Coin Artist on Building *real* Crypto-Games
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Marguerite deCourcelle, known by her persona Coin Artist, has been in the crypto space since 2014. Marguerite pushes the boundaries at the intersection of art, games, and crypto, carving out a career for herself as an artist and creator.
Although her focus is certainly in crypto gaming, it might not be what you’d expect. Her endeavors have a cypherpunk feel at the protocol level, innovating creative ways for NFTs to interact in our wallets.
Alongside discussions of her work at Blockade Games, we explore emergence, embedding data in the blockchain, and the untapped world of meaningful crypto gaming.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:30 Coin Artist
7:49 Early Days of Crypto Art
12:34 Gamifying the Blockchain
16:50 The Technology Crossover
24:33 Bombing & Bitcoin
30:43 Permadeath & High Stakes
38:05Winning Hearts and Minds
42:30 A Utopian Vision
48:00 Emergence & Complexity
53:17 Blockade Games
57:55 The Motivation for Profit
1:04:10 The Thrill of the Game
1:09:17 Fighting for Crypto’s Soul
1:13:22 New York City
1:16:33 The Crypto Social Game
1:23:47 Curation
1:27:43 Optimism & Advice
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Resources:
Marguerite on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/coin_artist?s=20&t=2V5r_ik50UfcZMaCSB0HgA
Blockade Games:
Neon District:
https://portal.neondistrict.io/
Skyweaver:
Boys Club:
https://twitter.com/BoysClubCrypto?s=20&t=2V5r_ik50UfcZMaCSB0HgA
Ethereum: The Money-Game Landscape
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/ethereum-the-money-game-landscape?s=w
Conway’s Game of Life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that |
| 0:12.0 | make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, but is composed by people, and |
| 0:16.8 | each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:20.9 | CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer |
| 0:24.5 | 0 focuses on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, and |
| 0:29.8 | it always has been. Today, on Layer 0, we're talking with Marguerite Day Quercel, which |
| 0:34.5 | you might actually know as CoinArtist. CoinArtist has been around in the crypto space for a very |
| 0:39.7 | long time, before there has even been as much room as there is today for the intersection |
| 0:45.9 | of art, games, and crypto. CoinArtist is definitely an artist type, hence the artist in |
| 0:52.0 | the name, and she's focused on crypto gaming, but not in the way that you probably are |
| 0:57.7 | hearing crypto gaming, with what you think of it today, with games like Axi and Finity, |
| 1:01.5 | where you have NFTs and they do stuff. Marguerite is focused on a much more CypherPunk version |
| 1:06.9 | of crypto games, as in how do we have interactions of the NFTs in our wallets? How does, like, |
| 1:12.4 | if a two NFTs of the same game end up in the same wallet, an interaction happens? Something |
| 1:17.5 | a little bit closer to Conway's game for life, or just something about embedding data |
| 1:22.2 | in the blockchain, rather than just having a normal game that has crypto assets embedded |
| 1:27.0 | in it. So you'll hear us unpack what that means, and it's this very untapped world of gaming |
| 1:33.6 | that has not yet been built out, that I hope does eventually become built, because it |
| 1:38.4 | sounds really, really fun. And Marguerite, the CoinArtist, is one of the people building |
| 1:42.9 | out this world over at blockade games. And we also talk about the physical center of |
| 1:48.1 | the Metaverse, which is New York City, and what's going on with New York, and what it |
| 1:52.8 | means to be social in the world of crypto in this day and age. So all these conversations |
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