The world's cultural heritage is being preserved one NFT at a time
The Monuverse is taking some of the world’s most precious monuments and preserving them forever as NFTs in the digital universe. The use cases of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have evolved from pixelated punks and apes to real-world applications like real estate contracts and music royalties. Another use case is surfacing as the Monuverse uses NFTs to preserve cultural heritages around the world.Through a combination of blockchain technology, 3D imaging, generative art and local collaboration, the Monuverse is using NFTs to take important global monuments into digital reality where they will....
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Some news hitting our inbox from the Chamber of Digital Commerce this afternoon. Both the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Heritage Foundation are expected to hold a discussion surrounding the topic of bitcoin on October 1st at 10:30 a.m. at the Heritage Foundation Lehrman Auditorium in Washington, D. C. The Chamber's Founder and President, Perianne Boring, will be joined by Carol Van Cleef (Partner at Manatt, Phillips and Phillips), George Gilder of The Discovery Institute, and Norbert J. Michel of The Heritage Foundation. The discussion panel will cover the following topics: What is....
Off the coast of the Irish Sea, humans have lived on the Isle of Man since before 6500 B.C. The island has a robust history of Viking Age treasures. According to a recent announcement from Manx National Heritage, a heritage agency located there, an amateur treasure hunter recently discovered a hoard of Viking silver on the island. U.S.-based researcher and numismatist, Dr. Kristin Bornholdt-Collins, said the unearthed Viking silver hoard was similar to today’s cryptocurrency and embodied a 1,000-year-old comparison to Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin. Viking ‘Hack’ Silver....