NFT's & Keyboards

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This month I got a bit bitten by the NFT Bug. If you don’t know what an NFT is. It’s basically a unique token. Say I have a wallet with 10 Bitcoin in it. I use 1 to buy something and I get 1 Bitcoin from a friend. I still have 10 Bitcoin nothing really changed. With NFT this would not be the case. If I have 10 NFTs and I trade one for another, I might still have 10 NFTs but my collection will look different now.

I have largely ignored it since to me, the current state of it feels like a fad and a bit of a cash grab. The concept of NFTs is not new, we just gave it a catchy name, some people bought a few for a lot of money and suddenly everyone is an NFT collector. But here I am, talking about NFTs anyway.

The reason I got interested in it now is because a friend of mine had written an NFT generator and made quite some money with it. He just launched his NFT collection a few days ago, if you want to check it out. With the amounts of money involved, I thought it wouldn't be hard to get a piece of the pie. You can read about those adventures in “Botting NFT Games“, SPOILER ALERT: I only lost money up until now.

I still think the space has some potential. The art could be cool to display in VR. I heard of a company that sells you clothes in real life and also awards the NFT so you can wear it in the MetaVerse.

I also think it would be cool for personal stocks or funding for smaller projects. The New York Stock Exchange requires your company to already have a value of 100 million dollars to list it. What if you could just pitch your idea on a platform, maybe connect a Stripe account for transparency and people can buy stocks in your idea. You get the funding for your project and you can decide to share profit with your shareholders. Or they can choose to sell their NFTs to other people. Currently, you already need to be a millionaire to even get the chance to invest in the next uber. NFTs could change that, given a good legal support network to actually hold you accountable for paying out your shareholders for example.

I think it would be cool to do a project in the space in the future. But for now, I’ll stay a lurker and see if anything interesting pops up.

I also dove into the in’s and out’s of keyboards. You can read more about it in “The Keyboard Matrix“. I’ve neglected my Powerglove project a bit lately and hope to dive into it soon. I wanted to do something for PiDay. But I want a project I can finish in a weekend and that won’t be the case for the Powerglove. We’ll see if we find something.

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One new metric I can add is the Newsletter, 3 subscribers from friends and colleagues, and 46 views mostly from substack itself. I’m curious to see how this newsletter will perform.

Honestly, I’m not sure what I will focus on in March, my birthday is coming up, I have some vacations planned and Covid restrictions are getting lifted so I might enjoy my free time away from my keyboard. I will definitely try to make some progress on the Powerglove. See you next month & take care!