pedrojose, Author at Stack of Truths

NFTs Were Built to Fire the Middleman. He Posted “Grateful” Anyway.

Listen up, class. Today’s lesson: the chain was supposed to be the clerk. Then a man with an Art Basel badge started walking Punks across the room like they were cash envelopes.

pedrojose

03. Oct

Art NewsBlog

Argonauts Didn’t Promise You Anything. The Timeline Did.

I make NFT animations. Frames, loops, the little motion that makes a still picture look like it has a pulse. Nobody on the timeline has ever asked me for a thread. Argonauts minted

pedrojose

25. Sep

Art NewsBlog

0xQuit Day

The marketplace left. The approval stayed. One whitehat ran into the fire.At 9AM Eastern on September 24, somebody used a forgotten door. Ten Meebits. Fifty Otherdeeds. Ten World o

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23. Sep

Art NewsArtistsBlog

Pre-AI Is a Date. Not a Halo.

Justin Trimble posted the thesis the timeline wanted:Pre-AI model algorithmic art on Art Blocks will age like fine wine because the skill was verifiably harder and it is timestampe

pedrojose

22. Sep

Art NewsBlogMuseum

He Calls It Curation. It’s a Stack of Jobs and One Playlist.

Eli Scheinman is not a mystery. He is a stack of hats that all point at the same wall. Senior advisor for digital art at Art Basel. The man on Zero 10, the fair’s digital wing, t

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22. Sep

Art NewsBlog

You Bought the Story. Not the Work.

How new NFT collectors can protect themselves from overhyped slop I get the same message every week. Someone has been in the space for three months. They have watched tens of thous

pedrojose

21. Sep

Art NewsBlog

He Bought a Bored Ape for 6.6 ETH and Sent It to the Dead Address

The account is ten days old. Bio is a skull. No site. No team. No paper trail. Eight hundred something followers and a wallet that just turned a Bored Ape into a punchline. ossen.e

pedrojose

21. Sep

Art NewsBlog

They Cleared at 1.5 ZEC. The Floor Is Already Under 1.

Friday they sold the costume. Monday the costume is on sale. zkSNARKs ran a sealed-bid auction on Zcash. Sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-one bids. Eight thousand pieces a

pedrojose

20. Sep

ArtistsBlog

AI Art Lost the Cool the Day Everybody Learned the Button

Five years ago an AI image could still stop a timeline. Few people could get one that held together. Post it in the NFT feed and it felt like a new instrument. Half the art was the

pedrojose

19. Sep

Blog

They Auctioned 8,000 NFTs on Zcash and the Accusations Landed Before the Secondary Even Opened

Listen up, class. Today’s lesson: the NFT space didn’t die. It just moved the circus to a quieter chain and hoped nobody would Google the ringmaster.This week a Zcash project c

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