PHILOSOPHY
Thomas Dylan Daniel reflects on the history of Formal Dialectics and looks to the future.
It’s hard to believe two years are all the time that has passed since Formal Dialectics was released at the end of 2018. Authoritarianism, an out-of-control pandemic, and continuous misadventures by top officials in government have characterized the past period in our shared political history and the time has dragged by as we collectively suffered for these mistakes by our political elite.
My reason for investing so much time into the creation of Formal Dialectics was that it seemed philosophy could be used to improve decision-making at the highest levels; it appears the world is not yet ready to engage…
NFTs
NFTs rule. Don’t buy the FUD, this really is a new technology that actually will change the game.
You heard right, folks! Major pop stars are now beginning to recognize the possibilities around the evolving NFT space. The benefits include an immutable proof of purchase which can be traded in conjunction with the limited edition vinyl album the band recently launched. Minting ran for two weeks and netted 6,486 total NFTs to benefit Live Nation’s Crew Nation Fund. The album was priced at $50 in Ethereum (ETH) when the sale began, but gas prices and fluctuations in the ETH price vs USD played a bit of havoc throughout the launch. …
Publishing is a tough industry to break into. Even if people really dig your work, it can be tough to convince a publishing house to go along with it. When you do, you’ll find that legal matters are seldom simple and that no real support network exists to get the word out. So you’ll stump, and most of us who do so fail. I’ve decided to make a statement by giving the world my happiness book, Bring Back Satire, for free. …
Cent’s new Valuables platform just got some major attention!
You heard it right, ladies and gentlemen. Mark Cuban’s interest in the crypto art space popping up in the NFT wing of cryptocurrency markets has expanded to include #NFTweets and the Cent community. It took a large offer to draw his interest, $777 at the time of placement, but the 7’s proved lucky and Cuban made history by accepting the ETH, which was by this point already valued at $952.94.
Tim Kang, or Tim.ETH, is the Twitter user who managed to become the first in history to pick up a Mark Cuban tweet. The secondary market is live…
“I firmly believe that platforms like Superrare are trying to find and cultivate the Art with a capital A.” -Marjan Moghaddam
“I firmly believe that platforms like Superrare are trying to find and cultivate the Art with a capital A.”
-Marjan Moghaddam
Recently, I had the privilege of connecting with an old friend in a new way. Marjan Moghaddam, a famous digital artist I’d actually been friends with for several years, is a deeply fascinating person. I reached out to her about NFT art to see if she had heard of the medium yet. I had seen posts about her digital and AR (augmented reality) art, and was impressed with it. …
That’s right! Bring Back Satire is now an NFT on Ethereum.
I’m new to the NFT space. In fact, less than a year ago, I appeared on a podcast and spoke in public about how I didn’t understand the concept. Fortunately, a lot has changed since then. Services such as Cargo and OpenSea have made it easier than ever to mint and view NFTs with a set of web-based services that allow users to put almost any sort of digital content into the blockchain. But let’s back up just a second and work up to that. …
BLOCKCHAIN
“Excuse Me, Sir, May I Buy Your Tweet?”
The Cent social media network has launched Valuables, a service that allows users to buy digitally autographed unique tweets. That’s right, tweets as in Twitter. Follow the account here to see the action in real time. Apparently, total offer volume has exceeded $150,000 already, but the network has only seen about 10% to 20% of those offers accepted. I caught up with Matthew and Cameron from Cent to get the inside story about this disruptive innovation.
Tweet that and I’ll buy it.
-Me
Let me take a step back to introduce the wider audience to the Cent community. It’s basically…
As NFL Players draw attention for choosing to immediately invest pay into the leading cryptocurrency, does it make sense for the rest of us to think that way, too?
Q: What’s a big enough deal to change the way NFL players get paid?
A: Bitcoin’s current rally.
Russell Okung has recently decided to invest a major part of each paycheck into BTC. Stories like Russell’s are catapulting crypto back into the limelight and, despite headwinds facing markets more generally, investors are starting to say that 2021 looks like another 2017 for cryptocurrency markets. Suddenly, the future is looking very bright as more people pile into cryptocurrencies.
Wait a second. The future is looking bright? We still have coronavirus! Trump is still president for another few days! An economic crisis…
A review of Jillian Godsil’s new book, which I highly recommend as a personal introduction to the real people behind the cryptocurrency surge.
It’s the end of 2020. And in no way do I expect my casual reference to the contemporary calendar to “date” this article. We’ll be talking about this year for many years to come, for even more reasons than Jillian Godsil gives us reason to in Persons Of Interest: Timestamped In Blockchain. I’ve personally isolated since about March, from everyone except my immediate family. Everything, everything, EVERYTHING! …
President Trump, despite having lost most of his support in government by losing his bid for re-election, is still in office and is desperately setting fires in federal agencies as he attempts to elude prosecution and build a cult by pardoning criminals who are in jail due to their illegal activity in his service. The coronavirus, as I had, along with many other Americans, initially worried might happen, has begun to show signs of mutation even as the vaccine has begun rolling out. …
