Tax, zombies, Churchill and flying fingers: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review -- a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. Is Canada trying to become the first hipster nation? Not only has it demonstrated its geek cred by putting the International Space Station on its new $5 note -- thumbing its nose at the old colonial master, which decided to show the UK's thrusting 21st century nature by putting Winston Churchill on its new fiver -- it's also come out with the first official taxation....
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Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. Digital currency has many mysteries. Who created bitcoin? How does an umpire use it to decide who goes into bat first? And if the whole idea is to remove transaction costs and expensive intermediaries, just like real cash, who's going to make any money? But it doesn't pay to be too skeptical at the beginning of a bright new age, especially when so many entrepreneurs are....
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. The week kicked off with the news that bitcoin fever had created the world's most powerful computer. The rate at which the world's miners were converting computer cycles to coinage was some four to eight times faster than the finest supercomputers money can buy. And the rate is going up, with the massed ranks of laptops and servers being joined by an ever-increasing (when....
NFTs showcased another week of ‘high highs’ and ‘low lows’ this week, with the U.S. Justice Department clearly paying attention, and some high-flying NFT series sales. All-in-all, it was a week of activity a bit on the quieter side – but there was still plenty to note in the NFT space from this past week. […]
Another week of high-flying action in NFTs. Art Blocks and CryptoPunks saw nice bumps in sales volume the past week, while Axie Infinity and Bored Ape Yacht Club saw less week-over-week volume but still sit firmly in high position. Meanwhile, OpenSea made headlines for more than one reason. Dapper Labs found a premium partner with […]
Ah, Christmas — A time for joy! Merriment! And devouring the brains of the living with an insatiable bloodlust... because let's face it, this is 2020. Darren Kleine, known to most by his handle DKleine, is an NFT artist with a decidedly specific niche — Zombies. We’re talking crypto zombies, political zombies, mustachioed Salvador Dali zombies. Zombies of all shapes, sizes, and orientations! If it’s green, dismembered, and loves the savory taste of a good brain, it’s ripe for tokenization (and charity) so far as Mr. Kleine is concerned.What started as a quasi-political statement just a few....