NFTs, Mixed Signals – On the downward slope of Gartner’s hype curve, NFTs are still the talk of the town: on the one hand, some investors aren’t putting their money where their mouth is, like billionaire political megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried, who just closed his wallet; others are talking about a “ second wind” for the NFT economy , when, in a handful of days, a slew of blockchain-exogenous players, like Instagram and Telegram , launched their marketplaces to sell non-fungible tokens.
Game of Thrones announces NFTs, Pharrell Williams is “an integral part o,” and the price of dogecoin, the humorous crypto token, is soaring as Elon Musk finalized his acquisition of Twitter. Chinese nurse database media companies are all launching their NFT platforms and collections . Reddit defied the Crypto Winter and created a $10 million market for customizable avatars — just don’t call them NFTs . At the same time, Europe’s first NFT vending machine got a cold shoulder in London and at the Web Summit in Lisbon this week, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to “ignore” Web3: “Web3 is not the web at all”! In the great NFT game, digital artists are winning.
After decades of being considered pariahs, they’re now getting a warm welcome from curators at major museums looking to capture new audiences and retain the wealthy donors who have come from the NFT boom. This week in France 41% of French people get their information via social networks Prisma goes back on the offensive The GAFA tax brings in a little more each year The Metaverse Academy will take its first steps in Marseille Rumble, the unmoderated video platform that hosted RT, blocked in France Media timeline: Culture minister suggests windows should be reduced – ‘There is a need to find a more respectful balance’ Anti-scam filter, cyberscore: Jean-Noël Barrot focuses on “everyday cybersecurity” Four French telecom operators demand 2 billion from Netflix, Apple and Co.
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