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William Shatner – the famous actor who played Captain Kirk in Star Trek – appeared at Consensus 2023 on Thursday to announce an NFT project, succeeding his hit collection from 3 years prior.
The 92-year-old spoke on why he’s excited about Web 3 in entertainment, and where he sees crypto by the time humanity reaches the Star Trek era. 
<h2 id="william-shatner-infinite-connections">William Shatner: Infinite Connections</h2>
Shatner explained that his first experience dealing with NFTs was in 2020 when 125,000 William Shatner trading cards <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/famous-actor-william-shatner-sold-125000-blockchain-based-nfts/" data-wpel-link="internal">sold out</a> immediately on the Wax blockchain. One of the NFTs was an X-ray of his tooth.
He was later contacted by the Web 3 gaming company Orange Comet to launch his new collection “Infinite Connections,” a set of 2500 3-dimensional renditions of Shatner which reflect his view that “everything is connected.”
<blockquote>“I know nothing about how to program… but what I do understand is emotions, and drama, and beautiful things,” he said. “That kind of area is my expertise.”</blockquote>
Shatner later learned that NFTs can be “malleable” and “creative,” and ultimately gained an interest in Web 3 because the technology is evolving, and moving fast. 
<blockquote>“It’s the romance, its the future, its things that are happening to young people that I wanted to be a part of,” he added.
<figure id="attachment_248320" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-248320" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52.jpg" data-wpel-link="internal"><img class="wp-image-248320 size-large" src="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52-50x28.jpg 50w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-04-27_23-13-52.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-248320" class="wp-caption-text">William Shatner 2 (Consensus 2023)</figcaption></figure></blockquote>
<h2 id="crypto-in-the-distant-future">Crypto in the Distant Future</h2>
When asked if Captain Kirk himself would be into crypto, Shatner said that crypto will be “way, so high,” by the time we reach the time period of his universe. 
<blockquote>“It’ll be so many thousands of dollars in value – the crypto coins” – that I would think that the people today that are gonna live two or three hundred years are gonna buy crypto now before it explodes!” he said. </blockquote>
Ultimately, however, Shatner rejected some popular ideas among crypto <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/former-coinbase-cto-balaji-srinivasans-1m-bitcoin-gambit-sparks-hyperinflation-debate/" data-wpel-link="internal">“doomsayers”</a> that fiat currency is going to collapse, believing the United States will thrive in a crypto-based future. 
Shatner himself does not invest in crypto but is open to it having value to others. “If enough people think it&#8217;s something, then it is,” he added. 
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