M○C△ WEEKLY 11/24
*Links to all the news you need to know...and some other stuff too*
Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up
Crypto Art
Is AI Art Sustainable? (RightClickSave)
Crypto Titan Justin Sun Acquires "Comedian" Banana Art for $6.2 Million at Sotheby's Auction (Hoodline)
Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton (TheArtNewspaper)
Toledo Museum of Art becomes first major [physical] museum to acquire artwork using cryptocurrency. (Artsy)
Metaverse
Tuvalu: The disappearing island nation recreating itself in the metaverse (BBC)
Four ways in which history and religion are being transformed by the metaverse and AI (TheConversation)
Vikings using virtual reality to continue J.J. McCarthy’s development during rehab (Fox9…this is about Football, not real Vikings FYI)
Josh Allen's playmaking, from a different perspective (WGRZ)
AI
Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities (CNBC)
AI-designed drug ISM5939 granted IND clearance for cancer clinical trials (News-Medical)
It's not just a game. Your Pokemon Go player data is training AI map models. (USAToday)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it (BusinessInsider)
Finance
How tech bros bought ‘America’s most pro-crypto Congress ever’ (CNBC)
Trump Picks Pro-Crypto Hedge Fund Manager Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary (CoinDesk)
Charles Schwab Wants to Directly Offer Crypto to Clients, Incoming CEO Says (CoinDesk)
Crypto racks up another D.C. win as Gary Gensler exits (YahooFinance)
Potpourri
Netflix removes AI art poster for Arcane after an outcry from creators (TechRadar)
Crypto industry jockeys for seats at Trump's promised council (Reuters)
Tweet of the Week
Thought I would use this spot to highlight the Art DeCC0s Honoraries we’ve announced thus far this week. All the individuals in the Honorary DeCC0s Club designed their PFP from the ground-up, choosing individual DNA traits and backgrounds, which we then used to create new DeCC0s that we hope capture their character as well as their taste. So far we have:
And many more still to come (;
If you know anyone that you think deserves an Honorary Art DeCC0, please DM us on Twitter and let us know!
Art From M○C△’s Collection
Art in the Wild
Traditional Art Banger
Quote of the Week
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
-Mark Twain
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