The Adam McBride Show

When Trent built Ascribe in 2013/14 NFTs virtually zero artists had published their works on a blockchain. 

Ascribe changed that.

But by all accounts, Ascribe was a fantastic platform for artists to launch on Bitcoin. 

Only one problem, the market simply wasn't ready for it.

I chat with Trent about what it was like building the platform. The work he did to onboard artists.

And what artists today can do to access those early NFTs that they may have published with Ascribe.

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/trentmc0

Website:  http://trent.st/

Trent is the founder of Ocean Protocol:  https://oceanprotocol.com/

Sarah's pioneering artwork Bitch Coin was launched on Bitcoin in February 2015.

She later moved the work from Bitcoin to Ethereum using what she calls a "sprawling project."

Let me tell you, my head was spinning;) 

We get into all of the details of her visionary work and chat about where she sees NFTs and art heading in the future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahMeyohas

Opensea: https://opensea.io/assets/bitchcoin

The Non-Existent Token: https://nonexistenttoken.com/

Website: https://sarahmeyohas.com/

Sometimes I learn about people that were so visionary and early it makes my head spin. 

Christian is one of those dudes.

Christian built SaruTobi, a mobile app, which was most likely was the very first play-to-earn blockchain game. He also built out the first use case of NFT interoperability as players could use their Spells of Genesis cards in-game.

We dig into that and all of the other visionary stuff Christian was working on during the early days of NFTs.

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/emblem-vault?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Sarutobi%20Island&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Sarutobi%20Island

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MandelDuck

Discord: https://discord.gg/JQxFj6dzGa

Until recently buying Rare Pepes or Spells of Genesis NFTs on Bitcoin has been complex and dangerous. 

So much so, that I never recommended it to anyone because of the inherent risks. 

Those days, thankfully, are over because of the work that Shannon has done building Emblem Vault. Which provides an easy and transparent way for owners of NFTs on other chains (principally Bitcoin and Namecoin) to place their asset in an Emblem Vault and then list and sell it as a normal NFT on Opensea.

Think of it in the same way that a wrapper was needed to be able to trade Curio Cards on Opensea - in the same way, Emblem Vault is allowing this to work across other blockchains.

It really is quite revolutionary and should be huge for those NFTs living on other chains.

Opensea - https://opensea.io/collection/emblem-vault

Twitter - https://twitter.com/EmblemVault

Website - https://circuitsofvalue.com/

Jeffrey is one of only a handful of the pioneering artists in the NFT space who first launched their art on Bitcoin.

I am by no means an art expert - though my artsy friends tell me Jeffrey is world-class - but I do know NFTs, and the work he did with Harm van den Dorpel and the Left Gallery beginning in 2016 set the stage for today's NFT art revolution.

We discuss the early days of his art, putting works on the blockchain, and where he sees art NFTs in the future.

Jeffery also shares his views on why so many contemporary artists are struggling when they see apes - like me - buying their works simply as an investment. 

It was an eye-opener.

I highly recommend you check out Jeffery's TikTok account because I think it gives you a glimpse into the way his mind thinks about art. It's amazing!!

Latest Works (Radical Digital Paintings) - https://rdp.whistlegraph.com/

Previous Works - https://whistlegraph.com/crypto

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@whistlegraph

Twitter - https://twitter.com/whistlegraph

Lecture "Explained Pictures" - https://youtu.be/Zf-COj81KYw?t=205

Rhizome - https://rhizome.org/editorial/2017/dec/05/Artist-Profile-Jeffrey-Alan-Scudder/

I was psyched to sit down with NFT pioneer Harm van den Dorpel.

Harm began putting art on Bitcoin in 2015 and has recently begun to move many of the works over to Ethereum. 

We discuss the early history of art on Bitcoin and get into how collectors didn't initially seem interested in owning NFTs. 

Boy did that change!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmvddorpel

Left Gallery: https://left.gallery/

Opensea Collections: 

I had the pleasure of chatting with Chris Cashwell, the developer behind the NFT trading card game Mythereum, which launched on February 5, 2018.

Mythereum did a lot of things right but the thing that I believe made it groundbreaking was the innovative ability for users to take NFTs from another project (in this case CryptoKitties) and forge a brand new NFT (called a Mythicat) within Mythereum to use in gameplay. 

To be clear - there were games on Bitcoin that pulled characters from other games and created unique characters within those games. But they weren't using the actual NFT. The developers were just borrowing the character's name and attributes to create a new character.

Mythereum and its Mythicats were the first to use the actual NFT and forge a brand new NFT. 

Quite the revolutionary idea that developers are only now beginning to incorporate into their projects.

Website: https://www.mythereum.io/

Discord: https://discord.gg/9Yjx4hqy4G

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mythereum

This is my chat with Elie who is one of the founding developers behind CryptoFighters, possibly the very first play-to-earn blockchain game.

This is an important NFT project from a historical perspective as we see games like Axie Infinity bring play-to-earn game mechanics to a global audience. 

We get into all of the details of him and his team building the project in late 2017 and launching on January 22, 2018. 

Also, we dive deep into the complex rarity system within the fighters.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoFighters

Website: https://cryptofighters.io/

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptofighters

MoonCats will always hold a special place as the spark that launched NFTs from a small group of collectors into a worldwide craze.

I was so psyched to sit down with David, one of the founders of Ponderware, the company behind MoonCats, and MoonCats amazing community manager Anna Marie. 

We discuss every aspect of the project, from building MoonCats, the 2017 launch, failure, the rediscovery, and the team's future plans.

I like to hold MoonCats up as the ideal way to run an NFT project and support your community. We get into some of the very significant challenges that the team has faced and how they have handled them with grace and flair.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ponderware

Opensea - https://opensea.io/collection/acclimatedmooncats

Join the community - https://mooncat.community/

The NFT Gods have delivered another project back from the dead. 

Sebastián Brocher launched the CryptoArte NFT contract on Ethereum on July 11, 2018. Which makes it the first generative art project on Ethereum.

The first batch of NFTs was minted on July 13, 2018, at 4:04 a.m. (according to the date listed on OpenSea).

And with generative art being HUGE right now, I think it is important that this project be recognized for its historical significance.

CryptoArte website: https://www.cryptoarte.io/

OpenSea listing: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptoarte

Discord: https://discord.gg/c8vqaFwxFF

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoArte