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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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)
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!”
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
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