IBM’s partner IPwe will tokenize patents as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to a press release. The company will build an infrastructure to store the NFTs. The objective is to improve the way patents are traded. IPwe hopes to “bring new liquidity to this asset class for investors”. Hosted on IBM Cloud, IPwe’s platform operates as…
News BTC is mostly a price prediction platform. After writing about the cultural side of crypto for near four years, I’ve come to learn a thing or two about the correlation between leader, community, and price. Even though I have no qualifications or desire to be a price predictor, I’ve made great friends here through…
News BTC is mostly a price prediction platform. After writing about the cultural side of crypto for near four years, I’ve come to learn a thing or two about the correlation between leader, community, and price. Even though I have no qualifications or desire to be a price predictor, I’ve made great friends here through…
The latest “crypto trend” has been parodied by the comedy show Saturday Night Live, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). In a segment explaining these tokens, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, played by Kate McKinnon and Eminem, parodied by Pete Davidson come together to answer the question everyone seems to be asking, what are NFTs? With a running…
The auction for the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) that gives proof of authority over Jack Dorsey’s “Tweet Genesis” has concluded. Held on Valuables, a platform that allows its users to convert their Tweets into NFT. Created by the Ethereum based service Cent, the tweet has been “authenticated” by Dorsey, CEO of the social network and payment…
In an interview for CNN’s First Move, digital artist Mike “beeple” Winkelmann talked about “the craziness” he has experienced with the sale of his NFT for $69 million. Acknowledging that the process has been “overwhelming,” beeple the consequences of the marriage of art and technology. The digital artist has a career that spans 20 years.…
OpenSea’s CEO, Devin Finzer, announced a successful funding round. Led by investment first a16z, with participation from Mark Cuban, Naval Ravikant, Tim Ferris, 3LAU, Standard Crypto, and others, the Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace raised $23 million. The platform was founded in 2017 under the prospect of building a new internet economy. OpenSea has been at…
Vesa Vesa is a contributing art writer on News BTC. He is credited for innovating an entirely new art form Artevo and his new platform Art For Crypto, focuses on art for and about the blockchain. He is best known for his collaboration with the Bollywood actress Veena Malik, which reached over 300 million people…
You can now go to a museum in Japan to experience moving digital art. You can also go to a digital platform like Somnium Space, or Superworld, to experience further digital rabbit holes. Something has been cooking in Helsinki, Finland for a while now though, and we are finally ready to show the world the…
This is an intermediate to an expert level article on NFTs. If you only want to understand the first things about it, scroll to the end, or alternatively find a beginner level feature. Everybody wants big-league gains but ain’t willing to do what it takes to deserve it. We have a pandemic level cultural illiteracy…