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Virtual vs Real Estate - $MANA vs US/Chinese Real-EstateIt's always been a dream of mine to have a creative space where artists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs and activists could congregate and meet. High costs of living made this impossible but we might be able to do something similar in the #metaverse, which is the next best thing. I've already seen some amazing stuff in Decentraland and Cryptovoxels despite it being very early. Very bullish on the direction the metaverse is going in right now. Once royalties and distribution of #NFTs get streamlined, there's no telling how big this thing could get. IRL, artists have already been displaced many times due to NIMBYism and a society that just can't be bothered to give creatives the decency of basic infrastructure and services. #Crypto gives a low-cost option of selling their work in ways that Web2 failed to do. So the goal of NFTs, Metaverse, and crypto-based creative projects should be to make as much cool things as possible, to draw attention away from traditional arts/entertainment venues and brick-n-mortar museums/galleries to shift demand towards these mediums over IRL ones. Real-estate prices are way overinflated right now due to decades of NIMBYism, mismanagement and corruption in the appraisal process and is waiting to pop any day now. The metaverse may be just the thing needed to accelerate that pop. This is good for most people, as a whole. Ignore the talking heads saying that a real-estate crash would hurt the poor. That type of trickle-down BS is what got us into our current situation to begin with and should be dismissed entirely. A deflated housing market will reduce rents and homelessness - it's just math. So in a way, the metaverse IS the market correction in the IRL real-estate market that we've been waiting for. Induced demand goes digital, countering the artificial scarcity of NIMBY practices in the real world, and will reach a new equilibrium of sorts after a few years. After that, it's anyone's game. But we get interesting content in the digital world while reducing rents IRL at the same time. A win-win. But my money is on $MANA, $ETH, and NFTs since they're small in size by comparison and has a lot of room to grow. That's how money is made. If you need proof, this chart showing MANA doing inversely well against the US and Chinese real-estate market right now. The US markets are printing a lot of money to keep their prices artificially high, but as inflation rises it's going to reach a point where growth will no longer be possible. And so far it's pointing in the direction that crash could result in crypto assets experiencing exponential growth as a result.
COINBASE:MANAUSDLong
by RyanTanaka
Virtual vs Real Estate - The Metaverse, NFTs, and Induced DemandMANA tripled in price as of the last few weeks. After China's real-estate market took a nose dive this year, a lot of people are anticipating the same might occur in the US in the near future as the repercussions of the former start to affect the latter. Noone is quite sure what's actually going to happen, but so far the forecasts haven't been looking too good for US assets and the USD in an overall sense. (Video link below for visuals, examples, and tours of the ideas below.) At the same time, we've seen a renewed interest in "virtual real-estate" -- even Mark Zuckerberg is talking about the "metaverse", so to speak. Are we about to see a spike in demand in these platforms in the near future? I do think that the future of crypto is not making money off of coins themselves, but taking a risk on the products built underneath them. Some quick impressions of each metaverse: Cryptovoxels - It looks and feels like "crypto Minecraft" -- the interface is a little rough and the loading times can sometimes be too much, but it does have a lot of energy and inspiration behind them. Kind of like what the "art districts" used to be like in the real-world, I think. Decentraland - been around the longest and it does show. They have onboarding tutorials, the UI isn't perfect but it's mostly worked out, and has a nice balance between goofyness and a professional development. (You can find the DOGE museum in the museum district there, for example.) But the rent here is not cheap, at least from what I've seen so far. (This is the site that uses MANA, btw.) Somnium Space - this metaverse feels like it was built by a bunch of MBAs who worked for a real-estate company prior. The listings, marketing, and style of it feels that way too -- and they're listing themselves as a "high-end" product so don't expect it to be cheap. But it does have a professional and clean feel to the whole thing, which may work for some. The SandBox - I didn't mention this in the video since they don't seem to have a working demo yet, but they have been successful in raising funds from investors as of this week. How they do, is TBD. But it's also proof that there is interest in the space even from an investor's standpoint. -- It's interesting looking at this stuff because the process of buying a "virtual home" itself isn't too different from what you'd do in the real world. (All the way down to height limits too. 😩) The parcel listings look almost exactly like you'd see at a real-estate company, even. But the political/cultural angle of these trends are interesting, also...historically, arts communities typically get pushed into less expensive neighborhoods as a matter of survival. But eventually their creativity and energy makes it a "cool" place to be, driving up demand. Because of NIMBYism and poor housing/zoning policies in the US, there's literally nowhere for the artists to go...so it seems like many of them have turn to virtual spaces as a place where they can control and present their works. I've long maintained that real-estate is a pretty overrating thing, especially in the US, but never really thought about the possibility of virtual-estate being a direct competitor to the real-estate sector until recently, really.
COINBASE:MANAUSDLong
by RyanTanaka
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Virtual vs Real Estate - The Metaverse, NFTs, and Induced DemandAfter China's real-estate market took a nose dive this year, a lot of people are anticipating the same might occur in the US in the near future as the repercussions of the former start to affect the latter. Noone is quite sure what's actually going to happen, but so far the forecasts haven't been looking too good for US assets and the USD in an overall sense. At the same time, we've seen a renewed interest in "virtual real-estate" -- even Mark Zuckerberg is talking about the "metaverse", so to speak. Are we about to see a spike in demand in these platforms in the near future? I do think that the future of crypto is not making money off of coins themselves, but taking a risk on the products built underneath them. Some quick impressions of each metaverse: Cryptovoxels - It looks and feels like "crypto Minecraft" -- the interface is a little rough and the loading times can sometimes be too much, but it does have a lot of energy and inspiration behind them. Kind of like what the "art districts" used to be like in the real-world, I think. Decentraland - been around the longest and it does show. They have onboarding tutorials, the UI isn't perfect but it's mostly worked out, and has a nice balance between goofyness and a professional decelopment. (You can find the DOGE museum in the museum district there, for example.) But the rent here is not cheap, at least from what I've seen so far. Somnium Space - this metaverse feels like it was built by a bunch of MBAs who worked for a real-estate company prior. The listings, marketing, and style of it feels that way too -- and they're listing themselves as a "high-end" product so don't expect it to be cheap. But it does have a professional and clean feel to the whole thing, which may work for some. The SandBox - I didn't mention this in the video since they don't seem to have a working demo yet, but they have been successful in raising funds from investors as of this week. How they do, is TBD. But it's also proof that there is interest in the space even from an investor's standpoint.
COINBASE:ETHUSDLong
by RyanTanaka