

Blockchain Project – Digitally Downloaded Games: Content and License Transfer
GameStop reminds me of Redbox and Netflix facing business model decimation as we transitioned from DVDs and Blu-Ray to streaming digital content. No more physical medium to borrow/rent, just streaming data from massive content libraries. Netflix pivoted early on and became a survivor and thriving revised business model. GameStop’s pre-owned buy-and-sell business model is in jeopardy…

Lack of Market Makers in Crypto Trading Contributes to Volatility
Lack of Market Makers in Crypto trading assets further contributes to the destabilization. From my perspective, I get constant notifications from Coinbase that tell me the last N hours had a price difference of +/- NN%. Typically 5% plus or minus. To me, these are erratic swings in prices make it very hard to predict…

Coinbase Bytes: The Countries Leaning into Crypto
CRYPTO WORLDWIDEFrom Brazil to Nigeria, global crypto adoption is on the rise despite market uncertaintyOne of the hallmarks of a crypto downturn is a steady drip (or deluge) of negative headlines, and this summer’s seen plenty already, from crypto prices plummeting to overextended crypto firms with liquidity issues. But this means promising developments, including the…

Good til Canceled (GTC) Crypto
Core Trading Platform, First and Foremost In part, I blame the uneducated/uninformed investor for taking a loss on the downturn of Crypto. Shame on us. On the other hand, the crypto currency exchange markets, such as Coinbase, make it so easy to make a purchase of Bitcoin. The Coinbase exchange, iPhone app provides a “Simple”…

Bitcoin has Dropped 52% since Jan 14 2022
On November 9th, 2021, Bitcoin BTC was valued at ~67k. I waited and bought in on January 14th at 43k. BTC. Like many others, I continued to buy in “on the dip” with an overall moderate investment. Months later I am in disbelief at the deep devaluation of cryptocurrencies across the board, specifically BTC, which…

NFT Markets without Cryptocurrency
Big Brands, Big Bucks, Minimizing Risks Several Digital Asset Marketplaces are using the NFT model without the “risk” of using volatile cryptocurrency, i.e. value fluctuations of crypto, e.g. Ethereum. In NFT Marketplaces we don’t have to buy and sell using cryptocurrency? A non-fungible token (NFT) is a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain, a form of…

Mint Comparison (Part Two): OpenSea.io verse Mintable.com
Before reading this post, it’s suggested you read Part One focused on the OpenSea.io NFT Marketplace Mintable.com – The Basics Select “Mint an Item” from the main menu on the page header. Mintable allows you to share your existing NFTs already minted from another NFT marketplace, or mint a new item. Note: not all NFTs…

Mint Comparison (Part One): OpenSea.io verse Mintable.com
Evolving, Fluid Functionality of NFT Marketplaces Let me start out by saying, the NFT marketplaces’ functionality are very fluid, so what I’m about to describe today, may change in the days or weeks ahead. The goal of this post is to familiarize the reader with the Minting process, compare two minting processes from separate NFT…

Information Architecture Basics
Leveraging Information Architecture to allow for the portability of NFTs to 3rd party platforms such as massive multiplayer online gaming.

NFTs Accelerate Adoption with Sports Memorabilia
Sweet Spot for Digital Collectables – collecting sports memorabilia has flourished as far as I can remember. Kids are indoctrinated into collecting baseball cards here in the US at an early age. So why the “Wait and See” attitude from athletes and clubs hesitant to dive into the NFT marketplace? There are many types of…
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