37. Art on The Bitcoin Standard

February 27, 2021 01:15:26
37. Art on The Bitcoin Standard
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
37. Art on The Bitcoin Standard

Feb 27 2021 | 01:15:26

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Show Notes

In this seminar we are joined by Stephen Chow, founder of Chow Art Fund, whose mission is to embrace the bitcoin standard in order to sponsor living artists to create masterpieces, and @FractalEncrypt, an artist who has produced a magnificent bitcoin full node sculpture. We discuss my book, The Bitcoin Standard, and how its discussion of time preference was influential in their artistic journeys; how they see art evolving in a bitcoin world; and the problem with "art on blockchain" nonsense. We conclude with a discussion of my favorite artist, classical Egyptian music's legendary diva, Umm Kulthum, and how she was the inspiration for my thoughts on time preference.
 
Chow Art Fund website: https://chowartfund.wordpress.com/
 
Bitcoin full node sculpture: https://scarce.city/products/full-node-sculpture
 
Umm Kulthum's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum
Some of her best songs: 
https://youtu.be/yvKNCW5B_DU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtlAw0FziDc
 

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NYDIG  

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Cyphersafe 

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Check their website here: https://cyphersafe.io/

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OKCoin

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Check their website here: https://okcoin.com/

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Nodl

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Check their website here: https://www.nodl.it/

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Coldcard

My hardware wallet of choice is the Coldcard. I strongly recommend only conducing bitcoin trades on computers that are dedicated to bitcoin and cannot connect to the internet. I like the Coldcard because it is a contained machine optimized for bitcoin and bitcoin only.

Coldcard is basically a small computer that can only do bitcoin, which makes securing it more straight-forward. Use the code BITCOINSTANDARD on coldcardwallet.com to get a 5% discount. 

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