Just finished it! That was amazing!

It's great isn't it. I watched it on release a few weeks ago, but just rewatched.

Makes some great cases against the idea of having medical records or title deeds on the blockchain.

Also reaffirmed what I thought about play to earn gaming. Where people in first world countries have no chance at making any decent amount of income, because people have stables of third world workers playing their accounts.

I love quoting my own posts . IRL this would be called insider trading and peeps go to jail

in NFT world its called alpha and people get rich by trading these assets .


skip eth. just to sol and near.

so yeah. nfts are a but more than static pics. graylock is legit

$7.5k for a property, in an unreleased online game that looks like habbo hotel

This thread really is turning into a gift. Reminds me of the conversations I had with my parents when I started playing poker "you're never going to make any money playing poker, it's just a scam. No-one wins in gambling"

It's a shame - these kinds of forward-thinking threads made 2p2 great back in the day. Now it seems like it's full of just a bunch of people stuck in their ways convinced that NFT's are a scam, without actually reading much into it, or just watching a very one-sided video that leaves out nearly all of the strong points of NFT's and blockchain.

Sorry that the naysayers will miss out, your loss.

Plenty of counter-arguments to that video on the internet by the way, most of which highlight all of the fantastic potential that this space has to offer, but people don't go searching for those, do they.

I think the key word there is 'potential'. I've no doubt the technology has great uses in the future, however, currently the nft world is a bit of a joke, rife with scams, and thus is treated as such.

wow lol

As with poker, there will be a small percentage that make a lot of money and those people will be heavily promoted. "If they can become millionaires, why can't you?"

Also, with poker, there will be many more losers than winners.

How much did you pay for your NFT that you're now worried about being lumbered with?

Yeah Ive tried my best to explain and expand people's understanding as to what NFTs are and what they enable. I've given up.

If while they watched the superbowl, and saw facebooks fuzzybear's occulus ad and they didnt understand what was going in there and why it is connected to further gas on NFT growth fire, then all my time in this thread has been wasted (sans my ability to shill stuff )

Same for all the crypto ads. Felt like .com superbowl ads of the 90's on the cusp of internet web 1.0 explosion.

Anyone want to guess what the #2 use is for crypto at the moment and the #1 reason people are setting up and funding their first crypto wallet?

Also as with poker, those who study, learn and take educated risks will be rewarded.

I am "in" for about $5k. I have more than one NFT.

Pocket Snails, that I mentioned previously, is a Poker community spearheaded by some Poker Pros - most notably Apestyles. We have two Apestyles seminars per week, plus guest seminars. I was just yesterday chatting Hand Histories with Ape - we had a seminar with Eliot Roe the week prior, and have one with Domink Nitsche next week. I bought my 'snail jpeg' for $500, they're currently sitting at a floor price of $1,000. I am more than happy with the return I've had on my investment, and I've not even sold it yet.

The real question is will you be able to sell it? Like do you need an actual buyer or do you just push a button and cash out?

Have all of the initial snail jpegs sold out now?

apparently you can buy them here quite cheaply
https://www.pocketsnails.com/

You've basically joined a poker training site, but one where you can potentially sell your membership. Why is having a link to a picture of a snail important in this?

google web 3. do some research. then please come back and ask more

I mean why is having a stock certificate in starbucks important. just go to the corner and buy a cup.

poker can already be used for money laundering

well say what you will about NFTs in poker, I made $68 completely risk free yesterday playing ice poker in decentraland with an NFT that was delegated to me. no risk, no buyin, and while my results are certainly atypical (this is the theoretical maximum you can make in a day playing ice poker) a fairly easy $20-$30 a day income is possible on just a few hours of play. and it doesn't even interfere with my poker grinding, I just took some time away from video games or reddit / forums later on in my day when I am too burned out to play real poker. i think any avid gamer should be excited about the possibilities inherent in play 2 earn NFT games.

That's really interesting. With Ice poker are you capped at earning a daily amount of cash through bonuses, and is it done from freeroll tournaments from holding the nft? I was curious if there was cash tables on there.

Outside of poker, I don't think play to earn gaming will ever really be worth it. Due to people in low income countries being paid to play peoples accounts for min wage. I know this is already the case with Axie.

This has already been the case for non NFT online games for 20+ years, where it's possible to make money grinding and selling on black market, but not worth it in most countries.

Yes, as with anything in life you need a buyer before you can sell. Same for stocks/crypto etc.

Pocket Snails were never not sold out. They were airdropped to everyone who owned a SolSnail after the developers rugged the project.

The NFT acts as your 'membership card'. As soon as the NFT leaves my wallet, the verification to access the channels within the Discord that hold all of the features will no longer be available.

But yes, I joined a poker training site for $500, have received the value from the training, and could now sell my membership for around $1000.

But NFT's are a scam so I guess poor me.

i still don't get how this works, how does the training site get incentivized to continue offering training after a certain point

assuming nobody sells and they don't get 2% of those sales, with no new income coming in why would they continue offering training?

even if people are selling, 2% of 1k is not enough to keep the lights on

has this been discussed, bringing in additional membership/class fees going forward?

if they stop the training then will the nft still hold any value?

Royalties on the Pocket Snails project is 5% - for the first three months (currently in month 2) they are giving that back out to holders via a variety of revenue sharing.

Moving past that, they have agreed a deal with Stake Kings where any Pocket Snail holder who lists action thru stake Kings (currently a growing list of Pros including Apestyles, Beiruzy, Arlie Shaban), Stake Kings give 2% of the stake bought back to Pocket Snails (comes out of their take, not the player or staker).

There'a also some other sponsorship deals in the works, because as you say, this project is different and most likely won't have a high volume, so it's not possible to rely on that for revenue.

Valid question though, and something that is always worth considering when you look at buying into a project. There are for sure some project who's numbers don't add up. They are ones to avoid.

EDIT: also, FWIW, the Apestyles seminars that Pocket Snail holders have access to are the same ones he does for BBZ, so those seminars go on if the project fails or not. BBZ is a holder too.

ty for your response, makes the project a lot more valid imo with that background info

np, valid question and was something I asked early on when looking to buy.

Indeed. So much better than the usual 'DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!!!' that certain people come out with