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Everything you need to know about DAOs
- February 17, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
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From high-profile art collecting funds to ambitious artist collectives, the world is abuzz with talk of decentralized autonomous organizations—or member-owned communities made possible by blockchain technology. For the uninitiated, a DAO is exactly what it sounds like: a group of people operating in service of a common goal without a centralized authority, such as a CEO in a traditional corporation.
These people can be based around the world and meet up to chat on platforms like Discord; it might be a handful of individuals or thousands.…
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Diving into the history of digital art
- February 10, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Cryptocurrency
In 1985, Andy Warhol received an Amiga 1000 home computer, created by Commodore. At the launch, he was joined on stage by Debbie Harry and proceeded to draw her portrait using the then-new ProPaint software. He went on to create several digital drawings with the computer, including a Campbell’s soup can, but many of them remained unseen for decades. In 2014, the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museum of Art finally recovered the images from the artist’s old floppy disks, revealing them to the public for the first time.…
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The 500px guide to understanding NFT and crypto buzzwords
- February 10, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Blockchain
As you might have heard, “NFT” was chosen as Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2021. The abbreviation for “non-fungible token,” a new kind of digital asset, has exploded in popularity, with everyone from blue-chip auction houses to emerging photographers talking about the next frontier for art in the age of the internet.
Within the world of crypto art, there are dozens of terms, abbreviations, and phrases unique to the space.…
