Farmville

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"It's kind of a weird dicodome that they're going to be the ones that democratize the access to, you know, all this stuff," he says. "I like to think anybody who spends 500 thousand dollars s on an ape photo is psychologically manipulated in some sense." 'They may not know it, but i don't know how sophisticated these people are,' Akita adds. "[Farmville]'s coming at it from such a privileged point in the ecosystem, right? And so it's just, it's sort of, like, i looked it up, soo house has a hundred and 20000 users'

(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

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