Panoptic Conversations

Internet fame, meme NFTs and million dollar webpage


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In this episode of Panoptic Conversations, Tapan and Ishan share their fascination of internet culture, cryptocurrencies and people who have on rare occasions brought these two together. They talk about Zoë Roth who auctioned her photograph using NFTs, popularly recognized as the "Disaster Girl" meme template, for about $500,000 and about Alex Tew who sold every single pixel of a webpage for $1 million in 2006. This led them to an interesting conversation around the internet fame, ideas around virtual assets, NFTs with their problems, and the famous Winklevoss twins.

Primary Links:

  • Woman in Disaster Girl meme sells original photo as NFT for $500,000: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/30/disaster-girl-meme-nft-sale-zoe-roth
  • How the Million Dollar Homepage kid became the $250m app man: https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew
  • Secondary Links:

    • NFT mania is here, and so are the scammers: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artists-opensea-rarible-marble-cards-fraud-art
    • Winklevoss brothers: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/cross-border/winklevoss-brothers-they-say-facebook-was-their-idea-but-they-lost-the-battle-for-ownership-now-they-are-bitcoin-billionaires/67649/1
    • El Salvador Becomes First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender: https://www.wsj.com/articles/el-salvador-becomes-first-country-to-approve-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-11623234476
    • I Accidentally Became A Meme: Hide The Pain Harold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WnvDtDD2M
    • The Pet Rock Captured a Moment and Made Its Creator a Millionaire: https://abcnews.go.com/US/pet-rock-captured-moment-made-creator-millionaire/story?id=30041318

    • Stay tuned for more spontaneous episodes every week!

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