Not everyone knows this, but the story of the NFTs does not begin on Ethereum but on Bitcoin. At that time they weren’t called NFTs,even though they were non fungible tokens for all intents and purposes. They were the so-called Colored Coins, an experiment that wanted to try to expand the functionality of the Bitcoin blockchain. […]
Continue readingThe history of CryptoPunks
CryptoPunks are one of the most famous NFT collections, so let’s be clear about what really was the key to their international success. When we talk about CryptoPunks we are talking about 10,000 8-bit style images. 10,000 small punks each with their own characteristics. Behind this project there are two, now famous, engineers: Matt Hall and […]
Continue readingTop 8 NFT Archeology Projects
NFT archaeology deals with all those projects that have existed well before 2021 wich is the year of the explosion of the Non-Fungible Token market with crazy sales figures. These are, in fact, historical projects that have paved the way for modern NFTs and that have a value based on this characteristic. A bit like the […]
Continue readingMonegraph and the first experiments on Bitcoin
Everyone knows that NFTs are released mostly on Ethereum, especially in the ERC-721 format, but perhaps not everyone knows that this format was offered by William Entriken, Dieter Shirley, Jacob Evans and Nastassia Sachs only in January 2018. Still, the CryptoPunks, which were the first NFTs to ever become famous, were released in June 20. Actually, […]
Continue readingArchaeology and CryptoKitties
Were NFTs born in 2021? No, this is wrong. The first experiments began well before that year, however the very first real project of NFTs, that were appropriately called with this acronym, is the CryptoKitties. Born in 2017, CryptoKitties is a game based on the Ethereum blockchain and developed by the Canadian studio Axiom Zen. […]
Continue readingTop 10 AI Artists
What tools and materials would Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci have used if only they had lived through the time of technology, including Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Metaverses? The modern artist of today lives in a technological era. This is what Rebecca Pedrazzi writes in her “Futuri Possibili Scenari d’arte e Intelligenza Artificiale”. Today, […]
Continue readingBetween Art and Artificial Intelligence
After almost 80 years since the birth of AI we are far from being able to create what we call a “superintelligence”, that is, a sentient being with feelings and able to understand or reason independently. We still do not have the knowledge and the means to create J.A.R.V.I.S, the virtual assistant of Tony Stark, […]
Continue readingInterview with toomuchlag
Interview with the artist Stefan Mathez, most widely known with his pseudonym Toomuchlag. He is the creator of the cover of this last issue of The NFT Magazine, entitled “Le Anime”, of the NFT collection “My Journey”. The work was originally sold for $32,000 on the Nifty Gateway in May 2021. Toomuchlag has dropped on the […]
Continue readingInterview with Yuri Catania
Yuri Catania is an eclectic photographer who in the last year has approached the world of crypto and NFT to develop a project of NFT Photography called “my MONTEGENEROSO”: a tribute to the nature that surrounds him. In this interview he describes how he approached the world of analog photography before arriving at Non Fungible […]
Continue readingUPDATE: Queens+Kings by Hackatao
In the cryptoverse, a non-hierarchical community is in charge, traditional roles of the art world are subverted. Queens+Kings overthrow hierarchies in contemporary art and provide collectors with innovative, creative tools to express themselves freely and customize their avatars. Queens+Kings is a unique artistic project, the first of its kind, exploring the world of PFP technology […]
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