Bright Moments, Gotham to Host Live Minting of Nicole Vella’s “If You Could Do It All Again”

New York City’s groundbreaking cultural and cannabis concept store, Gotham, is gearing up for the final installment of its vibrant digital generative art series, collaborating with the renowned digital art gallery Bright Moments.  The upcoming event, titled ‘If You Could Do It All Again,’ will feature the creative ingenuity of Gotham’s Artist in Residence for…

AI Language Models Are Nothing Without Humans, Sociologist Explains

The media frenzy surrounding ChatGPT and other large language model artificial intelligence systems spans a range of themes, from the prosaic – large language models could replace conventional web search – to the concerning – AI will eliminate many jobs – and the overwrought – AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity. All of these themes have…

Next Up: Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez on Emotions, Machines, and Art

As the digital space undergoes rapid evolution, the world of NFTs has garnered significant attention both for the innovative nature of the associated technologies and also as a result of extracting liquidity through riding various trends. For artists like Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez, however,  it’s not about jumping on the bandwagon; instead, it’s a continuation of a…

Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Laundering More than $1 Billion

Hours after the DOJ announced that OpenSea’s former product manager Nathan Chastain would be sentenced to three months in prison, it just announced another major indictment — this time, against the crypto mixing service, Tornado Cash. And for its two founders, ominous clouds loom, signaling an impending storm. On Wednesday, Roman Storm, 34, and Roman Semenov,…

Former OpenSea Employee Gets Three Months in Prison for Insider Trading

Nathan Chastain, a former product manager at OpenSea, was sentenced on Tuesday to three months in prison (and more) in connection with what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) describes as the “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme,” according to Tuesday’s press release. First-Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme Chastain, 31, was forced to resign…

‘Ordinals are Not Dead:’ MetaGood’s Danny Yang Talks Recursive Inscriptions Impact

Bitcoin Ordinals were the talk of Crypto Twitter in the first half of 2023. Now, as the initial fervor surrounding them begins to settle, many are curious about its future, with questions like, “what happened to the orange backgrounds?” CEO and Co-founder of Metagood Danny Yang, a prominent voice in the industry, has stepped forward…