This Black woman took her last $10, invested it into NFTs, and now says she makes six figures. Now this is an inspiring story we can get behind! CNBC recently reported on the story of Brittany Pierre, a 36-year-old Black woman from Chicago, IL, who once lived paycheck-to-paycheck. She told the outlet that her financial situation was very “touch and go,” and that she struggled to pay rent and her other bills at times. But that all changed, she said, when she began investing in NFTs. “It was really hard to do $50 photoshoots, trying to peddle $30 prints. I’d have bookings here and there, but it wasn’t sustainable,” she said to the outlet. “That first couple of $200, $300 [NFT] sales was a lot for me. That’s exactly what I needed to pay rent.” Pierre also said that she was inspired by the work of Elise Swopes — a Black woman who also made it “big” with NFTs, and happens to be a friend of hers — which is why she felt comfortable investing her last $10 in the project. “Last year has been...

Snoop Dogg has his mind on his money, and his money on his NFTs. The Doggfather recently sat down with Kevin Hart for a special called “2021 and Done,” which was a recap of all the messiness and shenanigans of the year, plus ruminations on investments, fads, and opportunities. “I built a whole metaverse called ‘The Sandbox,'” Snoop Dogg said in the video. He then showed a clip of what The Sandbox looked like, which looks exactly like you think it would. Check out a teaser clip featuring “The Sandbox” below. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUSc2gJROz/ Mr. Broadus then joked that he doesn’t “know sh-t about it,” but that he was “getting this money,” which basically describes all of us in this new media landscape. XR Today, though, has a brief description of how The Sandbox works. “Sandbox uses the SAND utility token for buying and selling across its Metaverse platform and is based on an ERC-20 Ethereum blockchain technology, with a total cap of 3 billion tokens,” reports the outlet....