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bronak1··on Digital-only artwork fetches nearly $70M at Christie's
Thats a good question since there's no official blue check to verify on the blockchain that its really them but the NFT exchanges show a blue check with his ETH wallet id.

https://opensea.io/accounts/beeple

bronak1··on Digital-only artwork fetches nearly $70M at Christie's
This is very closed minded perspective; having a distributed ledger of digital collectable assets that you can trade without being tied to one exchange or marketplace is powerful and the beginning of the end of institutional gate keeping.
bronak1··on Digital-only artwork fetches nearly $70M at Christie's
The official auction has the artists wallet address listed and you can verify on a block explorer that its legit.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/first-open-beeple/beeple-...

wallet address: 0xc6b0562605D35eE710138402B878ffe6F2E23807 smart contract address: 0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756

bronak1··on Digital-only artwork fetches nearly $70M at Christie's
Theres way better ways to launder money...I think you might be thinking of tax evasion.
bronak1··on MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept crypto payments this year
I think it's just the nature of how corporations operate; patents are just another metric to measure success for them.
bronak1··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
Society has had multiple stores of value, as none is perfectly secure. Gold, oil, dollars, real estate, (some) bonds & equities. Crypto is the first that’s decentralized and digital and on a open network not governed by any centralized entity which is powerful bc the world needs a international reserve currency
bronak1··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
Society has had multiple stores of value, as none is perfectly secure. Gold, oil, dollars, real estate, (some) bonds & equities. Crypto is the first that’s decentralized and digital and on a open network not governed by any centralized entity which is powerful bc the world needs a international reserve currency
bronak1··on Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?
you can do both with https://electronjs.org/
bronak1··on Kubernetes 1.10 released
Its a tool for DevOps helping orchestrate container deployments and scaling, you probably want to play around with docker before diving into to kubernetes.
bronak1··on Drug 'reverses' ageing in animal tests
https://www.novusbio.com/products/foxo4-peptide_nbp1-77175pe...

If any one wants to take one for the team lol