"I was going to, when we first talked about it, tom was telling me aci. Tom and i got connected. He was helping do some automation stuff for the visualized value eco system," he says. "We're both like, man, this stuff is just getting tedious, you know? Like that there the whole like, ah, i wond i want paint with too broad a brush." 'These people that i play worder warcraft for like, thousands of hours a year, that now have this economic clout to shape,' she adds.
Tom Osman recently made headlines by flipping an Ether Rock NFT for 400 ETH ($1.3mil at the time of sale) after buying it for only 1.7 ETH ($5,340) 19 days before.
He joins the NIA boys to discuss:
- play-by-play details of what happened
- how he spotted the opportunity
- the telegram group he joined with crypto whales
- what he's doing with his $1.3mil win
- discord vs slack
- investing in ETH vs Bitcoin
- tokenized communities + web 3
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Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 – Intro
- 0:02:14 – $1.3Mil Ether Rock Sale: Play-By-Play
- 0:13:17 – Selling Early + Giga Whale Telegram Group
- 0:22:06 – Aftermath
- 0:31:32 – Memes + Media Attention
- 0:35:27 – Ethereum vs Bitcoin + What Tom's Investing In
- 0:44:18 – Discord vs Slack
- 0:55:13 – Shiny Object Social Club + Tokenized Communities
- 1:02:03 – Future of Web 3.0 Communities
- 1:14:20 – Online Identity, No Code + Is Vitalik The Alexander Hamilton Of Our Time?
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