World currencies are tanking on Brexit, but bitcoin is surging https://t.co/zPamQwiuWc
— Quartz (@qz) June 24, 2016
Category Archives: Bitcoin
Art on the Blockchain
… a resource compiled by Rob Myers (with attached ‘webliography’).
Now Online
Via Rhizome:
Conceived by Lars Holdhus and commissioned by Rhizome, Futures Along the Blockchain is a web project gathering artists, musicians, and writers to annotate a case study which explores the history of Bitcoin while speculating on the utility of its underlying blockchain technology for both art and music distribution.
Much of interest at the site, including video of a Tibetan Bitcoin mining facility.
ADDED: Commentary at AoT.
The Great Fork
Bitcoin is so new, it has yet to be fully recognized as a speciation engine. (It could — easily — just be me, but I’m far from convinced that it is yet widely understood what an ‘altcoin’ is, or what this term ultimately means.)