M○C△ WEEKLY 8/4

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• stories of This Was Presence (MikeyWoodbridge on Medium)

• MINT ONCE, DISPLAY EVERYWHERE (RightClickSave)

• Does the SEC Really Have Jurisdiction Over NFT Art? Two Artists Sue SEC to Get an Answer (CoinDesk)

• A Massive Refik Anadol A.I. Data Painting Will Anchor the New L.A. Clippers Stadium (ArtNet)

Metaverse

• BRAIN IMPLANT HOOKED UP TO CONTROL VR HEADSET (Futurism)

• The Gordilocks Effect - What The Half-Life 2 VR Mod Tells Us About Gaming's Most Complicated Medium (TheGamer)

• Mark Zuckerberg says we’ll all be wearing AI smart glasses – he’s not wrong, but some big changes need to happen first (TechRadar)

• Apple Silent on Vision Pro Sales (XRToday)

AI

• Kendall Jenner’s A.I. Clone Has Been Terminated, and I Am Sad (ArtNet)

• Has the AI bubble burst? Wall Street wonders if artificial intelligence will ever make money (CNN)

• Delay to Nvidia's new AI chip could affect Microsoft, Google, Meta, the Information says (Reuters)

• OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (TheGuardian)

Finance

• Coinbase expects US to be crypto-friendly irrespective of election outcome (YahooFinance)

• FBI Issues New Warning If You Buy Crypto From An Exchange (Forbes)

• Russia legalizes cryptocurrency mining as global sanctions rattle traditional finances (TheRecord)

• Harris triggers crypto tug-of-war between Democrats (Politico)

Potpourri

• Almost 99% of Pump.fun Tokens Fail (TheDefiant)

• DraftKings kills NFT business, citing 'legal developments’ (CoinTelegraph)

• Montenegro court approves extradition of cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon to native South Korea (AP)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from PowerDADA

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Mr. Brightside (2019), by Liam Ellul. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

This was devotion (2024), by Mikey Woodbridge. In collection of Antidisiplin.

Traditional Art Banger

The Floor Scrapers (1875), by Gustave Caillebotte. 102 cm × 146.5 cm (40+¹⁄₈ in × 57+⁵⁄₈ in. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Quote of the Week

“The secret of having it all is loving it all.”

-Joyce Brothers

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