Going Undercover At An NFT Convention
this video is sponsored by casetify more on that later hi happy monday the rise of nfts came fast and continued to grow through 2022. okay you can you can stop that they're extremely popular and everybody is talking about them whether they're excited i'm telling you it's the thing i'll keep harping on it stop making fun of nfts people like yo it's it is important technology angry your inability to understand everybody can get theirs that we can all coexist that nfts can dominate or very sad some pretty bad news at this point i'm used to it um if you got scammed from this and you lost a lot of money um i am pretty sorry there are a lot of people who believe that nfts are gonna be the future of technology oh you're you're asking me how they're gonna be the future of technology um i i actually don't know at all i have no idea matter of fact most people don't even understand what terms like nft blockchain or web 3 even mean being on the outskirts of where these people interact can sometimes make it seem like kind of a daunting task to understand what nfts or any of this will do for artists content creators or businesses and helping you understand complex ideas is always the priority for my channel and making money of course so when i found out that the first nft convention was being held in los angeles last month i knew that i had to go to see what happens behind the scenes on these projects while simultaneously pitching a new project of my own so i can make just as much money as they are now we've all heard these stories about how bad nfts can be for the environment and of course i don't care if the world burns as long as i make a quick buck but i knew people would just get mad at me and try to cancel me or whatever so my trusty co-founder ethan is online and myself came up with a way a foolproof way that we can sell an nft project without killing the earth and with our ironclad idea executed to perfection and ready to sell we packed our bags and flew straight to los angeles for the first nft convention los angeles the city of dreams and the city of nightmares too hi happy monday and welcome to nft la live los angeles first convention all about nfts today we're trying to fund a project that we've been passionate about for a while and i really think that we're going to make big moves today so let's go talk around and see what everyone's about fungible much [Music] the flags are at half mast for the nft convention are you guys about to head out of this place no not at all we're actually going to meet gq uh he's going to interview us so yeah that's actually kind of why we're in a hurry ygq what do you guys do talk to this guy actually he's the superstar not sure yet but yeah we're from mouse spell we do a bunch of different things we do a lot of engineering in the space and we do a lot of crypto media so we've created the first hollywood crypto docu series it's called the coins podcast you guys should check it out here today with roger ver still known as bitcoin jesus we've got eric voorhees sam bankman charles harper we flew everyone at the height of kovid and the reason why we're doing all this you know we really believe the stories are here at conferences like nftla uh nftnyc art basel like we've been filming all these events because we feel like there's a disconnect between i just want to say the celebrities a lot of people are like what are they doing in the space this and that i think it's hard to forget they also suffer from some of the same things that we all do like they're not fully free that's all i'll say yeah yeah you know they people people got mad when jimmy fallon and paris hilton were showing their apes but like have you seen the parody video for jimmy fallon and uh you guys made it yeah yeah we made it it went viral she actually retweeted it whoa last time you were on the show i asked you to explain nfts uh and you did so in a great way uh which is a very hard thing to really explain to a lot of people yeah you should check that out hey you guys heard of us we're nfc iro oh nice oh yeah we're trying to do uh sort of a project where we bring the idea of the crypto the black chain the whole space like out so much of the digital realm it feels locked into it and that's why we love this convention because everything's so digital especially because nfts rose when it came to uh covet times and so we started a project that we're trying to fund to get more physical nfts as funny as it sounds out there the people who aren't so digital can feel like they're locked into the black chain and we started we started with homages to the classics like this is me as a board ape you know and you guys can each have one of those what's web3 web 3 to me is like completely new infrastructure separate from anything else maybe some of it might fail but yeah if i would if i would have put it in one word it's just the idea of like disconnected i think web 2 everything is interconnected like you can't you can't really stumble anywhere on the net without being tracked web 3 is like kind of like an open sandbox but at least it's disconnected from anything else for better or for worse i guess web 3 is just a step up from like kind of web 2 everything will be interconnected actually but i don't know what would a web 4 look like you know years ahead i'm not too bullish on web 4 yet i think people want to build all these new new worlds with like different rules so i think we need to build web 3 first hey nice to meet you guys you guys into kanye west what about him three words to describe him godly amazing and sexy what do we think about the kim kanye pete davidson i wish i was in the middle of that you wish you were pete no i wish i was in the middle of all that like if you guys had a choice to have an intimate relationship with a droid would you for sure you have intercourse with a droid if i if i was single of course yeah my girlfriend's somewhat of a droid too you know what i'm saying so uh so maybe it's sort of like you know maybe nftla and you ain't even from here uh i grew here you flew here you can't even come here uh i'm in real life most of these people most of these people honestly probably trife and they ain't even left their desk in their life till this convention uh had an erection and erected itself in this tower uh this man has the power in 2053 y'all all gonna see uh hey no spoiler alert are you kicking it with me what are you doing here hi uh yeah so i work with uh one authorizing we are putting out a new technology around the nft space and also putting a new game into the market a new game like an nfte based game or like yeah so a new form of nft will be launched through that game we um working on a kind of like a pokemon uh battle game arena how about these gas prices huh yeah they suck man are you talking about the real gas yeah real gas you ever pay for yeah do you ever pay for gas with cryptocurrency no i haven't i actually don't play a lot of gas anyways because i'm from new york originally right are your parents like do your parents know what you did you have any parents i did have parents and i do still have them yeah okay and do they know like what you do with crypto do they own any nfts no they don't then uh this is fairly goes over the head yeah yeah so like we have this thing uh nick if you want to grab one or two uh we're we're introducing like a physical that's that's where our nft irl um so we're basically doing like a physical version of an nft in the same way that like the black chain would hold whatever kind of uh the black chain whatever you would hold on that as like your personal owning you basically own this physically but it is an nft in its own way okay yeah fascinating and uh we have fidget spinners too if you want one of those wow yeah thank you what's the channel you guys are on uh my channel is ethan is online this is nick is not green he's really into like youtube drama and like he he he talks about like youtubers who kind of fight each other he's kind of organizing boxing events on the on the minor leagues and stuff yeah like like that but with like really small guys like really like 30 subscribers it's kind of weird like small in size or small in like both yeah that's the weird part yeah [Music] do you want one you want one i'm a crypto influencer and i'm here with loomrin yeah uh what do you do mainly when you're in your influencing uh i do videos about d5 nfts and um i try to explain things in like comics like with my ipads so i try to make it easy are you an artist yourself yeah yeah so before i got into crypto i was a broke struggling artist doing covers for rappers 50 bucks a pop so i got out of that and i just used like my drawing skills to explain ideas with crypto how did you originally get into this whole thing who was the one that finally finally got you into the nft space i think it was just i saw like the monk the board apes going for like millions of dollars and i started to pay attention to it but into crypto in general i got in by the scam uh bit connect actually i remember big connect that's how i got into it i was listening to youtubers and [ __ ] and um i got scanned i lost money i made money but that's how you learn yeah just one it just makes you want to get in and do it right you know do it right again yeah no matter how many times you get scammed yeah exactly what do you think about gary vee he's good advice here and there but maybe a little too hardcore at times he's a talker for sure he once said in a video that he he has never spit out gum when he chews it he only swallows it because it's a waste of time to spit it out do you believe him uh nascap 100 major major there's no way he does that are you excited to see any speakers here today i saw spotty wi-fi performed yesterday as a crypto punk rapper haters gave me motivation even the corona virus couldn't stop my coronation uh that stuff is really cool music with nfts i might get into that as well what is a crypto punk rapper uh so he owns a crypto punk spotty wi-fi and because the crypto punks are cco which means like you own the cop the intellectual property you can do whatever he wants with it right so he decided to turn his crypto punk into his brand and he uses the crypto punk as his like mask or his alias when he performs and does rap shows he's like one of the first people to do that he's like marshmallow but his head is one of the big 8-bit crypto punks wow that's interesting what would you say if someone said that they're trying to start a physical nft what do you mean like an nft is on the computer what if it was on a sticker um we're here with nft irl a very important company that we started to sell physical nfts this is me this is me as a board ape these are all for you obviously because they're going to be worth a lot one day dude you're going to want to be on the ground floor when people are asking who's got an nft irl oh there's him that's my cameraman ethan that looks just like a uh uh hey nfts yeah they ain't free my money going up call that d-a-e yo they got the faith tribe over here what is this what's up is the is the mic being protected from kovid yeah yeah that's so la whoa where did you get these from that's a snake it is a snake what do you what do you feel about snakes i actually hate snakes that's why i'm walking on them do you think walking on your enemies is like uh ever heard of a physical nft i have well we're the first we're the first uh legit one see that's me so what is the actual nft i mean that's sort of like you have that you own it a couple years come by we're big you say i got this they'll probably pay you for it so it's just a pfp project what does that mean bro you're at an nft convention trying to sell me an nft you don't know what a pfp is i'm new to the whole thing you think i wait you think i'm here for for passion look at this so what are you here for i'm here to show you some of my art here you said you said well you said it's not for passion i'm just curious are you here to grab the money listen i'm not asking you for money i'm asking you to invest it seems like that's the kind of project you're headed towards listen bro just don't be saying that to other people hey invest with us definitely will not oh this is the pfp stuff oh here we go this is what we're looking for i don't know what pfp means can someone tell me who's that that's me oh i love crypto babies they got crypto babies here are you recording they got crypto babies okay hit it's already [Music] we're doing a little youtube video just trying to see what everything is about and i'm really interested in tron because first of all i loved the movie was it was it was it inspired by the movie no it was not expired whatsoever where does tron come from china where do you think we're going with what people are calling web3 i think web3 for web3 to work correctly all of the blockchains have to be interoperable together because that's just the way it goes some people are going to want to use something else and you have to be definitely connected or merged together in some sense so if if every single blockchain wants to grow its ecosystem you got to work together with other blockchains as well so if i'm on something like black chain boomers over there and i want to move to tron how how does it work within the web 3 verse for transferring your your currency to build yes yes well we're a one-stop shop ecosystem so we have three layers first layer you can build all your d apps your crypto wallets second layers heart the core layer smart contracts api software and then the final layer we provide distributed storage so that is file sharing and storage period and we also own bittorrent as well so we have bittorrents completely decentralized filing system as well wow do you want a fidget spinner we're giving away free fidget spinners you can give some to him too fidget spinners i love fidget spinners yes take as many as you want we bought so many and we're not going to get rid of oh let's go so nft irl yes that's your platform yes it's bringing back it's bringing in the people from other generations that are too afraid to be so to be so digital you know we want to we really want to make this sticker something in the real world that help people bridge their way over to what will be you know end up being minted but for now it's just for now it's just making ourselves known you know you know like barack obama had his little hope thing this will be that yeah on the black chain on the web 3 probably web 4. hey everyone i just want to take one quick minute to talk about our sponsor for today's video casetify has been a long time sponsor of the channel and i love them so much because they sell a product that everyone needs you got to save your phone right i like these cases so much that i made my own case with day off one of my favorite artists the nik is not green case it's got a bunch of my 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oh that no that's uh that's a gumbo [Music] that's a combo from the rare ghost club that's not a boo um you want to just tell us in a quick couple sentences what you're all about um well three landers is a art driven community project and uh we're a 10k project and our artist known by three land boy couldn't make it here with us but this is all his vision something he's been working on his whole entire life and uh something we're really focusing on right now is lore so at the moment right now we're getting our community members ready for an adventure we edge up them a backpack which they need to hold to get go on the adventure with us so that's something we're really really looking forward to we're just looking to be a i guess you could say like a lifestyle brand like how you think of stuff like kellogg's or disney you'll think of through that yeah by the way we're giving fidget spinners to anyone who wants to do an interview so if you want some uh so many of them are just broken dude um do you have parents do you have parents in your life yeah do how do they feel about uh the whole thing are do they know what you're doing or they like go get a job i mean they can't wrap their heads around it they still don't get it but actually very recently my dad actually messaged me saying he's ready for nfts because he's been doing some research so i was like wow well there you go i'm glad they started to catch on yeah what you're doing feels a lot similar to what we're trying to do we're a part of a project called nft irl and we're also trying to bridge the gap from like digital to a physical space to bridge people like your dad to get more into nfts and so we're doing that in the form of an adhesive that will as you can see this is like very inspired by the original board ape uh crypto punks web 3 blockchain and like yeah just trying to bring people to be more aware of nft so when they see this sticker this will be the next the next big thing the next like the next [ __ ] happens you know it's going to be like in forrest gump when forrest gump discovered all those things like one of them will be nft irl what's going on uh well we just performed for a bunch of uh cool nft people are you super into nfts or what um not really do you think they're like really cool and like look awesome like i do yeah totally oh okay what's your favorite one i don't have a favorite one do you own any i do not own anything i'm sorry grab a fidget spinner we'll spin and talk hopefully it's not broken all right a lot of them are broken yep you got a broken one what's going on uh good here at nftla having a great time talking to grandmaster nick right here yeah that's me that's me what kind of projects are you in for are you um are you a creator are you an investor uh investor and you're a big mutant this is yours uh yes wow that's a beautiful shirt i'm gonna assume it's one of a kind uh yes it is one of a kind that's great um so how did you originally get into nfts and where are you now uh so started out with crypto punks and just kind of followed the journey throughout that time period now i'm in like you know doodles i'm a huge m effort of all the mf is out there my favorite project someone got mad at me earlier because i didn't know what a pfp was what does that mean uh profile pic i keep seeing the the thing everywhere and i was like this is like a pfp oh so you can use as your profile pic on twitter instagram or whatever social platform how did you get your mute and ape i bought it damn do you want to disclose how much it cost uh this at the time i think it was like 30 000 wow and how did you get the money to do that from coins investing in you know crypto early so took some of my wins and transferred it into uh nft projects and where do you hope to take something like this is it something that you're hoping to build on to gain more value and then hopefully move to more projects that you believe in in the future or do you hope that you can take mutinape somewhere um to i don't know different platforms like they're trying to integrate in web3 uh well i think with yuga labs and how you know they're expanding i'm gonna kind of just hold and wait to find out right like imagine like selling and then eight drops and then you get a bunch of you know quote unquote free money and then when the metaverse opens for them i want to kind of see where it expands from there so i'm kind of just holding sitting tight and you know making other moves around the space what do you think the biggest misconception about nfts is they're a scam they're stupid yeah why are you paying so much for this um you know coming back from a traditional art world as a traditional art investor uh and having you know a lot of traditional paintings at my house um i see that art is interpreted how you want to interpret it like you know people spend on what they want to spend on it it's similar to like the shoe community the sneaker community yeah yeah for sure um yeah i'm sorry i stared at that bart simpson cup over there what's your deal what's going on with you like what what brought you out here today nick well this is our first convention this is my buddy ethan he's we're both content creators online we're trying to find oh this guy's got a nice shirt too lazy ryan vinny what's up bro what's going on community we're we're good how much did you pay for your lazy lion if you don't mind just asking uh honestly i don't even know we're doing this thing called nft irl where we're trying to bridge the gap between people who are too scared to jump into a digital world of currency and bring that to the physical tangible world to make them more educated and known about nfts so yeah i've got a bit of like an ape of my own and it looks like me and i bring this around and i show people and you guys can each have one of those and i say okay we wanted to find a funny like tongue-in-cheek way to combine apes with with the sex work industry and i don't flash this to everybody this is more for online and it's a bit jarring for people oh nice that's insane that's intense right yeah do you guys want one pretty much i mean i don't want to pair how many of how many nfts have you seen that look like this there's a couple out there actually this is the future [Music] we're here at nft la live with four out of five what does that mean eighty percent um nothing's perfect people nothing's perfect yeah the only perfect thing is i've made a severe with their in continuous lapse in my judgment which is gonna and i don't expect to be forgiven i'm simply here to abolish but i'm just here because i have a toilet and the toilet is just because i sit on a golden throne as the biggest whale in this project and i know it's going to print money so buy your nfts buy your jpegs and sell them on mft.com okay what do you think about kanye west three words who is that whoa what's three words about yourself that i should know i'm a goofball it's good are you part of an nft project no i am not i'm just a big fan of nfts and jpegs and i just love projects and i'm here to support a lot of them what's your favorite meme my favorite it's got to be dogecoin you know i mean doge is just it's something that i see is like it spans across generations because you don't need to know anything to know doge it's doge eight-year-olds no doge 80 year olds no does it's the biggest meme out there and you know one day it is going to hit some of these bigger market caps but memes will always rule tell me about the first time you kissed someone first time i kissed someone it's a good question i don't know you don't remember no i'm getting old man i'm like almost 40 so it was definitely young when i kissed somebody what would you tell your 22 year old self right now if you if he was right in front of you invest invest invest invest invest invest invest in people or invest in crypto crypto yeah what kind of music do you listen to i listen to all genres but i'll listen to country hip hop rap you throw it at me if it got a beat i'll dance to it do you have any kids i have no kids that i know of but i've been in [ __ ] in many different countries and as a former chippendales dancer you never know man somebody passed the goalie so maybe you shouldn't hear that part how did you get into chippendales uh how did i get in the chip and nails i went to vegas and they offered me ten thousand dollars for a weekend to dance so i just started flying out there every weekend were you jacked i was jacked about two thirty six percent body fat have you ever been in a fist fight i'm a former united states marine so no comment wow what's your favorite tattoo my tattoo is my whole back piece that i had custom made by johnny quintana and i don't even know how many hours you put in thank you very much johnny never charged me a penny because he loves vets and i mean he's one of the biggest celebrity tattoo artists out there my whole back is blasted by you love you johnny are you comfortable showing us oh hell yeah let's get this done get this piece of [ __ ] off just a joke hell yeah wow so what does it mean united states marine corps tufa hunden which means german devil doug so it's just all a big like memory and remembrance that the marine corps is behind me but you know it's still a part of my history if you could punch anybody in the face in the world who would it be uh ty bryson because he got me locked up in juvenile hall for years for crimes that i didn't commit that i was actually found innocent for afterwards so i punched that [ __ ] right in the face as hard as i could wow um are you married uh divorced how's that going awesome there's no price you can put on your freedom hell yes hell yes and you know it's just more knowledge up here for the next time around marriage can be like a rug pull and it's in itself you know absolutely those are the worst we all hate them um we really gotta vet people and make sure that the person's good not only if it's a creator for an nft project or a marketplace you got to make sure the person behind it the person that you want to marry it's that true person is good has good intentions not looking to rug pull not looking to financially gain off of you or anything like that so be cautious be smart you only live once and your money's your money and everybody wants it what do you think about this they're yours yeah any ladies out there holding the board ape i am single ready to mingle let's go do it i got the bottom half you got any other half let's do it how many nfts you own uh currently probably around 450 nfts uh how much money do you think you've invested overall overall uh hopefully the feds aren't watching but i've probably invested like six hundred thousand dollars in the last year in just nfts where have you getting that money from i've gotten that money from dogecoin i made a lot on the pumps i've made it on other nft plays i made it on cryptos i'm in real life ceo hopefully my employees don't see me on this but you have to work hard in the real world so you can play in the degen world and that's where your financial freedom comes from and you can come and enjoy this anytime you want [ __ ] marry kill elon musk jeff bezos mark zuckerberg oh [ __ ] kill zuckerberg i'd probably [ __ ] bezos because he [ __ ] me on amazon all the time and then me and elon [ __ ] man we'd be kicking it on mars homie let's go electrical contractor i'm [ __ ] smart as [ __ ] i can electrical anything you need [ __ ] up in space i got you elon just take me i'll do it for free i have one last game i want to play it's called overrated underrated okay elon musk underrated the boring company the technology underrated the company overrated crypto punks underrated busty women underrated calzones is it the folded pizza that's delicious you know what i mean that's a pizza on the go that's gotta be underrated because i mean if you want pizza you don't want a dripping hole it's all right there it's in a pot it's a pizza taco man what do you feel about twitter versus instagram i liked it when uh jack was running it you know i think there needs to be more freedom of speech on the platform that's why i think elon musk if he comes out with a social media platform it'll really blow away the whole space because elon if you come if you come out with your social media platform you're going to have so many people flooding to you it's going to kill facebook gonna kill instagram gonna kill twitter gonna give the power of the voice back to the people so we can have voice of freedom financial freedom just do it you can do it it's in your back pocket just throw it out there do you wanna run for president one day no because the people of this nation suck how do you feel about joe biden sleepy joe let's go brandon got the gas prices man what do you think it's his fault board april crypto punk board tacos or burritos let's go with tacos russia ukraine ukraine all day baby [ __ ] russia unless you know you're a good person over there like that you don't know anybody state media i understand but ukraine i [ __ ] love those people man i want oh i want to so badly go help and fight on your front lines because you people are fighting for freedom and i [ __ ] love you people for it in ukraine you have my heart and soul and i donated personally fifteen hundred dollars to ukraine because you guys are awesome israel or palestine israel [Music] you
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