M○C△ WEEKLY 6/2

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• THE AESTHETIC OF A PROTOCOL (RightClickSave)

• MOCA Confessional: I Never Collect Artwork (Why That Is, and Why It's Hard...) (Your friends at M○C△)

Metaverse

• Google and Magic Leap partner up to make metaverse goggles despite past flops (CoinTelegraph)

• Ready Player One Creator Ernest Cline Reveals New Metaverse Experience Readyverse (IGN)

• Sony's PSVR2 Strategy Is Actively Harming Virtual Reality (TheGamer)

• Prisoners are using VR to prepare them for life after release (CNN)

AI

• The rise of ChatCCP: Inside China's terrifying plan for the future of AI (BusinessInsider)

• Nvidia says its next-generation AI chip platform to be rolled out in 2026 (Reuters)

• I Build Large AI Models. Here's Why I'm Not Using Them to Replace Employees (INC)

• Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws (NewYorkTimes)

Finance

• Biden vetoes Congress’s crypto custody bill (Axios)

• The SEC ruling on Ethereum ETFs could mark a historic shift in crypto investing (CNBC)

• What is pig butchering, the crypto scam that hit a Kansas bank? Here’s what to know (CJOnline)

• Japan's DMM Bitcoin says over $300 mln of cryptocurrency lost (Reuters)

Potpourri

• CryptoPunks resurrection failed: community accuses Yuga Labs of killing popular NFT collection (Crypto.News)

• Dolce & Gabbana Under Fire in Class Action Over Botched NFT Deliveries (SourcingJournal)

• Hackers Are Now Offering Christie’s Client Data for Auction (ArtNet)

• Senators pressure Biden administration to crack down on fentanyl sales through cryptocurrency (CNN)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Bryan Brinkman.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Sokka the Parrotlet (2022), by Hawkward. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection. RIP Sokka </3

Art in the Wild

Golden Hour (2024), by Petravoice. Edition of 1201

Traditional Art Banger

Triumph of Bacchus (1964), by Bob Thompson. Oil on canvas. 60 1/4 × 72 1/8in. (153 × 183.2 cm). In Whitney Museum of American Art.

Quote of the Week

“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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