#26: BORED, Co-Founder @ Bored Box | Building a blockchain gaming community by curating NFT assets from top games and helping people discover the coolest web3 games

Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders

We welcome Twitter anon legend - Bored Elon Musk - who shares his blockchain/web3 gaming expertise and gives a backstage perspective on his new project - BoredBox.

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/web3talks

Follow BORED & Mac:

https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk

https://twitter.com/MacBudkowski

TIMESTAMPS:

2:38 How Hyperloop inspired him to start a Bored Elon Musk account

4:41 How money transfers & running an anon account got him into crypto

7:35 What BoredBox is and how it was inspired by old-school gaming experiences

11:20 What’s the BoredBox business model

13:05 What’s their process that helped to protect their product from NFT flippers

17:00 How game NFTs are similar to gaming experiences from the 90s and today

18:15 How choosing the right segment of gamers helped them acquire users despite the bear market

23:15 How do they curate the right games

25:58 Why so many blockchain gaming models are not sustainable

29:24 How is blockchain gaming evolving

31:30 What’s the most significant difference between regular gaming and blockchain gaming

34:10 Why making your NFT assets like a magic sword usable in multiple games makes more sense than it seems to

36:37 How NFTs unlock new gaming business models

38:39 What are the biggest mistakes and coolest things in web3 gaming

40:28 How games have been onboarding people to new technologies

41:50 What one thing would he fix in web3

44:00 Most mind-blowing web3 projects he has seen

46:51 Where people can learn more about BoredBox

47:35 Ideas for the guests