What's up everyone Orlando here just launched the space seems a really cool features ahead and see before if anyone wants to come up already as speaker
just raise your hand and request it. And it will be super chill combo. What's up, mags, Alex, it's the funnier. Hello, good morning or afternoon.
More than afternoon. Happy Friday.
Is there any idea where you in New York yet?
I think she has to request her. I can go ahead and uh, shoot her. Invite.
So you can play music here. It's been a minute since I've been on a space but I didn't realize that. Like from the app. Where is it on?
uh like within integrated in I don't know how it starts playing Phil august highlights with sounds of music oh that's kind of cool
Hello. I was supposed to fly last night, but my fly got canceled. So I flew these morning and I just made it to a place that I'm staying. So I'm pretty excited.
What time is the event? So the event is tomorrow. Today we're going to do like a little bit of content creation with a few models and then tomorrow's day is the big day. I think it's at 1 p.m.
Good luck Thank you. Thank you. I'll keep you posted. I'll send peaks Do you have a is there like a link and event page?
somewhere that you can share? There is. I have an, I don't think it's on. I put it on Twitter. So let me see. Let me do it and see if I can pin it.
For everyone else who joined Pablo said here, it's super chill. Come with today. We just wanted to go ahead and create a space our first one of the year just to see what's up. Well, people are up to you how they're feeling about the markets, how they feel about life.
anything that comes up and just hang out for a bit in this lovely Friday. So if you want to raise your hand or come to speak or just listen or even hop up in the discord and chat if that's your preferred way to communicate like all that works.
Anyone up to some cool crypto things these days?
I'm still trying to look for another good podcast.
Maybe you need to star one Orlando. I have not a podcast right on mags is super good with that. Well, dude, I haven't done
I'm also looking for some too, just because I think the ones I listened to before I'm kind of over, so if anyone has any recommendations at that time.
I definitely, uh, bank list has always been my go-to. Yeah, that's the one that I listen to and I feel like that's it. So I kind of want a crazy variety.
Step on the other. Is there any fashion web 3 podcast? I don't know. I leave in a lot to Twitter spaces, you know? That's kind of like where I get all the insides. But yeah, I know like
there's one in La Tonde but they just did a few episodes about Web 3 and fashion is no just like Web 3. If anyone knows, let me know because that'll be cool.
Will is also here. He's been creating a lot lately.
I just said, will I just send you over and invite if you are able to talk this moment, but I put him on the spot. Sorry. All good.
Stephanie, did you end up confirming if you're going to East Denver or if anyone else is here to go to East Denver? I want to. I don't have tickets yet. I mean, I have. I had. I got to.
a ticket for one of the events, airdrop to my wallet. So we'll see. We'll see. I really want to go. Are you going?
I have a ticket as well and I'm thinking I'm gonna wait until like the week before to come for one of those things. - Yeah.
I am not. I won't be able to make it. They're also doing a hackathon. I don't know if you guys heard like, have any info about it.
No, I know what the matter is. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, no. Go for it. I was going to share that I know the matter was applying for eight or like a scholarship or something and that's the only thing
I knew about it. I don't know if there's any more scholarships or anything floating around for people to apply into. But yeah.
Also, what's up will I see you're up on stage now? How you been man? I'm doing good. I just been been lying low
and just creating, working on some stuff coming up. Yeah, are you guys familiar with the burn mechanism?
Yeah, all right. Well, the burn mechanism that's out at the moment through manifold smart contract. So the way that it works is like you have an NFT and essentially by burning it through through the smart contract.
you get your rewarded with a new NFT. So you start off with one, burn it, and you're rewarded with another one. So I've kind of been playing with that mechanism and kind of just been experimenting with how I want to drop in the future. So what happens to the one that was burned?
It's gone forever man. It's it's over with but does is it like record that the second one came from the first one or like I guess I'm trying to see like The benefit is it just like a cool feature? A lot of people are using it in different ways and it's all it all operates through manifold
on like a minz page. So if you let's say you have the the first NFT before you burn it like you have it in your wallet you can see all the metadata on it and then comes the second drop which requires a burn. It won't let you mint it unless it sees that you have that contract in your wallet.
And when it does that, it requests access to Burnit. And you know how that little contract pops up on your webpage to sign it. It burns and you know the blockchain recognizes it and it automatically you know gives that new NFT and that wallet.
Sam that's cool. So in a sense in the example that you gave it's like access to another drop Yeah, and you can like really build it up like to like a beer capacity like right now. I'm just using one NFT
to burn for one, but there are some that are people are playing with where it's like you have to own three specific NFTs, burn them, and then you get like one collective one or maybe one that's considered like more rare or more valuable.
That's super interesting. That's what the logic is doing, right?
Yeah, with the Burned Adventures. Yeah. Oh, interesting. So logic is that Chicago creator and and he he's done like
bunch of projects and he has his own project for NFTs and he's been doing that like you have to I think I believe like you need to burn three to get one
And then yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, that's really cool. That's super dope. I remember being part of the FT project called Wagdai or we're all going to die and like they would like do Twitter spaces and then they would like
asked people to buy their NFT and then burn it or send it to the burn address and no one knew what they would get for it. It was just like a leap of faith and then they ended up like buying like a new and ape and then they burned it which was like out of control in terms of just like like evaporating money before your eyes.
then all the people who actually burn ended up getting rewarded. And it was like one of those like leap of faith. So it's like it's such a cool like community engagement tactic to like be like, Hey, like I know you're losing something for now. But like if you trust me and you trust me, if you trust the community, like you'll get rewarded for it.
Are you going to do physicals with that? Yeah, so I'm kind of setting it up for my sculptures in a way where you can buy an image of it, earn it, and then you can redeem it for a physical. But I'm trying to do it where you can buy
you can claim five pictures of the NFT which collectively go into the price for the one sculpture. So I'm really playing with price points right now and seeing how I don't know, I guess people play with money, if that makes sense.
It was up Chris. What's up Cheeto. I saw you yesterday. Yeah, dude. It's been a while now. What's up everybody? Welcome. Welcome. You know, be wild well if you did. First like obviously the blockchain burn, but then a physical
And so I'm going to be having like this image of like tortillas that are going to be like that's going to be the mint and whatnot and like it really plays into the idea of the way like tortillas are manufactured at such a large scale. So I'll be putting out all of these like NFTs
that are different but they all have the El Mi Lagro Tortilla logo on it. Like that's my tortilla brand, that's what I live and die with. So I'm gonna have it be so like you let's say have like five of the NFTs of the tortilla you burn them like you actually burn a tortilla
you know like that shit you play I'm playing along with that and like I'm trying to build it up to a claim where you can claim a sculpture and the sculpture is like a box of tortillas you know how they come in cardboard boxes so I'll like the sculpture that I'll be making will be made out of wood
And it'll have every look of it like a cardboard box, but it'll just be a wooden box that just looks like a carton of tortillas, you know? So that's like collectively buying packs of tortillas that make up the whole box and playing with the burn mechanism on top of that. I feel like this is very metaphorical so to speak.
That's it. Are you working on that right now that project? Yeah, that's done man. I just need to make the sculpture and that's it, but like I've got the pieces now and I had the elements down. I've just really been spending these first few weeks of like January and February to really like low
up on stuff that I'm just going to be dropping continuously so that there's not like a little void of silence where I don't like drop shit because like I feel like in this space if you definitely want to like be seen or notice you got to be consistently dropping shit like on a monthly even daily basis.
Do you have a date for the physical thought?
Um, no, not yet. Um, so I'm also working with, uh, trying to get this like on a platform, like I'm trying to work with nifty gateway or known origin. Nifty gateway just because they accept fiat for any, any purchases in life.
like that would just get that that would just be a give me bigger bandwidth to reach a broader audience who don't necessarily need to be into crypto they can buy my stuff with you know fiat and then just have the NFT held in a custodial wallet
You encountering that lot like people who wanted to support you, but still can't get like that crypto native like building getting a wallet? Absolutely like all the time even when I was in Miami with Christian like I had my drop for like sculptures that were on on the blockchain and whatnot
And the people who I just encountered did not give a fuck about crypto or blockchain. And it was kind of like a big loop just to get someone to buy it. Like I had this encounter where someone really loved my sculpture, really wanted to buy it. And I'm like, you have to buy it in crypto on the chain. And they're like, oh, well, I don't have that. And I was like, all right, let me set you up#
And like that whole process was just too much and the person ended up just losing interest and I was like, "Yeah, I need to adjust or adapt to find something better." But I ended up selling all my sculptures for cash over there in Miami. And even though it's not the way I wanted it to go, it was a big learning curve for me to be like, "Oh, right.
some people just don't have the patience for this yet. - Wow, yeah. It's easy to forget sometimes if you're like in Web 3 for so long that some people just like don't want to do a group of, or don't want to pay for things in crypto, but we'll support crypto artists regardless.
But congrats on selling out, man. I appreciate it, appreciate it.
What's Christian? So you got in. Question for you will, and there's definitely as well in terms of like the art is seen how much what percent you think rock with crypto like is
Is it a real tiny percentage or would you say like they're more likely to like? Yeah. Really tiny percentage definitely. At least like in fashion, you know, I'm excited to see how the event tomorrow is going to be.
because it's digital. So part like we're gonna have a portion that's digital there's gonna be another part portion that's physical and so I know lots of people that are like have no idea about web 3
and the space, like that's gonna be the first time they're like they're gonna encounter something like that. But I'm excited because the process like what they've been doing, just like implementing AR and VR is very
It allows people to interact with the space with no knowing that they're doing it. But yeah, I'll say, he's definitely not a lot yet. Still in the process.
My opinion on that would be that there's definitely a handful of artists who I feel like everyone knows about NFTs and crypto and whatnot but not everyone's like in it because I was a part of this like one show a few months back and
I was just like mingling with all the other artists and I'm not just asking like asking them for their story and whatnot and nobody was into like fucking crypto or anything like or NFTs I was the only one out of all the batch of artists that like had like anything doing in web 3 or NFTs
And a lot of them, I feel like just weren't believers, a lot of them really just were like, oh this is a scam or I can't see myself making money in this. And yeah, there's just another indicator of like not everyone is in tune for this, not everyone is ready for this
conversation for Web 3 or NFTs, but I'm glad to be surrounded around artists who are in this space and so that's just what keeps me moving. So whenever I see an artist who's not in it and I try to tell them about it, they can be pretty dismissive very quickly.
I think that's so fascinating because especially, I mean, since last June we've essentially been in a bear market and it's definitely like hard times for people who are invested and like have lost a lot of like their net worth or at least are seeing some hard times but
You would think that maybe some like an NFT artist who's more like focus on the art than like speculation and price would it be as affected or at least that community wouldn't be as effective but it seems like it's just all it all goes together like it's all packaged.
Yeah, and for me at least for fashion, I think is like people are starting to realize that there's like beyond NFTs, there's also like different functionalities and
benefits that they can have access to. And like as a designer, like the, I've been learning a lot and realizing that all these digital tools at the end are also like very sustainable.
for me to create an actual garment, it takes money and a lot of time and when you go digital first, I think you get more options and it's more eco-friendly.
I'm glad people are seeing that in learning from a very friendly way too. So I'm excited. I think it's going to keep growing definitely.
It needs for onboarding, but I guess the easiest it is the better. So, yeah, what we'll say, allowing people to buy in a different way, but there's still being part of their system.
I think it's really cool that both of you guys are doing this in your fields too because I think I'm hoping what will happen is like people like you are leading by example and then other artists that are in your industries will be like wait a second I'm seeing how well is growing and how Stephanie is growing because you guys are
both very dedicated artists. And I feel like that's what we need to show that like, hey, there's more than just like the short-term gains or like what you've seen people do with this in the web 3 space. But this could potentially, I mean, it is, it could be a long-term thing.
Completely agree with that. Anyone, I'm like in the midst of looking for another, I don't know, like community or Web 3 product because like it used to be out of T projects where like the community is
that like at least forced me to be on discord but I don't know which ones are the most active at least right now seems like there is a great like a drop engagement across the board but I'm sure there's like some stars out there there's anyone know yeah it's interesting you point
that out. I feel like I've been seeing a shift in what the community is paying their attention to. I feel like it's definitely shifted from 10k projects to more individual artists and maybe that has to do with like open edition season right now with everyone dropping open it
But I feel like there is that shift right now with individual artists who are putting out their own work. And I feel like that's really causing, you know, the regular community to, I guess, explore.
in new ways, new artists, the same way you're asking right now. So yeah, it's interesting to hear your perspective on that. Yeah, I also think like it's because of the trust in these projects, like we saw last year, there was a lot of controversy and
many things happening out there. So I think like people are learning like, okay, who's behind the project, who's behind these and who's doing that and there's more trust like that way. That's actually like the one that I fall on this card.
How do you all do like discovery then for like the individual RS level or like those discords? I Feel like it's straight through on Twitter. Oh gee, honestly because I like even here in Chicago I didn't hear about so I met Sinclair yourself
he's like a dope Chicago artist. I didn't know anything about him until Twitter right and then Sausage artwork really liked it. Then yesterday went to like the NFTR gallery here in Chicago and I met him and like dude it's pretty cool how I didn't really get to I wouldn't have known about him unless it was through Twitter and I
feel like Twitter is probably the best place to find, you know, one of one art is more, more so away from like the NFT projects. I think it's just more, more so that based on your community, especially where you live, the more people you follow that are into that Web 3 scene, the more local artists you're going to discover. So I think Twitter is definitely the main place
where I've been finding newer artists in that aspect. Yeah, for me, it's definitely been going to these conventions like NFT NYC ArtBuzzle and NFTLA. I have literally just interacted with artists
and not known who they were just by pure conversation and then it's like oh let me get your Twitter man and then it's like oh my god you're you're him that's this is you like oh that's crazy and that's literally how I've met most of my friends just through these artists circles and then they're always like creating chats left and right
where you're putting a chat with random people you don't know, but then you find out more about them and then it's like, "Oh damn, this person actually is doing stuff." So I have made most of my encounters just through like person and then have stayed connected online in that aspect.
I think that's like the funniest part when you're like you go to a conference and then you're like you meet someone and then they're like oh what's your Twitter and then turns out you're already connected or you just have no idea who you're talking to.
That's the best part. But yeah, it seems like Twitter is still number one, right? Unless I have anyone found success, like I'm like say like Lens Protocol or any other decentralized social platforms.
I tried it for a bit and just kind of really mind you know I really have an experimented on that honestly just been still with Twitter honestly. Hard the other ones OG like what was your experience?
For lens at like I mean obviously I hope that one day social platforms can be decentralized but like even just posting Like what would be compared to like a tweet took like two minutes because you'd have to connect your wall
it and then wait for it to get on the blockchain and then it just became slower and I realized how much like speed matters when you're like checking your phone for a couple seconds you don't really want to have to wait for something to like post on the blockchain and then check it after.
But I think it's all about like wherever like the activity is and I didn't see too many activities because I didn't have too many friends on their connections and didn't know really to find it and on Twitter just it feels like that's the word like the mass most mass people are.
Oh, great. I also think spaces has some power to admit some interesting people through spaces.
How do you discover spaces of just people you're already connected with or do you use the specific tool? It's usually people who I'm connected with and they are usually like posting somewhere like hey we're talking about this and that and then at the same time I feel like
After some time just navigating the space, I feel like I understand who to look out for in terms of spaces. Some people host better spaces than others. Some people can hold a conversation better than others. At the same time, I'm also not trying to hear a circle jerk. I'd rather it be a small intimacy.
room like this, then like a room with like 100 people. And you've launched like your own spaces now, right? Well with a Goldie kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. So I have also started like our own like spaces series with Twine.
and Goldie. We've had some luck running into people who have just wanted to tune in and whatnot. We just treated it like as a space where you can just talk your talk. There's not really anything that we go over. We just talk about what we saw on Twitter that day.
who an artist who is doing really good or we talk about what individuals have come enough and the spaces are mostly filled with people from the Chicago scene whether they're artists or collectors or just new. Yeah, they're just there to support.
Yo, what's up Christian quiet as hell Yo, yo, it's going on just popping in to say what's up. They don't want to interrupt you guys
What's up? What's the topic of discussion?
Just how everybody is what you're up to, what so news you're into. And yeah, what your day looks like. Your city called.
Hey, can you stand it says your um, Mike isn't like muted. I don't know if you're trying to talk but I don't I don't hear anything Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you
You can hear Chricia? Yeah, you can hear him? No, I can't hear much with him. I didn't hear him either and I had to leave and come back.
I'll leave and come back then That's spooky
Can you hear me now? Is this good? Yeah. Yeah, we can hear you. It was good. Yeah. It was good. I don't know. Crazy year 2022. Traveled a lot. Went to a lot of conferences. Ripped up the year with
sort of, you know, just getting to know a lot of the community members across the United States, Mexico, Colombia. It was cool. I got to meet Will and the rest of the gang, which was pretty cool. Yeah, excited for 2023. I'll be focusing more on founding
and sort of like the venture capital and the founder ecosystem obviously had a great time with OP crypto which is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage well through projects and yeah I mean I think
All in all, I think we wrapped up the year with 33 in-rear life events with Web 3 family across every major city in the United States. Obviously had a big presence in Boataco, Colombia twice, had big presence in Mexico and then very proud of what the Chicago
The majority of our US events happened in New York, Miami and Chicago. So keep up the good work Chicago team. I'm very proud of you guys. Anything, anything, VLC, investment, dows,
related. Definitely I'm your guy so happy to help in anywhere from there. Working on a new project will be launching a fund and an accelerator focused on US founders and let down founders. So yeah working through the details of
all of that and when that is ready we'll be leveraging the familiar to announce it and sort of leverage the distribution that we have globally to find and identify founders that are building core work three projects.
That's exciting man. Definitely love his family. Yeah, yeah, no, there's a lot more work to do with left-wing family and I think we've done a great job. You know, it's pretty awesome to hear or travel the country and then even like in America and like people know who left-wing family is.
They recognize us from our Twitter spaces. Again, we I think we wrapped up the year, I have to spread it here. With like 35 Twitter spaces, you know, interviewing founders, developers, investors, creators, right?
And I think having a combination of all four of those types of individuals helps us engage with a lot of the community out there that may not just only be an investor, may not just only be an investor, sorry creator, may not be just only a founder.
And then there's a lot of, I think, like, synergies to create across all four. And we're basically, we're that glue, right? We're bringing, we're bringing communities together, we're bringing investors, founders together. For me, the highlight or like,
a key sort of moment that came full circle was NFT and YC when an investor from, forget I forgot what to cut some insurance company they have an investment arm. They said that they've been leveraging the web 3 familiar spaces to sort of learn a little bit
bit more about the ecosystem and after doing research and starting the market feels comfortable enough to pitch to his investment committee, that they should definitely start looking into Web3 projects. So for me coming from Wall Street and learning a ton and being in the Web3 VC, that was a full circle
moment where obviously Web 3 family as goal is to you know educate and on board and for me that was just for a circle right because we're graduating from just onboarding individuals but also engaging connecting and sharing resources for founders and now like being a source of
knowledge for investors as well. So that was a full circle moment for me which I'm really proud of and we're going to continue to be doing the good work. Prision from your, I'm curious like from your perspective how do you see like the adoption and let them
for like from founders and like your area you're like I know from the creator side but you probably know more about the I think I think there's really good technical talent coming out of Brazil and Argentina.
A lot of sort of from the founder perspective, a lot of good projects are coming out of Colombia, Medellín Bogotá and also Mexico in general. So those out would say are the four major countries. So Buenos Aires would be the city of that
that Webtrace pop enough in Brazil, Rio and Florianapolis are the two cities that have big Webtrace communities. I always think Colombia is a big time-adding and then in Mexico, it's Mexico City and Monterey are the two big Webtrace cities with a lot of talent.
The adoption is not, it's slowly but surely coming in for them, it's more of like on-rab, off-ramp sort of projects, a lot of infrastructure projects, the future of finance. I think the Romantic space is something that is still trying to be sort of disrupted with the blockchain.
There's a lot of cool companies like Felix Bagos is a good one from Mexico that right now they're trying to solve the problem of the reminiscence base via the blockchain across Mexico and the United States and eventually they'll roll out or expand to more countries in a time but I mean
It's tough because it's so fragmented from a legal perspective. So you got to go country by country and figure that component out. So I think it's those four countries and the cities that I mentioned are sort of moving the needle forward.
And I think obviously the countries that are super advanced and the major projects that are coming out with crazy sort of amazing projects and crazy valuations are coming out of the United States and most Asia. So a long way for us to go, but I think
I think Web 3 is a good job at mapping out the ecosystem and bringing them together. I help map out the investor base. I know every Web 3 investor in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico.
So yeah, I don't think I personally or us would have been able to do that without sort of the community or having that brand, the Web2 family brand. So yeah, a lot of good work and more good work needs to be done. So I'm excited for 2023.
Love to hear it man and said you'll welcome up what's going on with you What's up? He has your mirror now. Yes. Yeah So it's up not much just I should just came here just to see what's
This is about. So I didn't expect to come here and do like a very horrible picture of my projects that I'm working on. But yeah, I'm working with a group right now that is trying to create a platform for content creation pretty much to the end of the day.
Patreon only fans and I guess OpenC but can solve all those things together with web capabilities like right now we're working pretty much on being able to pay with either Ethereum or other I guess crypto as well as like web2 stuff
like credit cards and stuff. So do you want to throw that in here? I guess. Right now what's it called? It's called the mixy and our website is a mixy.io. Mixy. I just found that mxmix.y.mix.
X i e mixy.io. Can you pin it here maybe? All right, all right, I'll do that. Let's see. You can do it in the chat. You see the little chat on the bottom right? Oh yeah, let me find the
I guess related to this group, I guess is that the found or CEO is half Cuban in our our CLO who used to work with the SEC doing like ripped a lot of she she's like Jalana pretty sure?
That's amazing. - So are you having been to any of the Webster Familia events or not? Are you your first encounter with Webster Familia people?
Yeah, as a pretty much my first encounter I am in a discord but... Oh no! Never actually been in person. Welcome! Yeah! Thank you.
Yeah, I'm usually well, I don't know if you guys had events in Miami, but pretty much where I've been staying the past two years, but I'm from Jersey pretty much. Let me see.
That's a nice website for sure. It's a big team. Yeah, we've been working on this I think for the past year year and a half but I just do like the program project
like masmout so I'm definitely not here to give a huge pitch or spiel. I love it. I'm glad it. How do you spell your minksy again? M-I-N-X-I-E. That's in the comments or the
So sir here is like social media so if I'm a creator or or like I can go there and share my content basically yeah you have the option to either make your like your profile or your content free or you're subscribing to my
If you want to make it a payment type of subscription, you have the option of either doing it through credit cards, other types of maybe PayPal as well as Web 3 stuff so you can pay with your Metamask wallet.
What did you join that? 2021ish, I'm pretty sure. Alright, so you've been there for a minute. It's awesome. Were you encrypt up before or was this your first foray? This is my first like actual major
project I did by Litecoin when it was back in 2016 when it was going up in a decent profit cool guy I got a hop but it was dope connecting and look forward to the next one
Peace out brother. Eat it easy.
I think we can go ahead probably and call it unless anyone else has any topics that are pressing them they were I'll talk through but it was it was good to finally get together
to kick off the year. It's early, it still feels like the beginning of the year, but we're already a month in, and this year's anything like last year in terms of the amazing events and the fun that we have, I can't wait for it.
So, y'all enjoy the rest of your day. Nos vemos. - Take care. - Bye, guys.