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Episodes
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Andrew Yang has been the figure that has motivated those of us disengaged from the political process. As the only candidate that has recognized cryptocurrency as an asset we should invest in, naturally we're inclined to invest in his candidacy. This is even without acknowledging his other rational policies that we believe to solve other systemic issues such as his freedom dividend. We also discovered Jack Mallers' Strike app that allows you to use your traditional bank account to facilitate Bitcoin Lightning transactions by scanning a QR invoices. We also evaluate the price of Bitcoin as we try to figure out whether or now we've seen the beginning of a bull cycle. Finally, we discuss adding a gaming mechanic to the world of Decentraland where players collect resources to craft more valuable items. We ask the community a question, is it more interesting to mint brand new NFT's through a proof of work mechanism or would a standard token sale suffice?
Topics:
- Andrew Yang supports crypto and the Iowa Caucus
- Jack Mallers Zap app
- How to know when the Bull market is here
- Collecting resources in Decentraland?
- What are your thoughts on minting a new NFT through a proof of work process?
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
After returning from a long trip from Mexico, we summarize some of what transpired over the last week. We discuss events occurring around the world such as the virus called Coronavirus that's infected over 6,000 people. We reflect on Kobe Bryant's death and figure out why so many people felt this loss so deeply. Andrew Yang being the only candidate with a cryptocurrency policy won an Iowa Youth Straw Poll and why it might indicate his potential to win the presidential nominee. Bitcoin has been rising since the start of 2020, could we be in a bull market right before the halvening occurs? We're a week removed from our interview with Ben Kelly. He's one of the more knowledgable about the Axie Inifinity NFTs and we debrief on our conversation and reflect on the whole NFT ecosystem emerging. Finally, Decentraland is launching February 20, 2020. The Block Runner has 2 more games in development as we get ready for the launch.
Topics:
- First up, we discuss the Corona Virus and Kobe's death.
- Next, Are we finally in a Bitcoin Bull market?
- Then, we debrief on our Ben Kelly interview on Axie Infinity.
- And Finally, we prepare for the Decentraland launch
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Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
William and Iman interview the man they call Elon Stark because of his talented skills for developing automation techniques to solve problems in the gaming industry. Ben Kelly started his career collecting and competing in the world of Magic the Gathering to going from a few hundred Axie Infinity NFT's to nearly 10,000 using his team's proprietary breeding engine. Ben describes how he first heard of Bitcoin and how he got involved in crypto. He also explains what makes an Axie Infinity NFT so valuable and how he optimized Axie Infinity genetic identity to breed more powerful and more rare Axies. Finally, we explain our own NFT idea to Ben so he can give us his thoughts on how viable it could be.
Topics:
- First up, how he started his competitive career with Magic The Gathering cards.
- Next, we learn when he first heard about Bitcoin.
- Then, we find out what makes an Axie NFT valuable and his breeding engine.
- And finally, we bounce off our own NFT idea.
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
We've been discussing Non Fungible Tokens lately in our search to predict the next asset class to be the next speculative craze. NFT's in short seem to be slowly growing over time in volume. We look into the assets on Opensea to discuss the viability of these assets, why they become valuable and why they may become the catalyst to mass speculation. We also break down the differences in the current NFT standards for Ethereum for ERC721, ERC1155, and ERC998. Each created for a specific purpose to satisfy a particular game mechanic or style. NBA player, Spender Dinwiddie tokenized his NBA contract to receive funds up and pay his investors a 5% bonus on their investment. We discuss how this might be a common occurrence in the future. Finally, we discuss an idea we've been tossing around that could help bring a larger audience to Decentraland and at the same time create a valuable resource to the NFT economy.
Topics:
- First up, we discuss the NFT bible that was published on Open Sea
- Next, we dive in deeper into the differences between all the ERC token standards for NFTs
- Then, an NBA player tokenizes his NBA contract and launches his token.
- And finally, we look for your thoughts on our own NFT in Decentraland.
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Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
We return with the first recording in 2020 and we discuss why Bitcoin might be pumping and speculate whether the conflict between the US and Iran has anything to do with it. We discovered that the origin address for the HEX project has exfiltrated almost all the ETH in several transactions at 1,337 ETH per transaction. 1,337 is LEET speak and a calling sign for trolling. We speculate that the exit scam has already begun. We follow up with John McAfee's bet on Bitcoin and how he decided to back out of the bet. Andrew Yang is the only candidate that is aware and has a policy on cryptocurrencies. He is undergoing an attack by mainstream media and omitting him from all mentions. Finally, we go over the winners of the latest Decentraland Game Jam competition.
Topic:
- First up, Bitcoin & Gold go up due to US & Iran Conflict
- Next, has the HEX exit scam commenced?
- John McAfee Backs out of his bet on Bitcoin
- The Andrew Yang Media blackout Continues
- And Finally, we show off the Decentraland Game Jam Winners
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Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
In our next installment of our Mythical Creature series we are joined by Andreas Antonopoulos! In our discussion we dive into the events necessary to cause mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. With the adoption of permissionless currency, how will governments of the world cope with a censorship resistant monetary system? We also discuss how cryptocurrency could change the power dynamic of the currency world reserve currency - the US dollar. We keep hearing the economy is at an all time high, but is there a possibility we might be at a tipping point for the world economy? We’re fast approaching the Bitcoin halvening which will render the inflation rate smaller than that of the US dollar. We find out how this might affect the US dollar and Bitcoin itself. One of Andreas’ presentation included the concept of one network multi-chain solution that will help tie many of the technologies together in a cohesive network. Finally, we ask Andreas’ thoughts on NFT’s and the application of it in the gaming industry such as Decentraland.
Topics:
- Does crypto need a catastrophic event for mass adoption to occur?
- Are we at a tipping point for the world economy?
- We go deeper on his one network multi chain concept.
- And Finally, we get his thoughts on NFT’s and Decentraland.
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Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Saturday Dec 28, 2019
The feeling of despair can sometimes be confused with a pattern on a chart. We show real examples of despair by the sentiment of cryptocurrencies from different locations of the internet. The feeling is very real and is being felt by many, this is why many of the predictions of the bottom have some weight. The recent crypto purge just illustrates an example of why the crypto community advocates for censorship resistant technology. We look into what might have caused such a coordinated attack and then we look into how we can mitigate another attack using LBRY which is a peer to peer network where you can find content. Finally, we take a look at the performance of the S&P 500 as well as NASDAQ over the past decade.
Topics:
- First up we discuss the real feeling of despair.
- Then we discuss the recent crypto YouTube purge.
- Next we look into LBRY as a backup method to censorship
- And Finally the parabolic stage of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ.
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Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
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Today we go a little deeper in the NFT universe to bring on Joel Hubert and Mark Le, cofounders of Metalith.io. They are bringing the S&P 500 for the NFT space. Their first NFT on their platform is on the topic we tend to talk about a lot - Decentraland. We cover what aspects create value on land and how Metalith will help users understand how well the space is performing. We also discuss possible business models they could use and how the NFT space stretches to cover many aspects from collectibles to playable pieces that can traverse from game to game.
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Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
The reason Hex is getting a lot of attention from the crypto community is because there is a gut instant reaction when the claim is extremely high returns. We’ve seen the promise of high returns before with Bitconnect which officially tanked in January 2018. Many lost a ton of money and a similar risk has been resurrected with Hex. We take a look at the dump that occurred so violently with Matic and we discuss what might have caused it and how this crash correlates with the other Binance IEO tokens. Metalith is an interesting development in the NFT space. It directly impacts how to measure and gauge the sentiment of NFT’s overall with an early and special focus on Decentraland. We break down Metalith and we work on bringing the founders on the podcast. Finally Jack Dorsey unveils that he is working on a decentralized social media standards.
Topics:
- Hex might be an unregistered security.
- Matic takes a dump.
- Metalith gets funded!
- Shopin Founder charged with $42M fraud.
- SoMee Social
- Twitter Decentralized standards by Jack Dorsey.
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
For the last several weeks, Matic has been on a parabolic bull trend which does not happen frequently. One of the first Initial Exchange Offerings by Binance, its still their best performing IEO. Matic focuses on a side chain for Ethereum that improves on the scalability and the throughput of the network. While Matic is on this parabolic run, Ethereum just launched Istanbul which reduces the bottle neck and increases the network throughput by 200 transactions per second. A lot of action this week also brought us Hex coin brought to you by Richard Heart. This controversial coin is said to provide you large returns which sends up all kinds of flags. Peter McCormack, host of the popular podcast called What Bitcoin Did, joined a live stream with Richard Hart where mixed reactions resulted. We also received notification of the beta launch of Voice by the Block.One team that utilizes the EOS network.
- Matic goes Parabolic
- Ethereum’s Istanbul hardfork provides 3,000 trxns per sec
- Hex is not a Ponzi, it’s worse.
- Block.One's Voice beta launches in Feb 2020
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