Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
Then, in March, Covid-19 hit. As shelter-in-place orders tore throughout the country, Yeti closed its new fleet of stores. Many of its primary wholesalers, including Dick’s Sporting Goods, laid off staff. In a matter of weeks, Yeti’s sales plummeted by 25%, and its share price tumbled almost 60% from February when it was about $38.
Well I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes, but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther.
All this means that if your NFT is removed from OpenSea, it also disappears from your wallet. It doesn’t functionally matter that my NFT is indelibly on the blockchain somewhere, because the wallet (and increasingly everything else in the ecosystem) is just using the OpenSea API to display NFTs, which began returning 304 No Content for the query of... See more