dappradar.com
Crypto Hardware Wallet Ledger Launches Connect Browser Extension
3 min · · Safely connect your Ledger accounts to dapps via desktop or mobile · Shared by 5, including Christian Hartmann
VentureBeat
Metaverse 101: Defining the key components
5 min · · Do you have a clear idea of what a metaverse is? And do you know the difference between AR, VR, XR, and MR? · Shared by 25, including Christian Hartmann, Wilko S. Wolters, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4
VICE
The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster
7 min · · Top marketplaces facilitate epic amounts of theft and wash trading, scams are rampant, and the cringe is unbearable. Can it last? · Shared by 82, including Angie Jones, Sebastien Meunier, Chris Gledhill, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, mrbrown, Oliver Bussmann, Nils Hitze, Christian Hartmann, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky
The Guardian
TechScape: everything you need to know about DAOs
5 min · · In this week’s newsletter: meet the vehicle for newly-minted online millionaires to throw their influence into the real world – and the frontier for the next wave of crypto chaos · Shared by 22, including Christian Hartmann, John Nosta
fees.wtf
fees.wtf?
· You've spent 🤔 on gas. Right now, that's 🤔. You used 🤔 gas to send 🤔 transactions, with an average price of 🤔 gwei. 🤔 of them failed, costing you 🤔. Tip me: Ξ0.001 | Ξ0.010 | Ξ0.100 | Ξ1.000… · Shared by 41, including Christian Hartmann, Cope, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Chris Messina, Bram Kanstein, CyberCodeTwins, mocho17™®© | إرادة قوية/Insha'Allah™®©, notsofast, IamNomad
Campaign
What exactly can 10,000 photos of Bored Apes teach marketers about membership?
4 min · · Scarcity is part of what makes NFTs valuable – but value is also built in because the act of buying one is the ultimate status symbol in some digital communities. · Shared by 9, including Christian Hartmann
a16z
NFTs: 1000 True Fans
4 min · · Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs. · Shared by 108, including Mark Kaigwa, cdixon.eth, Christian Hartmann
Gary Vaynerchuk
My New Show for Emerging NFT Artists: “DNA with GaryVee”
3 min · · Ever since I started talking publicly about NFTs, I’ve been extremely vocal about how I believed this space would be a total game changer for artis... · Shared by 12, including Christian Hartmann
Ars Technica
Ars Technica’s non-fungible guide to NFTs
8 min · · Is blockchain item authentication a speculative fad or a technological sea change? · Shared by 208, including Christian Hartmann, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Jennifer Ouellette
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the Power Consumption of Bitcoin Mining
11+ min · · Bitcoin mining requires significant amounts of energy, but what does this consumption look like when compared to countries and companies? · Shared by 62, including Christian Hartmann, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Andreas Staub, Nicolas Babin, Ronald van Loon
Fast Company
NFTs are much bigger than an art fad. Here’s how they could change the world
4 min · · 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. · Shared by 66, including Christian Hartmann
VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
10 min · · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring. · Shared by 753, including Philipp.Herkelmann, Alex Barrera, tjalve, Nils Hitze, Thomas Power, John Battelle, Ryan Boren, Richard Joerges, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, MariadPDC, Dez S. Papp, Dominik Grolimund, Nicolas Berg, Paulmears, Massimiliano Aroffo, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Ward Plunet, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
eos.atomichub.io
Interface for the EOSIO AtomicAssets NFT standard
· Shared by 4, including Christian Hartmann
a16z
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
6 min · · Non-fungible tokens offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs. · Shared by 723, including Mathew Ingram, cdixon.eth, Jessica Lessin, TK Kader, string 🇦🇺🍗, felix salmon, benahorowitz.eth, Brent Beshore, John O'Farrell, Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon, Jeff Jordan, Brian Roemmele, Chris Messina, Li Jin, Steven Sinofsky, Adam Singer, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Nicolas Granatino🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Gledhill
Paul Graham
An NFT That Saves Lives
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 55, including cdixon.eth, tylercowen, Christian Hartmann
zora.co
Zora
4 min · · Internet Renaissance · Shared by 47, including Bill Johnston, ben, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Robin Sloan, Sebastien Meunier, Chris Messina, Bas Grasmayer, Jonathan Kogan, Christian Hartmann