Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture

00:35 - Welcome Steve McKeon 

02:25 - Navigating the dot-com boom and bust 

08:19 - A winding path to tenure 

13:20 - Discovering crypto 

15:50 - Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation 

19:30 - The birth of Collab+Currency 

24:50 - A shift to consumer focus and NFTs 

28:30 - Equity vs tokens 

33:45 - The Art Blocks [500] 

36:15 - Collectibility and end caps 

38:05 - Traditional art, sculpture and Jim Dine 

45:20 - Donald Judd and Marfa 

49:30 - The birth of Glitch 

53:45 - An investment thesis based on passion 

55:33 - Collecting personally vs fund investment 

01:01:20 - The future of the space and growth of digital culture 

01:06:21 - Infrastructure companies, user lock-in and network effects 

01:11:11 - Verse round table 

01:12:25 - SOLOS points 

01:27:39 - Terence Broad and (un)stable equilibrium 

01:33:13 - Curatorial practice and thoughts on artist guidance 

01:42:44 - What is an NFT artist 

01:45:25 - Reclaiming the term NFT 

01:47:00 - Artist highlights pt 1

01:48:44 - Catching up on fxhash 

01:54:00 - Artist highlights pt 2 

01:55:35 - Verse rundown 

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