SIMON BROWN: I’m communicating with Simon Dingle. He could be Inves Capital’s founder and CEO. He also wrote the book In Math We Trust: THE CONTINUING FUTURE OF Money, that is around crypto generally. Fungible is currencies – all of the units will be the same; equal they could be, they’re fungible. Non-fungible may be the opposite. It can’t be replicated. Simon, I appreciate your time and effort today. NFTs, I found out about them for the very first time a month or more ago; they go crazy everywhere. We’ve got everyone getting up to speed. What’s the type of headline? ”
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SIMON DINGLE: I believe you’ve covered it pretty much in your introduction, that something is actually a artwork that’s been encoded in to the blockchain, such as a property deed aswell. utilizing the blockchain.
SIMON BROWN: That is really then the blockchain arriving at the fore. For a long period people would say, not just a criticism, but man, I love that blockchain”, and at this time, this ownership may be the internet. that is weird to me due to course, I could download that. However in essence,
SIMON DINGLE: Yes. I believe the opposite holds true. But, much like any technology, the blockchain is certainly interesting as a bit of technology. So Bitcoin, for instance, nFCs is another.
And I believe it’s really those narratives which are more important compared to the technology itself. You may get blockchain from enterprise technology firms and consulting firms, and that’s essentially the most useless form of technology. They need you to believe blockchain is the important things, to allow them to sell it for you. But really it’s concerning the applications. And the reason why that’s important is basically because blockchain technology was made to solve an issue. And without requiring a reliable third party. So, for instance, for instance?
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Algorithms, but the moment you’ve got a third party that’s necessary to verify a transaction, for instance, in which particular case the blockchain isn’t the proper technology for that. What we are in need of is deeds offices, etc,
SIMON BROWN: The NFTs – when i mentioned, are plenty of memes, it’s cat memes, it’s images and so on, and certainly a lot of fun and folks are buying them and trading them. However the longer story and I believe a tweet that has been yours, was like NFTs are just just on the runway. I could use an NFT. You mentioned property. If I’m an artist and I develop a painting, I could now sell it for you. THEREFORE I don’t need that alternative party. I’m also able to encrypt stuff for the reason that NFT which says, for instance, in the event that you on-sell it, 10% comes home to me. That’s just one single exemplory case of what ultimately Kings of Leon is [doing], selling front-row seats lifetime with their concerts. We are able to now do just about anything with it, and we’ve moved that require for the trusted intermediary.
SIMON DINGLE: That’s right. And we’ve also exposed totally new avenues for arts that didn’t exist before. For instance, one of the primary stories in NFTs and Volusia was CryptoKitties, that was actually the big first take-off of an NFT project in the mainstream anyway, where you’re actually breeding cats on the blockchain. So there is actually an algorithm running type of DNA, in the event that you will, on the blockchain in order that each one of these cats would sort of evolve in the manner that organisms do in real life, and be entirely unique. Which means you would have two cats you had collected, for example, and you also might use them to breed a third that has been unique. So with that sort of generative art, art developed by artificial intelligences, etc, we’ve an economy to opt for that in an exceedingly elegant way of doing those ideas, that is quite exciting.
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I think another thing you alluded compared to that excites me is that the art world is fairly exclusionary, the original art world, and an extremely challenging place for new artists, particularly when they consider monetising their work. NFTs and related technologies now give artists a toolkit to essentially escape there, sell their work, ensure that they’re compensated for it in an exceedingly sort of inclusionary decentralised way, where every one of the traditional barriers to entry have already been removed.
SIMON BROWN: I can’t help thinking, aswell, obviously of shares, stock exchanges. I look at Dr Leila Fourie in the JSE, and she should be nervous for this because suddenly “you can purchase my Capitec shares without having to feel the exchange, because we are able to verify that they really, are really”.
The last point. WHEN I understand it, again, it switches into the blockchain. Ensure that it’s legitimately entering the blockchain,
SIMON DINGLE: I believe exchanges will be around because we need a way for buyers and sellers for connecting. But I think exchanges have become increasingly decentralised. And we’ve seen many ex-bankers, for instance, being dismissive, so when the wave crashes it’ll be quite interesting to see what goes on to them.
But you mentioned that a lot of NFTs are increasingly being built on the Ethereum blockchain. I believe another interesting trend is that we’re needs to visit a next-generation change like Flow, that is what NBA’s Top Shot is made on. And NBA’s Top Shot, needless to say, is really a new collectible from the NBA, where you are able to own memories from basketball games, the specific videos that are encoded in to the blockchain.
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And they’re building on the Flow blockchain, that was actually created by the CryptoKitties founders, who have been running into trouble on Ethereum with the high gas fees and the scaling issues that faced Ethereum until recently. And that’s exciting because we’re now seeing big sport franchises just like the NBA and the UFC also lining around do something similar, getting into the space. So that they actually went off and created their very own chain for doing NFTs that’s quite a thrilling prospect as an investment aswell because it is still relatively unknown. But Ethereum continues to be the dominant change for doing these exact things on, and that’s really where in fact the ERC-721 standard for NFTs was designed and first implemented with CryptoPunks which are actually selling for thousands of dollars, or even more, each.
Very exciting space and incredibly difficult to stay together with what’s happening as the momentum is really just picking right up.
SIMON BROWN: I hear you. I believe you’ve given us great insights into NFTs, non-fungible tokens. It might seem they’re crazy now, but I trust Simon. Get back to me in 10 years, get back to me in five years, 30 years. I believe this is going to be considered a huge area of the transactional future, be it paintings, houses or bad CryptoKitties. Simon Dingle, I usually appreciate your time. He could be from Inves Capital and his book is In Math we Trust.