Everything obvious and sensible has already been done — My grandfather (Pawpaw) built my family on the back of his 40 years of hard work. He saved every penny for a year and bought an entire encyclopedia set for his 6 children. One of those kids was my mom. He wanted her to go higher than he ever could…

Constitution DAO is a sign of things to come — even if it failed — A decentralised collective of individuals almost succeeded in buying one of only 13 remaining original copies of the US Constitution, when it came up for auction yesterday. The rare artefact was sold by Sotheby’s for over $43 million to an anonymous bidder. Its new owner is probably delighted with their…

A guide to how you could, not whether you should — It’s not often that you can claim to have beaten Gary Vaynerchuk in recognizing the potential of a marketplace — but in the case of NFTs I like to think I got here first. He’s making up for lost time now. Through his VeeFriends NFT project Gary Vee has added…

And now even the BBC is interested in Non-Fungible Tokens — A digital image taken from a well-known Internet meme video — known as ‘Side-Eyeing Chloe’ — was sold on September 24 for around $75,000 after being immortalized as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT). The meme is based on a home video shot in 2013. In it, the Utah schoolgirl Chloe Clem…

“99% of NFTs won’t be good investments” — Gary Vaynerchuk — My fascination with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) began when I read that an artist known as Beeple had sold an NFT for $69 million. I couldn’t understand how a digital image could be sold for such a vast sum of money, when I could find that same image online and enjoy…

A how-to guide (not a ‘should-you’ guide) — Recently I wrote a piece intended to unpack the mysterious world of NFTs — Non Fungible Tokens. I wanted to understand what they were and how they worked. My interest was prompted by the news that artist Beeple (aka Mike Winkelman) had sold an NFT — essentially a digital token…

Trying to make sense of NFT — the intersect between blockchain and art — On Thursday March 10th, Christies held an online auction for a piece of digital art — the piece, a digital collage of images by an artist known as Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sold for $69.3 million after bidding opened at just $100. …

1. The medium is the message — On March 11, the artist Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann) became a very wealthy person when Christie’s sold the NFT for his creation “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” via online auction. It was the third highest price paid for an artwork for a living artist. …

A real-world application for managing authenticity of physical art using blockchain technology — I took my first tentative steps as an art collector when I bought my first limited edition print. I chose the piece because I liked how it looked and related to the subject matter — it was a limited edition print of a tour poster for the band The Raconteurs…

Using blockchain technology to facilitate your work and education — Like most people, I enjoy watching old episodes of The Simpsons on TV —the cartoon takes me back to my teenage years and even today it seems as funny and as prescient as it ever was. Undoubtedly my favourite scene occurs in the episode where Homer goes to clown college…

Can it be done? What are the pitfalls? Would you even want to? — There are many reasons why I choose to avoid Facebook. In part it’s because I prefer to maintain my relationships in conventional ways and don’t see the need to do so on a public forum. …

Using blockchain technology to own moments in history — On June 30th Sotheby’s held an online auction offering an NFT representing the original source code for the Internet, as written by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Approximately 9,500 lines of computer code constituting the original world wide web were immortalised as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) in the blockchain. This…

Proving that value is shaped by collective agreement (or should that be delusion) — British artist Damien Hirst is best known for art that features preserved animals. His piece entitled “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” created in 1991 features a Tiger Shark carcass suspended in a tank of formaldehyde. …