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Mar 12, 2021 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
In 2019, @MPtherealMVP@flakoubay@stinalinneag published a paper called "There's No Such Thing As Blockchain Art." I fell in love with this title as soon as I heard it. (Thread on "blockchain art" in general, and Beeple/Christie's specifically.) It's a statement that conveys,
with a wonderful directness, the point that although people from both worlds were trying to mash blockchain + art together, none of these efforts had really resulted in works that couldn't have been created in a blockchainless world.
Jun 8, 2020 • 27 tweets • 12 min read
OK, so at the risk of appearing insane, I'm sharing dozens of implicitly and explicitly racist tweets and retweets (mostly retweets) from @NickSzabo4 over the last two years. First, an explanation...
A couple years back, when I was working full-time as a cryptocurrency journalist, I noticed Nick Szabo retweeting a lot of white supremacist content (as well as generic far-right stuff.) I mentioned this to a few people and they were surprised—Nick's racism was news to them
