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generative artist Eric Calderonthe famous Snowfro, creative director and project founder Sam Spratt Chat at Miami Portal. The two friends took to the stage to exchange admiration for each other's projects and artistic approaches. This engaging conversation reveals their perspectives, experiences, and evolving patterns in Web3 art. Sam Spratt, who founded Monument Games this year,…

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Since the emergence of the Ordinals protocol, the issue of transaction censorship in Bitcoin has clashed with opinions from developers, traders, miners, and Bitcoin users alike. The issue is more prevalent now that the Ocean mining pool has started filtering or censoring transactions that include registrations and arbitrary data with OP_RETURN. The problem with this…

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Located deep in Miami's vibrant arts hub, Faena Forum has become a hub of creativity as Gateway Miami unfolds. Located in the heart of South Beach's Faena District, Faena Forum is an elegant venue designed by Rem Koolhaas and the OMA team led by Shohei Shigematsu. It has two grand halls, a rose-coloured marble amphitheater,…

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Key facts: The vulnerability is due to a “problematic integration” of the ERC-2771 and the Multicall standard. The failure led to the theft of 17,394 USDC and 87 ETH. OpenZeppelin, a company specialized in blockchain network security, revealed a critical vulnerability in the integration of the ERC-2771 and Multicall standards in Ethereum. The problem put…

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Sotheby's, an auction house with more than 250 years, launched for the first time the online sale of a digital art collection registered in the Bitcoin network, through the Ordinals protocol. This is the BitcoinShrooms collection, created by digital artist Shroomtoshi, who relied on Ordinals to create 200 unique pieces which will be auctioned until…

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As was known this Wednesday, the new version of Bitcoin Core is now available on that network. v26.0 comes with the aim of solving some connectivity and synchronization speed problems of blockchain nodes. In the corresponding post, the developers claim that the next version, v27, could bring some strong decisions. The biggest of them would…

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Key Facts: Decentralized exchange Uniswap led network activity for the month. Last week, a collection of NFTs generated a brief gas surge. Transaction fees on Ethereum, called “gas” in the jargon of this network, rose 90% between November and December. The median gas rate went from 31.4 Gwei to 58.5 Gwei from November 6 to…

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Since we last spoke with Bored Ape Yacht Club co-founder Wylie Aronow (aka Gordon Goner), he's been busy. He went on a shopping spree that included joining many new PFP, OG, and fine art NFT communities, and spent a lot of time interacting with the denizens of Crypto Twitter, discussing topics ranging from Taproot Wizards…

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Key Facts: In total, NFT sales volume saw a 129% month-over-month increase across all networks. Flagship Ethereum collections like BAYC and CryptoPunks lagged behind in the race. Excitement over the likely approval of a bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (EFT) now extends to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), evident in the monthly trading volumes of the collectibles. According…

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It's a striking piece, to say the least: a headless Emonee LaRussa, wearing a saffron sweater and stunning black and white boots, sits on a cloud while a woman's The arms, with sinister spikes on their fingers and pink claws, stick out in exactly the kind of clear plastic bags you use to transport fish…

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