M○C△ WEEKLY 3/17
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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up
Crypto Art
Unveiling Stacks: The Future of Creator Minting by Transient Labs (TransientLabs Medium)
How kojii.ai turns AI models into artworks (kojii.ai Substack)
SuperRare Expands Beyond Ethereum NFTs Into Bitcoin Ordinals Artwork (Decrypt)
Metaverse
Ready Player One creator debuts ‘Open,’ a metaverse battle royale experience (TechCrunch)
THE METAVERSE AS A RADICAL MEDIUM (RightClickSave)
US manufacturing firms are flocking to the metaverse — WEF (CoinTelegraph)
Prada’s vision for the future of fashion? AI helpers and metaverse handbags (FastCompany)
AI
World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (CNBC)
‘How do we tame it?’ AI tools are already changing art and illustration in the comic book industry (GeekWire)
An Australian Orchestra Is Savaged for Posting the ‘Worst A.I.-Generated Artwork’ (ArtNet)
Finance
Will the Bitcoin halving bring more institutional investors into crypto? (CoinTelegraph)
Block’s new crypto wallet can only be purchased with real cash (TheVerge)
Memecoin Billionaires Are Back With Bets on Being the ‘First Idiot In’ (Bloomberg)
Ether ETFs Could Be Bigger Than Bitcoin ETFs, Says VanEck (CoinDesk)
Potpourri
DogWifHat Community Raises $690K To Put Meme On Vegas Sphere (TheDefient)
Crypto’s cash-heavy campaign to sway the Senate is winning converts (Politico)
Book of Meme skyrockets 345% in 24 hours, Binance jumps on bandwagon (Crypto.news)
Why Investers Like Karlie Kloss Joined $6.4M Raise For AI Powered mmERCH (Forbes)
Tweet of the Week
Art From M○C△’s Collection
Art in the Wild
Traditional Art Banger
Quote of the Week
Come guess me this riddle: what beats pipes and fiddle?
What's hotter than mustard and wilder than cream?
What best wets your whistle? What's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?
What will make the dumb talk? What will make the lame walk?
The elixir of life and philosopher's stone.
And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Wasn't it poteen from ould Inishowen?
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For drowning your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunder
Was made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
-The Humours of Whiskey, Irish folksong.
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