The Call is Coming From Inside The Blockchain

The Net Society podcast, hosted by Derek Edwards, Chris Furlong, Aaron Wright and Priyanka Desai, features artist 113 discussing the intersection of art, crypto and programmable cryptography. Aaron argues that Ethereum will become more useful for art, culture and media than for financial primitives, and that Ethereum is undergoing a metamorphosis similar to Bitcoin's shift from payment system to store of value. Artist 113 describes a "third era" of crypto economic programs that function as artworks, arguing that artists have paid little attention to Ethereum's scaling tools and that such work now has a possible market. The transcript also covers whether NFTs are art or a product, crypto's search for legitimacy, and state control versus digital sovereignty.