NFT culture after the mint button.
Digitally Rare follows digitally owned things past the sales chart and into culture, art practice, product questions, and online community. Its conversations move easily from sketchbooks and on-chain generative work to marketplaces, minting mechanics, Stash, Finney's JPG, and ordinals.
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Digitally Rare is a show about digitally owned things, but its center of gravity is not simply the token. It is the world around the token. Across the excerpts, the show returns to NFTs, on-chain art, minting, marketplaces, social networks, royalties, ordinals, and the strange little rituals that make digital objects feel meaningful. The conversations often begin inside a project and then widen. Mackenzie Davenport brings Ensemble and sketchbooks into a discussion of usefulness to artists and the survival mode of startups. Sam Spike brings Animal Software and Finney's JPG into questions about digital portals, marketplaces, royalties, and the imagined next turn into hardware or wetware. Chain leftist talks through historical NFTs and the spectrum of what counts as on-chain, from hashes to Autoglyphs and crypto-social art where token owners affect one another's work. Tor, co-founder of Stash, frames social digital ownership through attention, gems, and a community canvas. Kevin Esherick's return moves through material culture, coded detail, and NFT-world arguments about expertise and securities language. Giancarlo connects YouTube, clickbait, minting, and pay-what-you-want mechanics through projects such as zero.fun and Mint or Skip. Cole's Summer Haze conversation folds conceptual art, generative systems, heat, brush marks, and erasure into the same field. Rhea Myers brings Bitcoin art, ordinals, property, ownership, and play into sharper philosophical territory. The show's texture is informal, quick, and often funny. It is also unusually comfortable staying with technical distinctions until they become cultural ones. A listener does not get a polished explainer or a market bulletin. The value is in hearing builders and artists think aloud about what ownership can do when the object is digital, social, programmable, and sometimes ridiculous. Digitally Rare is at its best when the room is laughing and still arguing about provenance, aura, attention, or the meaning of minting.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows crypto art, NFTs, and on-chain culture closely enough to enjoy product details, artist references, and inside-baseball terminology. It also suits someone more curious about meaning, community, and creative practice than price action alone.
What sets it apart: Digitally Rare stands apart by treating digital ownership as an artistic and social medium, not merely a financial category. Its strength is the mix of informal banter, precise crypto-art vocabulary, and sustained curiosity about how people use tokens to make context, coordination, and play.
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A loose, candid look at tokenized performance, sketchbooks, and how digital art might stay useful when sales are low.
Digitally Rare brings digital ownership into the room through Mackenzie Davenport's short play Stage Direction, described as minted as an NFT on the Zora shared contract, then opens into sketchbooks, artists, and the work of making owned digital pieces feel useful when sales are…
A playful conversation about digital creatures, ownership, and the systems that help an online object persist.
Digitally Rare uses animal software as a neat entry point into digitally owned objects and software-generated creatures. Sam Spike ties the idea to Finney's JPG, describing a Finney as something that keeps doing things and can be seen through several digital portals.
A clear, example-led look at Autoglyphs and the still-shifting meaning of on-chain digital art.
Digitally Rare uses Jonathan Mann, addressed as Chain Left, to walk through what "on-chain" can mean for digital art. The episode starts with historical NFTs, then moves across a range of approaches, from hashes to encoded images and collections including Quantum, Punicles, and…
A Web3 discussion turns digital ownership into a social game about attention, value, and a five-by-five canvas.
Digitally Rare frames Stash's pitch for digital ownership as a social product, not just another pass through Web3 language. Jonathan Mann's conversation with Tor, Stash's co-founder, moves from the Secret ecosystem into the platform's five-by-five community canvas, where users…
A binary tattoo and an ether-security debate turn digital ownership into something decoded, argued over, and worn.
Digitally Rare returns to the idea of digitally owned things by approaching digital culture through a physical object. The conversation centers on a binary tattoo: black and red ink running down a leg, encoded letters marked by color, and bytes decoded by hand at Satoshi's bar.
Crypto, consciousness, and trust under pressure.
Builder conversations from the Internet Computer edge.
Healthcare trust, rebuilt block by block.
Stage Direction, a very short play Mackenzie Davenport minted on Zora’s shared contract, requires one performer to transfer the token before the next line can happen.
Digitally Rare talks with Sam Spike about Finney, the Ed Fornieles NFT project framed as "animal software," and the meme language that grew around it.
Digitally Rare talks with Chain Leftist about Namecoin, Punycodes, CryptoPunks V1/V2, and the 400-piece Chaos Roads drop.
Jonathan Mann opens Digitally Rare with Tor, co-founder of Stash, and frames the conversation around "digitally owned things." Tor explains why Stash started in the Secret ecosystem: privacy, digital ownership, and social sharing are linked, and Secret combines Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and Zcash ideas into one L1 with encrypted smart contracts.
Jonathan Mann and Matt talk with Kevin Eshrick about Material, a pair of jeans he treats as a canvas, films in 360 degrees, and mints as NFTs with proceeds split back to collaborators.
Digitally Rare host Jonathan Mann interviews Giancarlo Show about NFT abundance, scarcity, and the conditions that give digital objects meaning.
Brian Frye, a University of Kentucky law professor and former Sullivan & Cromwell securities lawyer, describes sending the SEC a 'no action letter request' in 2019-2020 to sell a conceptual artwork of that same name in an edition of 50 at $10,000 each.
Digitally Rare hosts Jonathan Mann and the Matts interview conceptual artist Cole about Chaos Comes with the Summer Haze, an on-chain generative art series built from photographs of water and sky.
Digitally Rare hosts Jonathan Mann and Matt interview artist and writer Ria Myers about ordinals, creative inscriptions, and Bitcoin’s tension between technical conservatism and cultural experimentation.
Jonathan Mann and Matt debate whether NFT creators should call fixed-duration sales “open editions,” a term Amber Vittoria says traditionally means an edition with no time limit.
Abe Uccello discusses his project using blockchain to help formerly incarcerated people manage legal financial debts.
Hosts interview Matty Mo about his career in advertising, art, and Web3, discussing NFTs and digital ownership.
The hosts discuss recent events in the NFT and crypto space, including trolls and the complexities of explaining loot and digital ownership.
Jonathan Mann interviews the anonymous owner of a CryptoPunk, discussing his million-dollar purchase and plans for digital ownership.