Episode 101 with Tad Smith CEO of Candy Digital

Tad is the former CEO of Sothbeys and Madison Square Garden

Now taking on a new important role with Candy Digital as the CEO

He recognizes that onchain is the future for collectibles and better liquidity

We talk about this former experiences as CEO and why he jumped in to a blockchain start up

But also getting to know him outside of his professional standings and what he does for fun

Had a great time chatting with one of our industries most influential figures

00:59 @tadtweets on collecting

09:23 What actually interests Tad on chain and @CandyDigital

14:13 Physical to digital link the hard part

21:30 Still chairman of @doodles today

26:04 NFT vs IP disconnect at Licensing Expo

32:22 Has the fun left collecting

36:06 Using Claude to find coin grails

40:57 Every query through AI now

44:08 Minting 2M assets on Solana at their cost

49:01 Human collecting will grow with AI

53:27 Embrace AI fear bad human decisions

Episode 100 with Moose

His starting moment was becoming a niche sensation and still has one of the most well known viral sayings

Since then he has tapped in to different interest sand is one of the most well known creators

As onchain becomes the new online and is the normal so will creatives of the ecosystem

Had a fun time chatting with Moose

Pretty cool that he is the 100th episode

01:55 Showing up in costume with @JoeyMoose

04:33 Kick antics and creative direction (clips)

08:54 Buying every legendary Top Shot moment

11:56 Crying on a Twitter space

17:56 Going all in on himself

21:32 Starting with a 15 dollar camera

24:38 Do you think you've peaked

30:01 How he explains this to family

34:38 Why he needed his own office

38:19 Owning the word moose

41:31 UFC on the White House lawn

45:40 Does the world go back to pre-COVID

49:19 Google spotted the earthquake before scientists

Episode 99 with James Au Co-founder of Watch dot Fun

Milestone luxuries are increasingly becoming more popular

Luxury goods are also now being traded by top institutions

Onchain is the new online

01:56 @watch_emperor on @watchdotfun and luxury watches

09:11 Secret AP 37mm Solana watch reveal

14:30 Why Batman and Pikachu stuck as watch names

21:16 Every watch comes with a story

26:29 Why Solana is the only chain that works

33:07 Dead internet the return to real assets

36:05 Uncut aquanaut no one else has this

41:16 Kevin O'Leary's watch insurance empire

45:27 Dos and donts of the watch world

52:59 Starter watch list for beginners

Episode 98 with Easy

We went over upcoming market trends and what to keep an eye on

Focusing on an area of genius attention trading

> The Space X IPO

> Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs

> Upcoming macro trades and macro

> Which crypto tokens have value

And a lot more

02:03 @NotSoEasyMoney on getting botted

05:50 Why he passed on the Space IPO

09:36 Playing the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs

14:18 Buy the data centers not the models

17:41 Buying Near like he bought Solana

21:04 How he structures every trade

24:15 Journaling every single trade

27:24 Cleaning horse stalls before every stream

31:37 Golf became his side mission

34:47 No way humans built the pyramids

38:10 The biggest conspiracy he believes

41:47 Taking a pay cut for the risky bet

48:18 The clipping software he built in house

Episode 97 with Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki

Boris has a deep knowledge and experience in the financial markets

Bringing his experience to onchain markets and AI

Agents will x10 the crypto economy

Allowing onboarding to be as easy as being on social media

Buying products onchain is the new lets buy something online

2:08 Macro setup with @BBilowitzki from @Concordium

7:12 Cryptos day of reckoning is coming

12:53 The inflation hedge narrative died

17:29 The agent economy is already here

20:28 Prove you're over 18 sharing nothing

24:07 Who is accountable when agents pay

30:00 Eight months of dev work in minutes

33:11 Why AI picks merit over market cap

38:12 An agent told its human to verify

42:31 Rewriting the docs for AI not humans

47:08 Who changed the prompt when it breaks

53:25 Cryptos tooling always sucked

57:01 Open a bank account in seconds

Episode 95 with Degen CPA

If you use the internet you have sent his posts in group chats before

Creating good content is an art and is a full time job

> Full time salary making content

> The art of shitposting

> Generating millions of views on X

> New media

> Become the niche

02:28 Catching up with @DrewVento

06:38 Why he started posting on X

09:50 Ghostwriting for a huge account

14:37 Posting his Twitter ad payouts

18:42 Puerto Rico has no cap gains

22:45 The line he won't cross

30:27 Are we heading into a depression

36:08 All the scientists getting killed

40:00 The JP Morgan story is fake

44:27 A stalker faked a DoorDash drop

48:58 Almost becoming main character of the day

53:27 Keep trying until something sticks

56:55 Five pieces of advice for young guys

Episode 93 with Nill from Blockworks

Nill and I are close friends and it’s been fun to see his professional and personal growth

We talked about looming topics

> Current job market and conditions

> Institutional and retail crypto

> Nill’s success on TikTok

> Concerns with AI

Timestamps:

02:48 @BigNillCollect on landing the @Blockworks job

07:23 The TIF is crypto's 10-K

11:05 This crypto hiring market totally changed

15:43 Why tradfi guys get the leg up

20:16 Built an AI robot scraping Web3 jobs

24:43 Telling them I can fix that

30:55 Nil means zero goals scored

34:00 Grow faster collaborating with other creators

37:00 Known for my hair known for nothing

41:20 Getting fired with his kid home sick

45:24 Polygon was a piece of me

49:57 How to get out of the funk

55:24 Luck chases activity every time

Episode 93 with Grit Cult

Grit is one of the best cross niche posters on X

He talks about, AI, Crypto, Health, Motivation and Startups while having a pulse on culture + community

We talk about why marketing is dead and long live distribution

How his journey started and the upside to having a brand presence in the right niches

The importance of having a plan and not just commanding attention for the sake of it

2:42 @GRITCULT background in crypto and startups

5:18 How the Londonmaxxing meme was born

6:24 Marketing is dead long live distribution

10:30 Twitter is still massively underrated

13:59 Why Facebook fell off with Gen Z

19:18 Your social following gets you hired now

25:12 Crypto builders quietly pivoting fully to AI

27:59 Casino speculation hurt crypto long term

43:23 Treat content creation like a YC batch

49:25 Fundraising advice warm intros and timebox it

56:23 Andrew Tate invented the clipping model

1:02:07 Starting from zero to prove the point