In this episode, I am joined by Aaron Edwards, CTO of IncSub and Joshua Dailey, CMO of Infinite Uploads, to discuss a variety of topics including, NFTs, cryptocurrency, blockchains, smart-contracts, and of course, their Wapuu NFT experiment. We started by learning what Web 3 is and how Web3 WP is experimenting with various decentralized technologies to see how they intersect with the GPL, WordPress, and other open-source projects.

While we didn’t go in-depth on the NFT craze, we covered it just enough to where I think listeners will be able to understand the basics to the point of participating in the experiment. Speaking of the experiment, I wanted to emphasize a few points from the interview.

Points of Emphasis

These two gentleman are employed at longstanding reputable WordPress companies. They understand the intricasies of the WordPress community, the software project, and the freedoms that come along with it. They are not seeking to turn Wapuu, the unofficial official mascot of the WordPress project into a revenue generating machine. They’re looking to start the Minting price at .02 ETH which at the time of recording was around $72 minus the Gas fees.

If you’re interested in sponsoring a Wapuu to be part of the collection, check out their sponsorship page. They will accept sponsorships up until September 25th. Last but not least, we discussed the elephant in the room regarding Wapuu being GPL licensed and how that potentially impacts it being used as an NFT.

I came away from this interview with a better understanding of the NFT world and I can certainly see why so many content creators are utilizing it. I think I’ll use the experiment as an opportunity to learn and participate in the NFT community.

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Speaker 1 00:00:19 Welcome everybody to episode 12 of the WP mainline podcast for Thursday, September 16th, 2021. I am your host, Jeff Chandler joined by absolutely no one. You know, what’s going on here. I’ve got two co-hosts that switch out, uh, duties on the show and none of them were available today. So I’m flying solo, but not exactly solo. I’ve got some awesome guests lined up on the show today. Uh, first up is Aaron Edwards. Aaron, thanks a lot for joining the show. Thank you. And next up we have Josh daily. Jess, thank you for being on the show.Speaker 2 00:00:55 Thanks for having us. I’m super excited to beSpeaker 1 00:00:58 Here. And the reason why I had these two gentlemen on the show is because they are part of the web three WP project. And if you haven’t been following WP, mainline.com, first off, why the hell not? You know, that should be one of your main priorities during the week. I’m only messing, but, but, uh, I recently wrote an article covered their project. They’re creating a collectable wop hu NFT, which will fund additional experience, uh, experiments with, uh, with the web 3.0 and what that entails. And half of the proceeds will go to the WordPress foundation. So I thought it was apt to get these gentlemen on the show. This is interesting. Take on wapuu and we’re going to learn some things about what NFTs are, uh, what this is all about. I, I gotta say I, I, I’ve been kind of looking at NFTs from, from an outside, looking in.Speaker 1 00:01:55 I found Chris Wallace on Twitter and he’s really big into NFTs and tased those some blockchains on what’s going on. And, and I’m also seeing it. It just seems to me l