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Recap (2019 article):

How Digital Currency Could Be China’s Ultimate Soft-Power Tool
https://observer.com/2019/11/china-crypt...ower-tool/

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Rudiger Dornbusch — 'In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.'

What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained, and why you shouldn’t dismiss this fad

https://www.techradar.com/news/what-is-a...s-this-fad

Quote:NFT, or non-fungible token, has become 2021’s ‘blockchain’, a word you’ve never heard of before that is suddenly everywhere. Be it Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey auctioning his first tweet, or the Kings of Leon selling their latest album, as one, NFTs are everywhere. But what is an NFT?

Some see it as the latest fad, a new crypto-esque bubble that’s guaranteed to pop eventually, while others think NFTs could have an important role in the future of digital art.

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NBA Top Shot Video of Giannis Layup in 2014 with Bucks Sells for $137K

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2934...s-for-137k

Quote:The price continues the rise of Top Shot, a digital highlights marketplace that utilizes blockchain technology to allow fans to "own" moments from games. It has seen a massive rise in popularity in recent months, thanks in large part to the non-fungible token (NFT) market.

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Yes. NFT is the future of Digital Art. Many such tokens will be worthless tho.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/most-exp...llion.html

Beeple NFT becomes most expensive ever sold at auction after fetching over $60 million

Quote:An NFT by the artist Beeple sold at Christie’s for over $60 million, making it the most expensive NFT ever sold at auction.

The final sale price could shift higher as final bids are processed and auction fees are added, which could bring the total to more than $69 million.

The sale capped two weeks of frenzied online bidding and ushers in a new era in collectibles, where prices for blockchain-based digital images now rival prices paid for Picassos and Monets.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-b...ent-stores

Chinese banks pilot digital yuan at Shanghai department stores

Quote:Shanghai’s New World City and New World Daimaru Department Store, and food caterer Taikang Food Store handled thousands of digital yuan transactions over the past weekend, Shanghai Daily reports.

(12-03-2021, 03:05 PM)Wildreamz Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/most-exp...llion.html

Beeple NFT becomes most expensive ever sold at auction after fetching over $60 million

Quote:An NFT by the artist Beeple sold at Christie’s for over $60 million, making it the most expensive NFT ever sold at auction.

The final sale price could shift higher as final bids are processed and auction fees are added, which could bring the total to more than $69 million.

The sale capped two weeks of frenzied online bidding and ushers in a new era in collectibles, where prices for blockchain-based digital images now rival prices paid for Picassos and Monets.

The guy that bought this is apparently Singaporean. Given his handle (metakovan), I suppose he stays in Kovan?

Crypto Investor in Singapore Is Buyer of $69 Million Beeple NFT (bloombergquint.com)

What Can You Actually Buy With Bitcoin?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/style...tcoin.html

Quote:Pornography, patio furniture and an at-home coronavirus test are among the odd assortment of goods and services people are purchasing with the cryptocurrency.

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You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status...3322010626

Goldman Sachs reportedly jumps on the bitcoin bandwagon

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/31/inves...-investing

Quote:"In this newly-created role, she will work closely with advisors to educate clients about blockchain technology and the digital assets ecosystem, and seek to deliver content, investment offerings and services,"

Hong Kong's Apple Daily to live on in blockchain, free of censors

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacif...2021-06-24

Quote:HONG KONG, June 24 (Reuters)

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As of Thursday, more than 4,000 Apple Daily articles had been uploaded on ARWeave. Hundreds of RTHK programmes dating back to 2012 are also available.

Another programmer, Kin Ko, 47, has been building a decentralised registry called LikeCoin. The blockchain platform helps internet users identify the metadata - creator, date, time, location, version - of the content through a unique number called an International Standard Content Number (ISCN), akin to a book's distinctive International Standard Book Number.

Any changes made to the content would be known and tracked through changes to its digital fingerprint.

The digital repository is still in its beta phase and months away from launching officially. But online pro-democracy outlet Citizen News told Reuters its has already used LikeCoin to catalogue its images.

Ko's initial idea was to create a platform that could authenticate any type of content, and did not expect his platform to be embraced so enthusiastically by pro-democracy activists.

But, he said: "History must not be determined by those in power."

Watch the full "The B Word" conference here (Cathie Wood, Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk et al.): 

https://cointelegraph.com/news/alibaba-l...ht-trading

Quote:Alibaba launches NFT marketplace for copyright trading

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This is interesting because typically, NFTs do not confer copyright ownership by default: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2021/03/...copyright/.