Bought Bitcoin for Weed, Built an NFT Bail Fund, ETHDenver
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0:00A: So initially I was introduced to Web3 blockchain and just in general in 2010. You know, I was introduced to Bitcoin by -- we used to have to buy Bitcoin in order to buy pounds of weed, I should say. And I didn’t know anything about Web3 in general. And then it kind of got to -- fast forward to 2019. One of my friends, he was incarcerated for murder. And we started a social justice NFT project called the Cyber Panther Party. And it was to bring awareness to his case because they wouldn’t allow him bail or anything like that. So we did that to where it was a bail fund. So if you held the NFT, the Cyber Panthers, you could get bailed out. So that was my introduction to it.
0:52B: And how was the results of that project?
0:55A: We sold out the project. He’s out of jail. He was
