Revealing the special circumstances, worries, and hidden thoughts that are unique to the Web 3.0 industry.
What made you two decide to do what you're doing now?
Sanamaru: I was originally a YouTuber for UUUM and was the MC for an investment channel. At that time, we started talking about what was next and we decided it would be the metaverse. That's when I found out about Sandbox LAND, and I started to wonder what NFTs were, so I researched them and made a wallet. By the way, the first NFT I bought was the "KawaiiGirlNFT."
Noroichan: Did you post about Web 3.0 on your original account?
Sanamaru: I was posting on my original account that had nothing to do with Web 3.0, but one time there was a transfer jam and the tokens I thought I'd sent didn't arrive. I panicked at that time, and when I posted about it on my current account, I got responses like, "What's a wallet?" and "What's Ethereum?" So I thought it would be difficult to deliver information about Web 3.0 to my viewers at this stage, so I decided to separate my accounts. So, what prompted you to start your current activities?
Noroichan: I've been working with crypto for about five years, but I only found out about Web 3.0 about two years ago. I first learned about Web 3.0 when I started working at CryptoBar P2P two years ago. At the time, a customer who was involved with Web 3.0 games taught me what Web 3.0 games were.
From there, I started researching it myself, and when I saw the news that "a Filipino person built a house using the game Axie Infinity," I thought, "This is it!" Since my roots are in the Philippines, it was a revolutionary encounter for me, who had been thinking about how to do something about poverty.
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