BREAKDOWN: Why Time Is the Ultimate Scarce Asset
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A reading of two recent threads from crypto VCs on creator coins, NFTs and more.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
This week, “Long Reads Sunday” returns to its Twitter roots with a reading of two threads from crypto VCs. The first comes from Andreessen Horowitz’ Chris Dixon and the second from Kyle Samani of Multicoin. Together, they paint a picture of the emerging landscape of experiments around non-fungible tokens, creator coins, the metaverse and discuss the idea of time scarcity as a key determinant of value.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.8 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
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| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 22nd, and that means it's time for Long |
| 1:17.7 | Reed Sunday. And today I'm going to do something that's a little bit of a throwback. |
| 1:22.3 | So for those of you who don't know, the idea of Long Read Sunday came from something that I used to do on Twitter. |
| 1:29.5 | Around early May 2018, I started curating a weekly tweet thread that was effectively a |
| 1:36.1 | newsletter but in Twitter thread form. And a lot of what I was trying to do was tell the story |
| 1:41.0 | of what people were talking about on Twitter in a narrative arc using their |
| 1:45.3 | tweets, their threads, which were new at that time on Twitter, as a part of it. It was super fun. |
| 1:51.0 | It's how I got to know a lot of people in crypto. It led to lots of different opportunities. |
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