Digitally Rare

Matthew and Rizzle join us to react to the Christie’s punk auction, talk meebits & the metaverse, and uncover the bored ape conspiracy.

We shoot the shit on current events, talk about automated market makers w/ NFTs, go over Dan Finlay’s MATT auction mechanic, and arrive at the intersection of identity, self-expression, and social networking.

Why was the cure for scurvy lost for years after its discovery? Why has a potentially revolutionary diet gone un-trialed for years? Matt Stephenson walks us thought his work with Planck to change the incentives around open science, funding, and research attribution.

Imagine lounge chairs against a rain-dipped window, fire raging, and lofi emanating from the beyond — we talk current NFT news and answer insightful questions from pseudonymous internet people on urbit.

A casual descent into the rabbit hole of hedonic value.

Dan Elitzer, founder of the MIT Bitcoin Club and Nascent, gives us a guided tour of the world of DeFi and NFTs—how do we build DeFi-first, with more personal economic systems; when should or shouldn’t we lean into the financialization of everything; the power of protocol defaults & consciously-applied friction; the distribution of scarce resources; assessing and unlocking value trapped in unde...

Autonomous generative artists, Ethereum archaeology, bonding curves, NFT graveyards, harberger taxes, creative monetization, open licenses, and a novel about all of those things—come with us on a tour of the crypto art world with Simon de la Rouviere.

Jason Bailey of Artnome brings us into the future with comments on the past, how subcultures change, and ...mops?

We break down why anyone would want to own a digital—or analog, for that matter—object as we chat with Galen Wolfe-Pauly of Urbit. Urbit is a novel re-architecture of computers and the web that tracks social and cryptographic identity on Ethereum as an NFT. Listen to see how the Urbit ID system is a perfect illustration of our ownership-value-framework.

After a long hiatus that saw both Matt and Jonathan stepping away from the NFT space to work on other projects , we are BACK and ready to start a whole new chapter of Digitally Rare.  This is a mini-episode to say hello, and deal with an NFT conundrum that Jonathan has been thinking about. He's finally launching the Song A Day NFT project! See the first tokenized Song A Day here. A real new e...

It's Clovers day on Digitally Rare! Billy Rennekamp joins us to about Clovers his project that combines generative art, novel proof of work, bonding curves, and a life-long quest to find a four-leaf clover, teaching us about authentic scarcity, NFTs-as-money, and flower-based economics.

We're so excited to talk with Gene Kogan about his big, ambitious plans for a completely autonomous, decentralized, truly creative AI artist. He calls it Abraham AI. When it gets up and running, it'll autonomously produce NFTs. And you can be involved! Read the blog post: https://medium.com/@genekogan/artist-in-the-cloud-8384824a75c7

We're trapped in a stairwell and the the only cure is some hot takes! I think I'm mixing my metaphors. This episode was recorded on location at the 2nd ever Rare Art Fest in Bushwick Brooklyn on May 18th, 2019! It features a staggering array of NFT/crypto art luminaries: Joe Looney of Rare Pepe and Freeport Jason Bailey of ArtnomeSimon de la Rouviere of many, many thingsJason Rosenstein of Portion...

Your intrepid hosts take some time to catch up with one another on the state of their respective projects, and are surprised to learn that they both find themselves standing at the same crossroads. It's a shill or be shilled world.

We so excited to welcome the Velvet Underground of NFT on Ethereum, Matt and John of Cryptopunks and (now) Autoglyphs fame! Things discussed: - The state of art on the blockchain - specifically the ways that the traditional digital art market is already just a crappy blockchain, basically.- What's different about launching an NFT project now vs two years ago. - Pause functions in Ethereum. - Choon...

Mark Burstiner takes gaming even further Baeond with cryptoeconomic-inspired game design and a unique approach to goverance, monetary policy, and ownership. Visit http://Baeond.com to learn more.   Also: T SHIRTS! They're still for sale! http://bit.ly/drshirt as of 4/9/19, you have 6 days left until they're gone forever.

We've got Cyrus Lohrasbpour in the hot seat to talk about NFT maximalism, why we love CryptoPunks so damn much and how he licensed Gumby to be the in the first artwork he's selling on his NFT platform called ZOMA! He's running a Kickstarter to fund the creation of the platform. http://www.zoma.com Also: We are selling t-shirts! They are only on sale from 4/1 - 4/17, and after that, you'll never be...

Elena Nadolinski talks digital privacy and documents her journey down the rabbit hole—how teaching and testing turned her focus to identity and privacy. Why is privacy necessary for digital things, and why on earth don't we have it yet? What do the existing solutions get wrong and how is Beanstalk going to do privacy right? Also, since Elena used to work at AirBnB, Jonathan shares his story of the...

We're back! This week we have economist Matt Stephenson on to talk about his fascinating quest to fix the problems around incentives when it comes to sharing intellectual property. His project is called Planck. He tells two amazing illustrative stories, one about a 16th century royal obstetrician, the other about ancient cultures that used stone tablets as "money".

We're thrilled to have Fanny Lakoubay from Snark. Art on the podcast! We discuss Snark's first rad blockchain art experiment, 82 Seconds Atomized by Eve Sussman. We also get a scintillating preview of their next project, which involves poetry, fortune cookies and the question of what's more important: The Art or The Token? We also get a little education on how digital media has been considered "sc...

While Jonathan was on stage at Devcon getting Vitalik to participate in a song, Matt was breaking his ankle in Japan. Despite the time difference, our boys chat about the online response to Jonathan’s Devcon performance, what Matt’s been up to for the last 3 weeks cooped up in a Japanese Hospital, the fact that William Shatner is an Ethereum fan. Plus, they muse on the SEC cracking down on ICOs an...

We are joined by Dani Grant! Dani brings us a whole host of random ideas for dApps she'd love to see someone make. We talk about how to bring our NFTs to life, and how we need a home for them, where we can show them off. And we cover the amazing NFT Summit that we were all at in San Francisco (including the recap song that Jonathan made for the conference).

We talked with Saya from Bitski about the myriad ways she works to make blockchain more understandble, and her philosophy for exposing new folks to the space. We also talk a bit about the failed Civil token sale, and the podacst Jonathan likes, Zig Zag.

This week we're thrilled to welcome Brady McKenna, VR musician and community manager at District0x! We learn all about what District0x is up to, specifically their upcoming NFT district, Meme Factory. Register for the Non Fungible Summit, Friday October 12th in San Francisco! Participate in Jonathan's Initial Song Offering!

We cover the Coinbase vs. Apple hubub, HTC's hilarious "blockchain phone", Matt’s super cool sovereign identity project and Jonathan's top five crypto collectible wishlist!