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For the metaverse to work, people need to own their virtual bodies and possessions and be able to spend money. The same cryptographic technology behind bitcoin will make that possible.
The market for cryptocurrencies has expanded dramatically in the last year. With this uptick of activity, what’s next in 2022 for cryptocurrencies?
The people in charge of museums may lack the requisite expertise to manage non-fungible tokens, and the upside is far from guaranteed.
There’s a difference between owning property and owning the copyright in that property.
Art such as the ‘Primal Expressions’ series created by chimpanzees continues to raise important questions about creative instincts in non-human animals.
If you haven’t heard of Axies yet, it’s probably about time.
Make 10,000 sheets of coloured dots and give them each a corresponding NFT, and what do you have?
Where some see a bubble waiting to burst, others see a reinvention of the way we handle ownership of assets.
When we see the high prices some are paying for NFT art, we must assume more performances, and potentially, acts of protest, could circulate as NFTs.
NFTs don’t even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
NFTs are made the same way as crypto coins, but where every crypto coin is like every other, each NFT is a unique digital item – from images to sound files to text.
If you look at the reasons people buy art, almost none of them have to do with the physical work.
A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork worth US$95,000 and burnt it.
The digital tokens are a way to create scarcity and an aura of authenticity in an online world of infinite copying, pasting and remixing.
To quote the artist: ‘bruh… this crypto space seems super interesting though and i see a ton of potential to do some weird shit nobody has done yet.’
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin
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Research Professor of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, Lehman College, CUNY
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Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Senior Lecturer in Law, RMIT University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction, University at Buffalo
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Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
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Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University
