Be kind to the overweight guy at the gym.
Be kind to the awkward kid asking out the prom queen.
Be kind to the trans girl finding her place in the world.
Be kind to the failed startup founder.
Cruelty takes no courage or honor. You don't rise by punching down.
Just. Be. Kind.
I've been trading NFTs for over a year, and probably done 100x in that time. My biggest learning is this:
I'm actually not good at it. I made a few lucky moves and bought in at a time when it was easy to make money.
Do you know yourself well enough to admit if that's you?
Coming from tradfi, the impatience of NFT traders will never not be hilarious to me. I'm just imagining a real estate agent listing a house for $500k, then 2 hours later the client is like "it hasn't sold yet?? Relist for $450,000" 😆
@RobertMSterling
@AndrewSteinwold
@BillAckman
These people dying on the hill of "actually, the ivy league president plagiarizing all of her work was good" is so hilarious
I am a progressive, but the left is eating itself and I'm not mad at it
So the RTFKT team didn't announce IP restrictions until after mint, and kept half the artist curated rares for themselves? Why is this garbage project/team not getting FUDded to death? I assume it's bc people are bag holding. This is why you DYOR. Never touched it, never will.
120,000
@opensea
wallets.
8 billion people in the world.
Even if no one had multiple wallets (which everyone has) that would be 0.000015%.
We're not just early. We're a rounding error away from not even existing yet.
#NFTs
#cryptocurrency
There are 200k
@opensea
active wallets, and 500k
@nbatopshot
users.
The NBA, with 1B+ worldwide fans, is now advertising Top Shot.
Think about how many TS users ended up in other NFTs. If TS adds only 1M users, and only 20% of those end up on OS, OS users double.
1/ a short
@BoredApeYC
/
@yugalabs
KYC 🧵:
First, let's all take a breath. We're trading jpegs, this isn't the Manhattan Project.
Second, obviously I have bags.
Now that that's out of the way: I love BAYC. Best buy I've ever made, and the team has consistently overdelivered.
$500/$1000 GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate 2,000 followers, I'm running a special giveaway!
To enter:
-Like/RT
-Follow me and
@PackripMedia
The winner gets a choice: either receive $500/0.2E, or $1000 CDN goes to a charity of your choice! So if you don't RT, you're a bad person! 😂
Just about 5 years after my crypto journey began and 3 years since I discovered NFTs, I finally got one. Feeling blessed.
Thanks to
@Coldie
for the easy deal.
And now I get to look like
@VonMises14
on vacation 🤣
Is
#punkfollowpunk
a thing or what?
You won't get any farther in life by being cynical.
Stay open. Keep trying to do silly things, or new things, or things some people in your life don't understand. Being a critic doesn't help.
I'm not sure if
@nbatopshot
will succeed long term, or if buying in is a good investment. And I don't tweet about it as much as I used to.
But the product is absolutely more fun than it's ever been.
I'm not a holder, but man what a journey for pudgy penguins. Has to be the only high profile PFP project from 2021 that's hitting its ATH floor in ETH terms today.
.
@BoredApeYC
and
@moonbirds_xyz
are not competing with each other. Yes, right now in early web 3 theres limited ETH to go around, but what they're building is totally different. MB are focused on connection w/ the frontier of tech. BAYC is focused on culture. Its not either/or.
Completed the current
@nbatopshot
Quest in 30 seconds. They're making the platform easier to use with every update. Users that sign up this season are gonna have a smoooooth ride.
I teased doing a 1,500 follower giveaway, and then forgot so lets do it now!
Topshot giveaway for pending free agent John Collins (currently part of Playoff Challenge!):
Like & RT
Follow me,
@jwilliamsnft
, and
@PackripEwing
Winner chosen in 24 hrs!
5K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY:
Going to give 5 people 0.1E EACH.
1. Like/follow/RT
2. Tag someone in comments that could use a W, and include their ETH address
Will run this for 24 hours ⏰️
Hard to compare to Apefest, but the
@truth
Illuminati event is so incredibly well done. Unlike anything I've seen. Glad to hold Illuminati tokens, and bullish on the whole ecosystem
@goblintownwtf
Dear new
@nbatopshot
users: welcome! Joining an established community can feel a bit daunting/overwhelming, so I thought I'd put together a bit of a primer/history lesson to get you acquainted. If you enjoy it, please RT!
Let's dig in. (thread below)
The floor for one of these projects is over 4.5E and has no roadmap
The floor for another one of these projects is under 1E and has an entirely new reveal mechanism
The floor for the third project is under 0.2E and comes from an awesome studio
This space is so far from efficient
@punk6529
On the same day Coinbase announces a Mastercard partnership for CC purchases of "digital goods", and Opensea buys Dharma to improve fiat purchases and site uptime.
Today feels like one of those inflection point days.
@GordonGoner
I'm sorry Gordon. You've been good to us since day 1. Hope there are no consequences for you, other than you never having to pay for a drink in a city with an Ape in it ever again.
Just lost 10 ETH sending to a dead address because my
@newton_crypto
account's address had been upgraded.
All it takes is one second off your game to lose a fortune and make a routine transaction make you feel like a complete idiot.
Crypto: never let your guard down.
Don't try so hard to overanalyze what parenting will be like. All the cliches are true, and you still won't know what it's like til you're in it.
It's more exhausting than you can imagine, and more rewarding than you can imagine.
Which NFT teams would you say are the best?
I don't mean the teams you trust to make you money, I mean the teams you'd trust to look after your kids. The ones you know have their hearts in the right place.
For me it's
@BoredApeYC
,
@RoyalSocietyOP
, and
@alphabettyNFT
. Who else?
Being into NFTs is great because you start out collecting funny looking jpegs and then you end up becoming an expert on international monetary policy, artifical intelligence and interpol
I've had a number of friends reach out recently for help getting started with NFTs. I decided to put an infographic together on the current state of the market, since things change so quickly. Would love feedback from fellow collectors!
(maybe I'll update in future?)
(1/3)
A (not immediate) family member of mine went into hospital for something minor, which turned major, and is now unlikely to make it through the night.
A reminder that life is short, random and sometimes cruel. Be kind. Show others grace. Love and let yourself be loved.
I sold out of Cool Cats and
@GutterCatGang
too early because I thought PFPs were slowing down. Not overthinking things, and being agile enough to buy back in when youre wrong, are two incredibly difficult skills that I'm still working on. Investing is a game of psychology.
Don't try so hard to overanalyze what marriage will be like. You'll be a different person 10 years from now, and if that person is compatible with the person your partner is 10 years from now, it'll work out fine.
@awilkinson
This honesty is so refreshing Andrew. I lost 1% of this sum in family money, working on (what I now realize was) a lame idea without a plan or understanding of how to build. It still hurts, and I still carry guilt, nearly a decade later. Truly, best wishes for whatever is next.
Informational interviews are your friend. People love talking about themselves, and you'll be amazed who's willing to do it. You can get s glimpse down a thousand paths you'll never walk.
If you had less than 0.2E to spend on a project, and wanted to recommend something that you knew wasn't a pump and dump and will still be building a year from now, would you recommend:
If you're under 30 and have multiplied your wealth in equities/crypto/NFTs over the last 1 to 5 years, you haven't really experienced the risks associated with high risk investing yet. I hope you're paying yourself first, because you might not get the chance later.
The next 48 hours, I believe, will be absolutely critical for the future success of
@nbatopshot
.
Let's review. 🔽
From late February until now, the market has declined by somewhere around 75%. With an influx of new users at that time, most are deep in the red. (1/
Decided to make my first foray into
@doodles
after a long time admiring from afar. Needed the puffer to keep me warm 🍁
Where my doods at?
@NFTbark
be my sherpa
Let's do it again for a little while.
If you
A) are in Canada
B) have a paypal account
C) have a bill you're struggling to pay
Comment here and I'll try to send some help your way.
Please RT.
Haven't done this in a while, and I've picked up a few Topshot followers since then!
If you
A) are in Canada
B) have a paypal account
C) have a bill you're struggling to pay
Comment here and I'll try to send some help your way.
Please RT.
@nbatopshot
All due respect to you all, but it seems inconsistent that when the marketplace is slow and prices are declining, you emphasize collecting what you love and ignoring market movement, but when the market picks back up again you're quick to celebrate it everywhere.
@SheaSerrano
followed your lead a few times giving money away on here and just got this message from someone I gave to. Thanks for being an inspiration for some good in the world.
5/ I think today was a mistake. Mistakes happen. My hope is, they provide a lot more clarity within the next 2 weeks on what people are signing up for, why Animoca needed KYC, and how this fits into the broader ecosystem. But Im not 1% worried about this team's ability long term.
@rohamg
@nbatopshot
I voted VIP tickets, but that can also just include Topshot sections where TS fans can enjoy the game together! Doesn't have to be premium necessarily. Just TS users get discount code (or free tickets based on collector score) for this game on this date to sit in section XX.
Floor steadily rising in a bear market. Great, dedicated doxxed team. Discord is a vibe. I've already connected with the characters. Still affordable for new entrants.
It's fun to put your weight behind cool things.
Haven't done this in a long time, and honestly, I could use the mood boost from putting some good out into the world.
If you
A) are in Canada
B) have a paypal account
C) have a bill you're struggling to pay
Comment here and I'll try to send some help your way.
Please RT.
NFT question: what's your favourite NFT project that you don't own and have no immediate plans to buy? Not one you can't afford, but just one you like but isn't in your portfolio. For me I think it's
@GutterCatGang
.
This didnt work like I'd hoped, so let's try it one more time.
If you
A) are in Canada
B) have a paypal account
C) have a bill you're struggling to pay
Comment here and I'll try to send some help your way.
Please RT.
Feel like messing around tonight.
Let's do it again for a little while.
If you
A) are in Canada
B) have a paypal account
C) have a bill you're struggling to pay
Comment here with the details and I'll try to send some help your way.
Please RT.
TOPSHOT GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate my first appearance in
@PackripMedia
, I'll be giving away TWO moments!
To enter:
1. RT the quoted tweet below 🔽
2. Follow me,
@PackripEwing
and
@PackripMedia
3. Comment below with your Topshot name
Winners will be chosen in 24 hours!
Today on the blog, the debut of
@keepfischin
!
In his first piece, a look at which NFT avatar projects would be the perfect spiritual fit for 15 different NBA legends.
Read it here:
I won't be collecting
@nbatopshot
trade tickets until there's a mass buy function. I don't have the patience to buy 200+ base momes that I'm just trading in anyway.
Thanks to
@OwnTheMomentNFT
's Team Set completions tool, I can see that I'm one of 409
@nbatopshot
users to have completed the
@Raptors
full team set. Where are my 408 fellow Raps completionists? Will we be sitting all together in a Top Shot section this season??
#NBATopShotThis
I'm not minting on hype in this market. Frankly I've stopped doing that at all. My only recent mints:
-
@TribesNFT
: genesis project been around for months, betting on
@dagg3rhigh
-
@PiratesMeta
: innovative cross chain pfp, betting on
@CryptoPapi10
Zero chance of rug here.
I sold my Mutant and one of my Otherside lands this morning. I'm so grateful for everything Yuga Labs has done for holders, but also turned off by a lot of this weekend, and the attitudes of a lot of Ape holders. It affected my mood and my attention to family. Time to step back.
My wife was in a minor car accident this morning taking the kids to school. Other driver ran a stop sign and hit her passenger side. Everyone's fine, car is at the shop, rental secured.
But a good reminder of how quickly life can turn & how much we waste on pettiness & cruelty.
Good to be reminded how lucky we are. Someone behind me in line this morning asked how much a bagel cost. I've never asked that question in my life.
When your basic needs have always been met, it's very easy to forget how much mental energy can be directed elsewhere as a result.
@nbatopshot
@Alanfalcon
did a Q & A on discord today, so I put some notes together on the section that covered trade tickets. Red are his answers. Intriguing development! (first impression: great way to add value to moments that most don't care for.)
@bnaibrithcanada
@LP_LaPresse
Credit to Mr. Levasseur for taking appropriate steps here. Obviously it's so awful and disheartening that it was published in the first place, but at least he's recognized how dangerous these tropes are.
@Noahpinion
I mean a lot of American wealth was built on slavery, and has since been built on cheap labor elsewhere in the world, that's pretty undeniable
But that doesn't make America any different from anyplace else in the world
Exploitation is everywhere
@AOC
Its not just college. Baby boomers' entire existence has been one giant government subsidy that future generations will pay for. The absolute gall of a single baby boomer to tell anyone else they don't deserve a "free ride" is stunning.
My first attempt at
@nbatopshot
data. Please be gentle.
I wanted to know how quality has performed over the past couple of months vs. the broader market. To do so, I started with establishing a "quality index": top 10 NBA ASG vote getters, S2 Base 15k for each. (1/
What the fuck is the Paw Patrol's business model? Are they a public good? Do they have a benefactor?
Their operating costs must be massive, and they regularly help Mayor Humdinger, which would be outside of local jurisdiction. They don't invoice anyone. What is going on here?
3/ b) the announcement was poorly done. They acted too cavalierly around the (justifiable) sensitivity that web3 has to KYC. We don't like it unless it's required, and brands we trust shouldn't act like it's NBD or that FOMO is the way to get us to do it. c) in future, they don't
If I owned a
@BALLERZ_NFT
I would definitely be looking to sell before marketplace launches. Hard to believe prices aren't artificially high due to lack of available supply right now. As it is, I definitely won't be buying before then. (I'm also almost always wrong.)
*Deep breath*
This is a thread about mental health.
At many times in life, I've struggled with depression. I got help in the past, but during the pandemic it became extremely difficult again. I've been helped by therapy, medication, and discovering NFTs.
For the most part.
I'm so grateful to be invited to write a guest post on the
@nbatopshot
blog. Super excited about Series 3!
Feeling fortunate for
@PackripMedia
and for the NFT community. I'm a lucky guy.
"Look at the incredible product that’s been built, and the endless potential that awaits those who are ready to jump in with both feet."
@keepfischin
on what Top Shot has given him -- a newfound love and appreciation ➡️