Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

Again, I don't think this one requires much in terms of in-depth intros.

The great Brady Dale of Coin Desk

is just gonna walk us through the entire NFT phenomenon.

Enjoy.

Hey, thanks for answering the bat signal as always.

Sure.

I love this topic.

It's like vindicating for me because when I first started, well, yeah,

I was writing about it before anyone, everyone thought these things were stupid.

So it's just like all the sudden everyone's like all into them, you know, and I'm like, uh-huh.

Do you want to consider us recording and that can be the first comment right there.

Sure, yeah, sure.

So, you know, I was trying to get a virtual background

of a Beeple piece, one of those pieces that is being sold at and I think Christie's right now

Yeah like am I wrong that NFTs have essentially been around a long time?

Like this isn't necessarily new, it's just that it's taken off. That's what's new?

Yeah, yeah, I mean, some people date it back to rare pebets. I don't understand

them super well. Most people date it to crypto punks, which is 2017 and that was before

there before Ethereum had a standard for these things the

or C721 so yeah they've been going for a long time and basically you know I'm already getting us into like the explaining what this is, but am I wrong in assuming that basically this is sort of like the promise of of fulfilled.

Like it, Ethereum was not just money,

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