their own.
I really love them.
Yeah, but I think it is a good point, right?
There's not really that many other sort of magazines that have been really investing or creating cool things or building much in the space.
So, yeah.
Time Magazine.
Now maybe Rolling Stone.
Well, these fashion magazines will come in, right?
Like Vogue or if they're not already here.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I don't know.
If GQ comes in, GIFTA will put you on the cover.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
I'm getting just...
I'm just getting...
Honestly, I'm getting very distracted by Jay Yacht's thirst trap up here.
Is she even there?
Jay Yacht, are you there?
Are you trapping us in this room by just like being here but not talking?
Is that part of the thirst trap?
Is it continued?
All right.
I guess so.
So, well, hey, if you don't know what the thirst trap Thursday thing is all about, if you're new here, we like to celebrate self-love, self-expression, self-acceptance.
And so Thursdays, we encourage people to share out photos of themselves.
It doesn't always have to be in lingerie.
That's cool too.
But it can just be you being silly, being fun, and we want to celebrate that with you.
So if you hashtag thirst trap Thursday and you tag us, we will help that.
We will support that.
We will love that because, you know what, it's good practice for us all to get more comfortable in our own skin and more comfortable seeing ourselves.
It's part of our brand.
It's part of communicating, living in the metaverse as we are getting comfortable with ourselves.
So anyway, all right.
What's the point?
What's the point?
What else?
Time to re-ranch it, Q?
True.
Re-ranch.
Seriously, that's part of my, like, verbiage now.
And it's upsetting.
But actually, I kind of like it.
I'm fine.
I know.
I feel like the more Q hangs out with me, he's just going to start stealing all my catchphrases, all my sayings.
But it's okay.
It's all right.
We're with it.
I'm going to start stealing his anyway.
I don't know.
What are your catchphrases?
I won't use what's the point, but I'll use re-ranch.
I'll use re-ranch.
What's the point?
All right.
Let's check.
Let's see what's in this update over here really quick.
Like, do we want to talk about Art Gobblers again?
Why it's so controversial?
I don't know.
I'm going to try and avoid that one if I can here for a minute.
Oh, you know what we didn't talk about yet, Q, is the FIFA World Cup NFTs.
You know what we didn't talk about yet?
You put Hanukkah as a B-list holiday.
No, that's not true.
Yeah, you did.
You did?
No, bro.
That's not true.
You are absolutely talking shit, talking out of your ass on that one.
Let's go find that, though.
Let's post that, the Rate My Bags Holiday Edition that we did yesterday on NFT Live so everybody
can see how we rated all of your favorite holidays and tell us how wrong we are.
Negative feedback only is what we're looking for on this.
So, yeah, pinned up at the top, you can see how myself, Biggie, and Nifty Q rated it.
No, Hanukkah is A-tier, so I don't know what you're talking about.
I saved it from being demoted to B-tier.
Biggie Poppins wanted to drop Hanukkah down to B-tier, and I said, no.
It's a special, special week, special celebration, and we cannot disrespect Hanukkah like that.
I just want to read the room, too.
Can I read the room here?
Like, who actually likes Valentine's Day?
Does anyone support that holiday in here?
I see a lot of thumbs-downs coming up.
So, we did that right.
It's a Hallmark holiday.
Yeah, Hallmark holiday.
Yep.
Seems like we got D-tier, right?
That's Festivus next to it, if y'all didn't know.
I mean, the chocolate's good.
Like, it's an aphrodisiac.
It's good, like dark chocolate.
But I think Valentine should be love day every day, baby.
Love day every day.
All right.
I'm with that.
But, yeah, feel free to let us know how wrong or right our opinions on the holidays are up there.
But, yeah, let's talk briefly about, I mean, I'm a big football fan, European football fan.
I'm excited for the World Cup.
It only comes around every four years.
It's like the Olympics, but way better.
And so, Qatar World Cup with FIFA NFTs, December 7th and 11th, try your luck and win a VIP trip to Doha, airfare, luxury accommodation, and tickets to two FIFA World Cup quarterfinal matches.
Wow.
That actually sounds fucking lit.
So, basically, the organization announced today it's FIFA Plus Own It, Win It, Live It giveaway.
You must purchase packs of NFTs starting at $4.99.
So, basically, $5 a pack.
So, okay, they're card packs with, I guess, a giveaway attached to it.
So, yep, it's a pack-to-pack special FIFA Plus Collect Marketplace launched last month to modernize sticker albums.
What?
Actually, they sold Panini, a license for those, and Panini, too, have launched an NFT marketplace.
2022 Ballon d'Or winner, Karim Benzema's card is worth $175.
Okay.
So, FIFA is selling NFT video highlights.
So, okay, it's basically like their NBA Top Shot.
There's now one for FIFA.
They actually call them digital collectibles.
Of course they do.
So, 200,000 highlights have already been claimed using the Algorand – oh, it's on Algorand – using the Algorand blockchain.
You get one entry per pack.
There's one – so, basically, every $5 pack you buy is one entry into this giveaway.
There's one winner per week for a total of four winners.
All right.
About the odds of winning, I'll let you figure that out.
Sports-wise, the odds are at a one out of 32.
However, as English player Gary – okay.
Blah, blah, blah.
All right.
So, I mean, it's cool.
Like, again, I'm a big football fan.
I didn't get an NBA Top Shot.
I don't know if I'm going to collect these or not.
But I'm going to look more into it.
I think I'm just excited about the World Cup.
And I think it's cool that there's NFTs already being – you know, providing utility for it.
Any other thoughts on –
No, this is a scam.
This is – I hesitate to use the word scam, okay?
It's not a scam.
FIFA is a scam.
The whole entity, the whole firm, all of those fucking shiesty-ass motherfuckers can go to hell.
This is a cash grab, and it's a raffle.
And it has nothing to – this is – these are all – this is like the bad experiences that we don't want Web2 brands to do.
Break it down for us.
Tell us how you really feel and then break it down for us, Q.
What do you mean?
You just explained it.
It's a raffle to go out to Qatar.
Yeah, it's a raffle.
That they'll do nothing with afterwards.
They're saying you can buy Kareem Benzema's card.
There's probably no marketplace.
There's probably no platform where you can view this or anything.
Like, it's just all wrong.
And it's on Algorand.
And it's FIFA.
These guys are fucking scammers.
The whole thing is a joke.
Qatar World Cup is actually probably a joke.
They got paid off to actually have the World Cup there to begin with.
So, fuck this.
I love the game of football.
And I said football, and I'm probably going to get strung up on my fucking toes.
What?
No, that's the proper nomenclature.
No, it's not in America.
Bro, it's real football.
It's real football, not American football.
So, I'm going with Nifty here.
Fuck this.
You know what we should do, Kim?
We have more probability of raising a nice NFT.
We'll make a nice, you know, maybe a DB NFT soccer, like, version.
And then we'll sell those to sponsor a trip NFT of us liking football and all that.
And I have a connect in Qatar and we'll throw up a huge party in the club and we'll get our money back.
And we'll attend over there.
What do you say?
I mean, it sounds lit to me.
Hey, this is pretty cool, too, though.
Featured in the latest NFT evening email blast is Dario DeSiena, who is, you know, longtime friend of the castle.
Somebody from the community, the OG Clubhouse community.
So, that's really cool.
If you all don't know Dario, super talented artist, and it's cool to see him getting highlighted.
Dario.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaking of dope artists, hey, Jimena's in the room now, too.
Creatures.
So many good friends down there.
Shout out to you all.
Squash, man.
What's up?
Owen Rogers.
We see you.
I hope you're all having a beautiful day.
This is GM Web 3, last show of the week.
Been enjoying the conversation.
We will be hopping out of here in just a few minutes over to the YouTubes.
So, I'm going to go ahead and pin that post back up at the top for everybody to go like it, love it, retweet it, and make sure to join us.
You know, we're going to keep the combo going.
Q's always got some additional surprise headlines for us to talk about.
You know, we like to re-ranch it.
We like to recap a lot of the most interesting conversations over there.
I put it into a sexy little package, but also there's some surprises.
Usually, Nifty Q's got some kind of unexpected curveballs he likes to throw my way and see where they go.
So, don't miss that.
And, of course, we will be back next week starting on Monday.
You know, we do the show four days a week.
There you go, Monday through Thursday.
Thank you again to everybody who's been participating today and in the show this week.
Follow the amazing mods, co-hosts, contributors up here.
Could not do the show without them.
And, yeah, with that, are there any other headlines or updates or big events that we want to hit on before we wind down this episode?
Any updates with NFT London?
That's a good question.
So, like, I know literally one person that's going from the U.S.
I know Kelly is going.
I think our Jedi is going.
She's over there in the U.K.
But, like, other than that, I don't even really know anybody that's going.
Because I asked other European friends, they're like, nope, we're not going.
So, I'm like, oh, okay.
Yeah, I was just wondering what was the thoughts on that.
I just came back from New York, so that was pretty cool.
Yeah, I'm just going to be honest.
It doesn't seem like it's a really big, anticipated, exciting thing just in terms of, like, hearing people planning for it, going to it.
Right.
So, I've heard very, very little interest.
Because we know it's, I think, the same people from NFT New York as well, right?
Well, it's, yes, it's the same people behind NFT NYC who are creating NFT London, which, you know, you'd think that that would be okay.
I mean, NFT New York's kind of a shit show, not going to lie.
Like, you go there because it's in New York, and there's a million other things, and it's just, like, it's one of the biggest aggregate conferences.
Like, there's just so much going on across, you know, like, a week that it's worth just going because you don't even have to be part of the conference to, like, experience, yeah, to have an amazing experience.
So, it's like, you know, but that doesn't necessarily mean that NFT New York, the conference is all that great.
I would argue that it's just okay.
Well, I certainly enjoy coming to your events during that event, you know.
Hey.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, we usually do our own satellite events around NFT NYC and some of these other big conferences.
I was curious.
I kind of wanted to go, but didn't.
Yeah, I'm not going to London, and it's happening right now.
So, I think it starts today, actually.
So, I don't know.
Yeah, I just wanted to go for the Wrecked Guy show.
I wasn't going to fly over there, just thought.
Nice.
Yeah, Wrecked Guys, you know, maybe you can give us the, since you're rocking a Wrecked Guy, and I've seen them popping up a little bit recently.
I don't have any, but, like, seems like they were pumping recently and getting some attention.
Can you give us?
All right.
Yeah, what's the alpha?
What's up with Wrecked Guys?
The alpha specifically for them is grab D-Gen's Access Passes, not Financial Advice.
Right now, I have, like, four of them.
Because those guarantee an Alien Queen mint, from what I'm understanding.
Um, Alien Queen's a super rare artist.
She made a bunch of, like, the really, like, coveted, um, Wrecked Guys.
And when she drops her collection, it's going to be, well, I think it's going to be, it may be a free mint or a cheat mint, but you're, you're guaranteed a mint if you own a D-Gen's Access Pass.
So, um, like, the Wrecked Guys themselves, um, I think they'll have a chance, like, to win, like, a pre-mint raffle, um, to mint, uh, to mint an Alien Queen.
But the, that was a free mint, and that went to people who own D-Gen's, um, and Red Light Districts.
Like, I have, like, a bunch of his art.
I have, like, um, some of the OSF editions.
The OSF editions are a monthly drop to people who own, um, something called a Red Light District.
So that's a piece of art.
I think last I checked, they were, like, 80.
Um, and then every month you get an OSF edition.
And there's only, like, 220-something of those.
But, uh, like, like, I fuck with his art.
Like, I like his, like, animated GIFs.
And their community's solid.
They have, like, um...
Dude, do they not give you, like, an anelctic seizure, though?
I make shit like that, so they don't...
Ah, man.
Like, because I'm not going to lie, like, I think the art's cool.
And, like, I like things that are animated and have cool colors and shit.
But even when I just go look at them on OpenSea, like, it fucking, like, gives me a headache, man.
Some of them, though, have, like, a background that doesn't...
Like, on the Rekt guys, I'll have a background that's not as flashy.
It'll be pretty much a solid background, so you won't notice it.
Yeah, so if y'all don't know what we're talking about, if you search on OpenSea, Rekt Guy, R-E-K-T-G-U-Y,
OneWord is a verified collection, Rekt Guy.
It's a pretty big collection, and it's honestly, it's one that, like, I haven't heard that many people talking about,
but it seems to be getting, you know, some more attention and traction again recently.
Do you know who OSF is, though?
No, no, no, not really.
So they do a...
He and his partner, I think, like, his business partner or whatever, it's this guy Mando.
So OSF and Mando were, like, two traders that gave up their jobs to get into the NFT space.
And, like, whatever, right?
So they launched their...
The other two co-hosts with Baroque on his show in the morning.
But they, like, the whole DGEN's system is pretty much, like, they do...
The DGEN's access passes themselves.
He does, like, research reports on, like, different collections and releases those every Friday.
So he gives useful information.
If you're, like, looking for, like, a summary of a project and what they think of it,
and they...
It's like due diligence.
It's like DD.
Yeah, they do the DD.
But wait, they do that in their Discord, or where are they doing that?
And, yeah, on their website.
Like, so a DGEN's access pass will give you access to that info.
But, like, OSF, like, makes his art that specific to him.
So he's, like, the main artist on there.
And Alien Queen is, like, somewhat affiliated with them also.
So, yeah.
But it's, like, the community's pretty decent.
Like, I've worked with them.
Yeah, I mean, it's got almost 7,400 ETH total volume over here on OpenSea.
It's a big project.
And those Alien Queens, when that drops, don't be surprised if that, like...
Because one thing that made that collection take off when they first released it
was that Snoop Dogg grabbed one and changed his PFP to one for, like, 24 hours.
And so, like, they've got, yeah, like, they've got eyes on that project.
So when Alien Queens mint, that's, like, something that could potentially just go on a run.
And the people who fuck with them, like, really fuck with them.
Yeah, it's an 8,800 supply collection.
Floor price is 0.43 right now.
So it's pretty expensive to get in on it.
But it doesn't mean it can't have an upside.
They dropped also with the same weekend that those were minting was Goblin Town.
So that was, like, the competing Freeman collection that same weekend.
I think, like, Goblin Town kind of overshadowed them during that weekend.
But, yeah, like, but they had a history of a community.
That's why I, like, didn't grab a goblin.
Got it.
In solidarity, can we actually post that video, those two actors speaking Goblinese?
Like, that's an all-time video.
Can we just do that?
I forgot what it looks like, but I'll always remember, if that makes sense.
If you can find it and you want to post it, go ahead.
I'd be fine if you don't.
But, hey, here's another really cool thing that I just noticed.
OpenSea has a new analytics tab.
It says beta next to it.
So they're rolling out beta testing.
So I don't know if that means that everybody has access to it or if it's just some users.
But I'm looking at it right now.
If you go to OpenSea and go look at a big collection, instead of the, like, normal sort of volume chart, they've got this analytics tab that has a bunch of different analytical tools.
It's right there on the, on the, on the, wreck the, wreck the things thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Those wreck things will give you a little seizure there.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Just looking at that, at the collection, when you look at a collection page with a whole bunch of them, it totally fucks with your head.
But it's still kind of cool art.
I just don't know that I love the, like, really fast flashing, but that's personal taste thing.
But, yeah.
Hey, Farber, what's that restaurant with all the flashing shit on the wall that you like?
What?
Oh, come on.
Really?
Wait, what?
That's a super troopers joke.
Shenanigan.
I fumbled it.
All right.
But there are a lot of new, cool data tools here, analytical tools now built into OpenSea, or at least that they're testing out.
So, I recommend going and checking that out.
That's pretty cool.
They've got floor price, sales, price distribution, owners, owner distribution.
That's cool.
You can see how many people own one, two, you know, five plus, or, like, the ownership distribution.
That's pretty interesting.
Top owners.
They got top owners.
That's very interesting.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Very cool.
Ooh, is that going to kill a bunch of, like, analytical tool NFTs?
Yeah, well, it's, I think it's also, you know, they've also been integrating the rarity rankings, too.
I think a lot of these third-party analytical tools are all eventually going to go down unless they can integrate into the bigger platforms.
So, absolutely.
Yeah.
Well, now it's going to be a new thing, like, oh, I have to be the top owner.
I have to see my name in there.
It could be.
Yeah, maybe.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Q, are you finding that video?
Oh, God.
Here it is.
All right.
I'm going to go watch this right now.
I'm going to mute real quick so I can watch this.
In the pantheon of things that have happened in the NFT space of, like, absolute cringe slash bad, like, this is top five.
All I needed was the thumbnail to remember it.
Oh, my God.
I'm not watching it.
I didn't realize they were actors.
I did not either.
Does it make it better or worse, though?
Work.
I think it makes it worse.
I think it makes it worse.
I'm not going to lie.
Because it says to me that, like, instead of this just being, like, organic community engagement and people just being weird because they are weirding out on something that they like, they paid people to try and make this a thing.
Yeah, halfway through the video when she starts, like, mumble.
Like, I don't even know what word that is.
That's when it's, like, nightmare fuel type level.
It's not meant to be a word.
It's Goblinese, right?
It is nightmare fuel.
Oh, why are we sharing that?
I think it's hilarious.
I've never seen such a thing.
And as an actor, they did a pretty good job because they look like, you know, like a kid's show or something.
I think it's hilarious, but that's just me.
They definitely took their assignment very seriously, and we give them credit for that.
Hey, shout out Pat Dimitri down there.
Cool to see you in here.
Jen Joy.
See all the homies.
We are wrapping this up, heading over to YouTube's right now.
I had to go ahead and repin that and get – I couldn't leave that video as the last pin on this room.
So I've repinned our YouTube link.
If you don't know, we hopped straight out of here over to the YouTubes for some NFT live.
We're going to be recapping all of the headlines, all the alpha, any interesting stories.
And again, seeing what kind of curveballs Nifty Q's got to throw my way today.
Do we have anyone else joining us?
Is it just us two today?
Biggie.
You got Biggie?
Biggie's joining?
Was that a yes?
Yeah, that's confirmed.
Yes, Biggie.
I said Biggie.
Would I just say Biggie out loud?
I don't know, bro.
It'd not be something.
Okay.
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I'm just living, trying to survive.
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Couldn't do the show without you, Shirley.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
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