Panel and Audience discussion: Artistic Interventions in Finance

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 16, 2015 at 12:56 pm.

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 19)

By Geert Lovink, November 1, 2024

Molly White about FTX Caroline Ellison: woman with agency or a helpless pawn? https://www.citationneeded.news/caroline-ellison-sentencing/ Who was Len Sassaman, and why might HBO think he is Satoshi Nakamoto? https://cointelegraph.com/news/len-sassaman-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin Who is Peter Todd, the Man Named by HBO as Bitcoin’s Mystery Creator Satoshi Nakamoto? https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/10/08/who-is-peter-todd-the-man-named-by-hbo-as-bitcoins-mystery-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/ Who is Nick Szabo, the Man Some Believe is Bitcoin Inventor [...]

Interview with Rachel O’Dwyer about Tokens, The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2024

It is said that money is being replaced by tokens. Think of phone credit, airtime, gift vouchers or game tokens. Platforms see themselves as the new banks, generating and controlling new flows of value. Irish scholar and co-editor of Neural magazine Rachel O’Dwyer has recently published an insightful study on the matter. In her book [...]

BLOCKCHAIN: AFTER PROTOCOLS Special issue of Espace – art actue

By Geert Lovink, May 6, 2024

—Call for Contributions— Edited by Nathalie Casemajor in collaboration with Erik Bordeleau https://espaceartactuel.com/en/call/ In 2023 the Centre Pompidou acquired a group of works dealing with the relations between blockchain and artistic creation. Most of the works consist of Net Art, which relies on internet connectivity protocols. Curators Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli situate them within [...]