“What really interested me is the way smart contracts work, nobody could get into the middle,” Snowden said. “The most important part of this space is it allows us to recapture some of our liberty that we’ve lost over the last 15 years. Liberty is freedom from permission.”
DeFi at the core
— Read on siliconangle.com/2021/05/10/amid-craziness-nfts-builders-culture-emerges-blockchain/
Investors Are Buying Land in Virtual Worlds
Last month, a Singapore investor bought a digital artwork for $69 million. Since the art does not have a physical form, it cannot appear in a usual museum.
— Read on learningenglish.voanews.com/amp/investors-are-buying-land-in-virtual-worlds-/5860444.html
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions – The Verge
What’s worth picking up at the NFT supermarket?
NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art.
— Read on www.theverge.com/platform/amp/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq
In Praise of Bitcoin | Epsilon Theory
Bitcoin is itself an NFT, a unique digital art work instantiated on a blockchain. It’s the most valuable NFT in the world. I don’t mean a Bitcoin, obviously that’s a fungible thing. I mean THE Bitcoin … the 21 million Bitcoins that make up the Bitcoin Project. The notion that Bitcoin would ever “go to zero” is ludicrous. Good art is always worth something. But how do we measure that something … how do we put a price on the value of good art at this particular moment in time? It’s a REALLY tough question.
Basquiat drawing to be auctioned as an NFT—and winning bidder will be given the option to destroy the original | The Art Newspaper
Drawing is being sold in an auction sponsored by the firm behind David Bowie’s online bank
— Read on www.theartnewspaper.com/news/basquiat-work-worth-usd120-000-to-be-auctioned-as-an-nft-and-winning-bidder-will-be-given-the-option-to-destroy-the-original
NFT art: Sophia the Robot ‘self-portrait’ sells for almost $700K at Nifty Gateway auction – CNN
A “self-portrait” by humanoid robot Sophia, who “interpreted” a depiction of her own face, has sold at auction for over $688,000.
— Read on www.cnn.com/style/amp/nft-art-sophia-robot-self-portrait-scn/index.html
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