121 / Self selection
in-group NFT communities

In this episode, speakers discuss the evolution of NFTs and community building in the space. They touch on different aspects of digital communities, regulations, and the future of online events, including the role of metaverse platforms. The episode also covers a variety of upcoming events in the tech and crypto world.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

00:25 Always up

01:31 95% speculation?

03:52 Fortnite is the metaverse

07:06 Avoid regulation, decentralize

07:32 Just block US IPs

10:04 SEC going after EIPs

10:45 Eth is a security

11:46 BananaConf

11:50 AirBaltic backstage

13:15 L2 Beat

14:02 Upcoming events

Participants

@fulldecent

William Entriken

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@VjDeliria

Vj Deliria

@terminaldao

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@0x7jay

Jay Chen

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Episode notes

• Nifty Island
• The Coinbase lol thread defending Ethereum “decentralization”
• AirBaltic Planies

• Evolution of NFTs into mechanisms of self selection into in-groups of communities - Arthur Shir
  • ? 95% of holders are in speculation, more and more care about community
  • Maybe we have peaked on in-person tech affinity meet-ups for next 10 years (flight prices) and online spaces (Clubhouse is dead, played out), but longer term the human element needs to connections and will be metaverse
  • Fortnite IS the new metaverse
  • Check out Nifty Island
• The SEC investigating EIP authors
  • https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/5ffEPeAh1qv8p7BksKFctz/e17307dfe5d692002c6f842807ff4272/Grayscale_Ether_ETP_Application_–_Coinbase_Response_Letter_to_SEC.pdf
  • The thread https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1770594620969501035
  • https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1787687248647069821
  • MiCA / Data Act / KYC requirements
• BananaConf wrap up
  • https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1781781260760740000
  • AirBaltic Planies
  • L2 Beat look at networks