The NonFunGerbils Podcast

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Welcome to Episode 49 of NonFunGerbils, featuring Anjali Young, a pivotal figure in the realm of online community engagement. Anjali's impressive trajectory in the crypto world spans from moderating a massive 60,000-member Facebook community to establishing Collab.Land, a vital platform in Telegram & Discord, engaging over 3 million unique users.

A true pioneer, Anjali recognized the potential of Web3 communities early on. Her innovative work with Collab.Land has revolutionized the way crypto communities interact, especially through token gating.

This episode is an open conversation that dives into various engaging topics, including the importance of human connection, digital identity, and the significance of maintaining anonymity in the digital space.

Discussion Highlights:

1. Collabland's Role and Functionality: Detailed discussion about Collabland, its purpose, functionality, and impact on the crypto community.

2. Web3 and Crypto Discussions: Broader discussions about various aspects of Web3 and cryptocurrency, including their implications and future prospects.

3. NFTs and Digital Identity: The role of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) in digital identity and community building, as well as personal stories related to NFT experiences.

4. Importance of Anonymity and Privacy: The significance of anonymity and privacy in the crypto space, and how these principles are upheld or challenged.

5. Technical Aspects of Blockchain and Crypto: Discussions on more technical aspects of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, including token gating, DAOs, and other related concepts.

6. Future Plans and Developments: Conversation about future plans, developments, and potential innovations in the crypto and blockchain industry.

7. User Onboarding and Activation: Strategies and challenges related to onboarding new users into the crypto space and activating them within communities.

8. Challenges and Risks in Crypto: Discussing the challenges, risks, and downsides of involvement in the crypto space, including scams and financial risks.

9. Personal Reflections and Opinions: Anjali shares her personal reflections, opinions, and predictions about the current state and future of the crypto industry.

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We are thrilled to host GiselXFlorez - Artist in Light - with a lifetime of experience exploring a broad spectrum of mediums to create and connect with ART, which is in itself is many things. In this episode, we dive deep into the heart of art, discovering its profound connections to life, technology, and the human soul.

1. Gisel's Background and Art Philosophy: Gisel shares her journey as an artist, discussing her early interests in traditional art forms like painting and later transitioning to digital art. She defines art as an expression of life and a product of the human soul, emphasising the emotional and experiential aspects of art over technical skill alone.

2. Physical Art and NFTs: Gisel recounts her experiences in giving away physical pieces of her art at events, linking these to her digital artworks and NFTs. This bridges the gap between traditional and digital art forms.

3. The Role of AI in Art: The conversation delves into how AI is shaping art. Gisel views AI as a tool that regurgitates past human experiences and emphasizes the importance of human intent and the 'soul' in differentiating AI-generated art from human-created art.

4. Gisel's Projects and Collaborations: She discusses various projects, including her 'Moon Language' project, which involves photography of the moon paired with music to create a new form of expression. She also touches on other collaborative projects and her approach to integrating different art forms.

5. The Intersection of Art and Technology: The discussion explores how technology, particularly blockchain and NFTs, is creating new platforms and opportunities for artists. Gisel talks about how these technologies allow for more direct and varied expressions of creativity.

6. Art, Privacy, and Data Security: There's a segment of the conversation about the importance of privacy and data security in the digital age. Gisel expresses concerns about how personal data is harvested and the implications for artists and the general public.

7. The Future of Art and Society: The podcast touches upon broader themes of how art relates to societal changes, the role of artists in society, and how technology is reshaping both art creation and consumption.

8. Quantum Light Gerbil: The episode concludes with a discussion about involving the community in art creation, specifically mentioning a project called "Quantum Light Gerbil," where community members contribute ideas for a piece that Gisel will create.

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We spent the week in Lisbon at the NonFungibleConference and collected interviews with the following amazing people:

5.40 Trevor Jones Castle Party Gerbil announcement
8.47 Lapin Mignon & Fanny Lakoubay
12.19 Toxsam - VIPE
16.01 Orlando - NFTees.com
18.47 Eleonora Brizi
20.30 Violet Jones
24.42 George Boya, Eclectic Method, Arthr & Skeenee 
31.06 Carlos Marcial - Causality
36.03 Natalia Grunberg
38.07 Rose croft
41.17 Metageist
43.55 Gabe Weis (& Efdot)
50.27 Sturec
53.26 Jonathan Button
59.29 Ogar & Sebastien Borget (Sandbox)
1.02.57 Jessica Young - Permian 
1.05.38 Quinn Button
1.12.02 Carla

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We welcome John Karp of NFT Factory, NFT morning and the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon.

John is a delight to chat with and a fountain of knowledge. We covered so much about the NFT space, the Art space, What is ownership, Royalty wars and much more. He also gave us a peek into the upcoming Non Fungible Conference thats happening at the beginning of June. Stick around at the end for an extraordinary #BraveNewGerbil reading.

Apologies for some ground loop hum in my mic due to a faulty cable but it doesn’t continue for the too long.

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We welcome Eirik Ulversøy AKA Kitten Mittens

OG Cryptokitty breeder and whale with over 200,000 kitties
Founder of TradFiLines and Ordinal flairs.

We delve into Ordinals on Bitcoin, what they are, the experience and what it’s like to have the value of your project rocket overnight

We announce the winner from our competition for #TheOrdinalGerbil
https://magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/tog 

NonFunGerbils NFT Security guide
https://github.com/NonFunGerbils/Gerbils-Security-Guide-for-Crypto-and-NFTs 

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Introducing Season 2 of the NonFunGerbils Podcast

• We welcome Rudem00se to the team
• Outlook for 2023 in NFTs
• ChatGPT and the new impact of AI

New Gerbil

We open up the competition to author and win #BraveNewGerbil
Submit your entries to https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils with the tag #BraveNewGerbil or reply to our announcement tweet.

Security Guide

The Gerbils Security Guide for Crypto and NFTs is ready... go get a security checkup and feel free to commit updates and changes. The point is to keep a living guide that changes with the times to keep you safe with best practices.

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George was called away last minute for this one so Dr Dion W stepped in to help. Also known as @DionwNFT on Twitter, he is a data scientist and works for MyNFT.

Today we focus on security with Jonathan Wilkins, previous CSO of Blockstream and currently founder of Cloaked Wireless.

Cloaked focuses on solving sim swapping attacks in the space by creating a secure intermediary away from traditional telecom companies using Bitcoin message signing for authentication. We cover:

• how big the sim swapping problem is

• some major vulnerabilities out there

• seed storage procedures.

• poetry for error correction in passwords

• generally explore the topic of security

It was quite shocking how much of a problem and how easy swapping still is.

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We speak to Tagachi, a Solidity developer and security researcher with decades of experience as a Coder for 27 years, Involved in SecOps and Intel for 22 years and has worked on projects acquired by the likes of Google, Facebook and CISCO.

We focus on Security and in particular wallet security covering what tagachi deems as best practice from a hyper secure standpoint.

This is the first in what will be a series of episodes focussed around security in the space. We are also working on a security guide that will be hosted on github very soon and will be open to add to and edit by everyone as an evolving resource for the community.

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George wasn’t able to make it to this episode so we bought in guest interviewer Christian Miles who has worked in and out of the tech industry since 2000 in sectors such as banking, logistics, e-commerce and now web3 where he is building infrastructure on the FLOW Blockchain with his company Find.xyz. Christian has also run therapeutic children’s homes and semi independent services for individuals with a history of trauma. So he is well placed to join me today along with our guest Hazel Gale from Betwixt.

Hazel is an artist; she is author of The Mind Monster Solution; she is a former therapist; and she is also an ex boxer and kickboxer having won multiple world titles.

Hazel joins us to talk about her project Betwixt which is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure game that takes you on a journey of self discovery and broadly fits into my made up category of therapeutic game with generative NFT art which customises to you around your self-discovery adventure.

Betwixt are doing something really interesting and we have a fantastic conversation. We hope you enjoy.

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Today we welcome Adam B Levine of 330ai, a true original gangster of Bitcoin education having founded Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Lets Talk Bitcoin) along with a number of other projects.

We also welcome Freya Stevens of Likvidi who are connecting the world of carbon credits to the NFT space.

This was a really fascinating conversation around carbon credits, how they work, how they can add value to NFTs and vice versa. We discuss AI, its impact on art and how it can be used for collaboration and much much more.

At the end we announce the winner of REKT Gerbil and read out some entries.

We hope you enjoy the episode.

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George and I recently got back from the Non-fungible Conference in Lisbon.

What a fantastic week it was, we met wonderful people, had amazing dinners and stimulating conversations. It was quite something to have such a broad range of people with the unified focus of NFTs all in one place.

I kept a dictaphone with me and caught up with some key figures and friends and gained insight into their experiences of the event and their take on various NFT developments.

Please enjoy - in chronological order - our interviews with:

• Artur Sychov

• Hugo McDonaugh

• Jivinci

• Whaleshark

• Natural Warp

• Sebastien Borget

• Benji Kandler

• Sandie

• George Boya

• Conlan

• Carla_muc_j

The next NonFunGerbil creation is open for submission, send us your best back story for REKT Gerbil. We will will take one story, make the artwork around it and send a gerbil  (for free) to everyone who submits an entry.

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We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios.

We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse.

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Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS

Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama

We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'd better find somewhere safe to sit down!

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Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts

We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze

Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018.

Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

At the end we read out entries for BearGerbil and announce the winner, whose entry was chosen and bought to life by the wonderful Stina Jones

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Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing:

• The road to mainstream for NFTs

• The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave

• The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs

• The need for Native Ethereum contract wallets

• Iteration and improvement on the ERC721 standard

• and much more!

At the end we announce the winner of ThatsHot Gerbil and announce our next gerbil collaboration with Stina Jones, one of our favourite artists in the space.

To submit a competition entry tag us @NonFunGerbils @stina_jones and include #BearGerbil along with your backstory about Bear Gerbil on Twitter

Huge thank you to Paris Hilton for her help with this episode!

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We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton.

The self described ‘undercover nerd’, one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, has found a welcoming community.

We hear more about her journey, the importance she places on empowering a diverse set of artists, and her recent collaboration with the talented digital artist Blake Kathryn dropping on Nifty Gateway on Saturday.

Of course, as always, we end with the announcing of the winner of our #ElonGerbil backstory competition this time being read out by a surprise guest - which was so hot. We also announce the next NonFunGerbils competition where you send us your amazing stories and we turn them into Gerbil NFTs we give away for free!

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https://twitter.com/blakekathryn  https://cryptograph.co/Cryptograph/Paris-Hilton-Kitty 

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We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space.

We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it’s an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web.

We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated with your tokens stored. Why it is important and potentially who is responsible for it.

At the end we are joined by Lapin Mignon to read out some fantastic gerbil stories that came in for our collaboration and announce the winner

Super interesting and fun discussions. We hope you enjoy them

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We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art.

We get an insight in to their investment thesis coming into the space, speculate over a number of things and generally have a really interesting chat.

Nothing in this conversation should be taken as financial advice

Jonathan Bales blog post: https://luckymaverick.substack.com/p/nft 

Podcast network mentioned: https://podcastindex.org/ 

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