Christie's, a leading art business based in the United States is collaborating with Artory, a highly reputed independent digital registry for the art industry, to register the sales of artworks on the blockchain, according to a press release by Christie’s on October 11, 2018. As stated in its press release, the leading art auction house is looking to leverage the immutability feature of the...
A Mayfair art gallery has become the first in the U.K. to accept six digital currencies including bitcoin, ethereum and ethereum classic. Dadiani Fine Art, located in Cork Street, London, is revolutionizing how buyers can pay for art by connecting the worlds of technology and art together. Including digital currencies as payment options to the fine art gallery was thought up by Eleesa Dadiani...
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of the Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather… We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before...
Entrepreneur and artist Stephan Vogler wants to change the art world, and he is using Bitcoin to do just that in what's considered by many to be the epicenter of contemporary art, Berlin, Germany. Vogler's novel block chain technology inspired license seeks to change how art is purchased and traded. By creating a system of rights to copyrighted works in digital form, Bitcoin can turn art from...