M○C△ WEEKLY 7/21

*Links to all the news you need to know...and some other stuff too*

Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Marketplace KnownOrigin is Shutting-Down (Twitter)

• Generative Anesthetics: A eulogy for generative art (by Kevin Esherick, on Substack)

• 003: My thoughts on Kevin Esherick's essay "Generative Anesthetics.” (by Linda Dounia, on Substack)

• Osinachi: Pioneering the African Digital Art Revolution through Web3 (Gemin1.xyz)

• 'What The Punk' Film Traces the History of Ethereum's Iconic NFT CryptoPunks (Decrypt)

Metaverse

• You’re thinking of the metaverse all wrong, says Matthew Ball (FreeThink)

• The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom (Wired)

• Embracing the Future: Exciting Changes at MONA (Monaverse)

• The museum of digital things: extended reality and museum practices (Frontiers)

AI

• The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast (NewYorkTimes)

• How the surging demand for energy and rise of AI is straining the power grid in the U.S. (CBSNews)

• What Messing With Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AI (NewYorkMagazine)

• Censorship slows China's AI advances (Axios)

Finance

• India's biggest crypto exchange WazirX loses nearly half its reserves: How, what, and other details about the ‘hacking’ attack.' (Times of India)

• BRICS Issues Major Cryptocurrency Warning (Watcher.guru)

• Bitcoin miners are ditching crypto because there's more money in AI (Quartz)

• EU releases crypto-asset classification tools to help firms comply with MiCA (CoinTelegraph(

Potpourri

• Kraken and Tottenham Hotspur score big in crypto partnership (CoinTelegraph)

• Microsoft Outage: Crypto and Web3 Remain Unfazed Amid Tech Glitch (CoinGape)

• CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions (ABCNews)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Judy Mam.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

You call that art? Ai WeiWei Collectable Card (2020), by Anubis3100. Edition of 1000. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Let me check with the wife (2022), by Operator. Collected by TokenAngels.

Marital Obligations (2022), by Operator. Dynamic NFT. Collected by TokenAngels.

Traditional Art Banger

1,000 doors (2009), by Jeonghwa Choi. Installation. 10-stories. Seoul, South Korea.

Quote of the Week

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would marvel and stare.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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