Send Nodes. Nodes Sending!

In case you missed it, there was a copypasta going around on Twitter yesterday about starting a podcast with ThreadGuy (influencer).

That seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to announce my own (upcoming) podcast.

Plus, everything in the tweet except ThreadGuy’s involvement is actually true.

I recorded the first episode last night, with a very special guest.

Current plans are for this to be a weekly podcast, with new episodes coming out every Monday. I’ll keep you posted! Stay tuned.

Despite the huge plummet in Bitcoin price overnight due to the Matrixport ETF declined report, the hottest NFT collection right now is on Bitcoin Ordinals.

The Node Monkes art is pretty cool indeed, and it brands itself as the first 10k Bitcoin PFP. It’s garnered strong support from the NFT community at large, including Bored Ape Yacht Club whales and founder GordonGoner, who’s been on another NFT shopping spree lately:

Why are Node Monkes doing well? Punk9059 (aka NFTstats) puts it very succinctly:

And the aforementioned sighduck tweets:

Indeed, we’ve seen a lot of well-respected individuals in the space show their support — and the Honoraries feel very much like a callback to the BAYC Honorary Memberships.

At the end of the day, NFTs aren’t just pictures. They’re tokens of culture.

In other news, Etherscan just acquired Solscan.

Yes, I didn’t know that blockchain scanners could acquire each other either.

Hopefully this means that transactions on Solana will be easier to read in the future…

…no it won’t. Solana uses Rust as its blockchain language which is incredibly messy and hard to untangle. But hey, it works!

We’ll see what this means going forward (fundraise? token lau