Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 11)

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Jonathan Zittrain & Will Marks: Enjoy Complexity-What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs
Dror Polen: NFTs and the Future of Work https://www.drorpoleg.com/nfts-and-the-future-of-work/
“Thousands of store owners who had taken out loans and invested hopes and money in the industry’s future lost their shirts, drowning in unsold inventory; nine out of ten comics stores collapsed by ’96. Marvel Comics, the biggest, most popular player, ended up filing for bankruptcy amid the fallout.” (fwd. by Josehhine Bosma)
https://news.artnet.com/opinion/nfts-90s-comic-book-bubble-1955239
Kat Zavada speaks from Edinburgh with artists and critics about the NTF hype
Hackers move $760 million from the 2016 Bitfinex
Most artists are not making money off NFTs and here are some graphs to prove it
Claudia Hart: Why We Need a Feminist Manifesta of the Blockchain
Rick Prelinger: NFTs and AI Are Unsettling the Very Concept of History
Are digital artists waiting for the NFT bubble to burst?

How to sell apps on Linux? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26679749

MicroDonor project of Waag (Amsterdam), a micro donation pilot:
https://waag.org/nl/project/microdonor (project description in Dutch)
https://interledger.org/ (open protocol suite for sending payments across different ledgers)
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/ ($100M fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in Web Monetization)
On Ben Grosser’s NFT Work
Mustafa Heddaya: Non-Fungible Future-The revolt of the elites against art seemed already complete. https://prospect.org/culture/non-fungible-future-nfts-museums-nonprofits/
Paris Hilton: I’m Excited About NFTs—You Should Be Too
Pet rocks on the blockchain. Started in 2017 and during the NFT craze traded tens of thousands of dollars worth of pictures of rocks :/ (via Katie Holmes)
Vicky Osterweil: Money for Nothing- more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
English translation of Achim Szepanski’s Jonathan Beller and Joseph Vogl review
Revolt against the proposed Signal payment/token system
Section 230 isn’t the problem, Payment Networks are
Dave Winer on writers, Substack and their inability to end their tech industry dependency
http://scripting.com/2021/03/18/141318.html?title=itsNotReallyAScam

Anil Dash: NFTs Are an Art Project Gone Awry
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/

For German readers: Achim Szepanski on Vogl’s Capital and Resentment and Beller’s World Computer
https://non.copyriot.com/geld-gleich-information-zu-vogls-und-bellers-neuen-buechern-1/
https://non.copyriot.com/geld-gleich-information-zu-vogls-und-bellers-neuen-buechern-2/
https://non.copyriot.com/geld-gleich-information-zu-den-neuen-buechern-von-vogl-und-beller-3/
https://non.copyriot.com/geld-gleich-information-zu-den-neuen-buechern-von-vogl-und-beller-3-2/

Kimberly Parker: Fees for the Top 5 CryptoArt Sites (via Josephine Bosma)
https://thatkimparker.medium.com/fees-for-the-top-5-cryptoart-sites-574b8816ec44

Mainstream art world look at the NFT incident https://artreview.com/why-the-artworld-loves-to-hate-nft-art-beeple-christies-grimes/

Jack Rusher: What Does it Mean to Buy a GIF?
Ben Davis: I Looked Through All 5,000 Images of Beeple
Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token
Terms and Condition of an NFT Platform
Mars house is a fraud, says 3D visualiser of world’s first NFT house
About Unique.One crypto art platform
The End of Art (Once again, after NFTs)

Metakovan, the mystery Beetle art buyer and his NFT/DeFi scheme https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/

About Guilt Coin (part of the Cybernetics of the Poor exhibition, via Josephine Bosma) https://kunsthallewien.at/101/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Guilt-Coin_E.pdf?x35133

How Mastercard invented the health hazard of cash (via Brett Scott) https://norberthaering.de/en/war-on-cash/mastercard-holsten/

What is it and can you eat it? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/12/cryptoart-what-is-it-and-can-you-eat-it 

Reports of Stolen Art on NFT Marketplace Raise Issues for Crypto Collectors https://hyperallergic.com/629328/reports-of-stolen-art-on-nft-marketplace-raise-issues-for-crypto-collectors/

Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee indicted for cryptocurrency fraud https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-mcafee-idUSL2N2L31SF

NFTs, Explained by Digital Artist Addie Wagenknecht
Artists on collectings NFTs
Seth Godin: NFTs are a Dangerous Trap
Erik Trautman crypto art: hype or long-term development Twitter thread
‘Ecological nightmare’ backlash forces ArtStation to drop NFT plans

The Downward Spiral: Popular Things by Dean Kissick (via Josephine Bosma) https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick

Ben Grosser on his latest crypto art piece Tokenize This
Michael Connor on selling digital art before the boom
Crypto Whale in Singapore Is Buyer of $69 Million Beeple NFT James Tarmy
New Models podcast with Lil Internet on NFTs

Future of the Art Market (via Ruth) https://www.creativeunited.org.uk/services/the-future-of-the-art-market/

Reinventing the Artworld with Blockchain (via Ruth) https://www.daowo.org/#the-daowo-sessions-artworld-prototypes

Bitcoin is Time https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/

Where’s the Trust in the $150 Million NFT Art Market? https://decrypt.co/59635/wheres-the-trust-in-the-150-million-nft-art-market

Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are a disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3

Scott Belsky: CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity https://scottbelsky.medium.com/the-furry-lisa-cryptoart-the-new-economy-of-digital-creativity-6cb2300ea081

Michael Conner: NFTs aren’t just for cats anymore. What do they mean for digital art? https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/mar/03/another-new-world/

Financial Traders Torched a Banksy on Camera to Transform It Into a NFT Artwork https://news.artnet.com/art-world/financial-traders-burned-banksy-nft-1948855

Crypto Pepes: What does the frog meme? https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/03/05/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme

Lana Schwartz: Bitcoin As A Meme And A Future https://www.noemamag.com/bitcoin-as-a-meme-and-a-future/

Joker’s Stash closed their dark market site at the right moment https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/02/14/cybercrime-joker-retires-becomes-a-bitcoin-billionaire/

Motivational Bitcoin Video: “Buy bitcoin now for great justice!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k001JX-D-dA

Solidarity and Cryptocurrency:  Notes on NFTs by Matt Colquhoun https://xenogothic.com/2021/02/19/solidarity-and-cryptocurrency-notes-on-nfts/

Joanie Lemercier: The Problem of Cryptoart https://joanielemercier.com/the-problem-of-cryptoart/

History of DeFi video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBYB4W2tqU

Interview with Brett Scott:  The Future of Money (Part 2) https://www.lowimpact.org/the-future-of-money-part-2-with-brett-scott/

“Hackers who want to separate you from your bitcoin know what a homoglyph looks like.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/04/30/blockchain-hackers-know-what-a-homoglyph-looks-like-do-you/

Rachel-Rose O’Leary:  We Have Entered the Anonymous Crypto Age https://www.coindesk.com/age-anonymous-crypto

Rachel-Rose O’Leary: Bitcoin Has Lost Its Way: Here’s How to Return to Crypto’s Subversive Roots https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-lost-way-subversive-roots

Old School Bitcoin vs BTC Mafia https://thatsbtcnotbitcoin.com/

Museum of Contemporary Digital/Crypto Art https://www.mocda.org/abou

Crypto Art Strategies after the Eco Turn https://github.com/memo/eco-nft

Discussion with possible collapse scenarios for crypto art hype https://twitter.com/DCLBlogger/status/1365651253422776321

Angelicism01: NFTs After Finitude https://cashedcobrazhousewriter.substack.com/p/nfts-after-finitude

(compiled, as always, by Geert Lovink)

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