Posts By: Geert Lovink

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 [...]

CfP for UvA-Amsterdam conference: Governance by Technology  – The Revolution Will Not Be Decentralized?

By Geert Lovink, March 23, 2023

More here: https://blockchain-society.science/?p=1969 Information about the Closing conference of the ERC Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab: Governance by technology  – the revolution will not be decentralized?  Is there anything to be salvaged from the overhyped blockchain revolution?  MoneyLab is participating in this with its own session called Investigating the Real-Existing Blockchain. If you’re interested to [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 15)

By Geert Lovink, December 3, 2022

What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about “longtermism” https://www.salon.com/2022/11/20/what-the-sam-bankman-fried-debacle-can-teach-us-about-longtermism/ History of FTX podcast https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeidxfg7lxefbv53tf3ykfrd6vnce3x5y3tekmkrkhgvatbhvpw5n4y/FTX_3.mp3 Stephen Diehl: Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’ (plus video) https://www.ft.com/content/028e0109-6e87-42ed-8480-996cf645ce04 Ruben Pater on Crypto-Anarchism https://medium.com/@unlisted_roots/crypto-anarchism-78daf84330ee AWS and Blockchain https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain Carol Alexander: Binance Spoofy Bots Cause Mass Liquidations https://www.coalexander.com/post/binance-spoofy-bots-and-liquidations Brett Scott: The Casino-Chip Society https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 14)

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2022

Crypto’s competitive advantage: $3,950 transaction fee for a $260 NFT https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1520597019726950400 Just in case you forgot the Web3 promises: you will be your own boss https://cointelegraph.com/explained/is-web3-like-playing-minecraft Bored Ape Theft https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion Jaromil: The Real Crypto Movement https://www.makery.info/en/2022/04/30/english-the-real-crypto-movement/ Surfing with Satochi, Art, Blockchain and NFTs, new book by Domenico Quaranta https://aksioma.org/surfing.with.satoshi NFT event in Berlin https://nftberlin.org/ Why [...]

Just Out: Cloud Money by Brett Scott

By Geert Lovink, May 19, 2022

Cloud Money: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets by Brett Scott For more info, visit Brett Scott’s Substack page Who benefits from a cashless society and who gets left behind? Is the end of cash the end of true privacy? And is a cashless future closer than we think? Cloudmoney tells a [...]

MONEYLAB NFT ESSAY PRIZE & JURY STATEMENT

By Geert Lovink, January 21, 2022

Popular search query: “Making Millions with NFTs!” Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. Time to auction off our criticality. In a single year, NFTs have gone from obscurity to superstardom. Are NFTs, DeFi and gamified decentralized apps the new way for the disenfranchised to (finally) get paid? Or are they [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 13)

By Geert Lovink, January 9, 2022

Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting ‘planet incinerating’ cryptocurrency donations https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/ The NFT Handbook: How to Create, Sell and Buy Non-Fungible Tokens https://hyperallergic.com/701414/nft-handbook-create-sell-buy-non-fungible-tokens-matt-fortnow-quharrison-terry/ The Weirdness Beyond Web3’s Bullshit https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-weirdness-beyond-web3-bullshit Designing a Digital Euro (via Eduard de Jong) https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2021/html/ecb.sp211118~b36013b7c5.en.html Tim O’Reilly: Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/ Signal and the push [...]

Gregory Sholette on NFT Fever: Is it Time for a Great Refusal 2.0?

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2021

A quote from Gregory Sholette’s essay: “I cannot help but recall here the not-too-distant wave of ‘art-flipping’, whereby the rapid and repeated reselling of a single canvas by a relatively unknown painter catapults prices several hundred percent over its initial value. Art flipping has made some emerging artists into overnight sensations. And just as suddenly, [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 12)

By Geert Lovink, October 19, 2021

Doug Henwood @ The Gravel Institute: The Truth about Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAUrMuMPlo&t=9s David Golumbia: Cryptocurrency Is Garbage. So Is Blockchain. https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/cryptocurrency-is-garbage-so-is-blockchain-3e80078e77fe Universities Are Flunking Blockchain Tech by Quinn Dupont https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/06/universities-are-flunking-blockchain-tech/ Michael Gummelt: Ethereum Services are Centralized https://michaelgummelt.medium.com/?p=f43c0a19a400 ArtBasel 2021 Conversations | NFTs in the Art World: Beyond the Hype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6_har3g-M&list=PLaQumXw0FTLcK01aFHlAQYtXvnXKnR3z3&t=119s Hamburg Curator Bettina Steinbrügge on NTFs [...]

Machine Dreams #1 | Cryptoeconomics and the Decolonization of Money

By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2021

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 19.30 Uhr, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery Conversation with Jonathan Beller | Max Grünberg While for most critical observers cryptoeconomic protocols are but forms of rightwing extremism, theoreticians like Jonathan Beller raise the question whether this technology might be salvageable – or indeed emergent – to be put to use [...]