#40 Betwixt - Self-help Immersive Story Evolving Generative Art with Hazel Gale

George wasn’t able to make it to this episode so we bought in guest interviewer Christian Miles who has worked in and out of the tech industry since 2000 in sectors such as banking, logistics, e-commerce and now web3 where he is building infrastructure on the FLOW Blockchain with his company Find.xyz. Christian has also run therapeutic children’s homes and semi independent services for individuals with a history of trauma. So he is well placed to join me today along with our guest Hazel Gale from Betwixt.

Hazel is an artist; she is author of The Mind Monster Solution; she is a former therapist; and she is also an ex boxer and kickboxer having won multiple world titles.

Hazel joins us to talk about her project Betwixt which is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure game that takes you on a journey of self discovery and broadly fits into my made up category of therapeutic game with generative NFT art which customises to you around your self-discovery adventure.

Betwixt are doing something really interesting and we have a fantastic conversation. We hope you enjoy.

https://nft.betwixt.life/
https://twitter.com/BetwixtNFT
https://twitter.com/HazelGale

https://find.xyz/
https://twitter.com/Christian__neo

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#39 AI Meets ART to Battle Climate Change, Adam B Levine, Freya Stevens

Today we welcome Adam B Levine of 330ai, a true original gangster of Bitcoin education having founded Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Lets Talk Bitcoin) along with a number of other projects.

We also welcome Freya Stevens of Likvidi who are connecting the world of carbon credits to the NFT space.

This was a really fascinating conversation around carbon credits, how they work, how they can add value to NFTs and vice versa. We discuss AI, its impact on art and how it can be used for collaboration and much much more.

At the end we announce the winner of REKT Gerbil and read out some entries.

We hope you enjoy the episode.

https://www.likvidi.com/the-climate-fightback-starts-here-with-the-launch-of-carbonstore/
https://www.330.ai/
https://twitter.com/AdamBLevine
https://twitter.com/likvidiofficial
https://beta.pixelmind.ai/
https://twitter.com/Pixelmindai
https://adamblevine.com/home

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#38 The Lisbon Interviews 2022

George and I recently got back from the Non-fungible Conference in Lisbon.

What a fantastic week it was, we met wonderful people, had amazing dinners and stimulating conversations. It was quite something to have such a broad range of people with the unified focus of NFTs all in one place.

I kept a dictaphone with me and caught up with some key figures and friends and gained insight into their experiences of the event and their take on various NFT developments.

Please enjoy - in chronological order - our interviews with:

• Artur Sychov

• Hugo McDonaugh

• Jivinci

• Whaleshark

• Natural Warp

• Sebastien Borget

• Benji Kandler

• Sandie

• George Boya

• Conlan

• Carla_muc_j

The next NonFunGerbil creation is open for submission, send us your best back story for REKT Gerbil. We will will take one story, make the artwork around it and send a gerbil  (for free) to everyone who submits an entry.

https://twitter.com/ASychov
https://twitter.com/hnmcdonaugh
https://twitter.com/jivdontexist
https://twitter.com/WhaleShark_Pro
https://twitter.com/Natural_Warp
https://twitter.com/borgetsebastien
https://twitter.com/BenjiKandler
https://twitter.com/Sandiezed
https://twitter.com/BoyaGeorge
https://twitter.com/conlan
https://twitter.com/carla_muc_j

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#37 Conlan Rios, ASYNC - programmable Art, Music and Generative Collections

We are delighted to be here and joined today by Conlan Rios of the revolutionary platform ASYNC.ART. where you can design your own programmable and interactive art, generative collections and music.

We have a fantastic chat exploring the following topics:

• The early Cryptovoxels days

• Hybrid metaverse platforms

• NFT culture and how it has changed

• Conlan Pitches Pomplamoose on ASYNC Audio Blueprintsta

• Bringing together artists to collaborate

• Music experiences in the Metaverse

• Community building and value creation
  

Incase you missed it check out #TheGerbilWhoLostHisSeeds - our wonderful collaboration with Song-A-Day Jonathan Mann

Conlan & ASYNC ART
https://twitter.com/conlan
https://async.art/

Non Fungible Conference Lisbon
https://www.nonfungibleconference.com/

Virtual Worlds Mentioned
https://www.cryptovoxels.com/
https://decentraland.org/
https://www.mona.gallery/
https://oncyber.io/

NonFunGerbils
https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#36 David Lucatch, Identity in the Metaverse

We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios.

We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse.

https://oasisdigitalstudios.com/ 
https://liquidavatartechnologies.com/ 
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-lucatch-06806a5 

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3 

#35 Bruno Škvorc, RMRK - NFT LEGO on Kusama

Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS

Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama

We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'd better find somewhere safe to sit down!

https://www.rmrk.app/
https://kanaria.rmrk.app/
https://newsletter.dotleap.com/
https://twitter.com/bitfalls
https://bruno.id/

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#34 Digitally Rare Gerbils

Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts

We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze

Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018.

Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

At the end we read out entries for BearGerbil and announce the winner, whose entry was chosen and bought to life by the wonderful Stina Jones

https://anchor.fm/digitallyrare
https://songaday.world/
https://themanymatts.lol/
https://clip.mirror.xyz/mOCENLvP1aYXOBOPiLoLjBlSTvJWBqccfkn4gTPJ8qM

https://twitter.com/digitallyrare
https://twitter.com/songadaymann
https://twitter.com/1ofthemanymatts

https://stinajones.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/stina_jones/

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#33 Sillytuna, progress for NFTs

Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing:

• The road to mainstream for NFTs

• The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave

• The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs

• The need for Native Ethereum contract wallets

• Iteration and improvement on the ERC721 standard

• and much more!

At the end we announce the winner of ThatsHot Gerbil and announce our next gerbil collaboration with Stina Jones, one of our favourite artists in the space.

To submit a competition entry tag us @NonFunGerbils @stina_jones and include #BearGerbil along with your backstory about Bear Gerbil on Twitter

Huge thank you to Paris Hilton for her help with this episode!

https://twitter.com/sillytuna
https://sillytuna.medium.com/
https://discord.com/invite/claymatic

https://nonfungerbils.com
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3

#32 Paris Hilton on NFTs

We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton.

The self described ‘undercover nerd’, one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, has found a welcoming community.

We hear more about her journey, the importance she places on empowering a diverse set of artists, and her recent collaboration with the talented digital artist Blake Kathryn dropping on Nifty Gateway on Saturday.

Of course, as always, we end with the announcing of the winner of our #ElonGerbil backstory competition this time being read out by a surprise guest - which was so hot. We also announce the next NonFunGerbils competition where you send us your amazing stories and we turn them into Gerbil NFTs we give away for free!

https://parishilton.com/ 
https://twitter.com/ParisHilton 
https://twitter.com/blakekathryn
https://cryptograph.co/Cryptograph/Paris-Hilton-Kitty 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
 

#31 Piñata & IPFS with Matt Ober & Kyle Tut

We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space.

We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it’s an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web.

We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated with your tokens stored. Why it is important and potentially who is responsible for it.

At the end we are joined by Lapin Mignon to read out some fantastic gerbil stories that came in for our collaboration and announce the winner

Super interesting and fun discussions. We hope you enjoy them

https://pinata.cloud
https://twitter.com/IPFSPinata 

https://www.lapinmignon.co.uk/ 
https://twitter.com/Lelapinmignon 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
 

#30 Jeremy Levine, NFT Investment Thesis

We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art.

We get an insight in to their investment thesis coming into the space, speculate over a number of things and generally have a really interesting chat.

Nothing in this conversation should be taken as financial advice

Jonathan Bales blog post: https://luckymaverick.substack.com/p/nft 

Podcast network mentioned: https://podcastindex.org/ 

https://twitter.com/JerLevine 
https://underdogfantasy.com/ 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#29 Shooting Hoops with NBA Topshot's Alan Carr

Today we welcome back Alan Carr, game designer for Dapper Labs and legend of the NFT space.

We deep dive into NBA Topshot, what it is and everything that has happened around the phenomenal growth it has seen this year.

At the end we read out some NonFunGerbil stories written by you, announce the winner for Baller Gerbil. We also layout our next competition and artist collaboration.

https://twitter.com/Alanfalcon
https://www.dapperlabs.com/
https://www.nbatopshot.com/
https://cryptokitties.co/

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#28 Patricio Worthalter, let's POAP

Today we are joined by an OG investor in the space and the founder of Proof of Attendance Protocol Patricio Worthalter.

Patricio tells us the fascinating story of how he originally got in to the space after sorting out a ransomware payment in Bitcoin and finding the whole process so enjoyable!

he speaks of the building of POAP, the difficulties and the successes, interoperability, competing blockchains, tribalism and why the whole space is so exciting right now.

At the end we announce the winning entry for #TheGerbilofWallStreet and announce the next NonFunGerbil competition for #BallerGerbil.

https://twitter.com/worthalter 
https://www.poap.xyz

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#27 Have you Seen Haus?

We speak to Jigsaw of Seen Haus, a very new project taking on the task of pairing the digital and physical with their auction house.

We get down into the details and explore the whole concept. We thought this was a really interesting chat and would love to know what you thought. Tweet us @NonFunGerbils

https://seen.haus/ 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#26 John & Rudy, Blankos Block Party

We are joined by John Linden and Rudy Koch of Mythical Games

John and Rudy are part of the super star team that setup Mythical and have bought us the game Blankos Block Party

This interview was great fun and at the end we read out a couple of the entries for Elf Gerbil and announce the next NonFunGerbil giveaway and competition.

Please excuse some variable audio quality in this episode due to technical hitches

Enjoy the show

https://blankos.com/ 
https://mythical.games/

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#25 gotta Aavegotchi - Art, Game, Collectibles, DeFi, Metaverse & DAO

We are joined by Jesse and Dan of Aavegotchi. An ambitious project bringing collectibles, gaming, art, metaverse, DAOs and DeFi and maybe even hardware all together in one cohesive system.

At the end we unveil RugPullGerbil and read out some of the fantastic entries you sent us as well as set the next NonFunGerbil challenge ready for the holiday season.

https://aavegotchi.com/
https://twitter.com/aavegotchi 
https://twitter.com/gldnXross 
https://twitter.com/coderdannn 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#24 Zach Burks, Mintable 2.0

We are joined for a second time by Zach Burks, founder of Mintable the token minting platform.

Zach is here to tell us about the long awaited Mintable 2.0 which brings a whole new kind of Platform and Marketplace to the NFT world and introduces some unique features and approaches such as their DAO, whose governance tokens are NFTs.

https://twitter.com/mintable_app 
https://mintable.app/ 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j 

#23 Aleksander Larsen, Axie Infinity - deep diving into all the things

We are joined by Aleksander Larsen, co-founder and COO of Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity.

This turned out to be an epic 2 part conversation. In part one we go over everything Axie Infinity past present and future, NFTs, Gaming, play-2-earn, crypto, incentives, adoption, virtual worlds, scaling, DAOs, Art, and all the things

The second part, which follows straight on was recorded today, we have added it as an addendum to cover the announcement this morning about the Axie Infinity IEO on the Binance Launchpad along with the retroactive airdrop to all Axie players

https://axie.substack.com/p/bb806e64-7692-4643-9aa2-b1bb86922248 

https://axieinfinity.com 
https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity 
https://twitter.com/Psycheout86 

https://nonfungerbils.com 
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils 
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#22 Alotta Money, he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

We are joined by legendary artist and all round creative Alotta Money.

In this inspirational episodes we get an insight into Alotta Money’s journey into and through the space, we take a dive into the NFT art scene and get some great advice for upcoming and established artists looking to tokenise their art.

At the end we read out some amazing Farmer Gerbil entries and announce the next NonFunGerbil.

Also we announce a special collaboration of NonFunGerbils and Alotta Money for 1 of 1 Gerbil.

#1of1Gerbil
#FarmerGerbil
#RugPullGerbil

http://alottamoney.com/ 
https://twitter.com/money_alotta 

https://nonfungerbils.com/
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j

#21 Robert Alice, Portraits of a Mind

We are joined by the artist known as Robert Alice, who has spent 3 years creating the epic set of paintings known as ‘Portraits of a mind’. These contain within the original Bitcoin codebase which has been distributed between the 40 works.

Next week we see work number 21 go on auction along with its accompanying NFT at the renowned auction house Christies’  

This was a very exciting episode, we hope you enjoy it.

https://www.robertalice.com/
https://twitter.com/robertalice_21 


https://nonfungerbils.com/
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j