🔹 His journey resembles English Premier League ⚽️ teams
🔹 Started off on @onhicetnunc selling his works for $20 - $30 / piece
🔹 Now his works are selling > $20k
🔹 Very prolific & high quality - was discovered and invited to @artblocks_io to do a drop
@FloorisRising@kaifuku_kizu@SabretoothSG@shvembldr@onhicetnunc@artblocks_io 🔹 Good example of an artist who started off on a smaller platform and moved up to a bigger one
🔹 Sees a parallel in the traditional art world as well
🔹 Some galleries are more famous than others
🔹 An artist start out in a smaller gallery and move on to 'blue chip' galleries
🔹 Generative art is based on an algorithm encoded in a smart contract
🔹 A collector buys a specific instantiation of it
🔹 In his earlier works, he was selling the algorithm itself, embedded in the NFT
🔹 So one can click 🖱️ to generate many works
@FloorisRising@kaifuku_kizu@SabretoothSG@shvembldr@onhicetnunc@artblocks_io 🔹 Goes back to the question of what exactly you are buying with an NFT
🔹 A collector is implicated in the final stage of the artwork
🔹 Similar to traditional art world when commissioning a portrait 🖼️
🔹 The result is a combination of your input and the artist input
@FloorisRising@kaifuku_kizu@SabretoothSG@shvembldr@onhicetnunc@artblocks_io 🔹 The most defining characteristic of collectibles NFT is the loot-box mechanic - you don't know what you're going to get, nor the rarity
🔹 Fine art does not provide that thrill, but generative art does
🔹 There are still some people who will collect everything from an artist
🔹 Was considered a pioneer of what was known as internet art
🔹 @newrafael would buy a domain name, set it up with simple animations, sell it off
🔹 Collectors will agree to sign a contract to continue making the site publicly accessible
@FloorisRising@kaifuku_kizu@SabretoothSG@shvembldr@onhicetnunc@artblocks_io@newrafael 🔹 His OG status in the internet art fits nicely with his entry into NFT
🔹 Blockchain/NFT space promises the freedom of information, which is the zeitgeist of the early internet days
🔹 The promise is unfulfilled as the rise of digital giants makes it look like a fiefdom now
🔹 One of the hottest generative artists
🔹 Fidenza collection on Art Blocks sets records - the lowest secondary sale is 29 $ETH
🔹 Has the quintessential aesthetics that collectors appreciate
🔹 A lot of visual variety that is hard to encapsulate
Thanks to Kizu and Sabretooth for the wonderful dialogue on generative art - it's really good! As always, very educational and enlightening in terms of viewpoints.
Blockchain + Web3 is revolutionary, but what is limiting their potential to change the world are the challenges involved in indexing and accessing data on the blockchain itself. @ZettaBlockHQ aims to address this issue.
• Has a #Web3 startup team that operates globally
• The team is led by two experienced co-founders, Scott Shi and Chi Zhang
🔸Scott Shi (@scottshics)
• Has over a decade of expertise in engineering
• Worked at companies like @Uber, @salesforce & EA
🔸 Chi Zhang
• Was a product manager at @databricks
• Holds a PhD from @UCBerkeley
• Experience in building data and #AI products
• Proven track record of supporting data-driven
organizations
He discusses anthropology, Web3 and other subcultures, and many other interesting topics with @chaserchapman in this episode of On The Other Side 👇
Background
🔹 An anthropologist
🔹 Is an artist
🔹 A DAO contributor
🔹 Has a Substack, but it’s not really a newsletter, but a cultural report
Substack
🔹 It’s more an anthropological collection of a subculture
🔹 Trying to record the why and the what behind the different projects
🔹 Important to have a bird’s eye view to see the connections
🔹 Is an obsessively curious person. Have always been searching for cool stuff
Today, I'll be sharing the book highlights of @peterthiel's Zero to One. Peter Thiel is a serial entrepreneur who helped to start up many companies, like @PayPal and @PalantirTech, and invested in Facebook.
If he has something to say about startups, I want to know. Read on 👇
There are 2 kinds of progress:
• Horizontal (1 to n)
• Vertically (0 to 1)
E.g. Horizontal progress is about getting existing products distributed to more places (globalization), while vertical progress is about coming up with new products (tech).
From the book's title, you should be able to deduce which is the better kind of progress. Going from zero to one will be hard, but the rewards will be way better than going from 1 to many.
👉 Look for companies that go from 0 to 1 instead of 1 to n.
🔹 People remember the year for all the terrible stuff that happened
🔹 Important to remember the positive events too (e.g. the merge)
🔹 The merge is a transaction inclusion time decrease
🔹 Have multiple zk-EVM implementations that will have a mainnet launch in 2023
🔹 @signinwitheth has seen massive gains in adoption
🔹 Cryptocurrency payments worked during the invasion of Ukraine
🔹 Have always recommended @KeePassXC or @Bitwarden:
🔸 KeePassXC: A completely offline tool. Reserved for extreme scenarios
🔸 Bitwarden: A secure password manager that synchronizes your password database across multiple devices
Now
🔹 Online password managers have advanced quite a bit
🔹 Every reputable password manager encrypts everything on your machine before it goes into the database
🔹 Does not recommend LastPass, 1Password, Dashlane
🔹 For people new to password managers, he recommends Bitwarden