A Parody that Became a Company

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[00:02:07] - [First question] - What being a student of Hank Scorpio means

[00:03:54] - The genesis of the Bored Elon pseudonym and his prior parody accounts

[00:06:08] - What it is about pseudonymity that unlocks brand creation 

[00:07:28] - A deep look at the pros and cons of the social armor of a pseudonym 

[00:09:41] - Whether or not pseudonymity will have a larger footprint in the future

[00:11:12] - Interesting challenges of operating as Bored Elon and not a person

[00:13:38] - How he came across and moved into the NFT space

[00:15:04] - The way the gaming world is setup today and its various tiers of game

[00:16:46] - How many years it can take to build a AAA game like Call of Duty

[00:17:49] - His perspective on games with built-in tokenomics at launch

[00:20:29] - Whether we’ll see a shift in blockchain gaming back to free to play

[00:22:51] - Combining pseudonymity and gaming with BoredBox

[00:26:47] - Roughly how many blockchain game studios there are and the size of the space

[00:28:14] - Thoughts on distribution, minting, frequency and varying rarity of loot boxes

[00:31:59] - Tension between the traditional gaming industry and the blockchain one

[00:35:04] - The types of builders and developers found in blockchain game studios 

[00:36:21] - Where we are in the investment cycle and when we’ll see great games drop

[00:38:37] - If building your own chain to develop a game is a necessary feature

[00:40:07] - The biggest problems game developers encounter in the blockchain space

[00:42:14] - Examples of games that could benefit from a small player base

[00:43:21] - Will great games incentivize users to learn blockchain tech to play them

[00:44:56] - How it feels to launch BoredBox amidst a bear cycle

[00:46:22] - What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years