The Moment Combinerator | Monday, April 19th, 2021
Fantasizing about burning and combining moments for even moment-ier moments
Good Morning, it’s Monday (unfortunately).
It was a quiet weekend over the weekend on Top Shot, not even an announcement to keep the crowds going. Office Hours Friday keyed us in to some pretty interesting developments.
Goodbye and good luck to Usman Patel who’s stepping down from his community management role. Completely understandable, still too bad. He was a good a steward of the community.
Buyers & Sellers
-2700 Buyers
Looks like the kind of weekend people went outside and ignored Top Shot…hey, no drop, no problem.
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General Advice
We’re really only scratching the surface of NFTs here. Check out what Nike’s cooking up.
As I watched some of this weekend’s games it got me thinking about Top Shot, and moment selection. As fun and defining as basketball is by the moments, what’s really identifiable is the hot streaks.
In the final ten minutes of most competitive NBA games you might see someone take over, and become automatic from beyond the arc, or they just keep finding space, or some other way to make it look like there’s just no answer to their game.
I think it would be cool if there were a huge variety of moments, but not that many of them in number. Instead of 35,000-50,000 sets of just one moment, big name players have 4 or 5 from the same game, each listed to just 5,000.
Then, allow collectors to compile multiple moments from the same player/game. You could have a supercut, 2 minutes long, of the time your guy just went off. You could also burn or combine them into the game-winning shot (for example).
This would allow for:
Constantly minting new moments (wen pax? always)
Defined rarity (that gets rarer as they’re burned)
Create your own rares
Extension of “the moment” into a nearly full-game time-frame.
I have to imagine the only reason this doesn’t exist is that creating a moment is a lot harder than just copy/pasting the video clip highlight into the Moment box.
Links for Thinks
Remember when Dapper Labs was worth only $3.7 Billion? Now it’s valued at $7.5 billion….okay Roham now do that for my account!
European soccer wants to form a Super League made of only the best clubs. Of course, the continent is vehemently opposed because it’s something fun and they hate that over there, but I for one, would watch.
So true 👇 after about 25 moments in your collection it becomes unwieldy
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Wishing you prosperous trades on the marketplace, and I hope you cop a pack soon!