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Dows is a game that lets you buy things with ei cent. It's based on the idea of an online world where people spend time and care about what they have there. Dows says he doesn't know how long this will last, but it could be years or even decades before we're fully immersed in such a system. He also wonders if governments are actually interested in making dows profitable.

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita dive into a conversation around OpenSea’s significant layoffs, how Binance is taking on Coinbase in a stateside battle royale and why the Bored Apes creators are trying to outdo Meta with their own metaverse.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Alexander Taub. Taub is the founder of DAO tooling startup Upstream which lets people spin up their own decentralized governance organizations. DAOs were the space to be this year, but how many of them will stick around through a crypto winter?

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/nft-marketplace-opensea-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-staff-we-have-entered-crypto-winter/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/crypto-us-market-as-coinbase-falters-binance-us-is-waiting-in-the-wings/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/19/bored-apes-founders-on-their-plans-for-otherside-metaverse/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondaos-bold-crypto-bid-for-us-constitution-falls-short/

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