London Photographer Embarks on Bitcoin-Only Challenge
London photographer Abby Scarlet has embarked on a six month challenge during which she will only accept work from clients willing to pay her in bitcoin. Sitting in her colourful studio in a warehouse in North London, Scarlet - who's approximately two weeks into her bitcoin-only endeavour - opened up about her discovery of the digital currency and her personal quest to spread its adoption. Bitcoin 'head-first'. "I was thrown into bitcoin head-first," said Scarlet. Anecdotally, Scarlet explained how she shared a house in Brighton - a seaside hotspot in the UK - with a bitcoin miner and a....
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Abigail Scarlett. Abigail Scarlett is a professional photographer who lives in London and recently started her plan to live for six months via only bitcoin. She has some excellent work, and I do recommend visiting her site to take a look for yourself at abbybitcoin.com. Having been introduced to bitcoin in early 2014 by an housemate of hers when she lived in Brighton. He was (and probably still is) an enthusiastic bitcoiner, who was also a miner, she seems to have clearly been bitten by the bitcoin bug. She will be accepting only contracts that are paid in bitcoin for her photography work....
Bitcoin custodian Elliptic has been selected to compete for a $50,000 prize in the Startup Challenge Finale at SWIFT's Sibos conference. Some 370 companies applied to take part in the challenge and Elliptic was one of 15 companies selected to compete in the Innotribe Startup Challenge showcase, which took place in London last week. Elliptic was one of two finalists in the growth-stage startup category, the other being xWare42, which enables banks to give customers additional information on their bank statements about their purchases. "We're very pleased to have been selected as finalists.....
Platon, the British photographer famous for his close-up portraits of world leaders, is using NFT photos of the human iris to show how humans can be reduced to a unique but unrecognizable image. He even did one self-portrait of his own iris but, if placed in an iris lineup, he could not tell his own from anyone elses.Platon only uses one name like Prince, he says.His first human portrait reduction took place in June 2021, when he auctioned 12 anonymous irises as NFTs, each one priced at $111 on the LGND.art marketplace. People bidding for the NFTs, each a single mint, did not know whose....
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Ernst & Young has announced six startups will participate in its first-ever startup contest focused exclusively on blockchain. Over a six-week period beginning next week, the firms will work with mentors from the "Big Four" accounting firm to build products focused on digital rights management and energy trading. The founder Ernst & Young's Startup Challenge, Jamie Qiu, said that the selected startups represent his firm's belief that the potential benefits of blockchain expand beyond the financial sector. Qiu described the challenge's dual focus: "These two key areas....