“It could go in a direction that would really suck for the creators, and we’re trying to mitigate that,” says @hollyherndon of the technology powering NFTs. coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03…
Spawning is a new audio trick that allows anyone to sing in the voice of their favorite artist. coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03…
“If we were at [ETHDenver] a couple of years ago, we would be talking about transactions per second, and we’re actually at a point where people are actually building stuff with it,” says @DnlKlr. coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03…
“There’s this idealized 20th-century myth of the artist being removed from the economy. Either they were wealthy enough to pay people to be intermediaries, or they weren’t highlighting that side of the story,” says @hollyherndon. coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03…
“There’s this famous studio. We couldn’t afford to record there, but we booked a photo shoot. I told the guy, ‘I’m so embarrassed we can’t afford to record here.’ He said, ‘Nobody can. We’re booked for photo shoots 5 days a week.’” coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03…
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Biden's executive order defines six “key priorities” for the administration:
• protecting U.S. consumers
• protecting global financial stability
• preventing illicit uses
• promoting “responsible innovation”
• financial inclusion
• U.S. leadership coindesk.com/policy/2022/03…
The executive order directs federal agencies to better communicate their work in the digital asset sector.
But it doesn’t lay out specific positions the administration wants the agencies to adopt. coindesk.com/policy/2022/03…
🧵 Cryptocurrency was supposed to be about privacy.
Yet 13 years after the Satoshi white paper, privacy remains hard to come by — for cryptocurrency users and everyday people alike. #PrivacyWeek bit.ly/34372yy
For #PrivacyWeek, CoinDesk surveyed the state of play for digital and financial privacy in 2022, in crypto and beyond, and where it might be headed in the years and decades to come.
“The infrastructure bill fight made it real for a lot of people who weren’t paying attention to D.C., that D.C. is paying attention to crypto,” said @NeerajKA.
“The core group of subject matter experts and lobbyists just said ... ‘we’ve got to get together on this front,’” said @RonwHammond@BlockchainAssn. “We all combined forces to be a big strong voice.”
According to leading financial educator @ricedelman, a #bitcoin ETF is inevitable.
In his opening keynote at #BitcoinForAdvisors, Edelman hopes to remove the mystery about blockchain and digital assets and help advisors to “get off zero.”
Famous for his "Nerd's Eye View" blog, renowned advisor @MichaelKitces on one hand notes that advisors can’t risk falling behind and not learn about digital assets; on the other hand, the jury is still out.
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