EPISODE · Jan 27, 2021 · 5 MIN
Digital Scarcity (Explicit)
from The Swyx Mixtape · host Swyx
Beeple made one piece of digital art a day for 10 years. He had never been directly paid for this work before. In one weekend, he auctioned it off for $3.5 million. How?The direct answer is Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Nifty Gateway.The general answer is that blockchains create digital scarcity. Naval explains.Sources:- Beeple on Unchained podcast- Naval on Tim Ferris podcast- Beeple on School of Motion podcast
What this episode covers
Blockchains enable digital scarcity. This is enabling new business models, just as digital abundance did before it. (Explicit, because beeple likes swearing)
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