NFTs, non fungible tokens, cryptoart, making a mint, digital artist Beeple makes millions from Jpegs, 100x returns, revolution in the art market…NFTs are a thing, a thing that’s grabbing headlines and attention. Especially from creators: are you a musician, visual artist, photographer, live coder who would like to earn some…

this is very illuminating. however is it really fair to compare the cost of say the Eth network with Tezos network right now as Eth is currently much bigger , has more nodes , transactions and is more popular? If we consider NFTs: I rejected minting on Eth based systems because of their energy hog problem. Now Im looking at Tezos based Kalamint and HEN. The quote 'The Tezos blockchain uses a Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus protocol to verify transactions, requiring an estimated 25 million times less energy than Bitcoin, or 1.5 million times less energy than Ethereum' I find too vague.

The UK like the USA and many other countries, is supposed to be a democracy. The term ‘Social contract’ means we get to vote, and the representatives we elect to Parliament are supposed to run the country for us. I don’t remember voting to allow lobbyists from corporations to get…

Liked the article and agree with a lot of it. Am hoping that a new era of CoCap- cooperative capitalism- is beginning, combining proven capitalist wealth creation mechanisms with cooperative ownership. Blockchain plays to this. eg Youber, a version of Uber owned by the drivers (and customers, the more you use it the more your share increases) could undercut Uber as Ubers 20-25% slice for shareholders could be replaced by Youber using say 2–5% running costs, then the remainder used to undercut Uber by say 10% and still leave the drivers better of by +5–10%! I hope uniteddrivers.com get somewhere with this idea. Inequality is a huge problem, damages economies, and must be addressed if humanity is to know peace. This could be a start.