Ian Khan is a futurist who expects that blockchain, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things will merge together to create an entirely new type of world. He’s the inventor of the Future Readiness Score, the author of eight books and the chairperson of the Money 20/20 fintech conference. His first film,Blockchain City, is far…
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Joel Dietz, founder of Metamask and founding team member of Ethereum, is a romantic at heart. He creates art as Cryptoapollo that reflects the intersection between traditional art and technology. I have a very classical romantic temperament, which can be hard to bring into the modern world since romantically inclined people can be suppressed in…
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Platon, the British photographer famous for his close-up portraits of world leaders, is using NFT photos of the human iris to show how humans can be reduced to a unique but unrecognizable image. He even did one self-portrait of his own iris but, if placed in an iris lineup, he could not tell his own…
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When Nicholas Merten saw a video explaining Bitcoin in November 2011, he brushed it off, later lamenting that I unfortunately did not do the right thing. Its hard to blame him, after all, he was only 13. Now 23, he runs DataDash, a YouTube channel with over 470,000 subscribers, making it among the largest focused…
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Cool Valley, Missouri, a small town of about 1,500 in the St. Louis County area, found itself the subject of international attention recently after its mayor, Jayson Stewart, announced that he planned to give each resident up to $1,000 in Bitcoin. Stewart, a passionate environmentalist who spent years cleaning up the worlds oceans and ran…
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Computer scientist turned generative artist Tyler Hobbs writes code artistically, which then creates visual art that has sold for millions. Along with 998 siblings, Fidenza #313 was minted for 0.17 ETH on June 11th, after which it was immediately sold for 0.58 ETH. Just over 10 weeks later, the NFT nicknamed Tulip sold for 1,000…
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Growing up in poverty in Suriname, Etinne vantKruys was told by his teacher he’d never succeed but it only made him more determined to not follow in the footsteps of his parents. Thanks, in part, to crypto, he’s now living the dream. Despite his high-flying crypto VC lifestyle today, vantKruys keeps at least one foot…
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According to Kava Labs CEO Brian Kerr, the major reason that decentralized finance, or DeFi, has not yet hit the mainstream is that “93% of holders are never gonna touch their own keys.” Kava is a non-Ethereum-based DeFi platform that enables users to earn interest on the cryptocurrencies they hold. The investors Kerr hopes to…
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Kristin Boggiano, a lawyer and co-founder of the CrossTower digital asset exchange, developed her ethos on protecting the vulnerable while working and living in the Amazon during the 1980s, helping fight for the rights of the Cofn people against the Big Oil companies. She later worked creating mortgage-based derivatives on Wall Street right before exotic…
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Everyone’s car generates a lot of data every day, points out Jun Li, founder of the open-source digital identity blockchain Ontology. The automotive sector is one in which his companys ID solution has a clear use case, as each drivers data can be stored and used to calculate insurance premiums according to actual driving behavior.…
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