'I love crypto...but am I gonna put a BTC image on my [Twitter] profile? Am I gonna put an ETH image on my profile? Of course not,' steveaoki told jeffwilser in this interview on the metaverse, NFTs and the future of Web3.
In a wide-ranging interview, Aoki opens up about why Web3 will become “an inevitable way of communicating,” how he can collaborate on music with just about anyone , why he thinks the price of ether could reach $15,000, and why the doubters of Web3 should “never underestimate a group of people that’s yelling for change.”The end of 2017 is when I dove in. I put half a million into bitcoin and ether.
But am I gonna put a bitcoin image on my [Twitter] profile? Am I gonna put an ether image on my profile? Never. Of course not.It's cold. Although I agree with it, my heartstrings are unattached to it. I'm a collector of art. I love art. I love sports cards. I love the nostalgia of certain things. There are certain groups of things that I am passionate about. Like, I have a tattoo of a Jean-Michel Basquiat art piece on my arm.
Everything you said about digital lives makes sense to me. But what is it about Web3, specifically, that resonates with you? There will be an alternative where you could play the same game, but when you buy and sell skins you own them yourself.I mean, this is definitely a “people's voice” kind of movement. It’s not going to be a trickle-down situation where you have big institutions coming in, then everything is gonna change. They're not gonna come in right now. They're not gonna take the risk and they don't need to.
And Web3 is that same kind of underdog, where we have a passionate small group of people. Never underestimate a group of people that’s yelling for change. Never underestimate them. If you do it long enough and you do it consistently enough it has an exponential reach. It's a structured community. We’ve had a Discord for a long time, once I dropped my first NFT. There’s a real conversation happening. So we thought, we’re going to create our own Soho House, in a way. We’ll have these different levels, and at different levels you’ll get different benefits.
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