What I Learned This Past Week - 5.10.22

Going down the rabbit hole

I’m sharing with whoever’s interested in what I learn as I try to remain clear-eyed about the opportunities for real estate and web3.

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This Week’s Musings

The more I read about web3 the more I realize I have SO much more to learn. It’s not as if I was blind to web3, but I do feel like I wasn’t paying close enough attention, and all of a sudden it passed me by in the middle of the night.

Time to play a bit of catchup!!!

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Informative Articles I Read

• Crypto Just Became Real Estate’s Hottest New Thing. Here’s What That Means For Buyers, Sellers, and Developers (Forbes)

• Inside The Surprisingly Lucrative Business of a Metaverse Landlord, Where Monthly Rent Can Hit $60,000 Per Property (Fast Company)

• Can You Truly Own Anything In The Metaverse? A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains And NFTs Don’t Protect Virtual Property (The Conversation)

• Crypto Mortgages Let Homebuyers Keep Bitcoin, Put Nothing Down (Bloomberg)

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Innovate Companies I Discovered

• Blockchain Home Registry - Aims to be the web3 platform for the future of homeownership. Join now to claim the NFT of your home!

• Revonate - Smart contracts for renovation.

• Milo Credit - A digital bank offering crypto mortgages.

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People to Know (Those I Met Or Connected With Who Are Much Smarter Than Me)

• Laura Pamatian - CEO of HeightZero

• Jefferson Sanchez - CXO & co-founder of Revonate

• Zach Gorman - COO & co-founder of Torii/Blockchain Home Registry

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Random But Important Things I Stumbled On

• web 3 is going great - a ‘slightly’ contrarian perspective on web 3

• This Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, But Gone In A Flash (WSJ) - smart contracts + poor security = potent tool for crypto hackers

• Can A Digital Reality Be Jacked Into Your Brain? (Wired) - I’ve been wanting this since I first read Neuromancer!

• How Do You Tax NFTs? States Are In A Quandry (Axios) - The taxman cometh (starting in Washington state and Puerto Rico)

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