Dear nettimers, as you may know one of the original nettime ideas was—and still is—collaborative filtering. Every month or so I collect URL from the wider MoneyLab Umfeld and post them on the ML list. Then, twice or so a year I put them on the blog. Here is the latest linklist from April-Oct 2021. Sit back and enjoy the surf. Lots going on in the cryptotribal sphere... /geert 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 and Other New Forms of Coexistence
https://thenew.institute/en/news/bettina-steinbrugge-on-new-forms-of-coexistence You buy art, we buy golden visas
https://goldennft.art/en
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/golden-visas-for-refugees-we-are-trading-the-borders-away-a-428665b9-4cad-4679-a306-27e63f7190f3 Gullible OpenSea Users Were Vulnerable to 'Malicious NFT’ Attacks
https://gizmodo.com/gullible-opensea-users-were-vulnerable-to-malicious-nft-1847850437 Rhizome Speculative Values: Between the Institution and the NFT--Thu Nov, 4 2021
https://rhizome.org/events/speculative-values-between-the-institution-and-the-nft/ Gazing into the Crypto Ball: Why are Football Clubs Adopting Cryptocurrencies?
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/21/09/2021/gazing-crypto-ball-why-are-football-clubs-adopting-cryptocurrencies 77-Year-Old Man “Paints” Beautiful Japanese Landscapes on Excel Spreadsheets (via Nate)
https://mymodernmet.com/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-paintings/ A collection of 10,000 randomly generated NFT’s on the Ethereum blockchain
http://cryptomutts.io/ punk NFT platform (via Rosa Menkman)
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ Furry Porn Against NFTs: A Call to Forearms
https://soatok.blog/2021/10/01/furry-porn-against-nfts-a-call-to-forearms/ Earn while you play (via Patrice)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/play-to-earn-games-are-the-catalyst-for-this-bullish-period-in-the-markets The crypto dons of Beirut-Meet the men making a killing in Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market
https://restofworld.org/2021/the-cryptocurrency-dons-of-beirut/ Global civil war of all against all: tracing transactions
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/man-robbed-of-16-bitcoin-hunts-down-suspects-sues-their-parents/ Are DAOs Socialist?
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/09/02/are-daos-socialist/ Banksy was warned about website flaw before NFT hack scam
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58437753 What Is Art Blocks and Why Are These NFTs Suddenly Selling for Millions in Ethereum?
https://decrypt.co/79534/what-is-art-blocks-why-nfts-suddenly-selling-millions-ethereum NYT on crypto banking regulation
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/us/politics/cryptocurrency-banking-regulation.html Casey Newton: What I learned from a year on Substack
https://www.platformer.news/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack Vice: QAnon Is Selling NFTs Now
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8qgq/qanon-ron-watkins-selling-nfts US blacklists crypto exchange
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/21/us-sanctions-enforcer-blacklists-a-crypto-exchange-for-first-time/ Can the Weaknesses of NFT Technology Be Fixed? By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nfts-broken-technology-1234600107/ Taleb’s paper: bitcoin is worth zero and fails as a currency and a hedge
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/black-swan-author-nassim-taleb-says-bitcoin-is-worth-zero.html Zimbabwe 2003: The Making of a Bootleg Currency (via Patrice)
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WL0308/S00142/cablegate-cargill-makes-bootleg-currency.htm About the Cambridge Centre for Alterative Finance
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/ NFTs and me: meet the people trying to sell their memes for millions (via Patrice)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/23/nfts-and-me-meet-the-people-trying-to-sell-their-memes-for-millions MUSE0 is a DAO created by an Alien and run by artists and curators
https://docs.muse0.xyz/#what-is-muse0 Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs
https://www.vox.com/recode/22557715/worldcoin-sam-altman-cryptocurency-orb-eye-scanning-iris-biometrics-privacy-concern Quinn Slobodian: Cryptocurrencies’ dream of escaping the global financial system is crumbling (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/05/cryptocurrencies-financial-system-digital-future Among Cultists: The State of Bitcoin by Max Grünberg
https://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/the-state-of-bitcoin/ If you want to transform IT start with finance
https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/07/12/if-you-want-to-transform-it-start-with-finance/ Codice La vita è digitale 2021 - Criptovalute (via Donatella Della Ratta)
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/07/Codice---La-vita-e-digitale--Criptovalute-69b3abc6-5ae3-4de0-98d9-2b52fedb8fb7.html Twitter thread, concluding remarks of Jackson Palmer about dark side of crypto
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353984617914370 US Senate Committee hearing on Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?
https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/cryptocurrencies-what-are-they-good-for Postmasters Gallery in NY introduces its own Crypto Art/NFTs
https://postmastersblockchain.com/
https://mailchi.mp/thing/blockchain?e=1c0d4870eb Move from Bitcoin to Ethereum: Own the Internet
https://www.notboring.co/p/own-the-internet Cybercriminals hold $115.000 prize contest to find new cryptocurrency hacks
https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/cybercriminals-hold-115000-prize.html The Digital Sovereign in the Age of Cryptography
https://posth.me/the-digital-sovereign-in-the-age-of-cryptography/ Report from the Bitcoin Religion Gathering in Miami
https://decrypt.co/73396/bitcoin-2021-miami-conference-covid-fiat-immoral-evil-money Introducing Weird Economies: Interview with Morozov on Digital Socialism
https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/solidarity-discovery-becoming-interview-with-evgeny-morozov Crypto Art Never Dies: About IKONICK
https://www.businessinsider.com/crypto-art-nft-millennial-entrepreneurs-ikonick-disrupting-market-2021-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T Hang Youth: HEBBEN ZE NOU AL EEN KEER SERIEUS WAT GEDAAN MET DE BLOCKCHAIN (Dutch song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU57CqDMZMs 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/ Africa’s first crypto art collections have investors and creators feeling optimistic
https://qz.com/africa/2007176/africas-first-crypto-art-collections-is-inspiring-optimism/ Buying Drugs Online in 2021
https://failedarchitecture.com/darknet-markets-have-brought-more-kinds-of-drugs-to-more-places-than-ever-before/ Proposal for Off-Chain Conviction Voting (via Kei)
https://forum.gnosis.io/t/rfp-off-chain-conviction-voting/1320 Geraldine Juárez: The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
https://paletten.net/artiklar/the-ghostchain Podcast interview with Jaya Klara Brekke about Trust and the Promise of Blockchain
https://pod.co/trusttalk/trust-and-the-promise-of-blockchain Paul Krugman on Cryptos (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/opinion/cryptocurrency-bitcoin.html Pump and dump scheme organized on Reddit: Credit Intelligence
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASX_Bets/comments/krj0eg/dd_time_credit_intelligence_ci1/
https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/probe-into-share-crunch-after-800m-reddit-led-rally-20210521-p57u1c Poor Amazon & MS: crypto-mining gangs are running amok on free cloud computing platforms
https://therecord.media/crypto-mining-gangs-are-running-amok-on-free-cloud-computing-platforms/ Goldman Initiates On Crypto, Sees Ethereum Overtaking Bitcoin
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/amazon-information-goldman-initiaties-crypto-sees-ethereum-overtaking-bitcoin Tina Rivers Ryan on NFTs and crypto art <-> art world
https://www.artforum.com/print/202105/token-gesture-85475 Abwehr des Krypto-Hypes: Wohin mit dem NFT-Hass?
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/wohin-mit-dem-nft-hass Immutable Trash: Crypto Art Revisits Arguments on Censorship and Meaning
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2020/03/24/immutable-trash-crypto-art-censorship-meaning Seth Price & Michelle Kuo: What NFTs Mean for Contemporary Art
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/547 Pop-up NFT gallery in Venice Beach
https://decrypt.co/68536/bright-moments-nft-art-installation-is-bringing-the-venice-ca-counter-culture-into-web-3-0 Final presentation of Distributed Ledger Technology for EU project
https://www.dlt4.eu/final-event Rhizome’s NFT Aesthetics Debate
https://vimeo.com/546151748 As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/us/politics/cryptocurrency-regulation-sec-ripple-labs.html Video of first IMPAKT TV episode on blockchain and art (8 April 2021)
https://impakt.nl/events/2021/impakt-tv/nft-non-fungible-tokens/ German crypto thriller: Montekrypto by Tom Hillenbrand
https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/rights/book/tom-hillenbrand-montecrypto-9783462001570 NFT theft and the sleepminting of Beeple’s The First 5000 Days (via Josephine Bosma)
https://nftheft.com/news/ Course in Karlsruhe: Critical Introduction of Cryptocurrencies
https://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/media-of-exchange Breadchain, a response to the rightwing dominance of the crypto/blockchain space
https://twitter.com/breadchain_/status/1386350924285759491 Eric Barry Grasin: Love in the Time of Crypto-Art
https://eric-drasin.medium.com/love-in-the-time-of-crypto-art-b124b1da1653 Raustiala & Sprigman: The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist
https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html "Cryptocurrency is one of the worst inventions of the 21st century. I am ashamed to share an industry with this exploitative grift. It has failed to be a useful currency, invented a new class of internet abuse, further enriched the rich, wasted staggering amounts of electricity, hastened climate change, ruined hundreds of otherwise promising projects, provided a climate for hundreds of scams to flourish, created shortages and price hikes for consumer hardware, and injected perverse incentives into technology everywhere. Fuck cryptocurrency.” (via Josephine Bosma) https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disaster.html After bestmixer.io shutdown in May 2019 in NL, LA cops close down Bitcoin Fog mixer
https://cointelegraph.com/news/alleged-366m-bitcoin-mixer-busted-after-analysis-of-10-years-of-blockchain-data Think Everyone Is Getting Rich Off NFTs?
https://news.artnet.com/market/think-artists-are-getting-rich-off-nfts-think-again-1962752 Bitcoin is a Right-Wing Technology w/ David Golumbia, in conversation w/ Paris Marx
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