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  • How Did Seth Green's Bored Ape Get Stolen?
    Jun 16 2022

    Most famously known as Austin Powers Jr. and the voice of Chris Griffin in Family Guy, Seth Green has made a very prominent name in the NFT space as well. He was set to debut his Bored Ape #8398 as the main character in a series he produced called “White House Tavern.” But a few days before the debut, Fred Simian, Seth’s Bored Ape NFT, got kidnapped.

    In this podcast episode of the Ball and Blockchain, Nils and Justin talk about the story of how Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT got stolen and what their thoughts are on this huge news in the NFT space.

    Join in the conversation here in the Ball and Blockchain podcast!

     

    Show Notes:

    Bored Ape Yacht Club

    https://boredapeyachtclub.com/

     

    Ethereum

    https://ethereum.org/en/

     

    Phishing Scam

    https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/identity-theft/phishing-scams

     

    Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin on Soulbound Tokens (SBTs)

    https://nftnow.com/guides/soulbound-tokens-sbts-meet-the-tokens-that-may-change-your-life/

     

    Articles on Seth Green’s Stolen NFT

    Seth Green Show Based on His NFT Paused After NFT Is Allegedly Stolen

    https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/seth-green-stolen-nft-1234729399/

    Seth Green's Bored Ape was stolen. Now he can't make his NFT show.

    https://sea.mashable.com/entertainment/20441/seth-greens-bored-ape-was-stolen-now-he-cant-make-his-nft-show

    Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/seth-green-bored-ape-stolen-tv-show

     

     

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    15 m
  • Why Did the Crypto Market Crash?
    Jun 3 2022

    Winter is coming.

     

    This definitely seems like the same horrific thing, whether or not you’re a Game of Thrones fan. In the crypto world, crypto winter is what happened just a few days back. The current crypto market crash news left every crypto investor devastated because it involved one of the most significant stablecoins apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum. The TerraUSD, powered by Terra Luna, crashed last May 9th, and everyone was left speechless.

     

    Jump into this episode of the Ball and Blockchain podcast as Nils and Justin talk about the market crash, their thoughts about when it happened, and their next steps moving forward.

     

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    Show Notes:

    Terra Luna

    https://www.terra.money/

     

    TerraUST

    https://www.coinbase.com/price/terrausd

     

    Presearch

    https://presearch.org/

     

    Relevant Articles on the Crypto Market Crash

    The crypto crash, explained

    https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/crypto-crash-2022-explained?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

    Terra Luna crash: What are ‘stablecoins’ and how stable are they really?

    https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/25/terra-luna-crash-what-are-stablecoins-and-how-stable-are-they-really

    Luna Crypto Crash: How UST Broke and What's Next for Terra

    https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/luna-crypto-crash-how-ust-broke-and-whats-next-for-terra/

    The Real Reasons Behind the Crypto Crash, and What We Can Learn from Terra’s Fall

    https://time.com/6177567/terra-ust-crash-crypto/



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    16 m
  • How to Avoid Getting Scammed in Crypto
    May 5 2022

    One of the reasons people are hesitant to jump into the crypto space is the possibility of scams. And that is what this podcast episode is all about.

    Here, Nils and Justin help you avoid getting yourself into being scammed by sharing a few of their firsthand experiences and, ultimately, what they have learned from them. This conversation is going to be very insightful, especially with the recent Bored Ape Yacht Club phishing scam on Instagram!

    Join in the conversation here in the Ball and Blockchain podcast!

     

    Show Notes:

    Bored Ape Yacht Club: HACKED

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion

     

    Watch Out For These 4 Bitcoin Scams

    https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-scams-fraud/

     

    Common Cryptocurrency Scams and How to Avoid Them

    https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/cryptocurrency-scams

     

    Definition of Terms

    2FA

    https://authy.com/what-is-2fa/

    APY

    https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/what-is-apy/

    Doxxing/Doxxed

    https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-doxing

    Hardware Wallets

    https://medium.com/radartech/hardware-wallets-explained-da8bd93ce801

    KYC 

    https://bit.ly/38DwT2E

    Metamask

    https://metamask.io/

    Phishing Scam

    https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-scams

    https://www.phishing.org/what-is-phishing

    Rug Pull

    https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/rug-pull

    VeeFriends

    https://veefriends.com/

    Whitelist

    https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/whitelist



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    25 m
  • NFTs Coming Soon on Instagram?
    Apr 25 2022

    Guess who’s joining the NFT wagon?

    In a recent conversation with SXSW, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teases the new addition to the NFT space — INSTAGRAM.

    Join Nils and Justin in this Ball and Blockchain podcast as they talk about how they think Instagram is going to integrate NFTs in their interface. Is it going to be an NFT marketplace? Or is it going to be like Twitter, where you can put up an NFT profile picture?

    Hop in to this conversation and let us know what you think!

     

    Show Notes:

    Instagram and NFTs

    https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/instagram-nfts/

     

    Twitter Blue (NFTs in Twitter)

    https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/how-to-turn-your-nft-into-a-verified-profile-picture-on-twitter/

     

    How Facebook Marketplace Works

    https://www.facebook.com/help/1889067784738765

     

    NFT.NYC | The Leading Annual Non-Fungible Token Event

    https://www.nft.nyc/



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    24 m
  • Getting in on the Apecoin Buzz
    Apr 14 2022

    Have you bought ApeCoin already?

    Tune in to this episode of the Ball and Blockchain as Nils Smith and Justin McKelvey talk about the recent buzz surrounding ApeCoin by the Bored Ape Yacht Club. They will also discuss where they see this token going in the future: whether it will be the next big thing or if it’s going to flop.. Well, who knows?

    So hop in this podcast episode to know more about the crypto world and join in on the conversation!

     

    Show Notes:

    ApeCoin

    apecoin.com

    Bored Ape Yacht Club

    boredapeyachtclub.com

    Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Collections

    Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT

    https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub

    Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT

    https://opensea.io/collection/mutant-ape-yacht-club

    Kennel Club NFT

    https://opensea.io/collection/bored-ape-kennel-club

    CryptoPunks

    larvalabs.com/cryptopunks

    Exchange Apps

    Voyager

    investvoyager.com

    Coinbase

    coinbase.com

    Gemini

    gemini.com

    Crypto.com

    crypto.com

    CoinMarketCap

    coinmarketcap.com

    ERC-20 Token

    ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc-20/

    DeFi

    ethereum.org/en/defi

     

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    24 m
  • Why Should I Invest in Crypto?
    Mar 17 2022

    When is the right time to invest in crypto? But why invest in crypto, though?

    These are just some of the few questions that Nils and Justin have been asked a lot. This episode of the podcast is a deeper analysis of crypto investing and what kind of crypto investments have Nils and Justin dived into — their experiences of the good and the bad, and where they see their investments going.

    Tune in to this Ball and Blockchain podcast to know more about the pros and cons of crypto investing and find out more about the crypto and blockchain world.

     

    Show Notes:

    Definition of Terms

    Altcoin

    https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/cryptocurrency/altcoins/

     

    Nodes

    https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-node

     

    Stablecoin

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stablecoin.asp

     

    Rug pull

    https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/crypto-scam-rug-pull-what-is-it/

     

    Fork

    https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-fork

     

    Dollar-cost averaging

    https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/three-things-know-about-dollar-cost-averaging

     

    DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

    https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-defi

     

    Crypto Exchange Platforms

    Coinbase

    https://www.coinbase.com/

     

    Gemini

    https://www.gemini.com/

     

    Crypto.com

    https://crypto.com/

     

    Swaps and Exchanges

    Spooky Swap

    https://spookyswap.finance/

     

    Pancake Swap

    https://pancakeswap.finance/

     

    Sushi Swap

    https://www.sushi.com/

     

    Crypto Coins/Tokens

    Litecoin

    https://litecoin.com/en/

     

    $STRONG

    https://strongblock.com/

     

    Luna (Terra)

    https://www.terra.money/

     

    Fantom (FTM)

    https://fantom.foundation/

     

    AVAX

    https://www.avax.network/

     

    XRP

    https://ripple.com/xrp/

     

    THOR

    https://www.thor.financial/

     

    DAG (Constellation)

    https://constellationnetwork.io/

     

    RING

    https://www.ring.financial/



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    25 m
  • Presearch and Decentralized Search Engines
    Mar 4 2022

    What’s your favorite search engine, and why is it Google?

    If you think this episode is about Google, then that’s just not going to be the case. But don’t go away just yet because in this podcast episode, Nils and Justin are going to talk about the up-and-coming search engine you’d definitely want to switch to.

    Tune in to this Ball and Blockchain podcast to know more about the Presearch search engine — what it’s about, how it works, and how it’s going to be the future of decentralized search engines in the world of Web3.

     

    Show Notes:

    Presearch

    https://presearch.org/

    Mainnet

    https://river.com/learn/terms/m/mainnet-bitcoin/

    What’s a node?

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/cryptocurrency/blockchain/what-are-blockchain-nodes/articleshow/88116308.cms

    RackNerd

    https://www.racknerd.com/

    Virtual Private Server (VPS)

    https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/vps#:~:text=A%20VPS%2C%20or%20virtual%20private,provider%2C%20that%20runs%20multiple%20VPSs.

    Application Programming Interface (API) 

    https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/api/what-is-an-api#:~:text=API%20is%20the%20acronym%20for,you're%20using%20an%20API.

    DuckDuckGo

    https://duckduckgo.com/

    Bing

    https://www.bing.com/

    Colin Pape

    https://ca.linkedin.com/in/colinpape



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    22 m
  • Should I Sell my Justin Bieber NFT?
    Feb 17 2022

    Nils just bought a Justin Bieber NFT! Should he sell it? Or should he keep it and wait for its value to go up?

    In this episode of the Ball and Blockchain podcast, Nils and Justin talk about what they look into when buying NFTs and what their considerations are when selling them as well!!

    Join them in this podcast of the Ball and Blockchain — and maybe, help Nils decide whether or not to sell his Justin Bieber NFT!



    Show Notes:

    OpenSea

    https://opensea.io/

    The Inbetweeners (Justin Bieber’s NFT)

    https://www.inbetweeners.io/

    World of Women

    https://worldofwomen.art/

    FilmmakerDAO

    https://www.filmmakerdao.com/

    What’s DeFi?

    https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-defi

    What is a Floor Price?

    https://support.opensea.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405171313171-What-is-a-floor-price-

    Crossover Collectibles

    https://www.crossovercollectibles.com/

     

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    26 m