BREAKDOWN: We’ve Come a Long Way Since 'What the Hell’s an NFT?'
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.
On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the latest news out of NFTs, including:
- Samsung’s NFT TV announcement
- OpenSea’s fundraise at a $13.3 billion valuation
- Bored Apes flippen CryptoPunks
- A South Korean presidential candidate is giving away NFTs to donors
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, January 5th, and we have been catching up on all of the news from the last couple weeks of December, as well as the first few days of this week. |
| 0:33.9 | Yesterday, it was regulations, CBDCs, and Bitcoin mining, and today we're going to look at a few |
| 0:39.6 | key bits of NFT news. But first, sponsors. This show is sponsored by nexo.io, the all-in-one |
| 0:47.1 | crypto platform for storing and earning interest on your crypto, Abra, a simple and secure |
| 0:51.3 | app for trading crypto and getting crypto-ized loans, and FTCX, |
| 0:55.3 | the safe regulated way to buy digital assets with up to 85% lower fees than competitors. |
| 1:01.8 | Disclosure, as always, I help run marketing at FTCS. |
| 1:05.5 | Second, if you want to support the breakdown, please go, subscribe, give a five-star rating, or write a review. Or if you're |
| 1:12.5 | so inclined, join the Breakers Discord. There's a link in the show notes, or you can go to bit. |
| 1:17.4 | Dotlea slash breakdown pod. So, onto the show. Today we have a major corporate integration |
| 1:25.3 | showing a business bet on NFTs for a mainstream audience, |
| 1:28.5 | a major funding announcement showing the bet that investors are making in NFTs potential, |
| 1:33.7 | a shift in the cultural dynamic within NFTs, and finally, what could be the beginning of a |
| 1:38.9 | political fundraising trend. So let's take them one by one, and let's start with this major corporate integration. |
| 1:46.6 | On Monday, Samsung announced that its new smart TVs will support NFTs. Here's the big quote |
| 1:52.4 | from their press release. With demand for NFTs on the rise, the need for a solution to today's |
| 1:57.8 | fragmented viewing and purchasing landscape has never been greater. |
| 2:01.4 | In 2022, Samsung is introducing the world's first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace |
| 2:06.7 | aggregator, a groundbreaking platform that lets you browse, purchase, and display your favorite |
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