#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art

16/10/2021 30 min Episodio 54
#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art

Listen "#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art"

Episode Synopsis

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and digital art.


Listen to this episode to learn about non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Note that cryptocurrencies and stock options are highly volatile markets, and you shouldn't make financial decisions based on this episode.

Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence.

Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment.


Favorite quotes


'Beeple is looking at his whole body of work as it's presented on Instagram as a kind of Duchampian readymade' —Noah Davis

Links



Beeple (@beeple_crap)

Christie’s


Foundation.app - “We're bringing digital creators, crypto natives, and collectors together to move culture forward."

R//Motherboard by @maxwellstep

Nifty Gateway - Owned by Gemini (Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss)

Ethereum

“Minting” and “Gas”
“Drops”

MetaMask


Metapurse


WalletConnect


Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs


Jack Dorsey sells his first tweet ever as an NFT for over $2.9 million


Vignesh Sundaresan, known as MetaKovan, on paying $69 million for Beeple NFT


Cardano


Zcash


People mentioned


Mike Winkelmann @beeple_crap

Vignesh Sundaresan @MetaKovan


Vitalik Buterin


Chapters


01:55 · Getting familiar with NFTs
05:22 · The cultural significance of NFTs
08:35 · The $69 million dollar auction that exploded the NFT world
11:44 · NFTs allow for a much clearer history of ownership
13:54 · There are thousands of cryptocurrencies that operate in different ways
14:44 · NFTs are created inside the Ethereum chain
16:34 · Privacy in the blockchain
18:23 · Minting an artwork costs money
21:05 · The environmental impact of crypto transactions
22:22 · Artists make limited drops to build hype around their work
23:42 · Moving from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake
26:02 · Have you bought an NFT yet?
28:04 · You're not going to create value out of thin air
29:41 · Wrapping up


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The cover image is a derivative from Imaginibus' picture of a museum frame.


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