M○C△ WEEKLY 6/16

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• WHAT THE PUNK!: Jason Bailey speaks with the team behind the new CryptoPunks documentary (RightClickSave)

• Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland? (TheArtNewspaper)

• Emi Kusano Explores Buddhist Desire in “The Altar of Bonnō” Series (NFTNow)

• In Token Supremacy, Zachary Small Presents a Sensationalized Version of the NFT Boom (ArtNews)

Metaverse

• Meetings in the metaverse: new tech draws workers to virtual offices (FinancialTimes)

• Exclusive: Empowering Creators in the Open Metaverse with Justin Melillo, CEO of Mona (NFTNews)

• Ultracompact and high-efficiency liquid-crystal-on-silicon light engines for augmented reality glasses (Phys.Org)

• Tricking the brain: New dimensions of haptics in virtual reality (TechXplore)

AI

• A Photographer Wins a Top Prize in an A.I. Competition for His Non-A.I. Image (ArtNet)

• How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project (TheGuardian)

• Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns (TheHackerNews)

• Apple’s AI will erode human creativity one prompt at a time (FastCompany)

Finance

• The Teenager Who Lived a Secret Double Life as a Millionaire Crypto Bandit (Vice)

• Binance co-founder beseeches Elon Musk to address cryptocurrency scams on X (CoinTelegraph)

• The emergence of cryptocurrency as a global currency (TheTimesOfIndia)

• Taiwan forms crypto industry association as major step toward self-regulation (TheBlock)

Potpourri

• NFT artist sues X for suspending account, wrecking business (Protos)

• Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Released as NFT (ConsequenceOfSound)

• Mass Adoption Would Ruin Crypto. Keep It a Niche (CoinDesk)

• Fake federal employees target crypto investors, CISA warns (CoinTelegraph)

Tweet of the Week

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Art From M○C△’s Collection

Pink + Pink (2020), by Beatriz Ramos. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

young man working to feed his children (2024), by Nacho Frades. Currently minting for free.

Traditional Art Banger

Eli and David (2005-2006), by Lucien Freud. Oil on Canvas. 56 × 46 cm. Held by Acquavella Galleries.

Quote of the Week

“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”

-Josh Billings

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