052. Wen NFTs?
Howdy partners,
How are you? Good? Glad to hear it. We’re cruising along on this day of 🐪s. Of course, for those of us who have forsaken the land of traditional employment in the pursuit of digital bucks full-time, all days and all nights are slowly blending together 😵. Anyone else in the same boat? Still scrolling Discord at 4:30 am? We see you, @shubhang.
Any who, might as well keep scrolling for 7 more minutes! Here’s today’s bits:
Guest cover image by @jay_dee
Bits on the menu tonight:
BuzzClout: Exclusive updates from @bitcloutsignal and by @bithunt ⚡️
Ubiquitous UX Drops: the Maebeam flick we have been waiting for
The Cloutifieds: Announcing… NF50 ⌛💣
Up & Coming Creators: Our weekly watchlist of future ‘clout legends 🐂
Diamondhands’ drops 💎
#1 BuzzClout
First things first. In partnership with @bitcloutsignal, here’s an exclusive look at today’s movers and shakers:
Next up, a daily round up of the projects on BitClout coming to you live from our partners at @BitHunt:
#2 Ubiquitous UX Drops: the Maebeam flick we have been waiting for
What’s the good word in developer land today, you may ask? Still relatively quiet from the core team, as the cloutiverse holds its breath for NFTs. @Maebeam did pipe up with the first bit of news in a minute, noting that the core team is partnering directly with @flickapp to work on better security and scalability for iOS apps. 👮
Beyond the fact that better security and scalability are always a good thing, this also serves as a solid reminder that the core team has zero intentions of manning their posts at the helm of BitClout forever. In other words? They’re more than happy to let other folks build apps for mobile, and to take all other components of the BitClout development process in time.
And, as we see everyday, that’s exactly what’s happening. One notable project on our radar from @tijn and @brootle is @searchclout. Side note, we’re gonna stop calling folks ‘non-core’ devs because frankly, many of them are becoming pretty core 👊. (you guys are the core to our blockchain friendship at least).
What is @searchclout? Think of it as the leading solution to make BitClout content more searchable. The premiere BitClout search engine, if you will. Operating in beta on tijn.club, you can give it a spin here. Use it to quickly search all BitClout posts based on keywords. You’ll find top results ordered by engagement and other as-of-yet proprietary metrics. You can also add a variety of search criteria, such as focusing on the past 24 hours of content or excluding certain users from results. *searches all my absolute heater posts from 2 months ago*
For more FAQ on @searchclout functionality, the team has posted some helpful basics in this thread. For now … get to searching yourselves!
#3 The Cloutifieds: NF50 ⌛💣
… Pardon the interruption! ⚠️ This is a very special #cloutified. The @BitsTODAY team is excited to tease our first NFT drop… NF50!
We know, your imagination is running wild 😏. Trust that you’ll see this bad boy in the wild sometime very soon. Although we could use @lazynina’s help speeding things along on the BitClout NFT marketplace… tbd.
⚠️ Back to our regularly scheduled programming…
#4 Whale Watching: @dharmesh capsizes @craig 🏴☠️☠️
*sirens blaring in the distance* Man your battle stations, sailors! It’s time to weigh anchor ⚓. There’s been a new blue 🐋 spotted in these waters! 🌊 The time is now to man your harpoons and front load your best content for BitClout…
@dharmesh has rocketed up to the #3 creator position on ‘Top Creators All Time’ list today, supplanting @craig as the number one active creator after buying a HUGE whack of his own coin. Looks like this 🐳 is hungry for more than plankton 😋.
Of course, @dharmesh isn’t exactly *new* to BitClout. He’s already invested $1M into different creators and projects across BitClout, and even provided venture capital to @BitSwap off-platform. And as the Founder and CTO of HubSpot, a ~$30B company, @dharmesh is no stranger to spearheading and supporting digital innovation. (Editor’s note: their “make my persona” tool slaps btw)
While we’ve seen many folks rise the ranks of the top creator table (anyone remember the reign of @Da5id?), we hope and trust that the reign of @dharmesh will be peaceful and productive. If he stays the course, it seems his main focus is supporting builders across BitClout 💪.
OK, all 🐳 jokes aside for a second, there are a few questions that @dharmesh’s investment in himself raised today that are worth further consideration.
For one… should you have a substantial investment in your own creator coin? That’s a q that creators everywhere grapple with. While folks will have to decide for themselves. Here are @dharmesh’s constructive thoughts on the matter:
Secondly, does it make sense to glorify top creators by coin price on the homepage of BitClout.com? As @dharmesh illustrated today, and as many others have tried to game, you can buy your seat as a ‘top creator’ on BitClout. Though we’re not saying this is true of @dharmesh, theoretically you could do this without engaging the community at all. Should we focus on creator coin prices as indicative of 🔝 status?
As always, we’d love to hear from you on these questions. Now back to the 🐳 jokes. Grab your spyglasses; we’ll keep a keen eye off the starboard side of this vessel if y’all grab port for more @dharmesh sightings 👀.
#5 Up & Coming Creators: Our weekly watchlist of future ‘clout legends 🐂
You know what time it is. Another 🐪 day, another chance for us to spotlight some of the finest folks on BitClout. These are creators who are quickly making a name for themselves and are (we think) on the cusp of a breakthrough to interstellar stardom. Let’s give em’ a lil’ boost, shall we?
Visual Artists: @AnnaNatter makes a big 💦
@AnnaNatter is a stunning 3D visual artist who joined BitClout just 5 days ago. Beyond modelling and carving her work on digital canvases, she’s already carved out a strong following as well as investor roster here on BitClout. Her work, which features ethereal characters and impressive mastery of Adobe Substance 🎨, is already in high demand on a number of NFT marketplaces such as hic et nunc 📈.
We can’t wait to see her shine bright as NFTs become native to BitClout. From the looks of it, she’s also been the first artist to sign with @NFTPlus, which looks like a new NFT x BitClout agency. We don’t have many deets on that, but are excited for @AnnaNatter’s NFTs regardless of where they drop!
Young guns: @Goodin sharpens his shipping skills 🚢
It’s a race to the bottom! No, not in price… in age.
Many of the sharpest devs and most compelling influencers on BitClout seem like they’re constantly trying to outdo each other in terms of who can be the youngest. One of the latest frontrunners? @Goodin. Hailing from the great state of Kansas, @Goodin is shipping multiple great projects at once at the ripe age of 14.
The first project of @Goodin’s that caught our attention was @clout_link, which offers BitClout users a way to shorten and track their profile URLs into a new custom link — including emojis! Here’s @nvo’s: clout.link/✨
@Goodin is working on all kinds of other solutions for clouters, too, including a platform to buy domains with $clout, as well as one of his larger projects, @bitify, which launched earlier today, is a one-stop-shop for BitClout users to integrate Discord into their projects as well as to foster accountability even off-chain. Check it out here.
Compared to some of the other famous youths on clout, he’s still flying a little under the radar. We think that ‘ought to change. 🤔
Thanks for spending time, fam. We’ll catch you on our next spin around the cloutiverse 🌌.
Au revoir,
BitsTODAY