πΆ Met around 5 years ago. His friends' group and her friends' group decided to go to Mexico together
πΆ Was trying to flirt with her but she would have none of it
πΆ Decided to approach in a different way by talking about Ethereum
@zima_red@AndrewSteinwold@josiebellini πΆ Started geeking out about crypto together and it spiralled from there
πΆ Introduced her as his future girlfriend to his friends and his persistence paid off
πΆ In 2017, they moved in together and they called their place the Crypto Castle π°
πΆ Was working in finance
πΆ Decided to work in the crypto industry
πΆ Left her job to wait on tables in the West Loop while attending a coding bootcamp at Northwestern
πΆ Did not love coding, but loved the design aspect of it
πΆ One of Josie's friends texted her about a painting that Josie made for her
πΆ Andrew was wowed by it. Encouraged her to use her artistic expertise in crypto
πΆ In 2017, she started working on Genesis
@zima_red@AndrewSteinwold@josiebellini πΆ After Genesis was completed, Andrew posted it on the Cryptocurrency subreddit. Was on the top page for 3 days
πΆ A company wanted to buy the piece for 2 Bitcoin
πΆ Had student debt to pay off, but did not want to sell this piece because it became really special
@zima_red@AndrewSteinwold@josiebellini πΆ The community was asking for prints and wanted to help her to produce them
πΆ Realized that she could create crypto art for other people
πΆ The 2018 bear market was brutal, but Andrew was more interested in what he can build in crypto
πΆ During Jan/Feb, the meetups were packed with people because of the highs
πΆ As the bear market progressed, euphoria turned into cope in these meetups
@zima_red@AndrewSteinwold@josiebellini πΆ Started the Chicago chapter of CryptoMondays in 2020
πΆ Met @DisruptionJoe at a meetup. He started a blockchain conference in Chicago called Voice of Blockchain
πΆ Josie did the design for everything in the August 2018 conference
@zima_red@AndrewSteinwold@josiebellini@DisruptionJoe@coin_artist@pascalboyart πΆ While in Paris, they were trying to find a print shop to print her work
πΆ The printed product turned out to be nothing that she wanted
πΆ Was very upset. Ended up with posters, but Pascal Boyart was totally fine with it
πΆ In the end, people still loved her art πππ
πΆ Launched a crypto hedge fund with his partner, @Dan_Patterson_, in July 2017
πΆ Was doing well compared to the market but underperforming their peers
πΆ Instead of being a generalist crypto fund, they decided to focus on a niche within crypto
πΆ After the conf, Andrew wanted to go full force into this space
πΆ At that point, Josie already had a following & community
πΆ Did not want to enter the space by riding on Josie's coattails but wanted to start out independently
πΆ Started diving deep into @cryptovoxels
πΆ @bnolan, the founder, was working on the project part-time
πΆ Everyone was helping out. Small community of 20
πΆ The ecosystem allowed him to learn a little bit about everything rather than just one vertical
πΆ A puzzle created by Josie in Feb 2020
πΆ Approached @neondistrictRPG as @coin_artist and @cybourgeoisie had expertise with puzzles
πΆ Collaborated with a large group of people to work on the puzzle for this art piece
πΆ The last 2 pieces of her Genesis collection will be released very soon
πΆ After the Genesis Collection, the rest of her work is not in a particular collection
πΆ Andrew did not get any special treatment for any of her drops
πΆ In summer 2020, he started to reach out to crypto people to chat about NFTs
πΆ Had a really tough time raising funds
πΆ In Sep 2020, NFTs got really hot in crypto as the DeFi crowd was looking for the next market to enter
πΆ In 2019, people were creating NFTs because they were passionate about it. They were not expecting to make money from it
πΆ Prominent crypto podcasters would laugh off NFTs. These days, they say they love NFTs
πΆ Consists of 10,001 collectibles
πΆ Her projects all start with the number zero. Hence, the selection of the number 10,001
πΆ Wanted everything to be on-chain. Worked with @cybourgeoisie
πΆ Will be launching very soon
π Software engineer, entrepreneur, and founder
π Started to learn how to code at 13
π In his first year of university, he created an online job board for students because he was bored
π After 3-5 months, McDonald's started to put job offers on his website
@julien51@UnlockProtocol@AndrewSteinwold@zima_red π It grew to a couple of 100,000 students on his website
π When Google AdSense launched, he integrated it. In the first month, he earned $8,000 in ads. His father was shocked and created a company for him
We have 6 short clips from the AMA session of @bprotocoleth with @CRE8RDAO to share. These are from @EthFugu and @creativelem - all contributing members from CRE8R DAO!
Let's take a look!
What is B.Protocol?
This is @EKatchka - Head of Ecosystem and Development, speaking.
BRS Leaderboard
π» @FelonGotchi is still on the top of the leaderboard
π» Felon swapped out his LINK Cube for a Milkshake to bring down its rarity score to 933. Still ranked one but within range of Rocinante at 2nd place
π» Godlike Cacti is crucial for ranking
B.Protocol had an AMA with @CRE8RDAO on the 1st Nov 2021. This summary highlights the main points covered during the AMA session, including the latest updates of @bprotocoleth and which new platforms they are going to integrate with.
@yaron_velner
πΉ Founder / Lead Dev - "Brain, muscles and vision" of B.Protocol
πΉ Was CTO of @KyberNetwork before this
πΉ Started SmartPool with @vutran54 as a semi-academic project, which evolved to become Kyber in 2017
@CRE8RDAO@bprotocoleth@yaron_velner@KyberNetwork@vutran54 πΉ Co-designer of the WBTC protocol with @BitGo team
πΉ Did development work on on-chain market-making tool created for DeFi
πΉ After Kyber in 2020, was consulting with pte companies, building liquidation bots for DeFi and CeFi
πΉ Realised liquidations in DeFi are broken
πΉ Conference attendees are mainly lawyers and legal service providers π§ββοΈ
πΉ These people are good at structuring companies, providing legal advice
πΉ Some of them have never used MetaMask before
πΉ Lawyers were discussing IP rights and NFTs