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welcome to the cotkey ride home for thursday, March 4th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

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So this past Friday, I did a very basic introduction to crypto art and NFTs, and since then,

I've found a couple of really great explainers, so if you want to learn more about that

phenomenon, specifically from people who are equally as excited about it as they are skeptical, I definitely

recommend checking out the February 25th episode of the podcast, The Content Minds, with

Luke Bailey and Ryan Broderick, as well as a video from my friend Julian Gomez's YouTube

series Future Now. And of course, you can always listen to the tech meme ride home in which host

Brian McCullough will keep you up to date with all things NFT, as well as other tech news, of course,

links to all of those in the show notes. Now, Julian in particular made a great comparison between

physical media, existing non-NFT digital assets, and NFTs. He points out that,

yes, digital assets, things like Fortnite skins and concert tickets, do exist already. But in those

cases, you can't sell those assets to other people, or outside the game or company you bought them from. And that game

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