The Adam McBride Show

Rhea was one of the pioneering artists to explore blockchains as a medium for her work. 

Her early experiments on Bitcoin and Ethereum sent me down a massive rabbit hole in 2021, so it was a pleasure to finally have her on the show to dig into her early history.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rheaplex

Website: https://rhea.art/

Sotheby's: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/natively-digital-a-curated-nft-sale-...

Ken is the developer behind PixelMap which is one of the earliest NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. It's the first "billboard-style" NFT on Ethereum and gives owners the ability to create, display, and immortalize artwork directly on the blockchain.

Ken's the nicest guy you will ever meet and I always point to him as one of the best developers in the Historic NFT space as he is constantly engaging and delivering value to his co...

This is one of my favorite interviews ever. 

We discuss Adam's early work founding the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and how that grew into so much more.

I think you will find Adam to be extremely curious and his unique perspective enabled him to foresee much of what we now see coming to fruition in the space. 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/AdamBLevine

Discord - https://discord.gg/qGJx27n7Bg

Pixelmind - https:...

JP was an early Counterparty pioneer who created quite possibly the first 1 of 1 NFT on the platform "OLGA" and was responsible for numerous other innovations and firsts.

I highly recommend jumping into JP's Discord to connect with him and check out his website where he has compiled some fantastic lists of early NFTs.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/jp_janssen

Discord - https://discord.gg/kkTjhsjdSe

Website - https://jpjanssen.c...

Spells of Genesis (SoG) is one of the most important NFT projects in history, so I was thrilled to have Shaban on to talk about its origins and future.

We also get into Shaban's views on burning cards which is such a hot topic today. 

And how crazy it is that SoG cards are being auctioned at Sotheby's only 6 years after their creation. *Spoiler alert* Shaban thought it would take 50 years = )

SoG on Opensea

Twit...

This is an epic Twitter Spaces discussing the birth of the metaverse with the founders of Spells of Genesis (Shaban) and SaruTobi (Christain).

A big shoutout and thanks to Leonidas for hosting the space. Here is his excellent article about the birth of the Metaverse that was referenced in the podcast - https://www.redlion.news/article/the-legend-of-sarutobi

Also a big thanks to WhiteRabbit who joined the space. WhiteRabbi...

Super excited to have you learn more about the artwork of Victoria Verdandi.

She is an established contemporary artist who - in November 2017 - decided to learn to code to put her art on Ethereum. Amazing!

I compare her to Mitchell F. Chan in this regard as both recognized the potential for art on the blockchain and then took the initiative to make it themselves. I love that.

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/ve...

This is a live Twitter Spaces recording of three legends in the NFT/gaming space Christian Moss, Koji Higashi, and Shaban Shaame.

Recorded on October 22, 2021, the talk walks through the early history of blockchain-based gaming.

Christian is the founder of SaruTobi one of the very first play to earn blockchain games and a pioneer in NFT interoperability.

Koji was responsible for Book of Orbs - which was most likely t...

When Trent built Ascribe in 2013/14 NFTs virtually zero artists had published their works on a blockchain. 

Ascribe changed that.

But by all accounts, Ascribe was a fantastic platform for artists to launch on Bitcoin. 

Only one problem, the market simply wasn't ready for it.

I chat with Trent about what it was like building the platform. The work he did to onboard artists.

And what artists today c...

Sarah's pioneering artwork Bitch Coin was launched on Bitcoin in February 2015.

She later moved the work from Bitcoin to Ethereum using what she calls a "sprawling project."

Let me tell you, my head was spinning;) 

We get into all of the details of her visionary work and chat about where she sees NFTs and art heading in the future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahMeyohas

Opensea: https://opensea.io/assets...

Sometimes I learn about people that were so visionary and early it makes my head spin. 

Christian is one of those dudes.

Christian built SaruTobi, a mobile app, which was most likely was the very first play-to-earn blockchain game. He also built out the first use case of NFT interoperability as players could use their Spells of Genesis cards in-game.

We dig into that and all of the other visionary stuff Christia...

Until recently buying Rare Pepes or Spells of Genesis NFTs on Bitcoin has been complex and dangerous. 

So much so, that I never recommended it to anyone because of the inherent risks. 

Those days, thankfully, are over because of the work that Shannon has done building Emblem Vault. Which provides an easy and transparent way for owners of NFTs on other chains (principally Bitcoin and Namecoin) to place their asse...

Jeffrey is one of only a handful of the pioneering artists in the NFT space who first launched their art on Bitcoin.

I am by no means an art expert - though my artsy friends tell me Jeffrey is world-class - but I do know NFTs, and the work he did with Harm van den Dorpel and the Left Gallery beginning in 2016 set the stage for today's NFT art revolution.

We discuss the early days of his art, putting works on the blockchai...

I was psyched to sit down with NFT pioneer Harm van den Dorpel.

Harm began putting art on Bitcoin in 2015 and has recently begun to move many of the works over to Ethereum. 

We discuss the early history of art on Bitcoin and get into how collectors didn't initially seem interested in owning NFTs. 

Boy did that change!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmvddorpel

Left Gallery: https://left.gallery/

Opensea...

I had the pleasure of chatting with Chris Cashwell, the developer behind the NFT trading card game Mythereum, which launched on February 5, 2018.

Mythereum did a lot of things right but the thing that I believe made it groundbreaking was the innovative ability for users to take NFTs from another project (in this case CryptoKitties) and forge a brand new NFT (called a Mythicat) within Mythereum to use in gameplay. 

To...

This is my chat with Elie who is one of the founding developers behind CryptoFighters, possibly the very first play-to-earn blockchain game.

This is an important NFT project from a historical perspective as we see games like Axie Infinity bring play-to-earn game mechanics to a global audience. 

We get into all of the details of him and his team building the project in late 2017 and launching on January 22, 2018. ...

MoonCats will always hold a special place as the spark that launched NFTs from a small group of collectors into a worldwide craze.

I was so psyched to sit down with David, one of the founders of Ponderware, the company behind MoonCats, and MoonCats amazing community manager Anna Marie. 

We discuss every aspect of the project, from building MoonCats, the 2017 launch, failure, the rediscovery, and the team's future pla...

The NFT Gods have delivered another project back from the dead. 

Sebastián Brocher launched the CryptoArte NFT contract on Ethereum on July 11, 2018. Which makes it the first generative art project on Ethereum.

The first batch of NFTs was minted on July 13, 2018, at 4:04 a.m. (according to the date listed on OpenSea).

And with generative art being HUGE right now, I think it is important that this project be reco...