Steve 🤙
@SteveKBark • 56,675 subscribers
⛵️Marketing Lead at @opensea 📙Coauthor: The Everything Token ✍️Coauthor: First @HarvardBiz article on NFTs 💻 Consulted w/ @starbucks on Odyssey. 🎙CwC 4 Life
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This week, Joe Rogan and Paul Rosolie (two of my favs) had a convo slamming NFTs and crypto. You should listen. Here's why: As someone who coauthored a best selling book about the business applications of NFTs, I understand their skepticism. In fact, I hear this POV from businesses and people outside of the Web3 ecosystem somewhat frequently. There's a knowledge gap when it comes to crypto, NFTs, and the blockchain in general. People who love early stage technology need to hear conversations like this so we can respond with empathy and eduction. Much of the world thinks NFTs are overpriced pictures you can "right click and save," without understanding the applications of credentials, ticketing, gaming assets, loyalty programs, the ability to combat deep fakes, connected clothing, proof of ownership/authenticity for physical products, and more. There were times when credit cards, video games, online banking, cell phones, and even the internet itself, were considered niche products without scalability. New technology is almost always met with skepticism and resistance, and here's the thing we need to be intellectually honest and admit... ...much of the criticism is fair. There WAS an early gold rush and speculative bubble for NFTs. There IS a tech and cost barrier associated with Web3. There WERE and ARE scammers who take advantage of people in crypto. Just as there was, and still, with email, cell phones, and other iterations of technology. But, as someone who was relatively early to Web1 (coding websites in middle school in the mid 90's) and Web2 (Facebook in 2004), there's no doubt in my mind Web3 is the next phase of the internet. Digital ownership matters, and the more education we can get to the right people, the closer we can get to having them understand what this technology can truly do for the world.
Steve 🤙50,123 views • 1 year ago
I’ve spoken at major universities and Fortune 500 companies, and I frequently hear people intimidated by the tech barrier of entering Web3. And to be honest, I never had a great answer for them. Now I do. CwC partner ens.eth teamed up with Para ✴️ to make going on-chain, and claiming your name, approachable for everyone with single social sign on. Complex wallets and seed phrases aren’t feasible for most people. This is. Mass adoption happens when people don’t even know they’re using the blockchain, or at the very least, don’t have to think about it. Web2 🤝 Web3 This is the way.
Steve 🤙15,612 views • 1 year ago
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