On Wednesday night, at an event co-sponsored by this website, Pitbull gave a rousing five-minute speech analogizing the city of Miami to a “pineapple” before disappearing into the crowd, while in the lobby of the Beachcomber Hotel, guests staged impromptu photo shoots amid rows of physical NFT screens. Erykah Badu and Azealia Banks performed that night, too, at an outdoor party … [Read more...] about The Two Miami Art Weeks
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Blockchain folk hero Nandy Martin hopes to build a better community for Haitians in Miami
Haiti, a Western Caribbean country torn by a tragic past, natural disasters, poor leadership, and ineffective foreign aid, is not a country that comes to people's minds when they think of blockchain adoption. For years, Haiti has been among the world's poorest countries in terms of GDP per capita, as per data from the World Bank.But Haitian-Canadian entrepreneur Nandy Martin, … [Read more...] about Blockchain folk hero Nandy Martin hopes to build a better community for Haitians in Miami
Are NFTs Taking Over the Art Market? Notes From Art Basel Miami Beach
This week, “Opinionated” hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking about Art Basel Miami Beach, the annual international art fair that took place in Florida last week.Danny was reporting from the ground: This year, a new kind of art made its way to Miami, under the picky gaze of art collectors, curators and, yes, artists themselves. And yes, it’s NFTs, or … [Read more...] about Are NFTs Taking Over the Art Market? Notes From Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami to use PlanetWatch and Algorand for air quality monitoring
Miami is preparing to be one of the first major US cities to monitor its air quality using a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) network built on Algorand.French environmental technology company Planetwatch has developed five different types of air quality sensors. With funding from Borderless Capital’s $10 million PLANETS fund, sensors will be deployed throughout the city, … [Read more...] about Miami to use PlanetWatch and Algorand for air quality monitoring
Hologram NFTs at Art Basel Miami Are Trying to Save the Oceans
Selviz, who did his first NFT drop about a month ago at NYC.NFT, is also the founder of the RENDRD Foundation (not to be confused with RNDR, the token), whose main goal is to provide access to underrepresented communities, such as Black youth, within the digital animation industry. Source link … [Read more...] about Hologram NFTs at Art Basel Miami Are Trying to Save the Oceans