M○C△ WEEKLY 3/24

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• THE INTERVIEW | MATT DESLAURIERS (RightClickSave)

• Beyond Bitchcoin: The Making of Sarah Meyohas (NFTNow)

• Jack Butcher is Rewiring the Social Media Hive Mind (ZoraZine)

• TINA RIVERS RYAN NAMED EDITOR IN CHIEF OF ARTFORUM (ArtForum)

Metaverse

• Web3 Watch: Starbucks shutters its ‘Odyssey’ NFT program (Blockworks)

• Pakistani university launches country’s first metaverse-based classes (CoinTelegraph)

• Mark Zuckerberg is hot on something called the 'fediverse' after dumping the metaverse (Quartz)

AI

• Nvidia announces AI-powered health care 'agents' that outperform nurses — and cost $9 an hour (FoxBusiness)

• Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’ (TheVerge)

• AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step (MIT)

• Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (Futurism)

Finance

• BlackRock's $10 Trillion Tokenization Vision: The Future Of Real World Assets (Forbes)

• BlackRock unveils crypto fund first with $5 million minimum (TheStreet)

• EU Clamps Down on Crypto Anonymity to Fight Money Laundering  (CoinPedia)

• Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood expects Bitcoin to ride ‘financial superhighway’ to $3.8m (Crypto.news)

Potpourri

• A Man Sues a Museum Over Its Women-Only Exhibition (ArtNet)

• DAMIEN HIRST FORMALDEHYDE WORKS DRAW SCRUTINY OVER BACKDATING (ArtForum)

• Bitcoin ‘Halving’ Spurs Exodus of Old US Mining Computers Abroad (Bloomberg)

• Gearing up for Sam Bankman Fried's (and CZ's) reckoning (Axios)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet by @PopPunkOnChain

Art From M○C△’s Collection

AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #175 (2018), by Videodrome. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Shadow of the Spire (2024), by JubbishJay. Photograph featuring 1.2 miles of viewable distance. Unminted.

Traditional Art Banger

Porcelain (1955), by Lee Krasner. Oil on paper and fabric collage on Masonite; 30 by 48 ⅛ in. 76.2 by 122.2 cm.

Quote of the Week

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

-Woodrow Wilson

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