M○C△ WEEKLY 11/17

*Links to all the news you need to know...and some other stuff too*

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• EZTV and LA’s Digital Underground (RightClickSave)

• These new NFT platforms are like digital art galleries (ThePeakMagazine)

Metaverse

• Animoca Brands raises $10M for open metaverse platform Mocaverse (Venturebeat)

• From Stage to Screen to Metaverse: Embracing New Artistic Frontiers (RollingStone)

• Why the metaverse isn’t ready to be the future of work just yet (TheConversation)

• Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken Over by Children (Wired)

AI

• Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall? (Every)

• Thanks to AI, Apple’s China problem is only getting worse (TheHill)

• People really don't like Coke's AI holiday commercial (Mashable)

• Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appears out of nowhere as the user was asking Gemini's help with his homework (Tom’sHardware)

Finance

• How The 2024 Election Affected The Crypto Market (NFTEvening)

• What Crypto Wants From Trump (TheAtlantic)

• Crypto enforcement seen slowing as Trump shifts priorities (Reuters)

• 18 states sue SEC, Gensler for ‘regulatory overreach’ on crypto (TheHill)

Potpourri

• Argentina’s central bank hosts a live Bitcoin mining exhibit (CryptoBriefing)

• McDonald’s Is Trying to Bring Back NFTs (Gizmodo)

• Bitcoin Critic Peter Schiff Announces Ordinals Art Collection Sale (CoinMarketCap)

Tweet of the Week

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Art From M○C△’s Collection

1111 #0377 (2021), by Kevin Abosch. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection

Art in the Wild

SHARK (2024), by Max Capacity. From Series “Analog Apex Predators.” Edition of 133.

Traditional Art Banger

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Louis Vuitton Deluxe Box Set) (2012), by Yayoi Kusama. Edition of 111. Screenprint on wove paper with Lambda c-type print. 25.39 x 16.97 in.

Quote of the Week

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

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