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NFT Glossary

Now that NFT has been named word of the year, use this handy NFT glossary of terms from one37pm to get educated on the lingo of NFTs.

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Getting Off Zero is a term to describe buying your first amount of Bitcoin. If you want to start learning about the world of Bitcoin & Crypto, InvestAnswers is a great YouTube channel to follow. James published short videos most days and summarises the latest news through a lens of risk management and cautious capital preservation and growth. As a result, a lot of the hype (aka. hopeium) is relatively low.

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Podcast Of The Week: Tim & Balaji Part 2

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Tim Ferriss interviewed Balaji Srinivasan for a second time, in a monster 4.5 hour podcast. Highlights of the interview include the future of the world powered by blockchain, China & geo-political outlook, anarchy in the U.S.A. and lots more. Listen to/watch the interview, and you'll be thinking about it for a week afterwards.

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How To Mint A NFT

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Aly at Free Code Camp published a great piece with steps on how to code, publish and mint your own NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. (Speaking of NTFs, check out my first NFT photography series!)

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Cryptocurrency Gaming

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New gaming plaforms that utilise cryptocurrency coins as in game currency are on the rise. Games such as Axie Infinity and The Sandbox allow users buy and sell in game NFTs or tokens to other game players.

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Podcast of the Week: Tim Ferriss & Balaji Srinivasan

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Tim Ferriss recently interviewed Balaji Srinivasan and it was an insanely good interview! They cover geo-politics, crypto, their intersection, among many, many other topics, futurist and otherwise.

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Podcasts of the Week: NPR The Indicator & Modern Finance on NFTs

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You may have heard about the digital art NFT that sold for $69 million. NPR's The Indicator podcast has a good explainer episode on the sale of Beeple's Everyday Project which includes an interview with Beeple (aka Mike Winkelman).

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Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

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The University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance created a Bitcoin Electricity Consumption index, including a neat dashboard showing a mining map and comparing the consumption of electricity by the Bitcoin network with those of countries, and boiling all the kettles in the UK and the EU, among other comparisons.

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Music Meta Data

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The Verge have an interesting piece on the lack of standardisation of meta data in the music industry. Royalty money is being left on the table because of data errors and/or mismatches between the many meta data databases used by the numerous streaming services, especially when dealing with collaboration tracks.

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Brave Browser

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Brave is a new browser built on Chromium that claims 2x to 8x speed increases over regular browsers. It also focusses on ad tracking privacy by blocking all third party ad tracking. On top of this, using the Basic Attention Token, users can opt-in to Brave Rewards allowing for the collection and donation of BATs directly with content creators and publishers. You can earn yourself some BATs now on Coinbase Earn by watching a few videos about Brave.

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