Hello and welcome dear friends!
We are tipping off on the start of the 2021-2022 NBA season, the league opened last night with Nets-Bucks and Lakers-Warriors.
We currently have 4 (four!) Showcase Challenges going on right now:
NBA Rookie Year Showcase Challenge - deadline extended
That’s a lot of showcasing! Vintage Vibes and the team specific WNBA showcase are both guaranteed wins, with the other two serving as a lottery entry. For what it’s worth, I’ve only entered the Rookie Year Showcase.
Now for the bad news - the NBA tipped off yesterday, and Top Shot was down, with unexpected maintenance. And their day only got worse…
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General Advice
DISCORD HACKED?!?
Now the first thing to note is that Top Shot was not alone, a few other big NFT Discord servers also got messages like this 👇
It seems that some people did indeed click the link, connect a wallet, and spent .2ETH on “NBA Top Shot NFTs on ETH”.
Ouch!
This is the value of a centralized authority in crypto - while some people were foolish enough to think this was real, and wanted to spend real money on it, the powers that be will make them whole again. It goes to show, once again, how good an on-ramp Top Shot can be to introduce a broad audience to NFTs.
Between this disaster, and the site being down for the early part of the day, it’s clear that while Series 3 may be here, and the third NBA season in Top Shot’s history may be here, we’re not coming out of Beta anytime soon.
Links for Thinks
Steam banned blockchain games, Epic welcomed them. The impact from these decisions will be generational.
Let’s laugh at Zuck: Sotheby’s launched an NFT-only marketplace last week, named Metaverse.
Just a reminder that the NFL equivalent to Top Shot is coming, and that is going to be a BFD. Get on the waitlist here.
Thanks for joining us today! Who do you like this season? Hit reply and share your predictions for the season with the community.