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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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