The mint edition NFT episode — Today's Twitter Space at 6pm PST/9pm EST

The weekly Techmeme Ride Home Experience 🔴

Sep 01, 2021

Today at 6pm PST/9pm EST I’ll be cohosting another live recording of the Techmeme Ride Home Experience podcast on Twitter Spaces. Details follow.

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We're going back down the NFT rabbit hole! 🕳️🐇

We discussed the NFT hype earlier this year (see: Are NFTs bad for artists? and the Roblox Debut with a mention of Beeple, etc), but it seems to have reached a fever pitch with growing momentum this week.

In fact, here's a Venn diagram of NFT content (in black) compared with all other content in my Twitter timeline today¹:

After Brian minted the first NFT of a Techmeme Ride Home podcast episode back in March (several editions are still for sale!), the space has exploded and we wanted to dig in and better understand why now, what's been going on recently, and how all this activity is likely to continue to play out. Is this the big shift to the promiseland of the decentralized web — with social and commerce built in from the ground floor? — or is this a speculator's paradise careening towards a Wile E Coyote-style cliff jump?

To find out, we'll be joined by Jackson Dame (who just priced a Divine Robe of Power for 300Ξ in the Loot Project), @SHL0MS (who just minted shattered pieces of a toilet) and other special guests (fingers crossed 🤞🏻 that Gaby Goldberg from Bessemer will make a cameo) to discuss this and more.