Ars Technica
Ars Technica’s non-fungible guide to NFTs
8 min read · Mar 29th · Is blockchain item authentication a speculative fad or a technological sea change?
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the Power Consumption of Bitcoin Mining
~11 min read · Apr 20th · Bitcoin mining requires significant amounts of energy, but what does this consumption look like when compared to countries and companies?
Fast Company
NFTs are much bigger than an art fad. Here’s how they could change the world
4 min read · May 1st · History tells us to be careful about dismissing NFTs as a passing fad, since the importance of technological innovations often becomes clearer once the hype dies down.
VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
10 min read · From 2017 · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring.
a16z
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
6 min read · Feb 27th · Non-fungible tokens offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
Paul Graham
An NFT That Saves Lives
1 min read · May 4th · Noora Health, a nonprofit I've supported for years, just launched a new NFT. It has a dramatic name, Save Thousands of Lives, because that's what the proceeds will do.Noora has been saving lives for 7…
Takeaways
Variant
The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software
7 min read · 2020-07-14 · From crypto to consumer, ownership is emerging as a new tool for bootstrapping network effects in new software platforms that are increasingly operated by their users.
evrone.com
A machine learning-powered cryptocurrency trading bot
1 min read · May 6th · Crypton is a trading bot that generates steady income - all thanks to the machine learning and artificial intelligence that underpin its work. We developed Crypton trading bot for fintech startup.
world.hey.com
A world without trust is not better
1 min read · Mar 20th · One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust…
Cointelegraph
Was ist eine DAO und wie funktioniert sie
6 min read · May 12th · Was ist eine DAO und wie funktioniert sie? Beispiele für DAOs. Wie man sich an DAOs beteiligt. Geschichte von The DAO.
The New York Times
Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000
6 min read · Feb 22nd · A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology.
Takeaways
The Atlantic
NFTs Are an Art Project Gone Awry
8 min read · Apr 2nd · When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.
