S10 E3: Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame & Koji Higashi on Legendary Bitcoin NFTs

Published: Jan. 8, 2022, 9:06 a.m.

b"If you spend more than 10 minutes in the Bitcoin Counterparty NFT realm, you're gonna hear about Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes & SaruTobi. Well, this episode's guests are the OGs who created them & envisioned using blockchain assets as video game items. Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame, and Koji Higashi (enumerated in order of appearance) talk about creating some of the first NFT series on Counterparty and pioneering video game assets before Ubisoft, Square Enix and Konami made it cool. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the place where you buy gold with bitcoin), Wasabi wallet (the best desktop privacy wallet) and Bitcoin Reserve (the exchange were Europeans buy their BTC). Time stamps: 00:00 \\u2013 Introductions 11:33 \\u2013 Spells of Genesis cards have always had monetary value 12:44 \\u2013 How Christian lost the Nakamoto Card to Shaban 18:18 \\u2013 Rare Pepes used to be considered expensive at $10 20:20 \\u2013 The rising Bitcoin fees have stalled Counterparty NFT expansion 22:15 \\u2013 Why Spells of Genesis stayed on Bitcoin 24:55 \\u2013 Why Counterparty is different from ICO protocols and chains, but still got attacked and received hate from the Bitcoin community 28:30 \\u2013 Pieter Wuille\\u2019s criticism of Counterparty 31:00 \\u2013 Counterparty used to have the best wallets and user interfaces 34:08 \\u2013 What changed about Counterparty when Ethereum\\u2019s ERC20 tokens launched? 36:26 \\u2013 Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepes depict moments from Bitcoin history 41:20 \\u2013 The Bitcoin blockchain only stores tokens and their related data, not jpegs or gifs 44:00 \\u2013 NFTs vs ICOs (nobody ever collected ICOs) 49:30 \\u2013 Counterparty assets need to be high-value 52:56 \\u2013 Not your node, not your NFTs 59:30 \\u2013 Will NFT valuation crash? 01:07:15 \\u2013 Views on FakeRares 01:15:28 \\u2013 What makes an NFT valuable? 01:18:30 \\u2013 Computer-generated NFTs aren\\u2019t very interesting 01:20:30 \\u2013 Jordan Peterson, frogs, and Pepes 01:21:20 \\u2013 Why Rare Pepes failed on Ethereum 01:22:20 \\u2013 NFTs used to be called just \\u201ctokens\\u201d 01:23:30 \\u2013 Rare Pepes reflect a lot of our pop culture 01:25:15 \\u2013 Satoshi\\u2019s Games minting NFTs on Liquid 01:28:00 \\u2013 RGB on Lightning? 01:36:30 \\u2013 Are you really spamming the Bitcoin network if you\\u2019re paying your fair fee? 01:42:10 \\u2013 Royalties for your NFTs 01:48:46 \\u2013 NFTs in video games 01:53:20 \\u2013 Video gamers hate NFTs because they boil the oceans"