Visa just piloted using USDC stablecoin to settle transactions right on the Ethereum blockchain, eliminating the complexity of converting to a national currency. Now Ethereum can finally claim to process as many transactions per second as Visa ‘cause the big V will clog the whole damn network like Cryptokitties on cryptosteroids.
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SNL (Saturday Night Live comedy sketch show) actually did a pretty good job explaining NFTs via a parody of an Eminem song. And in the next episode, it will do a version for the Boomers, called “How much is that NFT in (my browser’s) window?”
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San Francisco street artist, fnnch, is selling Passover matzo NFTs and the buyers better say dayenu! before he starts making a gefilte fish NFT.
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A Latvian airline is now accepting crypto for payment: Gemini Dollar (GUSD) for first class, ETH for business, USDC for economy, DOGE for just-shut-up-and-fly, and Bitcoin Cash for sorry-we’re-all-booked-piss-off.
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According to the mayor of Miami, 90% of bitcoin mining comes from dirty energy. As it happens, Dirty Energy is Miami’s most popular COVID hot spot…. errr... night club.
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Do you get NFTs? What's your favorite one?
