Most famously known as Austin Powers Jr. and the voice of Chris Griffin in Family Guy, Seth Green has made a very prominent name in the NFT space as well. He was set to debut his Bored Ape #8398 as the main character in a series he produced called “White House Tavern.” But a few days before the debut, Fred Simian, Seth’s Bored Ape NFT, got kidnapped.

In this podcast episode of the Ball and Blockchain, Nils and Justin talk about the story of how Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT got stolen and what their thoughts are on this huge news in the NFT space.

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Bored Ape Yacht Club

https://boredapeyachtclub.com/

Ethereum

https://ethereum.org/en/

Phishing Scam

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/identity-theft/phishing-scams

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin on Soulbound Tokens (SBTs)

https://nftnow.com/guides/soulbound-tokens-sbts-meet-the-tokens-that-may-change-your-life/

Articles on Seth Green’s Stolen NFT

Seth Green Show Based on His NFT Paused After NFT Is Allegedly Stolen

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/seth-green-stolen-nft-1234729399/

Seth Green's Bored Ape was stolen. Now he can't make his NFT show.

https://sea.mashable.com/entertainment/20441/seth-greens-bored-ape-was-stolen-now-he-cant-make-his-nft-show

Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/seth-green-bored-ape-stolen-tv-show

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Winter is coming.

This definitely seems like the same horrific thing, whether or not you’re a Game of Thrones fan. In the crypto world, crypto winter is what happened just a few days back. The current crypto market crash news left every crypto investor devastated because it involved one of the most significant stablecoins apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum. The TerraUSD, powered by Terra Luna, crashed last May 9th, and everyone was left speechless.

Jump into this episode of the Ball and Blockchain podcast as Nils and Justin talk about the market crash, their thoughts about when it happened, and their next steps moving forward.

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Show Notes:

Terra Luna

https://www.terra.money/

TerraUST

https://www.coinbase.com/price/terrausd

Presearch

https://presearch.org/

Relevant Articles on the Crypto Market Crash

The crypto crash, explained

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/crypto-crash-2022-explained?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Terra Luna crash: What are ‘stablecoins’ and how stable are they really?

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/25/terra-luna-crash-what-are-stablecoins-and-how-stable-are-they-really

Luna Crypto Crash: How UST Broke and What's Next for Terra

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/luna-crypto-crash-how-ust-broke-and-whats-next-for-terra/

The Real Reasons Behind the Crypto Crash, and What We Can Learn from Terra’s Fall

https://time.com/6177567/terra-ust-crash-crypto/

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One of the reasons people are hesitant to jump into the crypto space is the possibility of scams. And that is what this podcast episode is all about.

Here, Nils and Justin help you avoid getting yourself into being scammed by sharing a few of their firsthand experiences and, ultimately, what they have learned from them. This conversation is going to be very insightful, especially with the recent Bored Ape Yacht Club phishing scam on Instagram!

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Show Notes:

Bored Ape Yacht Club: HACKED

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion

Watch Out For These 4 Bitcoin Scams

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-scams-fraud/

Common Cryptocurrency Scams and How to Avoid Them

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/cryptocurrency-scams

Definition of Terms

2FA

https://authy.com/what-is-2fa/

APY

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/what-is-apy/

Doxxing/Doxxed

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-doxing

Hardware Wallets

https://medium.com/radartech/hardware-wallets-explained-da8bd93ce801

KYC 

https://bit.ly/38DwT2E

Metamask

https://metamask.io/

Phishing Scam

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-scams

https://www.phishing.org/what-is-phishing

Rug Pull

https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/rug-pull

VeeFriends

https://veefriends.com/

Whitelist

https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/whitelist

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Guess who’s joining the NFT wagon?

In a recent conversation with SXSW, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teases the new addition to the NFT space — INSTAGRAM.

Join Nils and Justin in this Ball and Blockchain podcast as they talk about how they think Instagram is going to integrate NFTs in their interface. Is it going to be an NFT marketplace? Or is it going to be like Twitter, where you can put up an NFT profile picture?

Hop in to this conversation and let us know what you think!

Show Notes:

Instagram and NFTs

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/instagram-nfts/

Twitter Blue (NFTs in Twitter)

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/how-to-turn-your-nft-into-a-verified-profile-picture-on-twitter/

How Facebook Marketplace Works

https://www.facebook.com/help/1889067784738765

NFT.NYC | The Leading Annual Non-Fungible Token Event

https://www.nft.nyc/

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Have you bought ApeCoin already?

Tune in to this episode of the Ball and Blockchain as Nils Smith and Justin McKelvey talk about the recent buzz surrounding ApeCoin by the Bored Ape Yacht Club. They will also discuss where they see this token going in the future: whether it will be the next big thing or if it’s going to flop.. Well, who knows?

So hop in this podcast episode to know more about the crypto world and join in on the conversation!

Show Notes:

ApeCoin

apecoin.com

Bored Ape Yacht Club

boredapeyachtclub.com

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Collections

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT

https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub

Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT

https://opensea.io/collection/mutant-ape-yacht-club

Kennel Club NFT

https://opensea.io/collection/bored-ape-kennel-club

CryptoPunks

larvalabs.com/cryptopunks

Exchange Apps

Voyager

investvoyager.com

Coinbase

coinbase.com

Gemini

gemini.com

Crypto.com

crypto.com

CoinMarketCap

coinmarketcap.com

ERC-20 Token

ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc-20/

DeFi

ethereum.org/en/defi

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When is the right time to invest in crypto? But why invest in crypto, though?

These are just some of the few questions that Nils and Justin have been asked a lot. This episode of the podcast is a deeper analysis of crypto investing and what kind of crypto investments have Nils and Justin dived into — their experiences of the good and the bad, and where they see their investments going.

Tune in to this Ball and Blockchain podcast to know more about the pros and cons of crypto investing and find out more about the crypto and blockchain world.

Show Notes:

Definition of Terms

Altcoin

https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/cryptocurrency/altcoins/

Nodes

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-node

Stablecoin

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stablecoin.asp

Rug pull

https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/crypto-scam-rug-pull-what-is-it/

Fork

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-fork

Dollar-cost averaging

https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/three-things-know-about-dollar-cost-averaging

DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-defi

Crypto Exchange Platforms

Coinbase

https://www.coinbase.com/

Gemini

https://www.gemini.com/

Crypto.com

https://crypto.com/

Swaps and Exchanges

Spooky Swap

https://spookyswap.finance/

Pancake Swap

https://pancakeswap.finance/

Sushi Swap

https://www.sushi.com/

Crypto Coins/Tokens

Litecoin

https://litecoin.com/en/

$STRONG

https://strongblock.com/

Luna (Terra)

https://www.terra.money/

Fantom (FTM)

https://fantom.foundation/

AVAX

https://www.avax.network/

XRP

https://ripple.com/xrp/

THOR

https://www.thor.financial/

DAG (Constellation)

https://constellationnetwork.io/

RING

https://www.ring.financial/

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What’s your favorite search engine, and why is it Google?

If you think this episode is about Google, then that’s just not going to be the case. But don’t go away just yet because in this podcast episode, Nils and Justin are going to talk about the up-and-coming search engine you’d definitely want to switch to.

Tune in to this Ball and Blockchain podcast to know more about the Presearch search engine — what it’s about, how it works, and how it’s going to be the future of decentralized search engines in the world of Web3.

Show Notes:

Presearch

https://presearch.org/

Mainnet

https://river.com/learn/terms/m/mainnet-bitcoin/

What’s a node?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/cryptocurrency/blockchain/what-are-blockchain-nodes/articleshow/88116308.cms

RackNerd

https://www.racknerd.com/

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/vps#:~:text=A%20VPS%2C%20or%20virtual%20private,provider%2C%20that%20runs%20multiple%20VPSs.

Application Programming Interface (API) 

https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/api/what-is-an-api#:~:text=API%20is%20the%20acronym%20for,you're%20using%20an%20API.

DuckDuckGo

https://duckduckgo.com/

Bing

https://www.bing.com/

Colin Pape

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/colinpape

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Nils just bought a Justin Bieber NFT! Should he sell it? Or should he keep it and wait for its value to go up?

In this episode of the Ball and Blockchain podcast, Nils and Justin talk about what they look into when buying NFTs and what their considerations are when selling them as well!!

Join them in this podcast of the Ball and Blockchain — and maybe, help Nils decide whether or not to sell his Justin Bieber NFT!

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OpenSea

https://opensea.io/

The Inbetweeners (Justin Bieber’s NFT)

https://www.inbetweeners.io/

World of Women

https://worldofwomen.art/

FilmmakerDAO

https://www.filmmakerdao.com/

What’s DeFi?

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-defi

What is a Floor Price?

https://support.opensea.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405171313171-What-is-a-floor-price-

Crossover Collectibles

https://www.crossovercollectibles.com/

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