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It's a beautiful day to have a 
beautiful day, DMGM. 

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On this beautiful day, good 
morning two and three with 

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Baroco, San Fernando, TuneIn 
live at 10:30 and it's all on 

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the wrong radio. 
It's a beautiful day to have a 

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beautiful day. 
DMGM, Rock Radio. 

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Well GM everyone, we are back 
here again for another episode 

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of GM Web 3 on Rock Radio 
Takeover Show this week. 

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As we said before, Farooq is in 
Korea. 

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I've seen a lot of photos of 
that. 

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CFM looks like he's having a 
good time and Ovi's in Canada. 

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So we have cows and we have Mika
as replacement. 

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Good to have you guys. 
It's been a good, good week so 

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far. 
No one's got the ball too badly.

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Like I think. 
I think it's been a it's been a 

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solid takeover week. 
Don't jinx it. 

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Don't jinx it, OK? 
We're getting a lot of good 

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feedback. 
You're getting a lot of good 

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feedback for breaking it down. 
I didn't realize how normal was.

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No one actually understood half 
the things we were saying for 

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the last. 
Year and a half? 

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Yeah, about that, yeah. 
But yeah, no, it's been fun. 

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The sponsorship deals are 
rolling in for me. 

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Are they? 
Have you got anything, any 

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modeling? 
Yeah, yeah, some big, big stuff.

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No, not yet. 
How? 

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How is your follower account 
going? 

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Once you're going parabolic? 
At the moment, no. 

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It's not quite parabolic, but 
it's up and to the right. 

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I think that's the VC 
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right baby compounded growth. 
I'll yeah. 

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The bare model. 
My brain has just expanded and 

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of course that's. 
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Crack and gives me wings. 
Sorry. 

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One day I'll nail it, one day 
I'll nail the crack and gives me

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wings. 
They are here today, they are 

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here today. 
So it's gonna be two-part 

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basically day-to-day we're going
to go through the normal top 

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five things and then we're going
to go at the end speak to the 

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whole crack and team. 
They're obviously sponsoring GM 

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Web 3 for this month alongside 
some other stuff alongside 

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radio. 
I believe we have a site 

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alongside them, which is I think
it's cracking aft. 

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Forward slash rug radio. 
I will double confirm that when 

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it comes up on screen. 
But yeah, we're gonna have them 

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in the studio towards the end of
the show, which is gonna be a 

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big deal, but for now we're just
gonna go straight into. 

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I've been told I'm not connected
to the Twitter spaces. 

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Is that right? 
It was all going so well. 

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I told you Mando not to jinx it.
But here we are. 

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I see, Yes, connected Sims. 
Can you guys hear us in the 

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audience? 
Hey, what's a good spaces 

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without being rugged? 
Am I right? 

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So true, so true. 
Back in the day it was just like

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getting rugged like every 5 
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Well, that no, no. 
You can only hit Can they hate 

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everyone now? 
Is everyone now connected? 

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Yeah, everyone's now connected. 
OK. 

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I think they could only hear me 
before. 

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Now they can hear you guys, 
which is, which is nice. 

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Blame somebody else. 
You guys stared. 

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You got a free pass there only 
people on. 

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YouTube My God, my God. 
Okay. 

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It's good. 
Everyone was saying they don't 

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want Faroak and OSF back. 
My God. 

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So I'm happy they didn't hear 
that. 

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Are we connected right now? 
Yeah. 

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Sorry, subject. 
Yeah, Okay. 

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So we'll get straight into it 
because I think we should. 

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We're going to try and speed it 
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going to do the top five things 
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I think we're going to start 
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of we were talking about on 
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is this creative past. 
This was the past that was 

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alongside Mr. Beast. 
You had that gamer come out of 

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the weekend and say, look, I 
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It's since developed. 
Since then they've postponed the

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whole thing, so they're actually
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mentioning the word NFT and that
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Yeah, I don't know what you guys
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thought it was kind of wild to 
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cancelled because of NFT. 
So I understand one person's 

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objection, but now it just seems
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aggressive. 
Wait, it's all done. 

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It's cancelled, yeah. 
Christmas is cancelled it seems,

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which is yeah. 
Can we pull it up? 

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Where's the okay pulling it up? 
My God chat. 

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Is this real? 
Is this real chat? 

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Is this real? 
Can you see that I got it? 

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No. 
No, we can't see it. 

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Yes, I thought he was in there. 
It says it's yeah, it's on my 

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side. 
There you go. 

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Mr. B's promoter creates the 
league postponed after gamers 

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bail amid NFT backlash. 
Influencer in the gaming knees 

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said they were misled about the 
blockchain aspect. 

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Now if users pausing the program
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out with like a really 
apologetic tweet yesterday or 

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post yesterday, basically being 
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crazily was an experiment. 
Blah blah blah blah blah blah. 

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The creativity community passes 
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token launch because they had no
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there is no ability to resell. 
I mean, it just seems so 

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desperate to try and get out of 
it this way that it was really 

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that bad that you could transfer
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That why is that what people are
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Like the the surely that's 
beneficial that you'd be able to

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transfer them. 
So I think it's kind of wild. 

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I feel like this is part of like
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don't just lay off 30% of your 
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It feels feels like they needed 
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and now they may be found one. 
I don't know, but it seems like 

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a total knee jerk reaction. 
I totally agree with you as well

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that the statement is just like 
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yourself. 
If you believe in the product 

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say yeah, look, we think this is
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forward or you know, we think 
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Empowering the community and 
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power over the creatives, I 
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At least defend your decisions 
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just like lying over like a limp
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pandering to the the most vocal 
minority of your kind of nature.

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That was such a. 
That was such a visual with the 

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fish. 
It is weak. 

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Someone said. 
Weak league, I mean. 

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I don't know, maybe maybe no PR 
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Am I right? 
I feel like this is way worse 

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than the story that we heard on 
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Like, it's basically what you 
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Like, who cares if one person 
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didn't really get a project for 
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whole thing because of that? 
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that is just really bad in my 
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Just go forward with it. 
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understand like it's not that 
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Nft's, not that we need to 
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So yeah, I thought this. 
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part of the structure, like 
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a bit more basically that guy 
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he was only saying that because 
his audience who is there's zero

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Moat they can just switch to 
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So basically the whole structure
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to switch streams or look at 
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competing friables makes it like
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your audience's views as much as
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I feel like I don't know. 

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I think this is honestly 
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Like I don't know who's 
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Like these people, I just don't 
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Why is everybody just so 
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They got to come to the TM Web 3
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Come on. 
Yeah, but this it just, it just 

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seems like they they just have 
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So I think that's kind of kind 
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everyone in the whole space that
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But yeah, I guess I think this 
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the story up for Monday, but 
we'll see how that one develops.

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The second story for today is 
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that they are going to do an 
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Now this has been a big deal in 
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Getting money in and out of 
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hard. 
A lot of exchanges basically 

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have made it increasingly 
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different KYC regulations and 
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There was an operation Choke 
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people pointed to. 
Now it looks like meta masks are

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teaming up with PayPal and that 
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exchanges. 
It's quite funny that this was a

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big headline which I think 
people were were pretty happy 

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about and then it looks like the
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on small they're they're already
like they always charge a little

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bit more for the swaps as well 
versus like some of the 

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competitors but 9% to get your 
money out is is pretty wild 

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this. 
Doesn't How much are the fees? 

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How much are the fees on 
cracking? 

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No, we use them. 
Yeah. 

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So what's what's the percent? 
Just to compare. 

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If you use Cracking Pro, it's 
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Totally minuscule if you set 
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If you're a price maker. 
If you're a price taker, it's 

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very, very small. 
If you're a price maker, it's 

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essentially nothing. 
And then to offer them to the 

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bank accounts like. 
I did it the other day. 

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It's like 2 bucks, maybe 8 
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Nice. 
Wow. 

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And. 
Like a very very large 

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transaction. 
It's a lot, Okay. 

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Very. 
Very way less than 1%. 

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Yeah. 
Huge. 

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Huge. 
Wow okay. 

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Well you got the answer there 
folks. 

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Cracking No this. 
Is a classic. 

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But yeah, Sammy's a good 
follower in the space, but he 

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kinda goes through how the 
process is. 

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He is obviously based in the UK.
You actually have to pass some 

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sort of KYC to get it, which 
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think it came out via Moon Pay 
Looks like. 

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Anyway transaction took 5 
minutes, he only took out a 

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small amount. 
Looks like he took out like £60 

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worth but still like. 
So this cost me £6 for a 60 

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pound transfer. 
What's £6 like? 

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Run it back, Turbo. 
Okay, okay a buck. 

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Yeah, but. 
I mean, yeah, for an A/C buck 

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transfer. 
I mean, at least at least 

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there's an, there's options. 
I like that there's options. 

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I think that that's good that 
it's the option is even 

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available on Meta Mask, yeah. 
Man, Yeah. 

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Look, I give you one, Yeah, you 
say. 

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What's your view on like PayPal 
in general? 

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Like a lot of people in crypto 
have been very anti PayPal for a

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long time, including myself, 
since they kind of went totally 

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hammed with a like a terms of 
service policy, it was like 12 

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or six months ago, They're kind 
of seen as this bastion of 

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centralization, right? 
And I wonder is like? 

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This cheerleading and the 
company like that getting into 

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it, is that a good thing or a 
bad thing or just a thing? 

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Not gonna lie. 
Like I hadn't used PayPal for 

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over a decade. 
Like I thought it was like 

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boomer, boomer, web two payments
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Like who uses PayPal? 
Like I don't think I've heard 

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about that for a long time. 
And then recently it does feel 

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like they've made a bit of 
resurgence and particularly 

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started to push crypto a little 
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But it does feel very, it does 
feel very centralized. 

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It's almost like I would equate 
PayPal to using a building 

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society in the UK. 
It's like you go in, you know, 

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there's going to be like very 
standard, like bank style 

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regulations about what you can 
do and they're probably going to

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call, call you and send you some
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difficult and that that was my 
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recently of using it. 
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that they they're bringing out a
stable coin. 

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payment solutions and 
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things to do with e-commerce. 
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think it's the payment provider 
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rather it was then it wasn't put
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So, yeah, I think it can be, I 
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the actual segment of the market
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really involved in that market 
let's say. 

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Yeah, with the with Coinbase, I 
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pretty like back in the day, 
not, not anymore. 

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But I remember friends used to 
use Coinbase and then like take 

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it out with PayPal and it would 
happen like instantly. 

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But that was like 2 years ago, 
three years ago. 

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So it ain't like that right now.
No, no, I look, maybe we see a 

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resurgence of PayPal, like 
PayPal, I guess. 

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I guess you've seen like it was 
obviously created by Elon and 

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whatever, so maybe they'll 
they'll push him back into 

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crypto. 
I think now Elon's trying to 

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make X basically like a E pal 
meets social media, right? 

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PayPal. 
PayPal. 

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Merged with Elon's company, 
which was called x.com. 

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Yeah, yeah, I remember. 
But he's but so now he's 

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basically grading it because 
maybe Paypal's decided that it 

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can go down that route as well. 
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it. 
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You've seen Vista and MasterCard
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recently. 
There was a story even out today

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that Visa's gonna start using 
Solana for USDC payments, which 

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was quite a big deal in the 
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Like people are saying you know 
this is quite big big big, big 

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big payment provider now looking
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Those 9% fees are like are just 
crazy though. 

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I know credit card fees, 
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like 2 and 2 1/2 percent I 
think, but this at 9%, like, no,

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like that's that leaves a bit of
a dent whenever you're trying to

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move some money so. 
I think do a trade and make 9% 

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You're like have very happy and 
then you just spend it all on 

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the extraction. 
That seems wrong. 

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I think it depends like if some 
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Like he moved a very small 
amount. 

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So I can have met, well, not a 
very small amount, but he moved 

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60 bucks. 
So it's not like it's not 

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something crazy. 
I don't know if those fees would

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lower, come down quite a lot as 
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move like and then five grand or
10 grand. 

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So I'm not going to be doing 
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how it develops. 
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an off ramp, more off ramps is 
good just just because people do

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find it difficult often to get 
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another. 
So I'm kind of happy about that.

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Yeah, that was and obviously we 
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thing there which was that Visa 
and Solana are doing a are doing

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a partnership. 
Solana just you know headline 

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that Solana uses has hit a two 
year low, but it does feel like 

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some big applications are still 
being built there. 

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They're definitely winning some 
of like the gaps moving into 

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their ecosystem as well. 
What we did see yesterday 

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though, and what's long ago a 
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2022 was how much it went down. 
And there's increasingly A 

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narrative that the L twos being 
built on Ethereum actually run a

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lot of the same centralization 
issues that we used to FUD all 

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the L ones about. 
And this is to do with so the 

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sequences fraud proofs, but you 
saw yesterday that base which is

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the big L2, which obviously 
Coinbases, Coinbases backing or 

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it's actually Coinbases chain, 
which is built on the optimism 

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technology stack that went down 
for about 45 minutes. 

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And we've seen this happen with 
Arbitram recently. 

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I think I believe it's happened 
to a number of different L twos 

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in the last few months, but it 
does feel as though that's not a

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great look for for for base, the
TV out of base, that's the total

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value lot we've gone, it's gone 
stratosphere recently it's gone 

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up to like $400 million. 
So there's a lot of money moved 

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on to moved on to the base and 
to see something like that 

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happen kind of early. 
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think, but it doesn't make me 
feel super confident about the L

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twos unnecessarily a safer 
future for for Ethereum. 

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Like people have said that they 
keep the security of Ethereum 

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because the the the transactions
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But it does feel like they do 
run a lot of centralization 

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issues and this seems to be one 
of them. 

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I'll bring up, I'll bring up the
story about it because I thought

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it was kind of kind of crazy to 
see. 

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They did manage to to fix it 
after after 45 minutes. 

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But yeah, block production on 
base properly halted 43 minutes 

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after as developers rush to 
implement fixed. 

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They said we identified the 
delay and block production due 

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to part to our internal 
infrastructure requiring 

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refresh. 
I mean that sounds kind of bad. 

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We implemented a fix. 
It sounds like we just had to 

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turn it on and off again, which 
doesn't really that good. 

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The only job they have is to 
keep it running. 

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That's like. 
Is in some ways it was more 

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important than all the other 
things it does is just keep keep

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processing blocks and yeah, it's
not great that it's happened 

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this early on. 
I think. 

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I don't see it being like I 
think with when Solana got 

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footed badly it was because it 
was happening again and again 

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and again. 
If it's like a one off and it's 

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OK then could be fine. 
But if this keeps happening, 

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yeah, it's not a great look. 
Teo. 

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Carbo, really quick what do you 
mean running out of? 

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What does that mean, running out
of block? 

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Like I know, like for the 
blockchain there's like, you 

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know, a block is composed of 
like all the information, but 

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like what does that mean here? 
In what sense? 

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Just process it. 
Sorry. 

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Yeah, they're just not producing
blocks. 

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Like they just said, if the 
changes stopped. 

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And there are often different 
reasons for this. 

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They don't, actually. 
What I think was bad about this 

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is that they didn't really 
provide an explanation about 

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what happened. 
They just said internal 

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infrastructure requiring a 
refresh, which literally sounds 

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to me like a very centralized 
that's what you would if like 

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your website went down, you 
might ask something like that. 

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So a decentralized Ledger, you 
don't like to hear stuff like 

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that. 
So I don't know, they didn't 

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really go into the details about
why it failed, but. 

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Like I said, I think the big big
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L twos, right? 
Ethereum's actually making less 

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money at the moment as a 
blockchain. 

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So like the amount of fees being
collected because a lot of 

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transactions are happening on L 
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think that's really good. 
I mean that is meant to be 

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happening with Ethereum. 
But what you are seeing that 

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then is people are also assuming
that this, this new 

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infrastructure being built has 
got the same level of security 

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or at the same level of 
functionality as Ethereum did. 

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And that was actually what was 
peddled for a long time. 

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The idea that L2 is the safest, 
it's the most secure, it's the 

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best. 
And actually then they don't 

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tend to often be that way. 
And there are very different 

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reasons why. 
But I think you have to be very,

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very aware that with some of 
these L twos you could be in 

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very similar sort of scenario as
where people were in Solana back

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in 2022, where some of these 
blockchains just stopped working

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for hours and end. 
They just, they just stop and 

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your money could be stuck there 
and that's maybe it doesn't 

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matter when nothing's going on, 
but if if something's crazy 

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going on or like this massive 
load on the network which often 

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relates to something crazy going
on, it's not, it's not a great 

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situation to be in. 
So I think just be aware of of 

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putting your money on L twos and
knowing that this sort of stuff 

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I think is going to increasingly
happen. 

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All this stuff basically, it's 
basically going to keep on 

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happening again and again and 
again and we're going to have to

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sit here and be like you know, 
all that stuff we funded for 

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Solana for is basically what the
majority of the theory of 

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ecosystem is headed towards. 
Well, this is awkward. 

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Sorry, I was just, you know, 
feeling left out with the 

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accent. 
You know what I'm saying? 

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I actually saw another thing to 
that. 

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If you saw the debate that's 
happening about block rewards 

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for Bitcoin, did you guys, did 
you see this? 

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I actually got into a big 
argument at a wedding with 

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somebody over this. 
Why do you have the most 

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scandalous? 
Like, like stories. 

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First your honeymoon, like you 
know the Harry Potter, then you 

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have like the wedding beef. 
Like you just always have these 

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like crazy stories anyways. 
Mando Mando knows this has been 

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a big, like a pet kind of 
project of mine for a while. 

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The The end state of Bitcoin. 
The end state of Bitcoin? 

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Yeah, yeah. 
Cali Cali does is not a big 

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Bitcoin fan. 
I have a big. 

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Fan It's not the end state. 
Yeah, so this is kind of flared 

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up again overnight seemingly 
between a bunch of this. 

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This is Dylan Leclerc. 
He's quite a well known laser 

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eye I think he maybe is a senior
analyst at Bitcoin magazine 

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looks like, But definitely a 
follow in the space and there's 

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a big debate about like the 
future of Bitcoin and its 

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security. 
Everyone gets very bullish about

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halving, but at the same time 
that could mean that the Bitcoin

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network is become progressively 
less secure. 

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Eventually we are going to run 
out of bitcoins right? 

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Or there will be no more. 
And in that world what happens 

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to the security of Bitcoin? 
Like what? 

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Who is the person securing the 
network right now? 

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It is the miners pipe block 
space. 

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Now we don't actually know 
what's going to happen but that 

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is 140 years away or something 
like that 120 years away. 

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But they are saying, but they 
are saying that the current 

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security of Bitcoin could be 
challenged even in 4-8 years 

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like with each with each 
hardening. 

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And there was a lot of people 
with the recent ordinals move 

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very, very bullish because this 
was we actually had them on GM 

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web, GM web three about from 
there five months ago saying you

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know this is a Cambrian 
explosion for Bitcoin. 

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This is now the future of bit 
for Bitcoin because people would

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start to pay pay essentially for
that block space again. 

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And now ordinals has basically 
gone to 0 again in terms of 

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trading. 
And and it's because the the the

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the devs, the the core devs of 
Bitcoin are very much against 

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any of these changes and they've
made it progressively more 

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difficult. 
And there isn't a new view or 

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that, not really a new view but 
there is persistent view that 

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actually Bitcoin is going to 
have to change. 

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There's going to be some sort of
tail emissions. 

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So instead of it being 21 
million or whatever it is, it's 

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going to have to have some form 
of tail emission to make sure 

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that miners are, that miners are
protected. 

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Dylan has come out and basically
said that's stupid, that Bitcoin

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does not need these tail 
emissions that eventually people

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will always pay for, for for to 
mine Bitcoin because the hash 

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rate will come down and 
eventually with someone. 

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I do kind of agree with this, 
this sentiment up until the 

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point, and actually you should 
read the comments here because a

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bunch of very, very prominent 
Bitcoin people are just fighting

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out. 
Eric, who's a big taproot 

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ordinal's person, was basically 
saying like, you're an idiot. 

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And I think I saw the king of 
Thredles, Adam Cochran actually 

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come out. 
Yeah, here we go. 

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The problem is that Maxi seemed 
to be getting that the intention

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was for payment fees to solve 
this. 

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When Satoshi left, that 
innovation faulted. 

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That went out the window. 
The hash rate changed neither 

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changes the Bitcoin produced per
block nor the cost of 

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electricity. 
Bitcoin was a perfectly was a 

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00:25:44,190 --> 00:25:47,150
perfectly planned predicted on 
the one assumption that it would

454
00:25:47,430 --> 00:25:49,830
fall to good community stewards.
Also, Toshi was gone. 

455
00:25:49,870 --> 00:25:52,110
It didn't. 
It felt the zealots who went 

456
00:25:52,110 --> 00:25:54,070
lacking in any ability to 
innovate. 

457
00:25:54,630 --> 00:25:57,870
So tribalism for profit. 
He basically goes into the idea 

458
00:25:57,870 --> 00:26:02,190
that Bitcoin is heading towards 
the disaster here because people

459
00:26:02,190 --> 00:26:06,150
are not accepting that they 
basically need to change like 

460
00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:08,590
things need to be updated. 
It needs to become more 

461
00:26:08,590 --> 00:26:12,110
Ethereum, like in how the 
rewards are going to be like 

462
00:26:12,110 --> 00:26:14,190
Ethereum mostly has a burn 
mechanism alongside the 

463
00:26:15,070 --> 00:26:18,550
alongside the the fees paid for 
in gas. 

464
00:26:20,430 --> 00:26:22,590
Yeah, I don't. 
You have a strong view here, but

465
00:26:22,590 --> 00:26:24,550
like what do you, what do you 
think is going to happen for to 

466
00:26:24,550 --> 00:26:27,510
Bitcoin? 
Yeah, I I think I thought the 

467
00:26:27,510 --> 00:26:30,510
ages that this is going to be a 
problem and with markets you can

468
00:26:30,510 --> 00:26:34,030
never say you know this thing's 
going to happen in the future 

469
00:26:34,030 --> 00:26:36,790
because people iterate back from
that constantly and the the 

470
00:26:36,790 --> 00:26:38,670
future is just is rated back to 
the present. 

471
00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:41,510
So if you know something certain
is going to happen in the future

472
00:26:41,750 --> 00:26:44,510
that is implied eventually in 
the price today. 

473
00:26:44,830 --> 00:26:51,430
So it becomes a a now problem 
very quickly the the fact that 

474
00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:54,690
there's not going to be any. 
Bitcoin to secure the network is

475
00:26:54,730 --> 00:26:59,930
a huge and obvious problem. 
I don't personally buy into the 

476
00:26:59,970 --> 00:27:05,570
argument that like ticket fees 
or like fees paid to minors to 

477
00:27:05,570 --> 00:27:09,970
put transactions through will be
enough to offset that. 

478
00:27:10,010 --> 00:27:11,250
And that's the whole argument 
here. 

479
00:27:11,490 --> 00:27:14,370
So I think Bitcoin needs to 
change. 

480
00:27:14,410 --> 00:27:18,210
I'm probably not the person to 
say exactly how, but it's clear 

481
00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:20,370
that, like, you can't just say, 
oh, it's a problem, but I'll 

482
00:27:20,370 --> 00:27:22,010
kind of be in the future and 
it's OK. 

483
00:27:23,050 --> 00:27:27,930
The only way that that that it's
not a problem is that the if the

484
00:27:27,930 --> 00:27:32,330
Bitcoin price like goes up by 
the same amount that the 

485
00:27:32,330 --> 00:27:36,330
issuance decreases, essentially 
that it's infinitely up and to 

486
00:27:36,330 --> 00:27:39,770
the right as the issuance comes 
down and to the down and to the 

487
00:27:39,770 --> 00:27:45,090
right, yeah. 
Exactly, but I think that the 

488
00:27:45,090 --> 00:27:47,610
previous argument was that you 
know. 

489
00:27:48,260 --> 00:27:50,580
As they become scarce, as 
bitcoins become scarcer and 

490
00:27:50,580 --> 00:27:53,700
scarcer like on those final 
blocks, when the reward is like 

491
00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:57,140
less than one Bitcoin or like no
point, no, no, no, no, no one 

492
00:27:57,140 --> 00:27:59,780
Bitcoin. 
As you reach the asymptote of 

493
00:27:59,780 --> 00:28:02,820
the curve, then people like, 
wow, well the price will be so 

494
00:28:02,820 --> 00:28:06,220
high then. 
I personally have never bought 

495
00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:07,620
that. 
I don't think it's a good 

496
00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:10,060
argument. 
I think this intellectual 

497
00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:13,180
weakness underpins Bitcoin, 
which is a shame. 

498
00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:16,260
For once in my life, I agree 
with Adam Cochran that like. 

499
00:28:17,150 --> 00:28:20,110
It needed to kind of. 
Maybe there was another, 

500
00:28:20,310 --> 00:28:22,830
another. 
I never normally agree with them

501
00:28:22,830 --> 00:28:24,790
as well. 
But it's interesting to say that

502
00:28:25,030 --> 00:28:27,550
the, the solution which I think 
is the cleanest is this tail 

503
00:28:27,550 --> 00:28:32,390
emission that instead of 
basically there being, instead 

504
00:28:32,390 --> 00:28:35,510
of that being a finite Bitcoin, 
you basically say we're going to

505
00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:40,510
have inflation of 1%, just some 
form of tail emission, you know,

506
00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:46,690
like it goes to like 1% forever.
And then, but the Dylan has come

507
00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:48,450
out in this, this if you 
actually listen to the video 

508
00:28:48,450 --> 00:28:51,170
because it's worth listening to,
it's about 3 minutes long. 

509
00:28:52,090 --> 00:28:56,490
He's like, if you do that and 
you know I will just sell all of

510
00:28:56,490 --> 00:29:00,090
the fork, like if you fought 
Bitcoin to do that, I'll just, 

511
00:29:00,090 --> 00:29:03,650
I'm getting. 
Out like 0, the majority of 

512
00:29:03,770 --> 00:29:05,730
people who hold Bitcoin will 
agree with him. 

513
00:29:06,050 --> 00:29:10,210
I would argue the whole premise 
of the entire thing is that 

514
00:29:10,210 --> 00:29:12,410
there is a fixed supply. 
That is the whole. 

515
00:29:13,180 --> 00:29:18,060
Raise on debt of. 
Raise on debt Okay. 

516
00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:21,580
I don't understand. 
Why can't Bitcoin just be like, 

517
00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:24,420
I don't know, gold and just like
chill? 

518
00:29:24,620 --> 00:29:27,060
Why does it have? 
Why does it have to have so many

519
00:29:27,060 --> 00:29:30,900
utilities? 
Because for it to actually work 

520
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:33,860
for it for like blockchains work
by a consensus, right? 

521
00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:42,270
So for that security to be to 
keep the same level of consensus

522
00:29:42,270 --> 00:29:45,830
around what the transactions 
are, you need to have some form 

523
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:48,710
of reward for people to actually
want to be able to prove that 

524
00:29:49,310 --> 00:29:52,230
consensus. 
Without those rewards, you could

525
00:29:52,230 --> 00:29:55,550
never be able to do a 
transaction like no. 

526
00:29:55,870 --> 00:30:00,350
So you're saying if there's no 
rewards, if there's no rewards, 

527
00:30:00,350 --> 00:30:03,430
minors are just gonna be like, I
don't wanna contribute to this 

528
00:30:03,430 --> 00:30:06,090
blockchain, so? 
Then the blockchain will just 

529
00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:08,250
not exist. 
It's not. 

530
00:30:08,250 --> 00:30:10,330
It doesn't just become some like
physical gold after that, it's 

531
00:30:10,330 --> 00:30:14,450
just like the purpose for that 
blockchain that basically goes 

532
00:30:14,450 --> 00:30:16,890
to 0 because there's no one 
securing the chain. 

533
00:30:17,050 --> 00:30:19,490
You have something called a 51% 
which is the most. 

534
00:30:19,570 --> 00:30:21,930
This is the most likely way that
this would all disintegrate. 

535
00:30:22,330 --> 00:30:26,170
But someone manages to convince 
51% of the people who own 

536
00:30:26,170 --> 00:30:32,830
Bitcoin to change the like the 
consensus of blockchain and that

537
00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:37,310
would be the main way it would 
go down, but it just there would

538
00:30:37,310 --> 00:30:40,310
be like the transactions just 
don't happen essentially. 

539
00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:44,190
Block reward and fee structure I
think is how you change this. 

540
00:30:44,190 --> 00:30:48,310
Not issuing more bitcoins. 
I think that is total. 

541
00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:50,710
That's a game over total, game 
over. 

542
00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:55,430
You think it doesn't work 100%. 
The other interesting thing on 

543
00:30:55,430 --> 00:30:58,110
this is that it's not a one 
sided equation in terms of. 

544
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,400
The number of like the block 
rewards, it's also got the 

545
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,360
inputs which are electricity and
increased computing power, like 

546
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,760
the cost of like iterations of 
GPUs basically. 

547
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,200
So that's not static. 
The cost of computing power and 

548
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,320
electricity are kind of going up
at the same time as the bottle 

549
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,560
of water coming down. 
So it's going to make this a 

550
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,320
much quicker problem that 
they're going to have to solve. 

551
00:31:25,180 --> 00:31:26,540
Yeah, it's definitely a complex 
one. 

552
00:31:27,540 --> 00:31:29,580
I think we'll move on just 
because it's a very, very big 

553
00:31:29,820 --> 00:31:32,980
topic and I don't know if we 
have to kind of fix it for 

554
00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:35,620
today. 
But the next one I put on here 

555
00:31:35,620 --> 00:31:38,460
was just is COVID coming back? 
I don't know if you saw, but 

556
00:31:38,460 --> 00:31:40,620
like, Joe Biden's wearing masks 
again. 

557
00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:43,980
There's a bunch of different 
things happening in the US at 

558
00:31:43,980 --> 00:31:46,980
the moment where I think Jill 
Biden, his wife got got COVID. 

559
00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:49,140
So there's like a reason for him
getting COVID. 

560
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:50,820
But I know Cal again, you're 
pretty. 

561
00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:51,860
You have a pretty strong view on
this. 

562
00:31:51,860 --> 00:31:58,820
Do you do you think? 
I mean, you know that OSF and I 

563
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:02,460
had a bet on this like a month 
ago or a few weeks ago. 

564
00:32:03,340 --> 00:32:07,620
Yeah, I think, look, it's for 
various reasons. 

565
00:32:07,620 --> 00:32:10,740
It's. 
It's coming back the. 

566
00:32:12,540 --> 00:32:16,020
COVID. 
I don't know what variant it is,

567
00:32:16,020 --> 00:32:21,140
but I just think. 
What do I think? 

568
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,360
They're bringing it back for a 
variety of reasons, I think. 

569
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,800
What's the best way to phrase 
this? 

570
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,440
But come back to me, I'll have a
think. 

571
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,400
All right. 
Yeah. 

572
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,920
Look, I think it's. 
You'll see. 

573
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,640
On the There's a lot of cultural
people now on the timeline who 

574
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,920
just throw dirt at each other 
identifying so increasingly and 

575
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,800
seeing stuff about COVID. 
And it's like, no, the twisted 

576
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,970
timeline can be pretty, pretty 
divisive the whole time. 

577
00:32:53,970 --> 00:32:57,770
But it does feel as though now 
what I thought was kind of a bit

578
00:32:57,770 --> 00:33:00,050
of a joke a few weeks ago, that 
they were gonna bring back a lot

579
00:33:00,050 --> 00:33:03,530
of different regulations and 
mandates. 

580
00:33:03,930 --> 00:33:06,290
Now it looks like it could start
to happen again. 

581
00:33:06,290 --> 00:33:08,650
So be wary. 
It does feel like COVID could be

582
00:33:08,650 --> 00:33:09,850
coming back. 
We're obviously heading into 

583
00:33:09,850 --> 00:33:12,210
winter, so they'll be. 
Is this good for Nfcs? 

584
00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:15,050
Is that good for NFS? 
People buy our bags again. 

585
00:33:15,810 --> 00:33:18,570
People were mentioning crypto 
though, because obviously people

586
00:33:18,570 --> 00:33:19,930
were mentioning that you know 
this. 

587
00:33:20,370 --> 00:33:22,490
If they do start to do this 
other stuff, it normally leads 

588
00:33:22,490 --> 00:33:24,930
to stimulus again. 
And if you're trying to shut 

589
00:33:24,930 --> 00:33:27,370
down people's businesses, like 
that's quite a big deal. 

590
00:33:27,450 --> 00:33:29,250
I really hope it does not come 
back. 

591
00:33:29,730 --> 00:33:32,810
But there was some, there was 
some chatter that, you know, 

592
00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:38,170
this could lead to this could. 
Can they stimmy again with 

593
00:33:38,730 --> 00:33:41,370
inflation where it is, or like 
the threat of inflation being 

594
00:33:41,370 --> 00:33:44,730
there or not? 
Before you had no inflation, so 

595
00:33:44,730 --> 00:33:47,450
you could just stimmy to the 
moon, stimmy checks for 

596
00:33:47,450 --> 00:33:50,470
everyone. 
I think they can see me again. 

597
00:33:50,710 --> 00:33:53,110
I don't think, I don't think 
there's anyone stopping them. 

598
00:33:53,110 --> 00:33:54,550
If they're going to start 
shutting down business, they're 

599
00:33:54,550 --> 00:33:56,630
going to see me again. 
But I don't think we're not at 

600
00:33:56,630 --> 00:33:58,030
that level. 
I just thought it's interesting 

601
00:33:58,030 --> 00:34:00,030
to see. 
But like now, I think from now 

602
00:34:00,030 --> 00:34:02,150
until January, now until 
February, we're going to see 

603
00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:03,510
more and more of this COVID 
stuff. 

604
00:34:04,430 --> 00:34:06,590
Well, I think, I think it is 
interesting because this 

605
00:34:06,590 --> 00:34:09,909
obviously affects our whole 
industry, like even if it's 

606
00:34:09,909 --> 00:34:12,270
like, you know, something 
different, it affects the whole 

607
00:34:12,270 --> 00:34:15,389
world. 
But I think people might. 

608
00:34:17,270 --> 00:34:18,670
I don't know. 
At the end of the day, 

609
00:34:18,670 --> 00:34:23,750
blockchain and and crypto and 
NFTS do have a way of empowering

610
00:34:23,750 --> 00:34:27,710
people. 
So you know, I don't know, yeah,

611
00:34:27,710 --> 00:34:29,590
it was a busy, it was nothing, a
busy period. 

612
00:34:29,590 --> 00:34:33,550
I think 2020 for the crypto 
space, that it's not really a 

613
00:34:33,550 --> 00:34:37,630
silver lining to 2020 but it 
does feel as though yeah, 

614
00:34:37,630 --> 00:34:41,350
stimulus everyone you know be 
more indoors is is normally a 

615
00:34:41,389 --> 00:34:42,909
quite a big thing for digital 
culture. 

616
00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:45,510
And you're in your TM. 
Okay. 

617
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:52,340
That's never in your Yeah. 
Fast track again. 

618
00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:55,380
Yeah, go on. 
Just gotta be careful. 

619
00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:57,340
This is not something I'm used 
to and they just stay up on 

620
00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:59,380
screen the whole time. 
So I don't really know. 

621
00:34:59,780 --> 00:35:02,300
I'll go to the I'll. 
Go to the farm source Adms. 

622
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,640
It's like it's like a force of 
habit. 

623
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,920
But you know, I'm, I'm getting a
little interested these days, 

624
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,840
you know, I would say. 
But yeah, no, it's really 

625
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,560
interesting stuff. 
Honestly, if it wasn't for the, 

626
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,600
the pandemic, I wouldn't have 
discovered, you know, Web three.

627
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,080
So sometimes what seems to be 
like a curse is a blessing in 

628
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,640
disguise. 
So yeah, the final thing I was 

629
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,200
gonna mention is this Justin 
Bieber thing. 

630
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,990
I've actually shared this to 
Nelsons, but the Justin Bieber's

631
00:35:30,990 --> 00:35:34,110
hit song 2015 company has been 
turned to an NFT by another 

632
00:35:34,110 --> 00:35:38,390
block from which fans could earn
royalties for future streams of 

633
00:35:38,390 --> 00:35:42,230
the track. 
I think this story maybe came 

634
00:35:42,230 --> 00:35:45,830
out maybe over the weekend, but 
I only picked up on it. 

635
00:35:47,350 --> 00:35:52,580
As you know, on September 7th, 
it looks like this could be, I 

636
00:35:52,580 --> 00:35:55,500
mean, you've seen a lot of these
back catalogs be sold to 

637
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,780
different companies, right? 
Like I think Justin's made like 

638
00:35:58,780 --> 00:36:01,260
a few $100 million selling his 
back catalog recently. 

639
00:36:01,740 --> 00:36:05,620
But the idea that royalty 
payments could could eventually 

640
00:36:05,620 --> 00:36:09,060
be given back to users, I think 
it's quite a cool thing. 

641
00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:12,100
It does make sense for things 
like entities this like bespoke 

642
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:16,060
packaging up of some brand and 
asset and then allowing the 

643
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:20,900
revenue to be given to holders. 
I think it's quite a cool, quite

644
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:24,930
a cool thing and it's the first 
I've actually seen it. 

645
00:36:24,930 --> 00:36:29,930
Some of this we've seen music 
NFT's through other platforms 

646
00:36:29,930 --> 00:36:34,330
where you like buy the actual 
song as an NFT, but I don't know

647
00:36:34,330 --> 00:36:37,770
if they really have royalty 
payments attached to them here. 

648
00:36:37,770 --> 00:36:40,570
It looks like while Accident 
will remain the rights holder, 

649
00:36:40,570 --> 00:36:43,610
fans owning an NFT, the track 
will then be able to participate

650
00:36:43,610 --> 00:36:46,930
in a 1% royalty share in the 
streams of the song. 

651
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,360
The accident spoke to the 
significance of fans, the music 

652
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,520
industry, and how blockchain and
music rights open up and target 

653
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,960
new worlds of interactions. 
I mean this is like the 

654
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,240
completely opposite of what just
happened with with that crazily 

655
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:04,600
thing like this, just at a like 
this is an interesting way of 

656
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,120
giving these assets to people if
you guys saw this or what you 

657
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,100
guys thought of it. 
Fever. 

658
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,340
Fever. 
Yeah. 

659
00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:14,980
I mean it is because this sounds
like they actually are using the

660
00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:18,500
technology the way that you know
one way that it's supposed to be

661
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,860
used unlike the like I just I 
don't get it. 

662
00:37:21,980 --> 00:37:24,340
I I don't get what the whole 
crater leave but anyways not to 

663
00:37:24,340 --> 00:37:26,100
go back to it. 
I'm super excited about this. 

664
00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:31,740
I hope that this is the the you 
know path that we continue to. 

665
00:37:32,010 --> 00:37:35,930
To be on where you know you can 
benefit as like that's just so 

666
00:37:35,930 --> 00:37:37,970
cool. 
Like I would love if like, you 

667
00:37:37,970 --> 00:37:41,770
know, I could in a way own a 
piece of like a Drake song and 

668
00:37:41,770 --> 00:37:44,290
just like, you know, I don't 
know, I don't know. 

669
00:37:44,290 --> 00:37:47,090
It's just that that concept to 
me is very cool. 

670
00:37:47,290 --> 00:37:50,970
And I mean we're seeing like the
whole royalty conversation in 

671
00:37:50,970 --> 00:37:56,050
regards to the film industry. 
I mean, I just saw Jesse Pinkman

672
00:37:56,050 --> 00:37:58,730
from Breaking Bad. 
He was talking about how you 

673
00:37:58,730 --> 00:38:03,520
know he doesn't get any. 
Royalties from Breaking Bad 

674
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,600
being streamed on Netflix and he
and there's like obviously a 

675
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:12,920
whole like a whole like the 
protest going on about that 

676
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,480
stuff right now. 
And I feel like there is that 

677
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,480
problem and there is a solution.
So I don't know what like, I'm 

678
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:21,960
just trying to figure out the 
gap. 

679
00:38:22,850 --> 00:38:26,170
Between the problem of like all 
these creators not getting 

680
00:38:26,170 --> 00:38:29,210
royalties and then you have the 
solution where it lives in Web 

681
00:38:29,210 --> 00:38:31,850
Three and the gap between the 
two. 

682
00:38:34,450 --> 00:38:38,010
Yeah, look, that is the whole 
strike going on in the US right 

683
00:38:38,010 --> 00:38:39,010
now, which is what you just 
said. 

684
00:38:39,010 --> 00:38:42,050
A lot of that is linked back to 
the I replication of stuff. 

685
00:38:42,770 --> 00:38:46,370
There is some talk about how 
those rights could be 

686
00:38:46,450 --> 00:38:49,050
distributed in the future. 
I think part of that's like bad 

687
00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:51,850
contracts that people have 
signed that they've now realized

688
00:38:51,850 --> 00:38:54,890
they deserve infinite liability 
to whatever hell the. 

689
00:38:55,970 --> 00:38:58,730
No, but it's it's more that, 
it's more that it wasn't like 

690
00:38:58,730 --> 00:39:02,570
part of the ethos And in our, 
you know Web Three it actually 

691
00:39:02,570 --> 00:39:03,770
was. 
I know right now we are 

692
00:39:03,770 --> 00:39:06,010
struggling with the whole 
creator royalty situation. 

693
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:09,970
I again, I I don't think that 
that's gonna last like I think 

694
00:39:09,970 --> 00:39:13,290
it's gonna, we're gonna go back 
to the Web 3 ethos, which is, 

695
00:39:13,290 --> 00:39:17,210
you know, rewarding creators and
and holders and stuff like that,

696
00:39:17,210 --> 00:39:20,370
or collectors. 
But it's it's more than just 

697
00:39:20,370 --> 00:39:22,530
like bad contracts with the 
whole Netflix thing. 

698
00:39:22,530 --> 00:39:26,370
It's more just the ethos of the 
film industry of the music 

699
00:39:26,370 --> 00:39:29,690
industry and artists and 
creators really suffering. 

700
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:32,410
So that's at the beginning. 
What was so interesting about 

701
00:39:32,410 --> 00:39:35,850
web Three to so many artists and
creators is the whole world T 

702
00:39:35,850 --> 00:39:39,690
situation and and the actual 
ownership of of things that 

703
00:39:39,690 --> 00:39:41,290
you're creating or being a part 
of. 

704
00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:44,810
So I think that like I said, 
there's there's this gap and 

705
00:39:44,810 --> 00:39:47,730
obviously it's. 
A lot needs to happen to get 

706
00:39:47,730 --> 00:39:50,450
there, but we're on. 
I feel like the the right track,

707
00:39:50,450 --> 00:39:52,010
but it's not gonna be an easy 
track. 

708
00:39:52,010 --> 00:39:56,090
I mean, these big companies are 
not gonna let these things go so

709
00:39:56,130 --> 00:40:00,730
easily, but I definitely think 
that the way to go is what we're

710
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:04,570
doing in Web 3, which is the 
royalty situation, yeah. 

711
00:40:05,490 --> 00:40:09,250
There was a company which I 
think Blau was like set up which

712
00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:12,320
is Royal which did, which did 
royalties. 

713
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,520
I don't, I haven't really heard 
from that them too much over the

714
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,280
last six months. 
But this is the first like big, 

715
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,760
big artist that is that is now 
moving in this direction. 

716
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,800
And to be honest the people 
who've bought all these back 

717
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,000
catalogs, they are just like 
profit maxi hedge funds or 

718
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,040
private equity firms. 
So if this takes off, I do think

719
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,110
that they will be drawn to the 
money from it and they will 

720
00:40:35,230 --> 00:40:37,070
automatically start moving some 
of this stuff up. 

721
00:40:37,070 --> 00:40:40,630
And there is benefit to both 
sides like there is clearly 

722
00:40:40,630 --> 00:40:43,510
money in these things. 
People have been buying them for

723
00:40:43,510 --> 00:40:46,550
that reason because for once you
go to the streaming platforms 

724
00:40:46,550 --> 00:40:49,590
particularly back the back 
catalogs of big artists, then it

725
00:40:49,590 --> 00:40:53,390
just becomes like a money 
printer for for like forever 

726
00:40:53,390 --> 00:40:57,750
essentially like I think I don't
know they it's been crazy how 

727
00:40:57,750 --> 00:40:59,670
much has been spent on some of 
these recently, right. 

728
00:40:59,710 --> 00:41:01,950
I think Taylor Swift sold sold 
the ton. 

729
00:41:02,350 --> 00:41:05,480
Bieber sold the ton. 
All like your all the rock stars

730
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,280
from their 80s and 90s have all 
sold them. 

731
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,680
But yeah, someone needs to build
this platform if Royal is not 

732
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,840
going to be the person that does
it and someone needs to do it 

733
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,240
because there's I think there is
something here anyway we will 

734
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,360
bring up. 
I think I've invited cracking up

735
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,320
on stage today. 
Are they there in the audience 

736
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:31,650
that did invite them cracking. 
I've invited them again if you 

737
00:41:31,650 --> 00:41:33,010
want to request crack and we'll 
have you up. 

738
00:41:33,010 --> 00:41:35,130
We're going to go into what 
they've been doing. 

739
00:41:35,250 --> 00:41:36,970
They're always going to be a 
sponsor for us for the next 

740
00:41:36,970 --> 00:41:38,650
month. 
I think they've got some cool 

741
00:41:38,650 --> 00:41:44,370
activations even with Thread Guy
and the coming up they have not 

742
00:41:44,570 --> 00:41:48,890
requested yet. 
Can you guys see that on the 

743
00:41:48,890 --> 00:41:50,250
Twitter space? 
I think are they there? 

744
00:41:51,170 --> 00:41:53,930
You guys are there. 
You guys are in the back Okay, 

745
00:41:53,930 --> 00:41:55,490
so I thought you were coming up 
on spaces. 

746
00:41:56,870 --> 00:41:58,750
You guys are both muted. 
But yeah, we have Andy and 

747
00:41:58,750 --> 00:42:00,790
Washington here from from crack 
and ft. 

748
00:42:00,830 --> 00:42:02,990
Thanks a lot you guys for for 
coming up and sponsoring the 

749
00:42:02,990 --> 00:42:04,750
show. 
How you guys been? 

750
00:42:04,950 --> 00:42:05,750
Whereabouts. 
How are you guys? 

751
00:42:08,430 --> 00:42:10,270
What's up guys? 
Nice to see everybody. 

752
00:42:10,390 --> 00:42:12,870
This is very cool. 
So I'm based out of Washington 

753
00:42:12,870 --> 00:42:15,830
DC What show you want to talk 
about you? 

754
00:42:16,350 --> 00:42:19,190
Well, my name is Washington, but
I'm actually from Australia, so 

755
00:42:19,190 --> 00:42:23,750
I'm, I'm based in Brisbane and 
it's not GM, It's actually 

756
00:42:23,750 --> 00:42:25,670
technically it is GM. 
It's 1:00 AM in the morning. 

757
00:42:26,610 --> 00:42:30,890
It's always GM. 
You guys haven't been doing the 

758
00:42:30,890 --> 00:42:34,570
big conferences and going to 
Singapore or you're going to 

759
00:42:35,330 --> 00:42:38,050
Seoul or Hong Kong. 
You got any of those coming up? 

760
00:42:38,050 --> 00:42:39,570
You guys are just sticking 
around. 

761
00:42:41,610 --> 00:42:44,490
We'll both be a permission list 
next week, so our bags are 

762
00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:47,370
packed for that. 
Nice, I was about to say. 

763
00:42:47,370 --> 00:42:49,570
I'm surprised that the whole 
team wasn't already in Singapore

764
00:42:49,570 --> 00:42:52,910
at this stage. 
So yeah, it's obviously a 

765
00:42:52,910 --> 00:42:55,550
pleasure to have you guys as the
sponsor for the for the month. 

766
00:42:55,870 --> 00:43:00,030
I know for Rogan and OSF are big
fans as well and we love what 

767
00:43:00,030 --> 00:43:02,390
you guys have been doing. 
But yeah, it's good to hear that

768
00:43:02,390 --> 00:43:04,110
you guys are making a big 
question to NFT's. 

769
00:43:04,110 --> 00:43:06,350
We've obviously seen some of the
stuff you've been doing 

770
00:43:06,350 --> 00:43:07,870
alongside some of the 
communities already. 

771
00:43:08,230 --> 00:43:10,790
The big one that we already know
about is with D guards and the 

772
00:43:10,790 --> 00:43:12,550
points parlor. 
But I know you're building a 

773
00:43:12,550 --> 00:43:14,630
whole marketplace. 
So yeah, maybe it's good to get 

774
00:43:14,670 --> 00:43:18,700
a little refresh of of what 
crack and R obviously people are

775
00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:21,020
probably aware that you're in 
exchange, but how you're gonna 

776
00:43:21,220 --> 00:43:23,860
expand the business and what 
you're planning to do in NFTS? 

777
00:43:28,140 --> 00:43:29,860
Sure. 
Washington Do you wanna kick off

778
00:43:29,860 --> 00:43:31,940
for the discussion of the 
platform? 

779
00:43:33,380 --> 00:43:39,100
Yeah. 
So let me think, I think back a 

780
00:43:39,180 --> 00:43:42,300
couple of years ago we saw NFTS 
taking off and it was. 

781
00:43:42,990 --> 00:43:46,630
Pretty clear to us that you know
NFTS are going to be at the very

782
00:43:46,630 --> 00:43:51,070
least a pretty big component of 
the crypto ecosystem and at the 

783
00:43:51,070 --> 00:43:54,230
best and the ideal situation, 
the one that we believe that 

784
00:43:54,230 --> 00:43:58,150
it's going to be like a cool 
component of everyday digital 

785
00:43:58,150 --> 00:44:00,590
life. 
So you know, it was a no brainer

786
00:44:00,590 --> 00:44:05,510
for us to to to build out an NFT
marketplace even though the 

787
00:44:05,510 --> 00:44:08,830
first renovation was, you know, 
this capability gap. 

788
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,720
Of building the marketplace. 
I mean, our product strategy 

789
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:18,160
very quickly became wanting to 
create like a really secure and 

790
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,200
normally friendly gateway into 
the NFT space. 

791
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,240
You know somewhere where you 
didn't need to know how to 

792
00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:28,520
install Meta Mask first, or 
understand concepts like Gas and

793
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,440
signing transactions, and 
worrying about block times or 

794
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,040
whether the NFT you're going to 
buy would be like a rug? 

795
00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:39,820
We didn't see that platform when
we got started working and even 

796
00:44:39,820 --> 00:44:42,980
today we don't really, you know 
sort of see that we see a lot of

797
00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:45,340
our we we don't see our 
competitors, you know, doing 

798
00:44:45,340 --> 00:44:48,660
what we're doing, which is 
focusing on becoming a bridge 

799
00:44:48,660 --> 00:44:52,180
for the next 100,000 first time 
users of NFTS. 

800
00:44:52,580 --> 00:44:55,100
Yeah, that's ultimately what, 
you know, we care about and 

801
00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:58,140
that's why we're building the 
platform that we're building and

802
00:44:58,140 --> 00:45:00,140
my own pretty long experience in
crypto. 

803
00:45:00,660 --> 00:45:03,420
This told me that the very best 
platforms are built in the 

804
00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:05,540
middle of bear market. 
So here we are. 

805
00:45:07,660 --> 00:45:09,100
Yeah. 
Look, I kind of agree with you 

806
00:45:09,100 --> 00:45:10,060
guys. 
I'm glad that you guys are 

807
00:45:10,060 --> 00:45:12,580
making a push during the bear 
market. 

808
00:45:12,580 --> 00:45:14,140
It's obviously a time to win 
market share. 

809
00:45:14,140 --> 00:45:18,620
We've seen some other big 
marketplaces, big exchanges, try

810
00:45:18,620 --> 00:45:21,420
to make a push, But it's good to
see how you've done it already, 

811
00:45:21,420 --> 00:45:23,860
like some of the partnerships 
you guys have been doing. 

812
00:45:23,860 --> 00:45:28,540
And yeah, it's interesting to 
see how you guys are gonna 

813
00:45:28,540 --> 00:45:31,020
develop it to get into a little 
bit differently. 

814
00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:33,620
Like how are you guys looking at
how other people have done it 

815
00:45:33,620 --> 00:45:34,860
and how you guys are gonna do it
differently. 

816
00:45:34,860 --> 00:45:37,260
What are the main things you're 
gonna be trying to achieve over 

817
00:45:37,260 --> 00:45:41,460
the next six months? 
Yeah, I think, I mean, I touched

818
00:45:41,460 --> 00:45:45,020
on it a little bit earlier, but 
I think the one big area that 

819
00:45:45,020 --> 00:45:47,820
we're different is our focus, 
because our focus is, like I 

820
00:45:47,820 --> 00:45:51,620
said, becoming the default 
gateway for people to enter into

821
00:45:51,620 --> 00:45:54,140
the NFT space. 
I think there's plenty of 

822
00:45:54,140 --> 00:45:56,900
competition. 
Between other marketplaces right

823
00:45:56,900 --> 00:46:01,220
now fighting over trading volume
of Apes punks and Azukis on a 

824
00:46:01,220 --> 00:46:03,820
day-to-day basis and you know 
that's nice and we obviously 

825
00:46:03,820 --> 00:46:06,340
want that. 
But I think for cracking, our 

826
00:46:06,340 --> 00:46:11,620
priority is to grow the pie, not
just fight over the scraps at 

827
00:46:11,820 --> 00:46:15,060
this point in history, but I 
mean to get into some specifics 

828
00:46:15,060 --> 00:46:17,380
about where our marketplace is 
different. 

829
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,400
Like unlike a lot of other NFT 
marketplaces, we're a custodial 

830
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,880
marketplace, which means that 
you deposit your NFTS into your 

831
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,960
cracking account like you would 
Bitcoin, Ethereum or any other 

832
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,480
token. 
And you know your NFTS are held 

833
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,400
by us in our, you know best in 
class security, get together. 

834
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,520
But that allows us to create a 
marketplace that's off chain, 

835
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,040
which means that you can trade 
instantly. 

836
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,760
You don't have to wait around a 
few minutes for for things to 

837
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,570
confirm. 
It doesn't cost any gas to trade

838
00:46:46,930 --> 00:46:50,650
and you can trade in like over 
200 crypto and Fiat currencies 

839
00:46:50,650 --> 00:46:53,530
really easily. 
And you've got access to to 

840
00:46:53,530 --> 00:46:57,290
Kraken's awardwinning 24/7 
support, which is pretty, pretty

841
00:46:57,290 --> 00:46:59,530
killer. 
But on top of that we've also 

842
00:46:59,530 --> 00:47:02,970
got some nice quality of life 
features like we aggregate 

843
00:47:02,970 --> 00:47:04,970
listings from other NFT 
marketplaces. 

844
00:47:04,970 --> 00:47:07,770
So right now you've got access 
to thousands of NFT's that are 

845
00:47:07,770 --> 00:47:10,170
for sale from your Kraken 
account. 

846
00:47:10,330 --> 00:47:13,250
You just use your funds today 
and and go and buy something. 

847
00:47:14,110 --> 00:47:16,590
We also simplify cross chain 
payments. 

848
00:47:16,590 --> 00:47:19,270
So let's take for example youths
which are on the Polygon 

849
00:47:19,270 --> 00:47:21,190
network. 
You know you don't have to go 

850
00:47:21,190 --> 00:47:25,030
and do all that nonsense of 
wrapping Ethereum and then going

851
00:47:25,030 --> 00:47:28,670
to buy you know, your youth that
way you can just buy it on on 

852
00:47:28,670 --> 00:47:30,670
crack and we take care of that 
in the background for you. 

853
00:47:31,590 --> 00:47:35,870
And I think at the moment we've 
got just over 400 collections 

854
00:47:35,870 --> 00:47:38,430
from Ethereum, Polygon and and 
Solana. 

855
00:47:39,130 --> 00:47:42,490
And you know, just to reinforce 
that point about security, we do

856
00:47:42,490 --> 00:47:45,210
like a background check on every
collection that we add to the 

857
00:47:45,210 --> 00:47:49,850
marketplaces And we personally, 
sorry, individually I don't 

858
00:47:50,650 --> 00:47:52,450
review it, but we have devs to 
do it. 

859
00:47:52,450 --> 00:47:55,330
We we individually review the 
smart contract and audit the 

860
00:47:55,330 --> 00:47:57,690
smart contract of every 
collection that we add. 

861
00:47:58,250 --> 00:48:00,770
And the reason we go through 
that is we want to give, you 

862
00:48:00,770 --> 00:48:03,410
know, our clients the confidence
that you know when you buy an 

863
00:48:03,410 --> 00:48:06,610
NFT at any price point you're 
buying something from a 

864
00:48:06,610 --> 00:48:08,660
legitimate. 
Project or community. 

865
00:48:08,660 --> 00:48:12,380
So now I think we've got a lot 
going for us and we have a lot 

866
00:48:12,380 --> 00:48:15,820
of really cool stump, a lot of 
really cool things coming down 

867
00:48:15,820 --> 00:48:19,260
the line as well. 
I think we're gonna be adding 

868
00:48:19,260 --> 00:48:22,220
collection offers, sweeping 
carts, analytics, a lot of the 

869
00:48:22,220 --> 00:48:25,220
things that you'd find on other 
marketplaces. 

870
00:48:25,220 --> 00:48:28,460
But we're also gonna be building
some really cool auto conversion

871
00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:30,380
stuff. 
So if you've got Ethereum and 

872
00:48:30,420 --> 00:48:33,390
the Nfd's being sold for Doge. 
You know, you don't have to go 

873
00:48:33,390 --> 00:48:36,070
and leave and convert it. 
You will just do the conversion 

874
00:48:36,070 --> 00:48:39,030
process in one click. 
So making the the whole purchase

875
00:48:39,030 --> 00:48:42,510
flow a lot easier. 
And we got some really amazing 

876
00:48:42,510 --> 00:48:45,630
stuff happening with Williams 
that's gonna be coming out soon.

877
00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:48,150
I'm so hot for them that I'm 
like wearing this swag every 

878
00:48:48,150 --> 00:48:51,110
single day, so. 
Yeah, yeah. 

879
00:48:53,110 --> 00:48:53,510
There you go. 
I. 

880
00:48:54,390 --> 00:48:57,590
Was just gonna add on to that, I
think kind of in summation of 

881
00:48:57,590 --> 00:49:00,490
all that, I mean ultimately. 
I think what we're trying to do 

882
00:49:00,490 --> 00:49:03,650
is be the platform of choice for
consumers when they're thinking 

883
00:49:03,650 --> 00:49:05,530
about kind of dipping their toe 
into the space. 

884
00:49:05,850 --> 00:49:08,730
Because at the end of the day, 
you know, the way we look at it,

885
00:49:08,730 --> 00:49:12,530
it's not about centralization or
decentralization, Maxis, like 

886
00:49:12,810 --> 00:49:16,170
we're adoption Maxis. 
And so we're going after it 

887
00:49:16,170 --> 00:49:19,410
through what we think is a 
safer, simpler, easier 

888
00:49:19,410 --> 00:49:21,810
experience. 
And like, that's honestly what 

889
00:49:21,810 --> 00:49:24,290
attracted us to to rug radio, 
right? 

890
00:49:24,290 --> 00:49:26,010
Like. 
I've been familiar with rug 

891
00:49:26,010 --> 00:49:29,210
radio since this inception. 
I minted the membership pass 

892
00:49:29,210 --> 00:49:33,530
back in January 2022. 
I used that to mint the Genesis 

893
00:49:33,530 --> 00:49:37,330
NFTI think I got a scarce too. 
And I was pumped because it was 

894
00:49:37,330 --> 00:49:40,250
like one of those Pepe ones, 
which is like my favorite. 

895
00:49:41,810 --> 00:49:44,490
I just followed the growth and 
evolution ever since, right? 

896
00:49:44,490 --> 00:49:47,690
And so I think while this 
partnership is actually with 

897
00:49:47,890 --> 00:49:51,450
cracking more broadly, I'm sure 
we'll be engaging in this crypto

898
00:49:51,450 --> 00:49:54,140
content as well. 
I mean, Washington and I 

899
00:49:54,380 --> 00:49:56,380
obviously are focused on the NFT
marketplace. 

900
00:49:56,860 --> 00:50:00,180
We want to leverage the rug 
radio platform to get cracking 

901
00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:03,420
NFT in front of the community. 
You guys know this better than 

902
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:05,300
anybody. 
Attention's hard to get in this 

903
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:08,340
space. 
I think it's doubly so for NFT 

904
00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:12,460
marketplaces, which are about as
popular as, as rotten fruit on 

905
00:50:12,460 --> 00:50:16,300
the sidewalk right now. 
So some days I feel like we're 

906
00:50:16,300 --> 00:50:17,780
just like shouting into the 
wind. 

907
00:50:17,780 --> 00:50:20,500
So I think it's really great to 
get a partner with an 

908
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:22,500
established voice in the 
community. 

909
00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:25,380
And help bring attention to what
we was trying to do. 

910
00:50:25,380 --> 00:50:28,060
So we're, I think I speak for 
both of us. 

911
00:50:28,060 --> 00:50:30,140
We're really excited on this to 
come together. 

912
00:50:30,780 --> 00:50:34,060
We're fans and listeners of rug 
radio, which makes us even 

913
00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:36,780
cooler. 
Although I got to say, Mando, 

914
00:50:36,780 --> 00:50:40,460
I've I've listened to several 
wrecked radio episodes at this 

915
00:50:40,460 --> 00:50:44,340
point and I still haven't won a 
goddamn NFT wheel spin yet. 

916
00:50:44,700 --> 00:50:46,060
So. 
I'm. 

917
00:50:46,700 --> 00:50:48,540
Hoping my luck changes here in 
the future. 

918
00:50:49,540 --> 00:50:51,540
I kind of hope that you don't 
win now cuz then it's kind of 

919
00:50:51,540 --> 00:50:54,980
like I kind of rigged it going 
forward but you're kind of out, 

920
00:50:54,980 --> 00:50:57,180
you're kind of out of winning it
now from now on. 

921
00:50:57,180 --> 00:51:00,020
But yeah, it's thank you. 
It's great to hear that you're 

922
00:51:00,060 --> 00:51:02,860
radio Maxis. 
We've been obviously around for 

923
00:51:02,860 --> 00:51:04,780
a long time. 
As you can tell it's fair market

924
00:51:04,780 --> 00:51:08,020
vibes throughout, but that's why
it's nice to speak to people 

925
00:51:08,020 --> 00:51:10,420
like you like you clearly can 
try and build it out. 

926
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:14,980
I think there's a lot of in what
you're saying, like we just 

927
00:51:14,980 --> 00:51:19,390
wanna get adoption. 
At this stage, it's very, very, 

928
00:51:19,390 --> 00:51:23,750
very clear that one of the main 
hurdles to getting people to buy

929
00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:26,950
NFT's is just the onboarding 
process. 

930
00:51:26,950 --> 00:51:30,430
Like you have to go through 10 
different stages to buy NFT's. 

931
00:51:30,950 --> 00:51:34,190
We for where it was thought 
different marketplaces were 

932
00:51:34,190 --> 00:51:36,630
going to come in and kind of fix
that and never really happened. 

933
00:51:36,990 --> 00:51:40,470
So it's great to see a massive, 
massive player like Crack and 

934
00:51:40,470 --> 00:51:43,430
obviously one of the biggest in 
America, but also around the 

935
00:51:43,430 --> 00:51:47,710
world come in and to make that 
process relatively seamless. 

936
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:51,580
I think it could really help as 
well as, like you said, you've 

937
00:51:51,580 --> 00:51:53,300
got some cool stuff coming. 
I know you have a big 

938
00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:57,100
partnership with Williams F1, 
which I mean we've seen a bunch 

939
00:51:57,100 --> 00:52:00,900
of different F1 related Nfts and
it'll be cool to see how that 

940
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:03,180
develops. 
I think I heard something about 

941
00:52:03,180 --> 00:52:05,340
for a guy getting involved, 
which I think will be, which 

942
00:52:05,340 --> 00:52:07,900
will be cool coming up for a guy
and Leap I believe are both 

943
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:09,140
going to be. 
I don't even know how much they 

944
00:52:09,140 --> 00:52:12,180
know about the F1, but maybe 
they've watched the Netflix 

945
00:52:12,180 --> 00:52:19,660
series, but that's about it. 
Yeah, I'm, I'm really excited 

946
00:52:19,660 --> 00:52:21,300
about this. 
I think this is like a perfect 

947
00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:27,700
time to you know have a new 
marketplace like I I need some, 

948
00:52:27,940 --> 00:52:29,740
I need a marketplace like 
honestly, OK, I'm going to be 

949
00:52:29,740 --> 00:52:33,260
real, like no shade to blur, but
the user experience like hurts 

950
00:52:33,260 --> 00:52:36,700
my brain. 
And I I'm actually excited with 

951
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:39,940
the user experience with Kraken 
because I I just like the colors

952
00:52:39,940 --> 00:52:42,100
of the website. 
Like that matters to me because 

953
00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:46,100
if I'm going to spend time on, 
you know, like I used to spend 

954
00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:49,220
so much time. 
On Open C and I mean it was 

955
00:52:49,220 --> 00:52:52,260
good, not great, but that was 
just kind of like the only thing

956
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:56,220
there. 
But with crack and I feel like I

957
00:52:56,220 --> 00:53:00,860
could spend time on the website 
and that just makes me happy. 

958
00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:02,660
That's really important to me 
and also. 

959
00:53:03,150 --> 00:53:06,350
I want to ask about the customer
service because that's something

960
00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:09,070
that's interesting to me because
I know the customer service from

961
00:53:09,070 --> 00:53:12,870
like Coinbase and you know other
like, you know that's. 

962
00:53:13,110 --> 00:53:15,910
Terrible. 
Market it's just it's like like 

963
00:53:15,910 --> 00:53:20,230
I literally I have like 1 issue 
I think I got logged out of my 

964
00:53:20,230 --> 00:53:23,670
Coinbase about like two years 
ago and I called the the 

965
00:53:23,670 --> 00:53:27,670
customer service and that was 
like I literally never used the 

966
00:53:27,670 --> 00:53:31,240
platform again like I just I. 
I deleted my account. 

967
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:32,520
I was like, I don't care about 
this. 

968
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,880
This is just awful. 
So I'm actually really curious 

969
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,320
cuz you seem really excited, 
Washington, about the customer 

970
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,120
service that you guys are 
providing with Kraken. 

971
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:46,200
So I'd actually like to hear 
quickly about that or what 

972
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,440
you're excited about with it. 
Yeah. 

973
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,840
No, our customer service team 
are just fantastic. 

974
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,760
We work with them literally on a
day-to-day basis. 

975
00:53:57,540 --> 00:53:59,980
What's really good is the 
relationship that we have that 

976
00:54:00,060 --> 00:54:04,460
if at any point a customer comes
to them and says I don't 

977
00:54:04,460 --> 00:54:07,300
understand what's happening with
this, they have a Direct Line 

978
00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:11,340
with me who's the product lead 
of the marketplace to say, hey, 

979
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:13,420
they don't understand why this 
is happening. 

980
00:54:13,870 --> 00:54:16,710
And if it's a bug or it's a 
problem that goes directly onto 

981
00:54:16,710 --> 00:54:19,750
the feature pile that like, all 
right, hey, we need to go fix 

982
00:54:19,750 --> 00:54:22,110
this because we're getting 
direct feedback from our clients

983
00:54:22,110 --> 00:54:24,630
that they don't like something 
or they don't understand 

984
00:54:24,630 --> 00:54:26,590
something. 
So hey, let's go and improve the

985
00:54:26,590 --> 00:54:29,710
UX here so that people actually 
understand what we're trying to 

986
00:54:29,710 --> 00:54:31,790
do. 
So I think that relationship 

987
00:54:31,790 --> 00:54:35,150
that we have with CE and Product
is really, really tight. 

988
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:38,680
And any time there's like a 
really tricky question where 

989
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,920
we're really on top of things to
get there problems sorted out. 

990
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,960
So yeah, that's what I'm 
personally excited by. 

991
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,120
Yeah, the coin bases and our 
competitors are compared to us. 

992
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:51,000
We're just phenomenal. 
I like that energy. 

993
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,580
I like that energy. 
Well, I mean too, it's like, how

994
00:54:54,580 --> 00:54:56,540
do you want to connect with 
somebody, right? 

995
00:54:56,540 --> 00:54:59,180
A lot of times you're funneled 
into one way to connect with 

996
00:54:59,180 --> 00:55:01,020
anybody. 
If you want to connect with our 

997
00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:04,140
people over chat, if you want to
do it over social, if you want 

998
00:55:04,140 --> 00:55:06,700
to call somebody, if you want to
e-mail somebody who wants to 

999
00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:08,060
e-mail. 
But if you do, it's there. 

1000
00:55:08,340 --> 00:55:09,740
Like there's all those options 
there. 

1001
00:55:09,740 --> 00:55:12,060
I don't think most other 
exchanges have. 

1002
00:55:12,060 --> 00:55:14,460
So I think however you want to 
get your support, you can get it

1003
00:55:14,460 --> 00:55:16,380
too. 
But what else? 

1004
00:55:17,340 --> 00:55:20,380
Yeah, What else have you guys 
got planned to like? 

1005
00:55:20,780 --> 00:55:22,260
Push it and make people aware of
it. 

1006
00:55:22,260 --> 00:55:26,780
We're going to see some big, big
like marketing stunts or 

1007
00:55:26,780 --> 00:55:28,300
activations or this kind of 
thing. 

1008
00:55:29,140 --> 00:55:31,460
Yes. 
Look, I think one of the best 

1009
00:55:31,460 --> 00:55:33,860
ways to engage with the 
community in general is to give 

1010
00:55:33,860 --> 00:55:35,540
them free stuff, right? 
Kind of. 

1011
00:55:36,460 --> 00:55:39,340
So in most of our community 
activation so far, we've been 

1012
00:55:39,340 --> 00:55:42,460
really focused on trying to have
like fun, but provide 

1013
00:55:42,460 --> 00:55:45,020
interactive ways people can get 
involved and like engage and 

1014
00:55:45,020 --> 00:55:46,100
like win stuff. 
So. 

1015
00:55:46,660 --> 00:55:49,620
Just example, earlier this year 
in conjunction with the March 

1016
00:55:49,620 --> 00:55:52,180
Madness basketball tournament, I
don't know if you guys saw this,

1017
00:55:52,180 --> 00:55:55,180
but we held our own NFT 
tournament where the community 

1018
00:55:55,180 --> 00:55:57,980
could create kind of content, 
compete for prizes. 

1019
00:55:58,260 --> 00:56:02,380
We ended up giving away $50,000 
in NFT's over the month and the 

1020
00:56:02,380 --> 00:56:04,500
community got to showcase their 
creativity. 

1021
00:56:05,220 --> 00:56:07,620
Mando, you mentioned earlier. 
More recently, we did the Dust 

1022
00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:12,140
Labs experiment with their 
points for activations, which 

1023
00:56:12,140 --> 00:56:14,440
was awesome. 
We get a ton of a positive 

1024
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,760
interactions with that, not just
the D guys and youth community 

1025
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:21,240
members, but other folks in the 
space who were just kind of 

1026
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:24,800
touching that event. 
And then most recently you guys 

1027
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:28,680
mentioned to the F1 partner 
Williams, we're giving you 

1028
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,960
individual NFT holders the 
opportunity to have their NFT on

1029
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,880
the rear wing of a car. 
So, like, that's the kind of 

1030
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,640
stuff that we've been doing and 
we've got a heck of a lot more 

1031
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,570
plan. 
Because at the end of the day 

1032
00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:43,050
we're really interested in like 
providing the best NFT 

1033
00:56:43,050 --> 00:56:45,890
experience both on and off 
platform. 

1034
00:56:46,250 --> 00:56:49,130
I think a lot of people are just
focused on the transaction, but 

1035
00:56:49,450 --> 00:56:52,170
to me that's actually one of 
those boring parts of NFT's. 

1036
00:56:52,530 --> 00:56:55,730
It's really about I think off 
platform community engagement. 

1037
00:56:56,130 --> 00:56:58,610
So that's another way we're 
trying to separate, can we 

1038
00:56:58,610 --> 00:57:02,250
provide those regularly And by 
the way for people that don't 

1039
00:57:02,250 --> 00:57:04,530
even have crack on accounts, 
right, we're not like a walled 

1040
00:57:04,530 --> 00:57:07,090
off garden that is only 
accessible to some people. 

1041
00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:10,660
We may have some of those kind 
of more loyalty focused programs

1042
00:57:10,660 --> 00:57:13,660
in the future, but we really are
about trying to broaden it, 

1043
00:57:13,860 --> 00:57:17,060
bring people into the space, see
how much fun it can be because 

1044
00:57:17,060 --> 00:57:20,180
the the 2021 NFT Vibes were just
Immaculate. 

1045
00:57:20,180 --> 00:57:23,180
I think most people would agree 
we're we're not there today for 

1046
00:57:23,180 --> 00:57:26,340
a variety of reasons. 
We're trying to get back there. 

1047
00:57:27,340 --> 00:57:29,940
Love that. 
Anything that anyone can do to 

1048
00:57:29,940 --> 00:57:33,900
get us back to those times is 
much appreciated by us for sure.

1049
00:57:34,180 --> 00:57:38,570
Every every little helps. 
Has the NSD on the back, the F1 

1050
00:57:38,570 --> 00:57:40,770
car been sorted? 
Are they have been already been 

1051
00:57:40,770 --> 00:57:42,330
selected or is there still an 
option? 

1052
00:57:43,010 --> 00:57:47,490
So we had our community vote 
last week, so four of this of 

1053
00:57:47,490 --> 00:57:50,250
those have been selected. 
And then on Friday we're going 

1054
00:57:50,250 --> 00:57:53,850
to reveal the driver's choice. 
So Alvin and Logan Sergeant are 

1055
00:57:53,850 --> 00:57:57,010
actually handpicking the rest of
the finalists that will go on 

1056
00:57:57,010 --> 00:57:59,850
there. 
So that'll be coming later this 

1057
00:57:59,850 --> 00:58:01,990
week. 
That's awesome. 

1058
00:58:02,190 --> 00:58:03,590
All right. 
Well, that would be a cool thing

1059
00:58:03,590 --> 00:58:05,270
to see. 
Yeah. 

1060
00:58:05,270 --> 00:58:06,950
Look, it's great to speak to you
guys. 

1061
00:58:06,950 --> 00:58:09,870
I think we're gonna have you and
maybe even the rest of the team 

1062
00:58:09,870 --> 00:58:11,150
on a few times over the next 
month. 

1063
00:58:11,150 --> 00:58:13,590
I know when Faroak's back wants 
to make sure he hosts you guys 

1064
00:58:13,590 --> 00:58:18,430
as well, but this has been a 
really good introduction to you 

1065
00:58:18,430 --> 00:58:21,230
guys coming to the space. 
I know you guys have been 

1066
00:58:21,550 --> 00:58:23,710
sucking around various different
projects and pushing it, but 

1067
00:58:23,710 --> 00:58:26,670
it's really good to have this 
kind of formalized sponsorship 

1068
00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:28,970
and relationship now with you 
guys for the next month. 

1069
00:58:29,210 --> 00:58:34,090
There's gonna be a lot of drug, 
radio crack and content I think 

1070
00:58:34,090 --> 00:58:36,850
gonna be produced over the next 
the next month, which we're 

1071
00:58:36,850 --> 00:58:38,730
looking forward to. 
And yeah, we're just really, 

1072
00:58:38,730 --> 00:58:41,450
really grateful that you guys 
are, you guys are partnering 

1073
00:58:41,450 --> 00:58:43,530
with us. 
So everyone in the in the 

1074
00:58:43,530 --> 00:58:45,490
audience, I think it's worth 
taking a look at them. 

1075
00:58:45,490 --> 00:58:49,250
Obviously we've all had big, big
dreams about the revolution 

1076
00:58:49,250 --> 00:58:51,370
happening in marketplaces, blah 
maybe it wasn't. 

1077
00:58:51,370 --> 00:58:55,990
Whatever was hoping this could 
be maybe a direction and yeah 

1078
00:58:56,030 --> 00:58:57,790
thanks a lot guys and it was 
great to speak to you. 

1079
00:58:58,510 --> 00:59:01,350
I think I think we're probably 
yeah, I think we're probably 

1080
00:59:01,350 --> 00:59:04,470
going to wrap it up there though
for today we're doing slightly 

1081
00:59:04,470 --> 00:59:09,110
short shorter shows with with it
being a reserved stuff, reserved

1082
00:59:09,110 --> 00:59:12,310
but better I would say at the 
same time but we're only we're 

1083
00:59:13,350 --> 00:59:15,710
only doing how long it goes. 
But yeah, it was great to speak 

1084
00:59:15,710 --> 00:59:17,110
to you guys and we'll have you 
guys on later. 

1085
00:59:17,110 --> 00:59:19,590
And thanks again, Cows and Mika,
we're probably going to come 

1086
00:59:19,590 --> 00:59:23,450
back again with the the top five
or top seven things hopefully 

1087
00:59:23,450 --> 00:59:25,690
again tomorrow and on Friday, 
which will be even more 

1088
00:59:25,690 --> 00:59:27,090
interesting. 
All right. 

1089
00:59:27,170 --> 00:59:28,690
Thanks a lot guys. 
Really appreciate it.

