August 16th, 2021 - Thatguyintech's weekly update

Aug 16, 2021

I spend a lot of time on twitter in between filming and video editing. It’s a great way to procrastinate because I get to keep up with all of the crazy new things happening every second of every hour of every day 😂 and I’ve made a lot of friends and talked to some cool people — it makes me feel like the entire internet is my office, and anyone who’s online is my coworker.

I’m trying a new format for the newsletter. Pithy headlines with a link at the front for you to click on if you’re interested in learning more. Most of the links will go to a tweet I made to summarize or take notes on the event, along with source links.

Let me know if you’ve enjoyed this week’s info by liking this post, leaving a comment, or sharing on Twitter! Thanks for reading :)

Nikhilesh De @nikhileshde

It's been a weird few weeks

Crypto & DeFi

link - check out a Q&A from the hacker who stole $600M of Ether
link - watch my new video about blockchains as a technology shift
link - understand how the Ethereum EIP-1559 upgrade has destroyed over $170M
link - watch a traveler in Prague teach a tattoo artist how to accept Bitcoin
link - earn cryptocurrency and NFTs by doing a “crypto quest”

NFTs

link - learn how NFTs can represent investor rights’ to royalties (Lil’ Dicky 👀)
link - check out a generative NFT with new colors added after each transfer
link - read about making $5k+ in NFT groups over a month as a UX designer
link - see the CryptoLeos project on OpenSea nearing 200 ETH volume
link - read about an LA-based NFT project attacked via “heist”