1/5 How do I explain the potential of NFTs to non-crypto folks?

Simply:

Via NFTs we just added property rights to the internet

A place with 4.6 billion people AND these ppl are connected through a global, uncensorable, 24/7 financial system
2/5 What are some past examples of a country adding property rights to its economic system?

China

In 1978, China enacted reforms to open its economy from a communist-style system to a more open capitalistic-based system

A mere ~40 years later, the growth has been staggering
3/5
China GDP
- 1978 - $149.54B
- 2020 - $14,722.73B

Increase of 9745%!!

GDP per capita
- 1978 - $132
- 2020 - $10,500

Increase of 7854%!!

This is a country with ~1.2 billion people and a financial system that is anything but frictionless
4/5
Now look at our current situation

- 4.6 billion people (nearly 3x more than China)
- Anyone w/ internet can create assets (NFTs)
- Communicating business at the speed of the internet
- Transacting on top of a (comparatively) seamless financial system

= WORLDS LARGEST MARKET
5/5 NFTs will not only become the world's largest market but also the fastest growing market because the frictions are so low

No need to mine resources in Australia, send resources to factory in China, create widget and then ship to America

This is markets at the speed of light

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23 Sep
Here is my slide deck from the Legends4Legends conference in Amsterdam

NFTs = unique digital assets

They enable digital property rights

Unlike Bitcoin, NFTs are unique and NOT interchangeable

Uniqueness on the internet can enable a TON of different use-cases
The internet is currently communist. Users add value to a platform but get no value in return

NFTs change that and give users property rights in the digital world

The internet just went from communism to capitalism (HUGE!)
NFTs enable a psychological shift in user's mindsets from renters to owners

As owners, they will spend more time, money and effort into their digital lives

Users can now earn during their activities that are native to the internet (keywords - "native to the internet!")
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23 Jul
NFT Theses + Thoughts

1. NFTs = digital property rights

2. NFTs enable a metaverse to form becuz ppl actually own their digital stuff

3. NFTs will be larger than crypto (crypto = $ of metaverse, NFTs = all stuff in metaverse)

4. NFT art will eat the traditional art market
5. NFTs = most efficient means to display status

6. Screen time + technology constantly becoming more immersive (Telegraph > Telephone > Video Conferencing > Virtual Reality)+ NFTs = the metaverse is inevitable

7. Most NFTs will be worth nothing
8. Virtual world platforms are the next generation social media (no objective, socialize, create, show status, etc)

9. There will be many NFT marketplaces each focused on specific NFT sectors

10. "Blockchain" games will just be called "video games" (every game will have NFTs)
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29 Nov 20
🌈🛸📈 Fantasy Venture NFT Portfolio

andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-fantasy-ven…

I cover five companies, dive into their products, and explain why I think they are great.

These companies will join my fantasy venture capital portfolio, and I will reassess how they perform over the coming years
1) @opensea: The Amazon, and potentially the Facebook, of NFTs (but back when Facebook was cool)

- #1 NFT trading platform
- Amazing Y-combinator backed team
- They ship updates like crazy
- semi-decentralized infrastructure = accessible to anyone in the world
- Huge TAM
2) @superrare_co: Curated “who’s who” of the crypto art world

- Top platform for curated crypto art
- Team has true grit. Nonstop grind for years
- Perfectly positioned for the growth of new market cryptoart
- Users literally go online and say “This product changed my life!”
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23 Sep 20
1) NFT & Metaverse Blog Thread!

Want to read about very odd NFT-related topics? Look no further as I come bearing gifts

My newsletter Zima Red allows me to learn and explore publicly, the future of NFTs

(Today I am only posting my blogs from 2019)

andrewsteinwold.substack.com
2) Oct 2019 - How to Value Virtual Assets?

- I attempt to give fair vaulations to a set of NFTs by performing comparable analysis on the assets.

andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/how-to-value…
3) Oct 2019 - 🏛🖼💰Sotheby's Art Valuation Metrics Applied To Unique Digital Assets

- Sothebys have 10 factors that go into their art valuation. I tweak them slightly to fit the NFT landscape

andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/sothebys-art…
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22 Sep 20
1) Digitizing collectibles as NFTs is going to go down as the singular event that caused the collectibles market to blow past $1 trillion in market size.

The physical collectibles market today is +$350B
2) The NFT markets encompass a wide variety of categories

- Collectibles
- Game assets
- Virtual worlds
- Art
- IP
- Loans
- Ticketing
and much more

Now why is digitizing collectibles so exciting?
3) Two reasons. By digitzing collectibles as NFTs you unlock:

1. Distribution of the internet (reach and efficiency)

2. Attached to a global, 24/7, uncensorable financial system
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19 Sep 20
1) I have recently seen a lot of celebrities speak about god and or reference religion

I think this is a trend because US society has increasingly become less religious
2) When I was growing up, believing in a higher power was not “cool” it was just the norm.

In addition to fewer people believing in God, US culture has an intense focus on individual vs collective. This means that the US “family unit” is not as strong as other cultures.
3) I look at my friends from Indian, Mexican, and Greek backgrounds (I live in Chicago) and I am always astonished by how large their family gatherings are and how everyone is always in each others business
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