It's a pizza, wrapped inside a taco...

Hey guys, maybe Torelli really needs the $.

Agree, we need the man that can bring the #bazam!

Pretty sure the NFT fad will die quickly. It's just the next evolution of meme tokens, generate some hype whilst you own all the inventory, let it go up even 2% then dump it before it crashes and hope you obfuscated your transaction history well enough nobody knows it was you. Except with NFT's there's no vesting period, just hope people are dumb enough to pay whatever you're asking.

NFT's have the slight advantage of "making more sense" to a layperson since they're able to quantify it as something tangible (ironic). If someone buys some shitcoin they dont feel like they really own anything, they're just a troll hoping it goes up in value a little before they too can sell it. But NFT's are something your parents could buy into. Eventually they'll come to the puzzled conclusion that they own nothing and would rather have a tattered baseball card they can touch and feel rather than a picture of a tattered baseball card on a thumb drive that anybody could duplicate.

NFT's might be interesting in a futureworld where omnipresent DRM controls all devices, but until then absolutely worthless. Then again value is in the eye of the beholder, so if people want to pump up milfcoin and you can trade it for Tesla who's to say it doesnt have value?

You're underestimating NFT's. It's not all digital art. Cryptokitties are NFT.

I'm on the fence with NFT's. Im not comparing them to currency, but many thought bitcoin was a galactically stupid concept when it traded for pennies.

Videos of Lebron, pictures of kitties, and squiggly lines might quickly fade away, and that might be the last we hear the term NFT

My intuition is that NFTs will continue to morph it more and more accepted forms of collectible "things" and maybe morph into something that has yet to be considered.

All I know about them so far is what my son in law taught me. He took $2,000 and played around with TopShot early on. Turned that into $5,000. Took that and started learning about and investing in NFT Art. Made some good decisions and less than a year later has $300,000 of cash. With another $100k+ of inventory that he could sell now (with current bids), but chose to keep a few pieces see where it goes. He doesnt care if they go to zero. He'd rather have a shot the millions.

If he hadn't sold some of his original pieces early on, a few of them would sell for millions today. But they could have also gone to zero and he wouldn't have the $300k

Sturgeon's Law applies here of course, but imo NFTs haven't even arrived yet. FB transforming into Meta shows how important they think the metaverse and online life will be going forward. NFTs are going to be the way to verify authenticity, create identities+communities and show off/signal style, wealth, and values in the metaverse. Disclaimer: IMVHO. I'm still trying to grasp it myself.

Both of you are correct. Alec bought subscribers a few years ago. This was obvious from a huge single-day spike on Socialblade. But it's also true that he has heavily sanitized his social media, banning masses of people that are critical of him. As a result he gets abnormally low engagement.

To be fair, he seems to have legitimately grown his channel the last few years. More than half of his subscribers are real.

NFTs can be more than an image. It can be a video file that only the holder(s) can see. Or an eBook, webpage, domain name, 3-d model, video game, etc., etc.

Also, an NFT can represent a contract of sole ownership of an intellectual property.

On top of that, the creator of an NFT can receive a percentage of each future sale of the NFT in perpetuity.

NFT marketplaces are currently flooded with hot trash Elon Musk photoshops and MSPaint drawings done in 60 seconds, so a lot of people associate NFTs as a whole with that hot trash.

Didnt NFTs start when you could buy NBA highlights that any pleeb could go on espn.com and watch

Yes, this sort of stuff was the beginning. https://sports-top-nfts.com/
Has branched off into all sorts of stuff.

great way to frame it up. connections to metaverse was something that hadn;t clicked for me yet. I'd also agree with bolded part.

A protocol (TCP-IP) was the birth of the internet. At the time of its introduction nobody, I mean absolutely nobody, could forecast what TCP-IP would lead to and how it would change how we all live. Even for those that did, they lowballed its impact by multiple orders of magnitude

Blockchain ( as a protocol, if its OK to call it that) is at that same level, imo. We haven't even scratched the surface of the surface in the ways that this protocol will change how we live. Aside from Crypto currency, NFTs are just another example of how blockchain will change what we do and how we do it.

No, sports video NFTs were not the first NFTs.

wow. they go back almost a decade. great article I found after reading your comment above

https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold...s-f362ca57ae10

Yeah, even CryptoKitties were around waaaay before NBA Top Shot.

remember when i had a lengthy discussion with torelli, i was being respectful and not mentioning any of his shill things and then out of nowhere he just told me that he only got into making poker content because he gets lonely and enjoys sharing with people

i started asking him a bunch of follow up questions like "oh so you just started doing this as a hobby and a side business grew out of it organically" etc etc

he straight up said that everything was done as a hobby until he founded conscious poker in 2017

i then showed him this https://namoffers.com/taste-success-...-alec-torelli/ from 2014 and asked him why he just lied through his teeth to me

i hadn't brought the subject up, we hadn't gone near that topic, he out of nowhere and unsolicited started bringing it up and started off with a bunch of lies

he stopped responding after that

You ever notice all those "friends" he came up with like Benefield, Robl, Galfond , Dwan etc. have had zero association with this guy in years while succeeding in poker. Torelli is still nitting it up in 5/10 games while they are all playing nosebleed stakes.

sounds like a smart kid ...

I saw Alec's advertising for his training about a year ago and it looked legit at the time. I started following his emails and facebook posts etc. and it seemed to me at the time that his credentials and winning record were a little shallow but his site looked professionally put together and he certainly had a serious marketing program. But then the whole thing started to verge off into the bizaare with the BitClout emails followed by the "Histroy of Money" tangents culminating into this weird, to say the least, conference he was putting on in LA. What did all this have to do with poker, I said to myself. This is when I knew the whole thing was a scam right from the beginning! Happy I didn't waste more than time in all this.


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