From balloons in a Thanksgiving Day parade to an entire episode of Futurama — even after a crypto market downturn, digital assets made their way into different parts of pop culture. Society is past when even mentioning Bitcoin or Ethereum on a streaming series would make the news. Still, it’s good to look back on all the times crypto stepped out of the ecosystem and appeared … [Read more...] about 5 times crypto appeared in pop culture in 2023
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Crypto Is the Biggest Thing to Change Culture Since Hip Hop
Hip hop music in the 1980s was like the past decade in crypto. On the rise. Understood by few. Regional to mainly New York. Dismissed as a fad.Pavel Bains is the CEO of Bluzelle. This article is part of Culture Week, which explores how crypto is changing media and entertainment.Then, around 1990, it went national with Public Enemy, NWA, 2 Live Crew, Native Tongues Crew, … [Read more...] about Crypto Is the Biggest Thing to Change Culture Since Hip Hop
Crypto Is People and Culture. It’s Time the Media Saw It That Way
And yet with all that in mind there are many still in the mainstream media who sneer at crypto. This is, in part, what led me to co-found DeCential. Like most of the skeptics, the press had gone on its merry way when prices fell and its bias seemed confirmed, yet then the industry came roaring back. Strangely, in my experience, it only seemed to harden some beliefs that clearly … [Read more...] about Crypto Is People and Culture. It’s Time the Media Saw It That Way
Introducing CoinDesk’s Culture Week
You can measure cryptocurrency’s impact in money terms, and that’s certainly impressive.With a market cap of $2.2 trillion, crypto is now an asset class to be reckoned with.But you can also see the industry’s influence in more qualitative ways. 2021 was the year crypto became a mainstream cultural phenomenon as much as an interesting experiment in money.Culture Week is part of … [Read more...] about Introducing CoinDesk’s Culture Week
A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized
In the crypto community, it’s a no-brainer that this digital paper trail amounts to a new form of “real” ownership. But if we accept that idea, we accept that the logic of digital markets will come to infiltrate the way we already live our lives online. Using the so-called “platform internet” isn’t always an investment, in an explicit monetary sense. Crypto can turn some of … [Read more...] about A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized