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Cofounder - @book_io & @stuff_io : Building the future of digital media.
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Today is an extra day, so I wanted to use the time to give away a book, The Gutenberg Bible.
To enter: Like, Follow, & Repost.
#OwnYourBooks
$BOOK
#Cardano
#KnowledgeIsPower
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I believe
@IOHK_Charles
is the best speaker in all of blockchain. Very grateful to have him attend our conference.
Special thanks to
@IOHK_Charles
for speaking at Con and inspiring us.
Empower creators. Own your digital media.
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I have a whole bookmarks folder called "not gonna age well" for anyone FUDing or our team.
Checked it out the other day, and some of our major haters aren't even on X anymore.
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That which matters most...
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Since this book talks about having a generous spirit, I guess I better give one away.
To Enter: Like, Repost, and follow
@girolmao
.
P.S - You've been tagged Mike, your turn to give something away. 😉
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Since it’s a big one, I’ll choose a winner tomorrow
Today is an extra day, so I wanted to use the time to give away a book, The Gutenberg Bible.
To enter: Like, Follow, & Repost.
#OwnYourBooks
$BOOK
#Cardano
#KnowledgeIsPower
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Normie: “There is no use case for blockchain”
Me: “You have any kindle books?”
Normie: “Yes.”
Me: “I’ll buy any of those books, right now, for 5K”
Stares.
Keep building. People are starting to get it.
#cardano
#Ethererum
#onpolygon
#Algorand
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Special thanks to everyone who came to Con.
Very grateful to meet so many awesome people and for all the amazing conversation.
Now back to building the future of books.
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Before there was Book, before there was a community, there was a support system that allowed crazy entrepreneurs to build 100 hours a week and talk nonstop about the future of media.
Thanks babe.
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Nice to see
@book_io
get a mention in
@FortuneMagazine
alongside brands like
@Nike
and
@Starbucks
.
Full article:
Own your digital books!
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So $BOOK hit a new ATH today. It’s cool to see.
But the team doesn’t sit around high fivin.’
All my conversations today were about building, scaling, and publishers.
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Just sayin… you should go get a Gutenberg if you don’t have one.
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I went a bit wild on SICK by
@tomleveen
when it dropped because the cover art was so much fun.
Lots of respect for Tom, so I want to give away a book.
To enter: Like, Repost, and follow
@tomleveen
.
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Just getting started. Still need to make things more convenient for normies.
Following its recent run, an impressive 93% of $BOOK holders are now in profits.
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If you want to disrupt the status quo, give back to the creators.
For audiobooks,
@audible_com
takes 80% of retail.
@book_io
takes only 30%, plus creators get ongoing royalties on secondary sales.
#web3
#ownyourbooks
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Gonna commit to at least 30 minutes of exercise and at least 30 minutes of reading every day. Anyone else wanna join the
#3030
club?
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Bought a book by
@jackfriks2
. Minutes later I’m reading on the
@book_io
mobile app.
Later, I can pass this book along to a friend or sell it to anyone on the planet.
The future of books and digital media is so bright.
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It ain't a meme coin, cuz it has utility. It's a book.
Meme coins pay homage to a meme. But $BEARD is that thing.
Now imagine it was an album, an episode, or a podcast.
First digital asset of its kind.
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Multiple CEX calls from the beach.
Is that CEX on the beach?
Also, not sure if I even know how to vacay anymore.
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The
@book_io
Con was truly amazing. I got to talk to many real OGs in books, music, and crypto.
Industry leaders think in years and decades.
Zoom way out.
Then, build like hell.
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Sent 3 eBooks to my wife today that she wanted to read.
Super easy to do on .
Impossible to do on
@AmazonKindle
.
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95% of the time, I run the
@book_io
X account.
@jasonmanske
runs the
@stuff_io
X account.
Is it a competition? Of course.
Let the games begin.
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.
@IGGYAZALEA
's $MOTHER token has no utility. It's a meme.
But imagine if each coin was an actual album or music video.
All of this is possible with what we're doing with
@stuff_io
.
That's why $BEARD was important - it was a blueprint for what's possible.
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First phase of the roadmap was the ownership phase.
The next phase is the convenience phase.
If you have an email and a credit card, you should be able to own your digital goods.
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These books are banned for billions of people around the world.
Well, they were.
Unburnable. Unbannable. Unchangeable.
Minting today on
#Cardano
at 3PM EST.
“It's crucial to highlight that this does not imply religious endorsement. Instead, it signifies our faith in the significance of knowledge and the value of having access to a diverse range of literature,” added Joshua Stone, CEO of
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I give Manske a hard time...
But this man is a real leader and a total MVP for
@book_io
.
Give some love to
@jasonmanske
for representing at The London Book Fair with a fantastic speech.
#LBF2024
Own the eBooks and Audiobooks you buy.
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Just a constant stream of credit card payments for buying eBooks - that you actually own - on
@book_io
.
Easy social login will come next.
Everyone should be able to buy and actually own their eBooks and Audiobooks.
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So much awesome stuff happening at
@book_io
HQ it's kinda hard to keep up with the announcements.
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Getting the whole team together for Con has truly been awesome. So many laughs and great ideas flying all over the place.
Grateful to be constantly learning from smart people in the space.
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Played with the dev version of the
@stuff_io
app yesterday… from easy signup using social logins, to listening to music.
Amazing the amount of tech our team has built in a short time period.
Own your stuff.
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There will be billions of digital media assets (books, videos, music, etc.) on the chain.
Years from now, we will look back at the lack of ownership of our digital goods, and think it's crazy... Like when I try to explain the "house phone" to my kids.
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So many exciting things are happening at HQ that sometimes I have to clarify with the team: "Wait, which mind-blowing thing are you referring to?
It's a good problem.
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Authors deserve a better split, more data, and access to their readers.
Musicians should make money on their music again
I like my creators wealthy. They create more cool shit.
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All hands meeting today. Listened to
@b00kdev
give the update on the past month. Incredible.
So much built in 30 days.
Plus we added 2 new team members today.
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“Nobody in here can tell you what a stream adds up to. It’s a fraction of a penny. It’s a third of a penny,” he said. “So you get 100 million streams and you don’t make a million dollars. So what the f— is that?"
-
@SnoopDogg
@stuff_io
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I’m pretty sure I have one of the best jobs in the world.
Every damn day something exciting is happening.
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Touch some grass they said.
To all the other crypto dads… respect. ✊🏻
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Cardano season is coming 🔥
Pass it on.
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FYI:
@stuff_io
is taking all digital media onto the blockchain.
If a creator wants to sell their art, music, film, podcast, etc.... they should have the tools to do so.
We now have digital scarcity. It changes everything.
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FYI…
You can be super bullish on a project without shitting on other projects.
Be kind out there in web3 and build together.
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Feeling lucky that I get to work in web3.
Special thanks to the entire team that works nonstop.
And to the
@ogbook_club
that steps up time and time again.
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In the office on a Sunday.
1. Cuz I love my job.
2. We have more opportunities than I've ever seen in all of my career. Overwhelmed with inbound.
3. Selfishly... I want ALL the books.
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Pretty cool to see all the delegators.
At , we like to do fun things for holders. Now we get to do that for delegators too.
What crazy fun ideas do you have for surprises for delegators?
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With my 6 year old:
6yo: what is that graph?
Me: it’s for the BOOK token. We want to incentivize reading and knowledge
6yo: what’s that mean?
Me: well… basically it means people are paid to read.
<face lights up… runs to 10yo sister>
6yo: Dad is gonna pay me to read!!
🤦♂️
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@cardano_whale
Haters gonna hate.
Mediocre brands aren't loved or hated.
When you're building something important, you'll get a lot of love and some real FUD.
I try to remember that the haters are the same people yelling at someone in the cereal aisle at Walmart.
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Crazy shower thought… but hear me out.
What if… musicians made money by selling music.
And we owned the digital music we bought.
@stuff_io
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Gotta tell you... I LOVE it when I have to translate a post to read what a fan is saying from the other side of the world.
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Just a quick shoutout to
@jasonmanske
and
@Touring_Tiki
for all the work they're putting into Con.
45+ pieces of merch, speakers, booze, coffee, books, more booze, entertainment... all of it coordinated by 2 people who were overworked before.
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Super happy to get a chance to take some time and start reading the Broadside novel by
@BroadsideNFT
.
Meet a lot of teams in web3, and I’m bullish on
@MattMason
and team.
Highly recommend you get a collectors edition on if you haven’t already
☠️⬆️
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Going over all the crazy book/merch ideas for Con with the team.
It’s gonna be an awesome day filled with awesome speakers and a ton of 🔥 collectible merch and books.
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I say “get a Gute” a lot. Mainly, so years from now people don’t say “no one ever told me.”
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Every month, I say the same thing... Get A Gute!
The next snapshot is coming up.
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Everyone says content is king.
Then maybe we should start treating creators like royalty.
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Meeting digital friends for the first time on the streets of McKinney.
The energy is buzzing in TX.
#BookioCon24
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Sat on the porch with my dad today. He asked me “my least favorite part of growing .”
I didn’t have an answer. Love the team. Love the mission. Can’t imagine doing anything else.
Was overwhelmed with gratitude for the opportunities in front of us.
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The Book team absolutely crushed it.
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Tonight... I'm gonna put the phone in the other room and enjoy some vinyl.
Hope every last one of you has a fantastic weekend.
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You want to be there.
Books will be rare. Speakers will be great.
Drinks will be free.
Laughs will be had.
Alpha will be spilled.
Meditations was the 1st book released by
@book_io
in person at a conference.
Floor price today: 2300 🤯
One of many reasons you should be attending the inaugural BookCon on April 20th.
Discounts available for bible holders in discord.
#BookCon2024
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Scalability doesn’t happen all at once.
Some steps are small, some steps are large.
Just keep stepping in the right direction.
Build. Build. Build.
An updated version of our mobile apps on both iOS and Android! Go to the app store now to update.
App Features:
✅Updated Login: Experience a secure and streamlined login process.
✅ Dark Mode: Read comfortably in low-light environments with our sleek dark
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Very grateful to get to learn from this man. He's incredibly humble and has seen the entire evolution of the publishing industry.
For print on demand, they went from an idea to over 70M titles printed annually. Just incredible.
From the CFO of
@IngramContent
, the world's largest book distributor.
What books do we want?
All of them.
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Absolute game-changing stuff!
Own your music, music videos, books, videos... and all your other stuff.
Super proud of the team for building such amazing tech.
Coming soon -
@stuff_io
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🎵Leaving on a jet plane 🎵
Off to NYC.
We don’t want some books. We want all books.
Decentralize and incentivize knowledge.
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You can buy unburnable, unbannable books with $BOOK.
Read the whitepaper.
#utility
10:10pm UTC/ 5:10pm EST on
#Cardano
Volume: 718
79/49 ADA or 850 $BOOK (discounts not offered in $BOOK)
Required for discount: The Brothers Karamazov - Cardano & Walden - Cardano
Purchase limit: 3
You will see two different options like below for how you would like to pay:
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Hanging out with
@joshualeestone
in our office (The Lair) is a nonstop brainstorming session. One of us tosses out an idea, and we chase it, competing with each other to try to make it better and better.
That’s why I’m excited to write a book with him.
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Empower creators.
Own Your Stuff.
🐸🤫
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Couldn't be happier to have John helping us. A truly wonderful person with a servant's heart.
Looking forward to learning from him.
We did announce this at Con ’24, but many of you didn’t hear it.
Happy to announce that John Aden has signed on as an advisor. John has had an incredible career!
A bit about John:
- John Aden has been Senior Leader, President and CEO of global
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Been getting more questions lately from people/projects wanting to launch a token and/or be involved in the web3 space.
First step: Start writing. Get all of your thoughts out. What problem are you solving? What utility does your token have?
Ex:
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Just extremely proud to be a part of such a hardworking team that consistently amazes me.
Own Your Stuff.
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"I predict one day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt,"
@JeffBezos
said.
Not a shot at Amazon or some arrogant tweet about
@book_io
.
Just a good reminder to build like hell and never think someone can't come to steal your cheese.
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Spending $20 dollars will rarely change your life.
But that's the power hidden within books.
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The next chapter is about to begin.
You want the alpha about the
@stuff_io
launch next week? Here it is from our CEO,
@joshualeestone
@base
#Cardano
#Ethereum
#onPolygon
#Algorand
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Look... creators deserve more. They deserve more money, more data, and more transparency.
And when they get it... they'll create even better art.
I'm lucky enough to be in a position that I get to call New York Times bestselling author,
@Jnassise
... listen and learn.
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