July 27, 2022 | ± 4 minutes
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SoRare Baseball is here – and you can make $$
SoRare is a fantasy game that makes great use of NFTs. It started out with football (soccer) but has now expanded to MLB.
The company is a great counterargument to the “what’s the use case for your stupid monkey jpegs” line. You buy a card of a player you want in your team, and then you own it. You can swap, sell, move, or lose it if you want.
But mostly – you use the cards to fill your lineup for the week. If your team does well, you win prizes. If it doesn’t, you still own the cards, which have retained their value.
And these things are big money – an Erling Haaland unique NFT sold for around $600k earlier this year.
Adding SoRare to the super lucrative American baseball fantasy space is a big deal, and there are going to be a lot of opportunities here, as prices find equilibrium.
For example, at the moment, you can still get a Juan Soto Limited card for less than $200. He’s the second-highest-scoring player in fantasy baseball right now. The equivalent on the football marketplace – a Kylian Mbappe limited card – is 15x higher at around $3k.
If you want to try it out, use my affiliate link and get a free limited card. I get a free card too, if you do a bunch of unlikely stuff on the platform.
DALL-E 2 is open to everyone (soon)
If you’ve not heard of DALL-E 2, it’s an image-generating AI robot that can produce hilarious and bizarre results.
— Weird Dall-E Mini Generations (@weirddalle) June 15, 2022
And now it’s available to everyone. You can get on the waitlist (1m spots) now.
Send in your best results, and I’ll feature them in a future edition of the WC. Best one gets a My Little Pony gas mask.
Do your part in the war effort
No, I don’t mean this –
A Ukrainian woman has started a company selling solar panels that attach to your balcony and plug into a normal socket.
Aside from being quite a cool and easy thing, it’s aimed at reducing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, which has been a major problem.
640W isn’t a lot of power – a 70″ TV uses around 100W per hour – but they’re 10x better than a chia pet when it comes to conversation starters.
Buy the dip. And the queso. And the guac.
I like burritos. And I like money. Finally, someone is bringing the two together –
Fast, casual burrito dispenser Chipotle has partnered with Coinbase to produce some sort of game that lets you win up to $35k worth of crypto or heaps of free guacamole, one cent at a time.
I wasn’t able to test out the game because it shuts down at night for some reason.
It doesn’t seem like an obvious corporate partnership, but I suppose they share similar audience demographics.
Better than this one, anyway –
90s product collabs were insane.
— robpetrozzo.eth (@robpetrozzo) July 25, 2022
Blessed to have lived through it. pic.twitter.com/FIXeun6gtj
Give it a go and let me know if you win anything.
A robot dog worth $175m
Remember the crypto bro who threw away the wrong hard drive? The one with the passcode to unlock his 8,000 bitcoins?
He’s now got a plan to use some robot dogs, AI, and uh… hopes to recover the lost hard drive that’s been buried under a landfill for nine years.
The local council has told him to pound sand, but he’s hoping a newly audacious $13m plan will be enough to offset the catastrophic ecological damage it would cause.
Here’s how DALL-E 2 thinks it’s going to look –
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Cheers,
Wyatt
