The early history of NFTs, part 4 — Game sprites on the blockchain: CryptoPunks
Amy and I write up CryptoPunks, which launched six weeks after CurioCards — or tried to.
Brozymandias
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing — a quick map of where we are and what’s ahead
Your guide to the Jenga stack of interconnected crypto time bombs.
Celsius goes Fahrenheit 451, and number goes down
We can confirm that we are in fact having a whale of a time staying poor. Few.
Initial Game Offerings: a failed Initial Grifting Opportunity
IGOs have only the minor problem that play-to-earn never took off beyond Axie Infinity.
It’s still 2014 in crypto payments, and buying a burrito is now a taxable event
“The legacy payment systems are complicated and costly,” says Flexa CEO Tyler Spalding.
The early history of NFTs, part 3: Curio Cards
Amy Castor and I write up Curio Cards, the first Ethereum art NFTs.
Former OpenSea executive Nate Chastain arrested for insider trading of NFTs
Rule 13: If you’re going to insider trade, don’t do it on a permanent public ledger of all transactions.
News: Québec pension fund invested in Celsius, Terra’s tax troubles, Anchor pass-through Ponzis, Wright v. McCormack trial
And the central bank that sent its hacker dick pics.
Early history of NFTs, part 2: Monegraph, Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes
Part two of the early history of NFTs, from the book I’m writing with Amy Castor, is up now, over on Amy’s blog.