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Sean Bonner
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Sep 29, 2022

Online Identity & Ownership

Online identity has always been some wild shit. From the early days of screen names and /nick to usernames and avatars and anons and on and on we’ve continually struggled with (or perhaps played with, depending on who you ask) how best to represent ourselves online. Hell, how we represent…

Identity

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Online Identity & Ownership
Online Identity & Ownership
Identity

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Sep 2, 2022

Top 10 Misconceptions About V1 CryptoPunks

I’ve been a fan of and have written about CryptoPunks for a long time now. Ever since V1s resurfaced in early 2022 there’s been a lot of confusion around the collection. If that first sentence lost you, perhaps read my earlier article explaining CryptoPunk versions before going any further. As…

Nft

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Top 10 Misconceptions About V1 CryptoPunks
Top 10 Misconceptions About V1 CryptoPunks
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Feb 13, 2022

Explaining Cryptopunks Versions

Since it’s been a topic I’ve been yapping about recently a few people asked me for a quick explainer on all the Cryptopunks V1/V2 stuff so the other night I did just that in a Twitter thread but I thought I’d turn it into a blog post as well for…

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Explaining Cryptopunks Versions
Explaining Cryptopunks Versions
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Oct 25, 2021

Why Web3

In the summer of 1993 I saw the World Wide Web for the first time and to this day it remains one of the most exciting moments of my life. The possibility and the potential was so obvious. This was a place where anything could happen, and everyone could see…

Web 3

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Web 3

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Oct 5, 2021

You Don’t Need Your Own Discord

This is a potentially controversial position to take, but these days when people ask me how to start their own Discord server I have one simple bit of advice — don’t. This isn’t because I dislike Discord, quite the contrary and honestly I find it to be incredibly useful and…

Discord

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Discord

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Sep 25, 2021

Avatars and Identity

My family moved around a lot when I was a kid. In fact I can date my childhood memories really well because I was in a different school almost every grade, so depending on which school or group of kids are in the memory I know exactly when it happened…

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Avatars and Identity
Avatars and Identity
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Aug 9, 2021

OpenSea And The Problem With Verification

Yesterday I was talking about a cute new digital collectable collection on OpenSea that I was considering buying into, noting that there were 10k which had recently sold out and the cheapest ones were getting more expensive by the minute. Tara was sitting across from me at the breakfast table…

Nft

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OpenSea And The Problem With Verification
OpenSea And The Problem With Verification
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Jul 19, 2021

Apes, Punks & Phunks: Adventures from the frontlines of the IP wars

Gather ‘round kids, exciting and fascinating drama is afoot and you know you want to hear all about it. Assuming you are excited and fascinated by IP shenanigans, because really who isn’t right? While I want to just charge right into the theft and murder, oh yes dear reader there…

Nft

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Apes, Punks & Phunks: Adventures from the frontlines of the IP wars
Apes, Punks & Phunks: Adventures from the frontlines of the IP wars
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May 31, 2021

Blockchains As Social Archives

I’ve been thinking a lot about the transparency that comes along with transactions happening on-chain. Especially with art this takes some big steps to demystify a lot of what happens behind closed doors in the traditional art world, and the benefits to artists are obvious. While this doesn’t solve every…

Nft

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Nft

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May 21, 2021

For NFTs, Twitter Is The Marketplace

Last month NiftyTable published stats showing that more than half of the traffic going to the major NFT sites was coming from Twitter. At face value, that means more than half of the traffic across several sites for essentially an entire industry coming from one site… that’s insanity! But we…

Nft

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Nft

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