Dec 2022

4m 20s

The Punk Fighting for an Open Metaverse

About this episode

On today’s show we look at how an NFT collector is attempting to avoid a metaverse hellscape owned by Meta, courtesy of CoinDesk’s features reporter and assistant opinion editor, Daniel Kuhn.

Featured Story: Punk6529 Is Fighting For an Open Metaverse - Most Influential 2022 - CoinDesk

This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust with original music by Doc Blust & Colin Mealey.

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