Jason Rosenstein, founder and CEO of Portion, discusses the evolution of metaverse hardware and display interfaces with host Sean Weisbrot.
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Rosenstein: Every future video game will feature a play-to-earn economy
“There's gonna be this play-to-earn economy, in my opinion, that's gonna be created, and I don't think that, that, that people in the future will ever be playing video games to just, for free, essentially. I think that every game will have an economy in whateve…”
Opinion
Rosenstein: Early NFTs are the Picassos and Mona Lisas of digital art
“The early NFTs are the Picassos and Mona Lisas of this new movement, and people simply gravitate towards them because they're the most well-known. And because they're the most well-known, People want them. It's a simple thing that happens throughout the art cu…”
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Rosenstein: Early NFTs like CryptoPunks will endure due to established communities
“Definitely the early NFTs, the OG NFTs, and we're talking things like Crypto punks and rare pepes, you know, from 2016, 2017 for the punks. Those are just very rare OG NFTs that are here to stay because Gigantic communities formed around them, and there's been…”
Insight
Rosenstein: In crypto, community is always more important than underlying technology
“The community is always more important than the technology.”
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Rosenstein: BCIs will succeed through wearable headbands, not invasive brain implants
“I think BCI's will take off, but, you know, the way I see it is that in, you know, you wear a headband or something. You know? To interact with your machine.”
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Rosenstein: Computer scientist drained via Discord link exposing clipboard history
“One of my investors. That's how long ago, almost a year and a half ago, got hacked and they stole his portion tokens. And this is one of the most savvy computer scientists I know on the planet, man, a guy who would never get hacked. And what happened was he cl…”