Verse Talks· Folge 51
Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture
Freitag, 15. August 2025 · 2 h 01
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Shownotes
- Welcome Steve McKeon
- Navigating the dot-com boom and bust
- A winding path to tenure
- Discovering crypto
- Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation
- The birth of Collab+Currency
- A shift to consumer focus and NFTs
- Equity vs tokens
- The Art Blocks [500]
- Collectibility and end caps
- Traditional art, sculpture and Jim Dine
- Donald Judd and Marfa
- The birth of Glitch
- An investment thesis based on passion
- Collecting personally vs fund investment
- The future of the space and growth of digital culture
- Infrastructure companies, user lock-in and network effects
- Verse round table
- SOLOS points
- Terence Broad and (un)stable equilibrium
- Curatorial practice and thoughts on artist guidance
- What is an NFT artist
- Reclaiming the term NFT
- Artist highlights pt 1
- Catching up on fxhash
- Artist highlights pt 2
- Verse rundown
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