M○C△ WEEKLY 3/31

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Bargain vs. Blue-Chip: Inside Dave Krugman’s “DRIP DROP” and “DRIVE” Collections (NFTNow)

• Bitcoin’s Role in Fueling the Growth of the Crypto Art Industry (CryptoNews)

• THE WORLD’S LARGEST GIF: Marius Watz Interviews Jason Salavon on Generative Art vs. Data-Driven Art (RightClickSave)

• Endemic obsolescence: the shortened lifespan of digital art (TheArtNewspaper)

Metaverse

• Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says Metaverse “More Brand Name Than Product” (CCN)

• Verse World announces partnership with Azerion to revolutionize the Metaverse (CoinTelegraph)

• Web3 game Wilder World gets Epic Game Store listing during alpha testing (CoinTelegraph)

• Virtual reality helping people with Parkinson's (BBC)

AI

• The White House issued new rules on how government can use AI. Here's what they do (NPR)

• China turns to AI in propaganda mocking the ‘American Dream’ (AlJazeera)

• DeepMind develops SAFE, an AI-based app that can fact-check LLMs (TechXplore)

• Garbage AI posts like Shrimp Jesus are destroying Facebook (BusinessInsider)

Finance

• Crypto Funds Mark Biggest Week of Outflows on Record, CoinShares Says (Bloomberg)

• U.S. Judge Rules SEC Lawsuit Against Coinbase Can Move Forward (TheDefiant)

• Crypto lobbyists are on manoeuvres — and we should be worried (FinancialTimes)

• Taiwan’s crypto sector receives government approval to form industry association (TheBlock)

Potpourri

• Trans people are turning to VR as society fails them (Mashable)

• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for crypto fraud, to pay $11 billion in forfeiture (CNBC)

• RICHARD SERRA (1938–2024) (ArtForum)

• Artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst Send A.I. Mutants to the Whitney Biennial (ArtNet)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from @Klaravollstaedt

Art From M○C△’s Collection

The Primenuum - 1 billion (2019), by HackHex (Hackatao and HEX0x6C). In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection

Art in the Wild

Still from HOW TO BE A CRYPTOARTIST (2024), by MISSALSIMPSON. In collection of Batsoupyum.

Traditional Art Banger

Testa di Medusa (1597), by Caravaggio Oil on canvas mounted on wood. 60 cm × 55 cm (24 in × 22 in). Uffizi, Florence

Quote of the Week

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

-William Butler Yeats

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