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    The Two Miami Art Weeks

    The Two Miami Art Weeks

    Near the doors to the Miami Airport Convention Center – by a parked Ferrari studded with kitten stickers, just across from a pavilion known as the “Metaverse Dome” – a man was trying to put ice cream on the blockchain. Jaunty and pimpled, he sat beside a truck that...
    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    This year, everyone from Jimmy Fallon to Jay-Z decided to express themselves on social media using cartoon Apes and pixelated heads as avatars. This “profile picture” (or PFP) craze was part of an overall explosion in non-fungible token (NFTs). CryptoPunks, an early...
    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    Most Influential 2021: Brian Armstrong

    The 38-year-old founder of Coinbase took the U.S.’s largest crypto exchange (by volume) public this year. In addition to his work making mass crypto adoption easy, Armstrong has also been a vocal critic of onerous financial regulations, even proposing that the U.S....
    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    Most Influential 2021: Jack Dorsey

    The one-time chief executive of social media giant Twitter and payments platform Square is now focused solely on Block (Square’s new crypto-themed name). Jack Dorsey is perhaps Silicon Valley’s leading Bitcoin evangelist. He’s called the cryptocurrency the “native...
    What Would A Mutual Aid DAO Look Like?

    What Would A Mutual Aid DAO Look Like?

    Though it’s not exactly a new idea, the phrase “mutual aid” first came to prominence last year, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tends to connote small, loosely organized collectives working to support communities from within – the kinds of local support...
    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    Most Influential 2021: Beeple

    Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were already gaining steam before Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist who publishes under the name Beeple, sold a work at a Christie’s auction for $69.9 million. But it was that sale, made in Ethereum’s currency ETH, that brought the...
    Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

    Most Influential 2021: Changpeng Zhao

    Changpeng Zhao (often simply “CZ”) may be the world’s richest person. As founder of cryptocurrency behemoth Binance, he’s not only the largest shareholder in the world’s most active exchange, but has also had the opportunity to amass a significant binance coin (BNB)...
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