How crypto is changing media and entertainment – and forging its own culture. Sponsored by Nexo.
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Profile avatars emerged from a long tradition of artists expressing themselves through code, math and randomness. This article is part of CoinDesk’s Culture Week.
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A roundup of books worth reading for Culture Week.
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The crypto-backed social club is looking to remain accessible to the creators it wants to attract.
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Music NFTs are about to disrupt an industry full of gatekeepers and middlemen.
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Earnest eco-crypto nerds at a three-day retreat attempted to resolve interoperability among crypto-climate projects.
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The January rebound in equities and knockout employment report may have undermined a few buy-bitcoin narratives, but the real value proposition behind bitcoin lies far beyond Wall Street in emerging markets, where bitcoin is in strong demand.
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Gloomy forecasts, mass layoffs and antitrust lawsuits have bruised "Big Tech" over the past year. But that doesn't automatically portend the end of Web2. For Web3 to emerge, we have to address key questions about AI and decentralization.
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Crypto is not hurting lower income and marginalized communities, but instead providing them with new tools - through innovative governance models and tokenomics - to regain control from historically oppressive financial systems.
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Des Dickerson: “We want to gamify the world with bitcoin.”
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Crypto communities are playing a big series of “live action role playing games,” and they’re changing how we organize and interact across digital and physical spaces. This post is part of Crypto 2022: Culture Week.
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An industry known for leading on tech seems comparatively slow on crypto.
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Different cryptocurrency networks will form distinct societies.
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How crypto is changing media and entertainment – and forging its own culture.
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Money innovation is everywhere and it’s getting wilder. Get all the week’s content here.
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Introducing a week of content about how regulators are shaping the digital assets industry (or trying). Find it all here.
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Next year, the NFT market will broaden and migrate towards quality, said one collector.
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To think through the cultural practices and evolution of a DAO, we present a thought experiment on the life of a DAO, from birth to death to resurrection.
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A ‘90s kid reflects on seeing how iconoclastic rappers changed the world. And how that energy is now in Web 3.
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“I think that’s what audiences want, right?” writer and founder of freelance payments system OutVoice, Matt Saincome said.
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Self-custody, transparency and immediate settlement are just a few ways that crypto could prevent loss of funds.
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By taking aim at high-profile targets including Coinbase, Justin Sun and Lindsey Lohan, the SEC showed it doesn’t have the resources to effectively police the crypto industry.
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Political attacks on CBDCs give a pass to existing government and commercial oversight of financial transactions and forfeits opportunity to shape global standards in accord with American values, says Christopher Giancarlo, co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project.
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Fears about mass financial surveillance are real with CBDCs, but banning them, as Republicans have recently proposed, will not help. Instead, more research is needed, says Ananya Kumar.
