Author: Sebastian

Welcome back gang to the last day of the work experience! It’s been a wild ride. Really fun, too. But as all good things must come to an end given our linear understanding of time, so must the WEP end with it. And so here we are, on Sebastian Polge’s final Work Experience Program blog ever. So what did we do on this auspicious day?

Not much, actually. We went out to sushi and Spring Rolls. It was fun! I got the beef fried rice. Tasted good. It was wonderful actually meeting my host, Mr. Davis, and the rest of my peers in person though. We mostly just talked about college and plans for the future, along with some other more off-topic topics, but it was definitely enjoyable. Would do again.

 

And here we are on my second-to-last day of school! How exciting. Much fun. Anyways, not too too much to say about day. We mostly worked on preparing our final presentation and condensing all our research into three slides. The slides are:

• Intro to Blockchain – Jack​
• What are the different parts of the crypto ecosystem – Rohan​
• Use cases beyond cryptocurrency​
• NFTs – Rohan​
• Dapps – Jack​
• DAOs – Sarah​
• DeFi – Sebastian​
• Impacts on the world – Sarah​
• What does the future look like with blockchain/crypto – Sebastian​

My slides are pretty cool- DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance, and is how NFTs and blockchains do transactions without a bank or other intermediary. The future obviously is about the future of blockchains. I figure I’ll elaborate a bit more in tomorrow’s post, yeah? We’re going out for sushi and finalizing our presentation there, so that should be enjoyable. It was a great work experience!

And hey, we’re back from the long weekend with some more internship stuff! Today we researched smart contracts, which are somewhat confusing and a bit too complicated for me to reasonably explain right here.

As well, we watched a video by GaryVee where he interviews 12 people related to NFTs. The two points that I want to talk about today are:

1. He says (at 1:33:55), “DAO everybody uh who’s in the chat. There we go Sebastian, thank you.” So yeah. I had a minor heart attack there when he called out my name.
2. The more relevant point of the two is which people he called upon. All of them seemed to be the folk that believed in NFTs before they got big, and I would love to see an interview without that confirmation bias. Are there any famous investors that didn’t believe in NFTs that missed out on the bubble? What about them?

Anyways, those are my big takeaways. Peace!

We did team building today! By playing Valorant. We were all kind of terrible at it, since no one had really played before (which brought up the question of why we chose it in the first place) but it was still a blast. I think I averaged around 1 kill per death?

Well now, here we are again for today’s late-ish work experience blog post of Doom and Despair! What fun we shall have, ladies and gents. Anyways, for the most part what I did was collect a lot of articles (that I still need to read through, for the most part) and research Cardano, Wax , and OpenSea a bit more.

So what are those three things?

• Cardano is another market for selling NFTs. It was founded by one of the cofounders of Ethereum after he split from the company following a dispute with one of the founders over making the company for-profit (the split guy wanted it). Cardano is proof-of-stake, and uses Ada instead of Ether.
• Wax is a different market. It uses proof-of-work and is mostly designed to be more energy efficient than Ethereum and Bitcoins, despite using Ether as well. As well, it’s targeted more at gamers through partnerships with Capcom and Atari
• OpenSea, finally, uses Ether and proof-of-work. It’s big selling point is that it you can make items for free, though you need gas money to actually sell them.

And that’s the three markets. See you next time!

Alright, this one’s a shorter entry than usual because not much happened today. Mostly we’re gearing up for a presentation- I’ll post that PowerPoint up once we’ve finished it, but it’s about NFTs. As well, I’m working on researching a few other markets, other than OpenSea- I’ll post information about those two tomorrow. But, for not, feast your eyes on some more NFTs! These’ll be sold hopefully soon. Once I get some gas money. Anyways, see you next time!