24 / Living with Will

In episode 24, we have a special guest Living with Will. We discuss membership NFTs and utility, including how they can be used for gated access on Discord. We also talk about the ability to change NFT metadata, and the potential implications of this. We also address Vitalik's recent tweets about the energy use of blockchain, and compare it to Jared Diamond's book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

00:47 Membership NFTs

05:01 Will is here

06:47 Should metadata be allowed to change?

14:22 Okay Bears / Not Okay Bears

16:09 Vitalik's contradictions

22:58 Moral relativism

29:34 Our NFT together

32:31 V in the room

32:36 Ethereum 1.0 should be illegal

33:12 Defending the energy use

35:18 We got one life

35:24 Will checking out

36:19 Scope 3 emission reporting

37:07 Upgrading

Participants

Episode notes

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Special guest https://twitter.com/livingwithwill
Membership NFTs / utility
- Discord → gated access
- Is BAYC a membership club? A gated community?
  - Blockchain provides: permissionless way to interop between airdrops, and other stuff (because owner list is public)
NFT metadata / is it supposed to not change? @shadowdog
- So as the owner of an NFT, I should be able to “move” it to a different URI
  - Ok-notokaybears // Solana + ethereum blockchain
Vitalik’s contradictions https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1526378787855736832
Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive