August 31th, 2021 - Thatguyintech's weekly update

Last week, Thursday was a very special day.

How it started:

albert @thatguyintech

going into SF today babyyyyyyyy

How it ended:

albert @thatguyintech

got a job offer and a "Congrats, your item sold!" email in the same hour life is too good rn, i'm so grateful for all this amazing energy

It’s been almost 3 months since I started going full-time on crypto content creation and I still have so far to go, but it’s crazy to me how much momentum there is in the web 3.0 industry. I’ve talked to artists, creators, founders, community leaders, engineers, and everyone in-between. From all these conversations, I’ve seen the same overarching theme play out over and over again:

Keep putting out good work and you’ll keep getting good things back.

In 2017 and 2018, the crypto markets were saturated with ICO scams. It was so easy to buy into a scam-coin that would go to $0 in a few months. Now, after the past 3 years of development in the blockchain industry, no matter what you want to do you can probably find a long-term productive way to do it. Let me give you some examples..

Are you an engineer? Try building some smart contracts:

Patrick Collins @PatrickAlphaC

Be sure to check out me and @dabit3 September 1, at 1:00PM Eastern to go over making an #NFT with 100% on-chain metadata, dynamic with #chainlink data feeds, and indexed via @graphprotocol

youtu.beGenerating Dynamic NFTs On-chain using SVGs & Chainlink with Patrick CollinsMe and Patrick Collins of Chainlink look at how to generate dynamic NFTs using data from a Chainlink oracle

Do you enjoy community management? Join a DAO or a growing NFT project and help organize events and culture:

lil frecklez @lilfrecklez

COOL CATS TOWN HALL - 8/27/21 It was a big week for @coolcatsnft! Within 2 days the unique holder count went from 4.2K to 4.3K - closer to 50%! The team is hard at work on creating an even greater community space as well as utility for holders. And.. a DAO in the works? 👀

Are you a writer or curator? Create a newsletter to help people stay up to date with what’s going on:

Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush

The crypto world is moving too fast to keep up with. This means there is a *massive* opportunity for top-notch crypto curators. If you want to dive into learning more about the crypto world (and build an audience in the process), here's a playbook you can run with 🧵

Entrepreneur? Think about ways to share the fruits of NFT technology with the long tail of creators:

Kyle Samani @KyleSamani

0/ The single most important question in NFT land is How do you enable the long tail of creators - think 25M+ around the world - to generate say $50-100k / year in income, so they can self sustain A thread

The list goes on… and my point is, there has never been a better time to start looking at blockchain and crypto.

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I’ll share the story behind that new job offer soon, but for now please enjoy this snapshot of my creator journey so far:

Twitter

• 1617 tweets and 449 followers

• Top tweets from each month:

  albert @thatguyintech

  joining @FiatLuxDAO was a blur, in the best way 30+ ppl got $60k together in 2 days, ASYNCHRONOUSLY we used @SyndicateDAO @telegram @NotionHQ @gnosisSafe to win UC Berkeley’s first Nobel NFT, and donate to innovative research It’s 🤯 how fast 💰 can move with DeFi and DAOs

  

  Blockchain at Berkeley @CalBlockchain

  As the dust begins to settle following the close of @UCBerkeley's NFT auction yesterday and the excitement surrounding @FiatLuxDAO's win, we wanted to take this opportunity to explain what a DAO is and why it is important. https://t.co/uRKOIw8un2

  albert @thatguyintech

  @Twitter i made something for u 🥺

  albert @thatguyintech

  Is anyone out here exploring the @flow_blockchain? Hottest new blockchain for deploying NFT projects :) I created a guide for setting up the onflow javascript sdk and configuring it against an @AlchemyPlatform dashboard

  

  github.comGitHub - thatguyintech/flow-alchemy-hello-world: Get your first flow app hooked up to an Alchemy dashboard :)Get your first flow app hooked up to an Alchemy dashboard :) - GitHub - thatguyintech/flow-alchemy-hello-world: Get your first flow app hooked up to an Alchemy dashboard :)

YouTube

• 4900 views

• 222.8 hours of watchtime

• 178 subscribers

• My Top 10 videos:

So yeah.. it’s been very fun so far, but again, we have so much farther to go. I appreciate each and every one of you reading my newsletter, engaging with me, giving me feedback, and having a great time.

Lots of big things to come!!!