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Ep. 36 Nov 26, 2021

#36 David Lucatch, Identity in the Metaverse

We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios. We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse. https://oasisdigitalstudios.com/ https://liquidavatartechnologies.com/ https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-lucatch-06806a5 https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

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Ep. 35 Oct 15, 2021

#35 Bruno Škvorc, RMRK - NFT LEGO on Kusama

Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'd better find somewhere safe to sit down! https://www.rmrk.app/ https://kanaria.rmrk.app/ https://newsletter.dotleap.com/ https://twitter.com/bitfalls https://bruno.id/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

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Ep. 34 Sep 21, 2021

#34 Digitally Rare Gerbils

Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018. Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did. At the end we read out entries for BearGerbil and announce the winner, whose entry was chosen and bought to life by the wonderful Stina Jones https://anchor.fm/digitallyrare https://songaday.world/ https://themanymatts.lol/ https://clip.mirror.xyz/mOCENLvP1aYXOBOPiLoLjBlSTvJWBqccfkn4gTPJ8qM https://twitter.com/digitallyrare https://twitter.com/songadaymann https://twitter.com/1ofthemanymatts https://stinajones.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/stina_jones/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

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Ep. 33 Jul 7, 2021

#33 Sillytuna, progress for NFTs

Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing: The road to mainstream for NFTs The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs The need for Native Ethereum contract wallets Iteration and improvement on the ERC721 standard and much more! At the end we announce the winner of ThatsHot Gerbil and announce our next gerbil collaboration with Stina Jones, one of our favourite artists in the space. To submit a competition entry tag us @NonFunGerbils @stina_jones and include #BearGerbil along with your backstory about Bear Gerbil on Twitter Huge thank you to Paris Hilton for her help with this episode! https://twitter.com/sillytuna https://sillytuna.medium.com/ https://discord.com/invite/claymatic https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

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Ep. 32 Apr 15, 2021

#32 Paris Hilton on NFTs

We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton. The self described 'undercover nerd', one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, has found a welcoming community. We hear more about her journey, the importance she places on empowering a diverse set of artists, and her recent collaboration with the talented digital artist Blake Kathryn dropping on Nifty Gateway on Saturday. Of course, as always, we end with the announcing of the winner of our #ElonGerbil backstory competition this time being read out by a surprise guest - which was so hot. We also announce the next NonFunGerbils competition where you send us your amazing stories and we turn them into Gerbil NFTs we give away for free! https://parishilton.com https://twitter.com/ParisHilton https://twitter.com/blakekathryn https://cryptograph.co/Cryptograph/Paris-Hilton-Kitty https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

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Ep. 31 Apr 8, 2021

#31 Piñata & IPFS with Matt Ober & Kyle Tut

We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space. We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it's an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web. We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated with your tokens stored. Why it is important and potentially who is responsible for it. At the end we are joined by Lapin Mignon to read out some fantastic gerbil stories that came in for our collaboration and announce the winner Super interesting and fun discussions. We hope you enjoy them https://pinata.cloud https://twitter.com/IPFSPinata https://www.lapinmignon.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/Lelapinmignon https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

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Ep. 30 Mar 12, 2021

#30 Jeremy Levine, NFT Investment Thesis

We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art. We get an insight in to their investment thesis coming into the space, speculate over a number of things and generally have a really interesting chat. Nothing in this conversation should be taken as financial advice Jonathan Bales blog post: https://luckymaverick.substack.com/p/nft Podcast network mentioned: https://podcastindex.org/ https://twitter.com/JerLevine https://underdogfantasy.com/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

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Ep. 29 Feb 19, 2021

#29 Shooting Hoops with NBA Topshot's Alan Carr

Today we welcome back Alan Carr, game designer for Dapper Labs and legend of the NFT space. We deep dive into NBA Topshot, what it is and everything that has happened around the phenomenal growth it has seen this year. At the end we read out some NonFunGerbil stories written by you, announce the winner for Baller Gerbil. We also layout our next competition and artist collaboration. https://twitter.com/Alanfalcon https://www.dapperlabs.com/ https://www.nbatopshot.com/ https://cryptokitties.co/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

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Ep. 28 Feb 3, 2021

#28 Patricio Worthalter, let's POAP

Today we are joined by an OG investor in the space and the founder of Proof of Attendance Protocol Patricio Worthalter. Patricio tells us the fascinating story of how he originally got in to the space after sorting out a ransomware payment in Bitcoin and finding the whole process so enjoyable! he speaks of the building of POAP, the difficulties and the successes, interoperability, competing blockchains, tribalism and why the whole space is so exciting right now. At the end we announce the winning entry for #TheGerbilofWallStreet and announce the next NonFunGerbil competition for #BallerGerbil https://twitter.com/worthalter https://www.poap.xyz https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

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Ep. 27 Jan 25, 2021

#27 Have you Seen Haus?

We speak to Jigsaw of Seen Haus, a very new project taking on the task of pairing the digital and physical with their auction house. We get down into the details and explore the whole concept. We thought this was a really interesting chat and would love to know what you thought. Tweet us @NonFunGerbils https://seen.haus/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j