Posts By: Geert Lovink

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 [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 18)

By Geert Lovink, April 30, 2024

‘Dubai’s Fyre Festival’: Crypto investors caught in chaotic UAE floods https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dubai-fyre-festival-crypto-investors-chaotic-floods Molly White (x2) on Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence, 25 years in jail https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced/ On the Brink of a Dramatic Change: The Digitalization of Money https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/on-the-brink-of-a-dramatic-change-the-digitalization-of-money Stuart Kells: Alice™ – The biggest untold story in the history of money (via Patrice Riemens) https://www.mup.com.au/books/alice-electronic-book-text Introducing Composer, [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 17)

By Geert Lovink, November 22, 2023

Why I am Cryptophic https://www.bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-cryptophobic Pop-up Community zuzalu, Istanbul, November 2023 https://zuzalu.city/ https://zuzalu.notion.site/Homepage-cb20817c7ca54ca6a151915babd03c38 Are NFTs Dead? https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/ Jacob Silverman: Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman SafeMoon executives withdrew $200 million https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/01/sec-allegations-safemoon-200-million-mcclarens-luxury-homes-travel/ Joan Westerberg: Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/sam-bankman-fried-is-a-feature-not-a-bug The fake hitman, the crypto king and a wild revenge plan gone bad [...]

Program MoneyLab #13 – Krypto: Decrypting the Artist, @ NeMe, Limmasol/Cyprus

By Geert Lovink, October 27, 2023

Updates on the conference/exhibition website: https://www.neme.org/projects/moneylab13 Sustaining its interest in presenting insightful new critical ideas on the developments of the digital domain and how that is affecting our society and economy, NeMe, and the Institute of Network Cultures, present the 13th edition of MoneyLab. The overall aim of MoneyLab is to deconstruct, and reveal the [...]

MoneyLab#13 Krypto: Decrypting the Artist -Call for Contributions-

By Geert Lovink, June 23, 2023

(see also https://www.neme.org/blog/moneylab13-call for submission links) Venue and organizer: NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus Conference: November 3/4. 2023, exhibition, November 3 – December 1, 2023. “The capitalist economic model, in its purest form, does not explicitly centre human well-being as its primary objective.” [1] The Covid-19 pandemic lead to social experiments in many countries never [...]

Program of Governance by Technology Conference, UvA, July 3-4, 2023

By Geert Lovink, June 22, 2023

Balasz Bodo wrote: “We have a super interesting program (see pdf) and a really beautiful venue (Droog Amsterdam https://www.droog.com/). We also have a promising keynote by Jürgen Geuter, aka tante from Berlin. I hope to see you in Amsterdam for the conference and the launch of the Glossary of decentralized technologies book published in collaboration [...]

Call for MoneyLab Conference in Frankfurt on CBDC/Digital Euro

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2023

Report by Sebastian Gießmann (sebastian.giessmann@uni-siegen.de) from re:publica in Berlin: There was a lot Central Bank Digital Currency buzz here. German Minister of finance Christian Lindner expressed his deliberate support for a Digital Euro. I did my thing to contribute to a monetary controversy in the making (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSH_4u1Zvs&pp=ygUMcmVwdWJsaWNhIDIz, in German). Members of Deutsche Bundesbank were present, [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 16)

By Geert Lovink, May 25, 2023

David Rosenthal: Crypto, My Part In Its Downfall (via Eduard de Jong) https://blog.dshr.org/2023/04/crypto-my-part-in-its-downfall.html ‘Robin Hood’ hacker steals rich Russian crypto funds, gives to poor Ukraine https://english.nv.ua/nation/robin-hood-hacker-transfers-rich-russian-crypto-funds-to-poor-ukraine-50321192.html Former OpenSea Staffer Convicted of NFT Fraud Former OpenSea Staffer Convicted of Fraud Tom Mitchelhill: Bitcoin Influencers Are Eating Themselves Alive https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-influencers-are-eating-themselves-alive-c26de42a4de0 Repeat after me: “I will not be exit [...]