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Did Coinbase Just hit the Jackpot with BTC Spot ETF Applications?

We discuss the recent BlackRock, Fidelity, CBOE, and more Bitcoin Spot ETF filings, and the SEC initial rejection and what it might mean for the asset class, investor access, the limited supply, the regulatory environment in the U.S. and also how Coinbase stands to win BIG with the contracts to be the Surveillance and custody partner for the world's largest asset managers as they move into the space more formally. Hosts: Chris J Snook, Travis Wright, with Donald LimThis episode is sponsored by Philippine Blockchain Week 2023 www.pbw.ph for tickets and info
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Is Bitcoin a non-lethal tool for warfare?

In this episode, Chris, Travis, and Donald summarize the thesis and potential implications of Jason Lowery’s Software book and thesis and how this is rapidly causing debate around the interwebs. 4 presidential hopefuls have made Bitcoin an election topic for 2024 in the U.S. This conversation and those around it will only get louder in the coming year. Plus, understanding the fifth domain, cybersecurity. Here we go it’s time for episode 14 of the Web3Show.
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This has changed search forever!

On this episode of the Web3 Show Chris Snook, Travis Wright, and a Donald Lim discuss the latest upgrade of ChatGPT4 browser and plugin store capabilities and it’s likely game-changing implications for brands and online search. Will conversational search replace intent based keyword search? Will be add rush to implement branded plugins within the store as both an offensive and defensive mandate for this new touch point along the customer journey? What aspects of search may be left alone and what happens as this arms race amplifies between Google and Microsoft?
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What is the value of creativity?

This week on Web3 Show Chris, Travis, and Donald debate and discuss the narrow and broader implications that the labor dispute between the Writers Guild of America and the studios and streamers. Is this a canary in the coal mine for many more industry disputes and will this one drag on indefinitely as both sides grapple with the disruptive forces of generative AI while they negotiate for the future of the business?
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The Global Scaling of Web3

Web3 Picks and Shovels companies are scaling globally in key outsourcing markets like the Philippines and provide scalable and affordable competitive solutions with a focused talent base that could be an emerging industry sector to watch or invest in as the months and years move ahead. On this episode Chris and Travis get a download from Donald Lim on the ground in SE Asia as they discuss the rapid growth of a company in the BPO (business process outsourcing) industry that is focused heavily on Web3 businesses and projects. Here we go!
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Web3 Lasagna & NFT Children’s Book

In this episode Chris lays out a framework for visually understanding how these layered technologies like AI, NFTs and the Metaverse all stack and work together to make a great web3 lasagna. Travis signs a new book deal to launch his latest publishing project and children’s book using NFTs and a business model borrowed from Charles Dickens and Donald Lim also shares his experience buying his first NFT in support of a Filipino artist. Here we go!
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The Future is Now: How A.I. is Already Changing the Way We Live and Work

In this episode 009 of Web3 Show on Fintech TV Chris, Travis and Donald flip the script from the potential dangers of AI discussed in length in episode 008 to the potential creative explosion that is about to happen as creatives learn to leverage AI tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT4 and more to unlock 10-100xx the workload and creative outputs of which they are capable. Travis Wright the resident Wizard of Web3 does some corny show and tell on his latest week long effort and it blows the minds of Donald Lim and Chris J Snook as they discuss the implications for this brand new I.P. and the real lessons behind it for other creative artists, designers, writers, and artists as they look to create studio quality outputs with skeleton crew staff or solo-preneurs. Get out some salt, pepper and butter for the corniest episode yet of the Web3 Show. Here we go!https://cornykingdom.com and https://discorn.gg
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Potential Dangers in the AI Arms Race in Parallel with a Creative Renaissance

On this week's episode of Web3 Show Chris J Snook and Travis Wright bring Donald Lim from Southeast Asia for a global perspective on the potential dangers and opportunities of AI. Its a deep dive entertaining and informative discourse as we see exponential speed of changes related to the integration of generative AI tools like ChatGPT4 Plug-ins and the impact it may have on culture as well as the incentive structures that need to shift. Chris and Travis use the word homogenization at least a half dozen times as they learn how to say it on air without stumbling and Nova covers over $400m worth of deal fundings in 41 seconds.  Here we go, Here we go!
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How to Use Kaiber AI, Regulations has Companies Moving Offshore & the Growth of Web3 Games

This week on Web3 Show Ep 007 we don't reference anything about James Bond, but Chris and Travis cover the White House's recent Economic Report on the economy and it's adversarial stance on all things web3 and crypto and what it might mean for innovation in the country moving forward. Travis our Web3 Wizard gives an entertaining and fast visual tutorial on how to use Kaiber AI to make killer videos in seconds from text or a still image. Donald Lim joins to take a deep dive look and debate the good, bad, and possibility of web3 games with play-to-earn models highlighting the lessons learned and possibilities unlocked by Axie Infinity over the past two years in the Philippines and what Japanese and Korean gaming companies are doing to advance the space  of play-to-earn and how these innovations just need time to fully develop. Nova gives us the latest round of web3 related early stage and growth stage fundings and which (if any) companies in the U.S. are making plans to move offshore in the aftermath of the regulatory overreach and bullying by SEC and other bodies. It is a packed episode of insights. Here we go!
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The Rise of ChatGPT-4 and What it Means for the Human Race plus March Mayhem with the Seismic Economic Shock

ChatGPT-4 is 500x larger in capability than its predecessor 3.5 and the implications are earth-shattering and potentially super-deflationary in the coming year. Travis Wright our resident Web3 Wizard tells you all about it in his segment while Chris and Travis banter about the macro and micro impacts, unintended consequences, and possibilities. Donald Lim brings in fresh data on the sentiment around the world for all things metaverse and the data is staggering. The month of March 2023 may go down as one of those seismic economic shock months in the history of global economics and this episode packs a tons of insights into fast and furious ten (call it 11) minutes. Here we go is episode 6 of the web3 show.
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Deal Closings after Bank Failures, Animation AI & CBDC Citizen Airdrop

In episode 005 of the Web3 Show, Travis Wright turns into a legit Web3 Wizard for a new segment and discusses how Corridor Digital just changed the game for animation using AI and a skeleton crew of 4 studio members. Donald Lim brings us a report from the Shanghai exchange on Chinas new CBDC citizen airdrop and deep integration into WeChat and Nova discussed deal closings in the wake of the banking collapse of SVB, Signature and Silvergate banks.
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The Creator Economy is Poised to Explode

In this week’s episode, we hear from Donald Lim on the state of the industry in Tokyo and also about a new NFT royalty sharing drop with one of the Philippine’s biggest music stars. Nova lays out a few fundings in the AI creative studio and avatar space that merit a further look and Travis shows us his work on progress on a new Beatles album he is forging with several different AI tools while Chris ties it all together in a rapid fire segment of the Web3 Show on FintechTV.
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