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We’re already halfway through April - this is nuts.
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What’s perhaps even more nuts is the hot IPO from Coinbase that just dropped on the old Wall St. This marks a real tipping point in the trajectory of digital assets, crypto and the world of Web3. Coinbase, the Silicon Valley-born blockchain behemoth founded in 2012, made sparks fly on Wall St with its spicy public offering. Like many SV success stories, Coinbase did indeed go through YC accelerator in 2012. In fact, taking the bet on the fledging startup (at that stage called Bitbank) has absolutely paid off, to the tune of 2,200x for YC partner Gary Tan. Coinbase’s role in the world is becomingly increasingly apparent. Serving such an integral part of the crypto ecosystem it does make sense that its thought of as the FB of the blockchain space.
Taking stock of the 10+ year path to crypto adoption, that has been at the heart of the company’s mission, it is quite a humbling reminder that so many startups are not even remotely “hot” in the early days. Founder Brian Armstrong has often talked about the struggles of getting investors, potential employees, customers, and in fact any damn person initially fizzing the idea of Bitcoin and Ethereum. And well, LOOK at them now. A wise reflection from Gary that VCs, hunting for the alien startups that are ready to fundamentally change the world, “have clearly learned over the past 10 years that every business is still a meme”.
The question is, what’s next for the memes of this crypto-centric financial renaissance the world is now tilting into?
The meme intensifies to let you #stayfree
He dunnit. Snowden just dropped a b-e-a-utiful NFT that masterfully incorporates the entirety of a landmark court decision that ruled the NSA’s mass surveillance violated the law, with the iconic portrait of the freedom seeking technologist himself by Platon (used with permission). It is the only known NFT produced by Snowden… thus far at least. For all we know, this may well be the next BEEPLE. Hold onto your whiste-blowing hats y’all.
FRESH EPISODE DROPPIN’ LIKE ITS HOT :
Last week we dropped in with @blockchainbrit about all things ₿TC, and this week we are stoked to share our interview with another blockchain woman of the water, @socialdiva, aka Peg Samuel.
Peg is a New Yorker, who has definitely been around the proverbial block. From pre-dotcom days working on this new thing called “email” at weather.com, to launching a successful experiential company ‘SocialDiva’, before social media was even a thing, to teaching Media Relations at NYU…we traverse her textured, pioneering path through the digital space and where she’s landed now in the blockchain world. This of course includes a fine and dandy *NFT* share for y’all. Basically, Peg is an epic TILTR to have on the show to share her story with y’all.
Peg on Clubhouse: “It feels like you could be at a blockchain panel 24/7 just by jumping on the app. That's where I first learnt NFTs were back. All of a sudden there were all these conversations about it.”
on her connection to surfing: “I live in NYC and people are like, there's surfing in New York!? …My phone doesn't come in the ocean."
on New York: "I love smart people and interesting topics: that's my New York life, it's the people. I look up an avenue and think, wow, this is breathtaking."
Riding on this Social Diva wave, we are hosting a behind-the-pod ‘room’ on Clubhouse today!
Click here to join our room at 11.30am NZT / 7.30pm EST / 4.30 PST today, where we’ll be chatting to Peg about CryptoPunks, the future of NFTs, blockchain, Polkadot + what is lighting us up rn. #tiltwithus
THE US CLIMATE ENVOY + THE FRENCH TRAIN RIDE
Turns out John Kerry 🇺🇸 hasn’t been sitting still! In fact, he’s been rushing round the globe, propelled by Biden’s climate action plan as a pre-game mission to the Earth Day climate summit, delivering a message that he’s mega stoked is finally not going to waste, like the last 4 years. It seems like Biden is getting down on the virtual event jam (as we’ve seen so many of in the beautiful Metaverse 🌐) and will be hosting a virtual Earth Day summit, bringing together dozens of world leaders to crunch on some critical climate chat. Included in these chats is some vital discourse with Indian PM Narendra Modi, as the urgency around moving India 🇮🇳 in the right direction becomes abundantly clear. A right-leaning Hindu leader, Modi has publicly embraced the fight against climate change, but he’s got a pretty tough hand to play, as the world’s 3rd largest emitter of CO2…
Speaking of CO2, there’s been quite the announcement from France 🇫🇷 in the lower carbon vein. Lawmakers have just given the go ahead to ban short, domestic flights that could be covered by train in under 2.5 hrs! So, what about Air France you might be thinking? The Govt. say they’re going to recapitalize and shore up its finances, esp. needed after a year of COVID travel curbs. Makes you wonder how the heck that law would play out in countries like NZ 🇳🇿, or US for that matter. Both of which have exceptionally SUB-PAR domestic railway systems. Even with domestic travel taking a major dive with the pandemic, this would still wreck some hefty havoc. In an alternative reality, it would be very dope to have the optionality to high speed bullet train from the bottom of the South Island of NZ to the tippy top of NZ, and make the most of the insane nature and landscapes…. nous adorons les trains Français rapides… #choochoo 🚆
EPISODES RELEASED
If you haven’t yet tuned into SUPERTILT : the podcast, check out our episodes that have already dropped…
Clubhouse App + the surge in voice-based social networking 🏡
The US's thriving green industry + was it a lost opportunity for recreational cannabis in NZ? 🌿
Appreciation for Automation: Talking Kiwibots with Felipe Chavez 🤖
Behind the pokerface of @blockchainbrit: a crypto + surfing smashup 🏄♀️
A #socialdiva and her Punks: NFTs + digital trends with Peg Samuel 🖼
MINDFULNESS 🧠 HACK:
Focus on yo’ shit with Motion App
Who else struggles with entering that elusive deep work flow state…?? 🙋♂️
Two days ago we discovered the app of the working-from-home-remote-first—roaring-twenties-digital-renaissance…and we think it’ll change your life too.
Motion is an all-in-one browser plugin that cuts 70% of distractions to keep you in state of deep work. Addicted to Gmail or find yourself opening Twitter every 30 mins for a sneaky ‘break’? We gotchu. 😏 Well, Motion has gotchu.
This isn’t sponsored. We’re just so super jazzed about this app and the clarity and brain space we’ve found from using it the past couple of days.
Get all up in it, gang.
WHAT WE'RE LISTENING 🎶 TO:
Don’t you love the feeling when you remember an artist you love dearly but haven’t listened to in a few months? We had this spine tingly moment with Ben Howard a couple weeks ago. Shuffle bumped him out of the car speakers as we were driving through the mountains and the deep, nostalgic love for the laid-back Brit’s brooding ballads came flooding into our conscience.
Soon after, Howard released his latest studio album Collections from the Whiteout in collaboration with Aaron Dessner from The National.
Those who are fans of Howard’s earlier acoustic work will appreciate ‘Rookery’.
There’s a lot of creative boundary pushing too, which, as we all know, SUPERTILT loves to see! Off-kilter drums beats, juddery electric guitar riffs, intense lyrics and macabre storytelling… this one’s got it all.
Fingers crossed for a Ben Howard world tour…hopefully not too Far Out…🤞
YOU + THE SUPERTILT COMMUNITY
We are SUPER keen to hear from you. Every week we will take a question from our community. There are no dumb questions. Fire anything you wish at us. No holding back!
Episode and tech topic requests are VERY welcome. We are keen to explore as many angles as possible, so feel free to ping us and share your desires!
CONNECT WITH US! 🤗
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Produced with AROHA for you in the Metaverse/ Aotearoa NZ 💙