Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture

00:35 - Welcome Steve McKeon 02:25 - Navigating the dot-com boom and bust 08:19 - A winding path to tenure 13:20 - Discovering crypto 15:50 - Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation 19:30 - The birth of Collab+Currency 24:50 - A shift to consumer focus and NFTs 28:30 - Equity vs tokens 33:45 - The Art Blocks [500] 36:15 - Collectibility and end caps 38:05 - Traditional art, sculpture and Jim Dine 45:20 - Donald Judd and Marfa 49:30 - The birth of Glitch 53:45 - An investment thesis based on passion 55:33 - Collecting personally vs fund investment 01:01:20 - The future of the space and growth of digital culture 01:06:21 - Infrastructure companies, user lock-in and network effects 01:11:11 - Verse round table 01:12:25 - SOLOS points 01:27:39 - Terence Broad and (un)stable equilibrium 01:33:13 - Curatorial practice and thoughts on artist guidance 01:42:44 - What is an NFT artist 01:45:25 - Reclaiming the term NFT 01:47:00 - Artist highlights pt 101:48:44 - Catching up on fxhash 01:54:00 - Artist highlights pt 2 01:55:35 - Verse rundown Steve McKeon: https://x.com/sbmckeonAL: https://x.com/alekustn Mark Horowitz: https://www.instagram.com/marchorowitz Terence Broad: https://x.com/terrybroad Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel Jonathan Chomko: https://x.com/jtchomko benedict: https://x.com/ibenedictfuc12 canek zapata: https://x.com/canekzapata Rocio Mio: https://x.com/rociomiobosque