DON’T GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE, SCRILLA
Good afternoon friends and family of the decentralized distributed ledger community. I was scrolling thru the twitter today when I saw a tweet storm from a well known game developer, Mike Bithell, on twitter. [...]
Keeping Copyright Relevant in a Crypto-infused Arts and Music Environment
The Constitution of the United States grants “Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries” for a limited time.[i] The importance of this clause cannot be overemphasized as it says much [...]
What Would Van Gogh Say About Blockchain?
Art and blockchain could have once been thought of as antithetical. But on Tuesday, the Barney A. Ebsworth art collection sale that Christie’s is registering with Artory, a blockchain-based art registry, will put the combination of the [...]
Artist Cryptograffiti Sets Auction Record For Least Expensive Art
In a recent auction designed to sell to the lowest bidder, artist “Cryptograffiti” sold his elegant work Black Swan, a collage made from a single dollar bill, for $0.000000037, making it the least expensive [...]
Unlocking a $200 Billion Dollar Collectibles Market on the Blockchain
Verified Collection, a tech startup based in Los Angeles, CA is building a connected world where consumers have True Digital Ownership of the physical and digital goods they collect. In my last article, I [...]
How to create NFTs on the bitcoin blockchain
NFT stands for Non Fungible Token. While I don´t love the name that is the accepted standard term right now. It refers to one off non-divisable tokens. Maybe you heard about Homerpepe that sold for over 30k usd [...]
What Is CryptoArt?
In my first post on the blockchain and art I declared that "The Blockchain Art Market is Here." In this new article, I make the argument that art native to the blockchain has its own [...]
The Early Evolution of Art On The Blockchain — Part 1
There’s many histories of Art on the Blockchain out there. Here I analyse the very early evolution leading almost up to mass(-ish) adoption. Where did it all start and how did we get here? [...]
Interview with Coin Artist
In this episode I talk with Coin Artist, famous for her crypto puzzle painting“TORCHED H34R7S” which contained $50k in Bitcoin and was unlocked after three years of people trying to solve it. Coin [...]
The weird, wild and expensive world of blockchain art
Is it still shocking in 2018 to see someone drop more than $50,000 on a digital playing card? Well, that's what happened when Gods Unchained, a blockchain-based digital card game, wrapped an auction on its [...]
Blockchain For Art: The Artists To Watch
Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally change industries around the world, but few people outside of the industry have a deep understanding of what it is or how it may affect their livelihood. [...]
A History of Digital Art in 30 Works, Part 1
Definitions in art are notoriously slippery things, especially when we’re trying to put our finger on contemporary movements. So in an effort to get a grasp on what exactly we mean by “digital art”, [...]
Non-Fungible Tokens: Future Applications and Challenges
This week saw an amazing group of entrepreneurs, engineers, developers and investors come together in Berlin for Blockchain Week. As part of this, we hosted an event on the future of non-fungible tokens alongside [...]
What the heck are cryptocollectibles, anyway?
Every time we write an article about cryptocollectibles, the little red line of every writer’s nightmare appears under the word. “Correct to crypto collectibles?” it asks, as we click “ignore,” “add to personal dictionary,” [...]
A History of Digital Art in 30 Works, Part 2
This can’t be a surprise, right? In 1985, Commodore International signed Andy Warhol to the kind of endorsement deal and publicity push typically reserved for sports stars or Instagram influencers. They also gave him [...]
How to blockchain physical artwork
It is hot! Blockchain Crypto Art, everyone wants to blockchain some kind of kittie, frog or high-value blue-chip fine art. What is the best way to tokenize and “blockchain” physical artwork? Mona: I have [...]
Rare Pepe Wallet & The Birth Of CryptoArt
Rare Pepe Wallet is a tool created by developer Joe Looney that makes it possible to buy, sell, trade, edition, gift, and destroy digital artworks. At least one company, Spells of Genesis, explored the [...]
What is Blockchain Doing for the Art World? – Jess Houlgrave
Blockchain technology is changing the art world. From artistic production and distribution to security and authentication, blockchain technology is changing the way we create and consume visual arts. Jess Houlgrave - [...]
Simon de la Rouviere – Art, creativity and the blockchain (Interview)
Simon de la Rouviere discusses his past project The Cypherfunks, a decentralized band, and what he learned about using tokenization to build and create networks. http://thecypherfunks.com/
El nuevo Arte
El momento histórico que estamos viviendo, donde las redes distribuidas permiten la comunicación entre personas desde cualquier parte del mundo, genera una comunidad global que comparte no sólo información, sino puntos de vista comunes, valores, [...]