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Kevin is joined by gmoney, a well-known and highly respected early NFT investor and host of The Cutting Edge. Here, they discuss his collection, his foresight to purchase a CryptoPunk ape in January of 2021 for 140 ETH (then a record, now a bargain), how his new collaboration with Adidas came about, and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
- Connect with gmoney: Website | Twitter | TikTok | Instagram | OpenSea
- The Cutting Edge with gmoney | YouTube
- Details for CryptoPunk #8219 | Larva Labs
- Adidas Reveals the Originals NFT Collection With Punks Comics, Gmoney, Bored Apes | Blockchain Bitcoin News
- The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook by Dave Kansas | Amazon
- Adaptable. Intelligent. | Xilinx
- Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
- Cloud, Computers, Apps, & Gaming | Microsoft
- Data Center Solutions, IoT, and PC Innovation | Intel
- Dotcom Bubble | Investopedia
- Packard Bell 286: Will It Work? | WaybackTECH
- A History of Apple Stock Increases | Investopedia
- How Countrywide Crumbled | The New Yorker
- Bitcoin's Price History | Investopedia
- Welcome to Puerto Rico!
- Introduction to Smart Contracts | Ethereum.org
- Blockchain 101: The Simplest Guide You Will Ever Read | Velotio
- Webinar: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on COVID-19 and the Economy | The Brookings Institution
- Chart of the Week: DeFi Summer 2.0: Don’t Call it a Comeback | GSR Markets
- The Origins and Future of Aave, the Decentralized Finance Protocol to Lend and Borrow Crypto | Modern Finance 12
- Fortnite
- CryptoPunks – The NFTs That Started It All. Their Origin Story and Future Plans | Modern Finance
- Collect and Breed Furrever Friends | CryptoKitties
- The Inevitable Marriage of Yield Farming and NFTs, Explained | CoinDesk
- Art Blocks – Generative NFT Art with Erick Snowfro | Modern Finance
- Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro | Art Blocks
- The Importance of Generative Art | Tyler Hobbs
- The Meteoric Rise of PFP Based NFT Projects | Gokhshtein Media
- The Bored Ape Yacht Club
- Autoglyphs | Larva Labs
- Artist Spotlight: Twin Flames with Justin Aversano | PROOF
- Quantum Art
- Web1, Web2, and Web3 with Their Differences | GeeksforGeeks
- The Growing Utility of NFTs | CoinDesk
- Unisocks Exchange
- Artist Spotlight: Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda is Dropping ZIGGURATS | PROOF
- PROOF Collective
- Supreme
- Hodinkee
- Here’s Why a Rolex NFT Opens Up a World of Possibilities | Bitcoinist
- Play-to-Earn Gaming with Yield Guild Games | PROOF
- Cryptoadz | Gremplin
- One Noun, Every Day, Forever. | Nouns DAO
- Art Basel
- Wolf Game
- Visa Bought a $150,000 Crypto Punk for Its Corporate Collection — and Immediately Triggered an NFT Market Rush | Artnet News
- Singularity by Hideki Tsukamoto | Art Blocks
- Creature World
- CC0 | Creative Commons
- #FreeHawaiiPhoto by Cath Simard
- HicEtNunc.art
- The Largest NFT Marketplace on Tezos | objkt.com
- A Blockchain Designed to Evolve | Tezos
- Build Crypto Apps That Scale | Solana
- Degenerate Ape Academy
- Solana Monkey Business
- Ethereum's Internet of Blockchains | Polygon (Formerly Matic Network)
- Decentral Games DCL Wearables Have Arrived! | Decentral Games
- Side Chain Scaling with Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon | Modern Finance
SHOW NOTES
- Who is gmoney? [00:37]
- How did gmoney get involved in the world of traditional finance and hone the skills that allow him to thrive in the crypto and NFT economy? [01:31]
- Why parents should feed their children's intellectual curiosity and support the interesting directions it can take. [04:39]
- What was the turning point that took gmoney from traditional finance to crypto? [07:05]
- How NFTs finally clicked as a viable commodity for gmoney. [11:48]
- What NFT projects first captured gmoney's attention, and how many NFTs does he own today? [13:43]
- For gmoney, what makes one NFT project collectible over another? [18:04]
- How gmoney was instrumental in bolstering photographer Justin Aversano's profile in the NFT world (and how Justin has returned the favor). [20:00]
- What has gmoney been building with Adidas, how did this project come about, and what can we expect from its utility and collectibility over the next few months -- and years? [23:04]
- How the provenance aspect of NFTs protects consumers and might finally force counterfeiters and scam artists to get real jobs. [34:03]
- What other types of projects might entice gmoney's participation, and where does he see his brand moving forward? [36:30]
- Without tipping his hand too much, what does gmoney foresee as the next big frontiers for crypto and NFTs? How has he been investing in these thus far? [37:48]
- Up and coming artists and NFT projects gmoney's got an eye on. [40:23]
- What does gmoney look for as signs of traction in an NFT community? [41:48]
- Brands gmoney thinks are working with NFTs in an organic, authentic way. [43:51]
- Pieces from gmoney and Kevin's own collections they think are currently undervalued. [45:16]
- The story behind gmoney's purchase of Cath Simard's #FreeHawaiiPhoto 1/1 NFT, and how it's promoting conversation around Creative Commons' "No Rights Reserved" CC0. [46:16]
- The benefits of being a reputable collector willing to reach out to individual artists for commission, collaboration, or just conversation. [47:31]
- Does gmoney collect NFTs on multiple blockchains? [48:37]
- Thoughts on the current state of consumer-unfriendly interfaces holding the NFT space back, what it'll take to turn things around, and how soon this will likely happen. [51:15]
- Final thoughts. [54:35]