Adam McBride Digs into NFT Artifacts (Episode 219)
Adam McBride Digs into NFT Artifacts Today.
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Richard Carthon: Hello, everyone, welcome to another episode of cryptocurrency, your host here, Richard Carthon. And today I have someone very special that is an absolute OG when it comes to NFTs that knows a lot about what’s going on, can break down a lot of things and can talk to something that a lot of you might not know much about, which are NFT artifacts. We have Adam McBride, the NFT archaeologist himself. How are you doing today?
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Adam McBride: It’s great, man. Great to be here. Thanks so much for having me.
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Richard Carthon: Well, I appreciate you joining us. Before we kind of dive into everything first of to learn a little bit about you. Can you give us some background on yourself?
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Richard Carthon: Well, I mean, I got into NFTs. They’ve been into crypto since early. Bitcoin was around for the ICL boom in twenty seventeen and eighteen, tried to start a business, failed miserably and got back into NFTs. Have known about NFT since the launch of like CryptoPunks. But kind of January February, I got back into NFTs as like an idea. I always got the idea, but this time I was like, Wow, this could actually
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Richard Carthon: be most people’s
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Richard Carthon: entry point into
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Richard Carthon: crypto.
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Richard Carthon: And when the Moon cats were rediscovered and curio cards were rediscovered in mid-March, that lit me on fire because I was like, Holy cow, there are these NFTs from years ago which have been completely forgotten, and they have value in today’s market. And so I’ve spent the last whatever, five or six months just digging for those NFTs.
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Richard Carthon: Definitely. So let’s spend some time on that just for a second. So you got into crypto, you start learning about everything that’s going on. Why do you think NFTs are going to be the entry point for like mass adoption, for example? Like, how did you think that when people see NFTs, this is how they’re going to be put on more to and be more receptive to crypto?
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Richard Carthon: I think for crypto, a lot of people, it doesn’t make sense the idea of money. They don’t really understand how crypto can earn this money. Even my kids, like, you know, when I have some these, like, when are you going to turn it into money? I’m like, Oh, it is money, right? So the average human doesn’t understand that connection, but almost everybody understands collectability, right? We were just talking before we got on the show about going to the beach. If you take your kid to the beach, guess what? They want to collect shells. They want to collect rocks or whatever. Right? Collection collecting is something that’s ingrained in our DNA.
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Richard Carthon: And, you know, I mean, rich people, it’s paintings and antiques. Worst case scenario, it’s hoarding, right?
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Richard Carthon: But in some
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Richard Carthon: way, it is deeply embedded in our genes. Every person I know to some degree has a collection of something, right? And so NFTs unlock that in a way that’s never been been possible before in the history of the world. Right before when you owned the Hornets Wagner baseball card, to be sure that that was a real hornets Wagner
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Richard Carthon: baseball card, you needed
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Adam McBride: whoever Topps to say yes or his Wagner, this is it. And this is the grade right now. Blockchain solves all those issues. We’re only just beginning to see the beginning kind of footsteps in the NFT
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and what that means kind of
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Adam McBride: talking about today.
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Richard Carthon: Definitely. So let’s now go into that. So the artifact NFT, so like you said, got it around two thousand seventeen thousand eighteen. We saw some of the first wave of NFTs coming into play.
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You said you could have got
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into one of the first CryptoPunks, et cetera. But as of March, you said you saw some of the older NFT start to re spark up and come back up. So let’s talk about NFT artifacts or what are they? And how were they a large opportunity right now?
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Well, I think what happened
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is myself,
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along with a lot of other people, recognized this idea that I’ve just described to you the idea of digital scarcity and a public ledger where everybody can
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know who owns what
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at any particular moment in time. So the ability to trace something through time is critical, and that’s what blockchain
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produces, and it’s really
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Adam McBride: the first time in history that this is possible. Right. And so it’s magical. And so people were beginning in 2014 to play around and try and figure out how to make this work for collectibles. And so you started seeing it first on a blockchain called named coin and then Bitcoin. But bitcoin and name coin weren’t really built for like a modern NFT like Ethereum is built for Ethereum, with its smart contracts going back right now. I mean, the whole kind of
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rediscovery has been about a
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Adam McBride: lot of Ethereum based projects.
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So Curio Moon cards,
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Adam McBride: all of these like big name what our big names
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now, right? But people, myself
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Adam McBride: included, are also digging now very deeply into what happened to bitcoin in early 2014 2015,
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Richard Carthon: where you had basically a handful of
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Richard Carthon: artists who were trying to take this idea of digital scarcity and make
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Richard Carthon: it work on really a
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Richard Carthon: blockchain that wasn’t meant for it. Right, right. Bitcoin’s meant for, you know, storing a value.
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Richard Carthon: It’s not really
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Richard Carthon: meant to hold NFT, but people were figuring it out and people are industrious and ingenious, right? So going back, finding those
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Richard Carthon: old ones and bring them bringing
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Richard Carthon: them to today’s
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Richard Carthon: market is super
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Richard Carthon: exciting. And that’s just basically what I’ve been doing is basically looking for these old projects and trying to relaunch them in today’s market.
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Richard Carthon: Place, which is really cool again, going back and find these projects, like you said, a lot of people don’t realize that even though most entities are being built on the theory that they were entities built on other chains like bitcoin, like you just said they were going and others. And so finding a bridge to be able to create a little bit of interoperability to go from one chain to the other and bring it to a larger mass that can now have access to it, you can find some really good gems. So with that, I’m sure you have found quite a few. Can you give us any examples of some of these NFT artifacts that you’ve been able to locate and kind of put out there?
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Richard Carthon: Well, we’ve done a lot. I mean, just recently, as of even yesterday, we found like a 2015 project yesterday and relaunched it. You can check
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Richard Carthon: out my Twitter and check it out.
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Richard Carthon: But really, what I’m more interested in is telling kind of these timelines to think what we have today, which is a modern NFT, which in most people’s mind means of one of one NFT, doesn’t take into account the full history, and the full history was more like thinking along the lines of a baseball card. Most people who were starting to do it on bitcoin thought about it as a baseball card. So when you bought, you know, a Willie Mays rookie card, everybody knew that there were, you know,
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Richard Carthon: 4000 Willie Mays
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Richard Carthon: rookie cards,
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Richard Carthon: right? So people were thinking
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Richard Carthon: about NFTs in a similar fashion. There’s been a long history of a movement towards today’s NFT, which is a one of one.
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Richard Carthon: This is an NFT,
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Richard Carthon: but I like telling the whole story, and the whole story is is complex. It’s not simple. There’s a lot of gray areas about what is an NFT, what isn’t an NFT? I like to take a soft lens on history, and I just like telling the stories of the interesting
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Richard Carthon: people who were doing
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Richard Carthon: kind of the work and the laying the foundation of what we enjoy today, which is like a rich and empty marketplace. And you think about those guys who were building in 2015 16 and 17. Look, all those projects failed back then 100. I mean, nobody succeeded in 2015 16. Almost everybody failed. Right? Because the market, they were literally too early. And if you think about that and say, Wow, these guys were pioneers, they were literally visionaries. They understood that the world would value this and it does.
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Richard Carthon: In 2021, the world values it. OK. And what they did back then, they were just visionaries. They saw it, but they were too early. And so telling those stories and finding those pieces of history,
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Richard Carthon: I think, is really cool. And my
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Richard Carthon: view is that in 20 or 30 years, when NFTs are embedded in everybody’s
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Richard Carthon: life on Earth, people are going to look back.
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Richard Carthon: Collectors are going to look
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Richard Carthon: back and go, Oh, that was a cool project.
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Richard Carthon: I want to
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Richard Carthon: own one of those and you
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Richard Carthon: will be able to own one of those in 20 years. And that’s really super exciting.
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Richard Carthon: It is. And on top of that, it just kind of goes to when I talk about the greater crypto landscape and when people ask about like what’s going on in crypto, Twitter and it’s all this stuff. We’re moving past the first decade of cryptocurrencies existence and with any new technology, the first movers, the innovators. Unfortunately, most of them don’t make it, but they set a foundation that allows the next round of folks to come and learn and move faster and build something that is sustainable and can scale. And with that in mind, with these NFT artifacts, what are you seeing in newer projects that are having success that kind of use these NFT artifacts, like the basis of what they were able to build, be able to create some of these amazing ecosystem NFT ecosystems that we’re starting to see?
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Richard Carthon: Mm hmm. I think it’s really we’re still so early. I mean, when I’m having to walk friends and family through getting a metamask and what that entails, the whole crypto space needs to solve those issues. Those issues need to be solved, right? Because there’s no way my mom is getting a metamask, right? It’s never going to happen, right? It has to be one button easy. Download the app and I get it right. I mean, that’s really where the whole entire crypto space has to get to. So there is a lot of work to be done. Like you said, there’s a lot of building that needs to take place.
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Richard Carthon: I think we’re just beginning to see the first steps in interoperability where if I own, for example, a crypto punk, that crypto punk can then be used in other games or fused with other NFTs to make brand
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Richard Carthon: new NFTs, that kind of
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Richard Carthon: interoperability only just seeing the beginning footsteps into. We’re obviously seeing it for like ticketing and access to artists and musicians and that sort of thing, and I think that’s a natural first step. But the beauty is, this is the beauty of it. Is that your vision and my vision of what the future is going to hold is inherently going to be so wrong. It’s going to be completely wrong because the reality is, is that there are thousands or millions of people going to be building right now. And what we build, the future we build together is going to be far grander than anything we can imagine.
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Richard Carthon: Because if you just look back at the history of Web 2.0, you know, nobody could have predicted this. You and me doing a show right now live, it’s
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Richard Carthon: it was impossible. It was literally
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Richard Carthon: technically. Legally impossible. YouTube completely impossible. These sort of things, nobody had those visions because from a technical perspective, it was completely impossible. It wasn’t even a dream because nobody could even think that it was possible.
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Richard Carthon: Right. And the same is
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Richard Carthon: going to happen for Web 3.0. I have zero question. So my vision of it, whatever
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Richard Carthon: that may be, is going to be
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Richard Carthon: completely wrong. I encourage people who are interested in the space. Just be in the space, just build in the space, make new things in the space. Because the reality is the space is going to be, it’s going to be massive. It’s going to be embedded in every person’s life on Earth in 20 years.
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Richard Carthon: Definitely someone to cosign that, that our vision of where the world of technology is going to be in the next decade, especially as it relates to Web 3.0, is going to be wrong. But we have an idea that it’s going to be here and it’s just going to be continuing to compound and grow such a magnificent way that is providing so much value to people in so many new ways that we never even thought was possible. If you think about DeFi five years ago, you’d be like, How is that even a thing? How could you? Decentralized finance and provide so much liquidity and access to people that otherwise wouldn’t have it.
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Richard Carthon: But now it’s in everyday talk, and now they’re figuring out how do we make this more scalable provided some more people that now traditional banking is even trying to figure out how do they make sure that they can be in front of this whenever they eventually have to? It’s interesting how quickly all of this is growing, but the question that I want to bring back to you is with everything still moving, even for people that are in crypto. So of course, for someone that isn’t in crypto, the concept of like coming on and create a metamask, et cetera to like get one of these nets might still be a harder pill to swallow, but they might understand more than crypto.
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Richard Carthon: But even for your crypto enthusiasts who are in the space don’t want to touch in a tease, why would you recommend to them that they should be paying attention to this and being part of being the some of the first people to get into this? What I call it an amazing opportunity right now.
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Richard Carthon: I mean, look, my view could be wrong, and I just preface that my vision could be wrong. But my viewpoint on the entire kind of historic NFT space is that collectors like stories and collectors, people who collect things will look back on this crazy time they were going through right now in the history of like an NFT timeline and say, Wow, those projects that were done on bitcoin or name coin or earliest thing, those are kind of cool.
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Richard Carthon: Those are, you know, wow. And those those first forays into the NFT space are going to hold value from a collectible standpoint. And the reality is that today, you know, we have 20 30 drops a day of the latest, you know, board turtle PBE project, right? But the thing is, there’s only a handful. There’s only a couple of handfuls of 2017 projects. There’s like less than a handful of 2015’s in the 14s and the third. You know, it’s almost none, right? We could be all wrong and nobody gives a, you know.
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Richard Carthon: But if you do believe, like I do believe that NFTs are going to be a big part of our lives in the future. For me, it seems to make sense that these will hold some long term value
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Richard Carthon: just from being an artifact, being one of the first any significant and just bringing it back to the analogy of collectibles. Think about Pokemon cards, you think about baseball cards. Any of the like very first originals hold value over time because everyone wants one of the originals. I just want equity
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Richard Carthon: in that you have to be careful with. Like, for example, rare pepper’s right. I like Red
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Richard Carthon: Pepper’s. I think the means
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Richard Carthon: of rare pat bass. I see Pepe me every single day, right? So do I believe in Pepe’s long term? Absolutely. But you need to do your research, right? Because they’re a Pepys with a million supply, right? Do I think that particular Pepe card is going to do well long term?
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Richard Carthon: Probably not. Right. So you have
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Richard Carthon: to do research. It’s not like you just have a bar on any of these things, right? You have to do your own research and do what you feel comfortable with, right? Obviously, right.
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Richard Carthon: And make sure it’s scarce.
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Richard Carthon: So for you, if someone was like, All
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Richard Carthon: right, an artifact sounds cool. What are the things that you’re going to look for? Is this scarcity? Is it how old it was? Was it the creators of it? What chain it was on? Like, what are some of those like characteristics that you look for?
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Richard Carthon: Sure. First, they look for age. Next, I look for supply, and there are ones with a lot of supply which are still somewhat interesting, but obviously a project that has a very limited supply is important. Next thing I would look at is the thing we all talk about, which is community, which is it’s important that enough people believe in what’s going on with that project, that they’re going to be able to educate, convince, talk, to discuss and bring them off, bring on new collectors into that project.
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Richard Carthon: It’s very difficult and I’ve helped others. But for an artist, for example, say an artist was doing an NFT on bitcoin, and they only had one piece of art on bitcoin. Not to say we can’t make that work, but we have to basically find one collector who is interested in that. Often that is much more difficult than finding a thousand people who are interested in a thousand different NFTs. Because if you get the thousand, then these people interact. You can have discord, you can have discussions and they can tweet and talk, and they’re talking lots more people know, which makes more people know which creates these communities, right? Having the right number, it’s a delicate balance and there’s no magic number.
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Richard Carthon: But I encourage you, you know, if you’re looking at one of these historic projects, go into the discord.
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Richard Carthon: Feel the vibe, right? Hey, when’s
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Richard Carthon: it going to Moon when Lambo? Is that the vibe? Because if that’s the vibe, maybe it won’t be there, right? But if the vibe is, dude, did you see what’s going to happen with this? Or are we talking to anybody about using this NFT in the game that’s coming out
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Richard Carthon: or talking about, you know, and they’re getting
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Richard Carthon: creative with uses and they’re excited about the history and they’re just happy to be there. That’s one that you might say, OK, that ticks that box, which is
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Richard Carthon: the community of people
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Richard Carthon: who actually really like just the
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Richard Carthon: project, right?
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Richard Carthon: And that has a lot of value. And I think we’ll have a lot of value over the long term. So definitely keep that in mind when you’re looking and you’ll definitely see him go in the Discord’s. There are a couple of old ones there. You just go in the discord and you just realize everybody in there just wants McBride to go tweet about their stuff so they can sell their bags. You know, that’s not the discord you want to be buying right now.
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Richard Carthon: I mean, that’s a really good point, and we try to bring that up as people start to look at projects in general, you need to see, is there a tight knit community? Are people talking? Are people just shilling? Or are people just generally trying to figure out how they can innovate and help the team create a ton of value for the greater community? So I think that’s a really, really great point.
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Richard Carthon: I mean, I encourage I encourage people. People say all that. What should I do? I want to be involved. I want to, you know, buy enough teased. And what I take from that is they want to buy something low and sell it high. Great. Everybody wants to do that. But the reality is is each person who’s listening to my voice right now is interested in buying an NFT can add value to their community. Right. So if they buy an NFT, they can actually add value to that community by talking about the project, writing a medium article on the project, having a podcast
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Richard Carthon: about it, talking about it, saying What’s cool about it, tweeting about it?
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Richard Carthon: All of those things which help build that community up actually add value to what you hold. So you actually hold some power
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Richard Carthon: over the long term
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Richard Carthon: value of your own asset, rather than what value can I add to this community? It’s going to make my stuff more valuable for me as well as everybody, my friends, hopefully friends who are in this
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Richard Carthon: discord with me. We’re hanging out
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Richard Carthon: and having fun, provide a little bit of that value, I think goes a long way.
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Richard Carthon: It does, having people that will advocate for the thing that you’re a part of. I mean, if you don’t have people within your community that they want to go out and tell other people like, Hey, this is what I’m a part of, here’s why I think it’s cool. Here’s what I think it’d be beneficial if you potentially got in. Those are those strong communities that you want to hear more and more about. I mean, you want something nobody
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Richard Carthon: likes the Shiller like. Seriously, that I don’t know why people still do it like nobody. Nobody wants that right, right? People want to know about cool stuff and be part of it with, you know, be friends with cool people and cool spaces. That’s that’s what they want,
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Richard Carthon: genuine connection and actually caring about what’s going on. And it’s important and I think a lot of people lose that. And then NFT land, unfortunately, a lot of people are just straight shilling their products to buy low, sell high. Getting it out, try to make a quick flip and try and instead of for somebody and that’s your projects. Yes, there’s money to be made in that, but there’s also some real money to be made in a HODL portfolio. I mean, if you look at some of the projects that came out at 17 and people just waited to this bull cycle, our allies just unbelievable.
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Richard Carthon: It’s beyond, I’ll tell you, like I did a tweet about it. I think it was a curio card. You could buy this curial card. It was literally twenty five cents in twenty seventeen twenty five cents. It sold for two hundred and fifty. Eat God. No, I don’t even know how much that is. I know it’s a lot. It’s a whole lot. The ROI was like two million percent.
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Richard Carthon: It’s it’s insane. It’s insane. And what’s crazier is that like you look at traditional like finance and markets and whatnot and what has been outperforming everything art. So now you look at digital art, it’s doing the same thing in crypto. So that’s the kind of the way they like to bridge it for some people, it’s like if you look at the real life art and what’s going on in the world there and how it’s been greatly outperforming regular markets. You bring that to crypto. You go look at some traditional crypto art that’s out there.
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Richard Carthon: These some of these NFTs or some doesn’t even meant to be NFT or games or whatever. And you look at what, like you said, twenty five cents to two hundred fifty ETH is insane. And that’s four years as four years.
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Richard Carthon: Oh yeah, that’s that’s wild.
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Richard Carthon: The point being, man, like, there’s a lot of opportunity here.
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Richard Carthon: I mean, it’s the artifacts.
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Richard Carthon: A great way to do it. Everyone listening. Definitely. Make sure you go check out Adam. But as we wrap up your men with all the information that you have right now, knowledge that you have, if you could get in part, you know, one or two pieces of wisdom to yourself when you first got into this space, what would you tell yourself?
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Richard Carthon: Buy more, buy more and hold longer. Yeah, it’s funny and like, look, there will be a downturn in the in the NFT space. There’s going to be an NFT winter, no doubt. And I do encourage people to take profits like especially and I’ve advised multiple people who’ve had ridiculous gains on NFTs kind of similar to what we just talked about. And they said, Well, should I sell? I said, Look, man, if it’s going to make a difference in your life today and it’s going to get you out of your mom’s basement, like, yes, sell, right? But if you can hang on to a little bit of it or sell one, but keep another for the long term, you know, maybe employ a little bit of that strategy.
00:22:34:15 – 00:22:41:11
Richard Carthon: But definitely, if I had it to do all over again, I would be buying been buying a lot more and holding a lot longer.
00:22:41:24 – 00:23:18:07
Richard Carthon: It’s interesting, man, like it’s a recurring theme that comes up enough times. And for all my listeners who this might be, you know, fifth, tenth time you’ve heard this, how many times you have to hear it before it becomes more real. Like I know for myself, it’s very real for me. I call it my crypto 401k, like I’m playing the long game with crypto because most of the time, not even most, almost every single time and almost every single project you win, because usually you’re going to go and look after projects. If you’ve done your research and working with teams that are trying to build to last and not just trying to make a quick flip and make money, or even in the NFT space, these projects that are coming out to truly add value back to their communities and they really care.
00:23:18:13 – 00:23:23:24
Richard Carthon: Almost all of them make it in the long run. It takes time to build. It takes time to grow, doesn’t mean that there’s not going to be ups and downs.
00:23:23:26 – 00:23:24:16
Richard Carthon: It’s going to be bull
00:23:24:18 – 00:23:48:05
Richard Carthon: cycles and bear cycles and hot and cold. But again, if you persevere and you stay with a lot of these projects, they typically do an absurd amount of return. And again, it’s just having the capacity to study, find the right project. That makes sense. And also having some diamond hands so that you can hold on to actualize that in the moment. But just like Adam said, if it makes sense for you to take profit, no one’s ever going to be mad for taking profit.
00:23:48:22 – 00:23:58:09
Richard Carthon: You know, I like to say I have. I have paper hands on the way up and diamond hands on the way down there. My method of operation, like, you know, it goes
00:23:58:11 – 00:23:59:26
Richard Carthon: to the moon and I sell
00:23:59:28 – 00:24:27:08
Richard Carthon: it when we’re 100 feet off the ground, right? That’s that tends to be my method of operation. You know, people dm me later, I get DMs. What should I buy this and say? Look, man, I’ve been wrong so many times. Definitely do not listen to McBride. Trust your gut. Find good teams, good projects, projects you want to get behind and then get behind them, get behind them, add value. And by doing that, you build your own bags up and then taking a longer view of your own portfolio probably makes a lot of sense for most people.
00:24:27:22 – 00:24:33:20
Richard Carthon: Definitely. Awesome, man. We’ll as we wrap up here, man, what is the final thought that you want to leave with all of our listeners here today?
00:24:34:20 – 00:25:07:01
Richard Carthon: My thought, look, I’m sure your listeners tend to be younger 20 somethings. My thought is, don’t worry so much about trading and FTC work about building something like If you lie about NFTs and you love the crypto space, get in the crypto space, man. Help teams help teams build stuff. If you build stuff with people and you’re a good person and you’re, you know, learning and getting better all the time, you’re going to do super well because I think this is the most amazing space in my lifetime. So I encourage people to build, not just try to day trade and offices, but actually build something.
00:25:07:05 – 00:25:07:22
Richard Carthon: And I think if you
00:25:07:24 – 00:25:09:29
Richard Carthon: do that, you’re guaranteed going to win long term
00:25:10:23 – 00:25:35:10
Richard Carthon: as an awesome final thought. Actually, casinos are something I’ve been saying for the last several weeks, which is a lot of people think that they’re traders and they’re investors. And with being an investor, sometimes you get become hands on and you start to find ways to help your investment continue to grow and make it to the ultimate place of where you’re trying to build. It’s so amazing. Final thought. Thank you so much for that, Adam. Thank you for everything. What are ways that people can learn more about you, connect with you and see everything that you have going on?
00:25:35:28 – 00:25:41:12
Richard Carthon: Just hit me up on Twitter Adam a McBride on Twitter. There you can find my discord. We have an alpha
00:25:41:14 – 00:25:42:27
Richard Carthon: discord where I usually
00:25:42:29 – 00:25:53:08
Richard Carthon: release when I’m releasing a new an old project. I usually put it in there about 10 minutes before I click it on Twitter. So you know you get the the early look at the old projects.
00:25:54:00 – 00:26:24:00
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00:26:24:06 – 00:26:57:16
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00:27:50:07 – 00:28:03:04
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00:28:19:24 – 00:28:54:14
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