Notes 0009

Rough notes from the NFT Archeology twitter space with Adam McBride, on September 23rd.

• Adam McBride has read through 30,000+ etherscans

• How many older projects still out there?
  • Maybe 100 from 2016
  • A good number from 2017
  • Maybe a couple from 2018
  • Some pixel projects from 2017 aren’t being released. People are “pixeled out.”

• DouglassNFT
  • Mentions the first person to ever sell art to a gallery for bitcoin
  • Harm van den Dorpel
    • Monaco mix…was zipped. A piece of software Harm wrote. Partnered with Rita Vitorelli.
  • Left Gallery

• Stumbled on Monacos
  • Put on blockchain in 2016
  • Put them on a scribe – now defunct [unsure of what a scribe is]
    • Many NFT projects on a scribe
  • Harm relaunched everything in 2018 on left gallery

• Ryan Kuo

• Emblem Vault
  • Lets you take something living on bitcoin, package it with Ethereum, and put it on OpenSea.

• Harm is rereleasing on Ethereum
  • So there’s a question of: what you do with identical pieces?
  • Give existing piece on bitcoin to the current holder?

• Different kinds of value
  • Some innovative art isn’t necessarily financially value, despite being culturally relevant
  • A lot of different ways to measure the value and impact of projects; may not always be reflected in the price tag

• Part of these projects is a kind or archeology, part of it art restoration.

• “People are crazy until they aren’t”

• “We all may think we know where it’s going to go when it comes to NFTs, but none of us have any idea.”
  • “”If you’re 20-25, learn solidity…sit down, learn it for 6 months”

• “If you’re building in the NFT space, you’re good.”

• Lee: meeting & knowing people is equally as important as building
  • Mess around and meet people

• Social tokens
  • Demonstrates belonging to some group
  • Can be anything

• People are taking every single version of the concept of property and people are bringing that on chain.

• Adam thinks the next big thing with NFT will be music, but then everything after that

• Example in TradArt: Yves Klein
  • Buy nothing
  • Get receipt
  • Could burn it

• First bonding curve on Ethereum?

• EtherRock
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors Says GO! by Arthur Hayes
  • Beauty in the fact that something like an EtherRock can be so bad but be worth so much
  • What makes something like it continue to hold value? The community

• The Art of Not Giving A Shit

• https://numberboard73.com/

• Having a lot of money makes you rich. Being able to choose makes you wealthy
  • You don’t necessarily need a lot of money to be wealthy
  • Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan