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20: Behind Tom Osman's $1.3mil Ether Rock Flip, Discord vs Slack & Tokenized Communities

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Tom Osman recently made headlines by flipping an Ether Rock NFT for 400 ETH ($1.3mil at the time of sale) after buying it for only 1.7 ETH ($5,340) 19 days before.


He joins the NIA boys to discuss:


  • play-by-play details of what happened
  • how he spotted the opportunity
  • the telegram group he joined with crypto whales
  • what he's doing with his $1.3mil win
  • discord vs slack
  • investing in ETH vs Bitcoin
  • tokenized communities + web 3


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Check out his discord community: Shiny Object Social Club:

https://shinyobjects.gg/


Timestamps:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:02:14 – $1.3Mil Ether Rock Sale: Play-By-Play
  • 0:13:17 – Selling Early + Giga Whale Telegram Group
  • 0:22:06 – Aftermath
  • 0:31:32 – Memes + Media Attention
  • 0:35:27 – Ethereum vs Bitcoin + What Tom's Investing In
  • 0:44:18 – Discord vs Slack
  • 0:55:13 – Shiny Object Social Club + Tokenized Communities
  • 1:02:03 – Future of Web 3.0 Communities 
  • 1:14:20 – Online Identity, No Code + Is Vitalik The Alexander Hamilton Of Our Time?

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