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Heyoooo friendos,
Welcome to @BitsTODAY edition 069. Nice 😏.
Don’t worry, we’ll keep things (largely) above board. Now that @scottco’s daughter (Libby, age 13) has launched an NFT pfp series on BitClout (shout out @puffles) we gotta keep things PG13 in these pages.
We’ll still try to sneak in a couple easter eggs for you 😉. It is our vintage Friday night happy hour after all. So grab a beverage of your choice and kickback, we’ve got lots of tales from the cloutiverse to regale you with on this fine Friday 🍸.
Before we dive in? We hope many of you are enjoying @Cloutsgiving in NYC. Keep your eyes peeled for a wild @nvo. He’s out there enjoying the festivities and hangin’ with the homies 🤙.
Bits on the menu tonight:
- BuzzClout: Exclusive updates from @bitcloutsignal and @bithunt ⚡️
- Ubiquitous UX drops: living off 💎s is about to get a lot easier 📈
- NFT showcase: Mind-blowing new NFT art and utility on BitClout 🤯
- Project in focus: Introducing @Doodles academy season #1 🐕🏫
Diamondhands’ drops 💎
#1 BuzzClout
Let’s get this party started! While we’re warming up, which creators have already been partying today? @bitcloutsignal’s got the movers & shakers covered:
Now that the drinks are flowing, let’s make a toast to the community projects that are making waves, too. @bithunt, care to say some words about who’s hot and who’s not?
#2 Ubiquitous UX drops: Diamonds get the clout flowing
Beyond the verifiable whirlwind that has been the launch of NFTs on BitClout, there haven’t been a massive amount of updates on the UX front. One piece of important news that came out on Wednesday after we’d already shipped Edition 068 to the editor’s shop? Soon you’ll have the option to receive your 💎s paid out directly in $clout, rather than denominated in the creator coin corresponding to the account that gave you them:
While this may seem like a small change with $clout prices where they are and most diamonds worth about a cent, in a future where $clout prices are up alongside DAUs, it’s not inconceivable that diamonds could become a meaningful income stream for creators. For some creators like @maz, they already are a non-negligible stream of value. And the occasional dollop of diamonds from our homie @articuno for hitting the global feed of course doesn’t hurt either.
As diamonds become both more prevalent and valuable, more seamless ways to cash diamonds out, whether to pay bills or invest in other creators, is key to a more frictionless experience on BitClout overall. Hence, paying 💎s out in $clout rather than in creator coins should help improve $clout flows on the platform and attract more users. We’re all for this, and wonder whether this will be purely an option for users or whether all 💎s will now automatically be paid in $clout vs. creator coins.
The one downside is that as long as there’s a stigma against selling your own creator coin, 💎s previously offered creators one of the only backchannels to easily monetize their coin assets, in this case by giving them away easily and without being put under the microscope. Perhaps we’ll still have the option to gift diamonds in our own creator coin. If no, we’ll have to come up with other innovative and socially accepted ways to leverage our investments in ourselves 💭
While we wait for this change to officially roll out, it looks like the core team has been hard at work on notifications too, which have been notoriously buggy since BitClout launched a mere ~3 months ago 🔔:
#3 NFT showcase: Mind-blowing new NFT art and utility on BitClout 🤯
First and foremost in our friday NFT showcase, we wanted to give a huge shout out to the OG @Ghozt, whose new self-titled profile picture series has been making a huge 💦 on BitClout. @Ghozt is a Berlin-based digital artist who has built a career around his craft and whose work is equal parts evocative, mysterious, and supreme detail.
After closing the auction for serial #1 in his series for 25 $clout yesterday, which was celebrated on a live clubhouse room led by @Ghozt and @FreeMrktCptlst, @Ghozt’s second edition of the series dropped last night. And it’s 🥵🥵🥵. Here’s Jade Eclipse in all its glory 🤯:
Another project that caught our (as well as mama @maebeam’s eyes? ❤️). @AnneSophie is crushing it by integrating the fundraising and production for an IRL film via NFTs on BitClout:
How is @AnneSophie trying to solve for fundraising using BitClout as a novel model? By auctioning off NFTs that provide special access to the film and help fund the project 💪:
We love seeing innovative uses of NFTs like these, where artists combine art with real-world benefits for owners. We’re still in the 1st inning as far as figuring out what NFTs can be used for is concerned; we can’t wait to see how many home runs people are cracking by the bottom of the 9th ⚾.
Another NFT vertical that’s been crushing it? Photography 📷. BitClout household names like @PaulMP, @samhorine, @DanoPhoto, @haunholter and others have been releasing some of their finest work. We may be biased, but we think a ton of it is markedly undervalued, too 📈. Here are a few of our favorite drops from the past few days:
#4 Project in focus: Introducing @Doodles academy season #1 🐕🏫
While NFTs may be all the rage right now, there’s still lots of creators working in the shadows and building for the long term. @Doodles is one of them; he’s carved out a massive sphere of influence, and now he’s ready to share his secrets with other enterprising, up & coming creators. Today, we’re excited to partner with @Doodles to announce the first cohort of ‘@Doodles academy,’ which promises to be the Y combinator of BitClout. Creators in the first cohort will learn from @Doodles and a bevy of other BitClout experts, iteratively forming a strategy to take BitClout by storm over the life of the program 📙.
Who are the first creators featured in the inaugural cohort? @BitsTODAY has the exclusive today — here are their bios!
After over 100 applications and dozens of interviews. I’m thrilled to introduce you to the first cohort of DoodlesAcademy. We will begin with 5 creators today, and 5 at the end of the weekend. TThe cohort consists developers, artists, marketers, and entrepreneurs. They come from 5 different countries and are united by 1 common cause, to help the community deliver on Bitclout’s vision. DoodlesAcademy aims to unlock the potential of creators on bitclout, and these creators have such amazing potential! We look forward to everyone getting to know them better over the coming month!
@petern is the founder of @InClout. You can find him deving things on the BitClout blockchain. Masters student in CompSci at Boston University. Main interests include fintech, theory, and finding simple solutions to difficult problems.
@Millimeter is a photography gallery and NFT consultancy that leverages technology to amplify the reach of photographers online and in the real world, blending traditional techniques and showcases with the most current platforms.
@gabrieldisante is a Toronto based Celebrities, Vogue Italia commercial photographer featured in more than 250 international publications with more than 12 years of experience in the industry. Currently building 3D virtual experiences for music, retail, art, celebrities and NFT industry. His clients have included celebrities such as Lebron James, Daniel Radcliffe, Sean Paul, Ziggy Marley, Tristan Thompson and many more.
@comfortisforwimps Blogger, Jessica O’Reilly, is an advocate for opening minds and getting people thinking and feeling dread and discomfort. She is a Content Creator and Social Media Marketer in the self-help space, working alongside New York Times Bestselling Author, Mark Manson. Her personal belief is that the only way to overcome boring insecurities is to first do things that push them into the spotlight to dance.
@Menajem is from Colombia. In April 2020, he lost his brother Sholem. He was sad and depressed and needed change. One day he came back to the place of the accident and came home with a new perspective on life. Follow his journey on bitclout towards a life in search of meaning.
Alrighttty, that about does it for today’s edition! We’ll see you back here real soon to recap the weekend and the @Cloutsgiving event in NYC ✌️.
Have a swell one,
@BitsTODAY
