(If I tagged you in this post it’s because my DMs are getting out of hand and I can’t respond to everyone even though I’d like to. I figured I’d tell the story of my NFT journey and this is part 2 of that journey)
(2/?)A few weeks into the DOGE saga, I started paying closer attention to the crypto markets. I sold a tiny bit of BTC I had and took out a few thousand dollars for the first time ever. It felt good. My other, stock-market focused friends, told me all about the GME and AMC stuff and I really just had no interest. Sure, I felt like I missed out, but whatever. I’ve missed out on a lot. I just hated the stock market. Still do. I hit up some people I used to talk with back around the last crypto market cycle and I felt a sense that I just missed out on a lot. Defi (decentralized finance) appeared to have made a TON of people who were in my position rich and I missed out on it all because I was so pissed off I ever thought things would be that easy.
At the same time, the NBA Top Shot stuff really started popping off…everyone and their mother was asking me about Top Shot and I just…I really could not care less. Sure, I love basketball as much as the next person, but…I dunno…’not for me’ is the first thing that came to mind.
I also started noticing the stuff that @franalations was posting - I watched one of his videos like 10 times in order to figure out how to set up a Metamask and buy an unlisted token - I think it was like BAO coin or something. I made a few bucks off of it, but it was interesting to watch all the stuff he was getting into.
At that point, I was pretty knee deep in ‘creating content’ for IG and releasing my Dunky Dunk card set…trying to promote it and talk about it and take dope pictures, when out of the blue, one of my early crypto buddies texted me - ‘hey you should check out this rarible site - I think you could do some cool stuff with your sneaker cards on the blockchain.’ I took one look and my mind was blown…