The Origin Story of Italic

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He created italic because he couldn't take his in game assets from world war craft out of the game. It was motivated by this philosophy of liberty and having control of your stuffnd, that's a verylike, bit coiner type thing,. Like a libertarian type view. And now etherium is like the the primary protocol for web three speculation and all these kind of financial ation of assets. But what's enabling it to day is inhibiting that, which is just like a tragedy," says O'Brien.

(01:26) Facebook executives flee but not in a super disconcerting way yet

(09:34) Yuga Labs raised $450 million dollars to let Bored Ape Yacht Club try to do a thing

(21:53) Democratizing NFTs for everybody as long as everybody has $250,000

(29:33) Why you’d mess with NFT success kinda just because it’s cool

(35:43) How Vitalik Buterin just wanted his World of Warcraft stuff and now there are million dollar monkeys

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-and-metas-leadership-take-remote-work-to-the-extreme-11648040580?mod=tech_lead_pos5

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22991272/yuga-labs-seed-funding-a16z-bored-ape-yacht-club-bayc-metaverse-other-side

https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/

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Music: Griff Lawson

Show Notes:

Wall Street Journal - Facebook Executives: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-and-metas-leadership-take-remote-work-to-the-extreme-11648040580

Leaked BAYC Deck: https://twitter.com/LeonidasNFT/status/1505058932758360064?s=20&t=AaGm3EcwEjQOheuHGSMPkQ

Axie Infinity video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFSDdt35xI

Vitalik on the future of Crypto: https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/

Vitalik at ETH Denver: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-says-crypto-welcomes-another-winter-71645295910461.html

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

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